Company Profile Presenting the Festo Group Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology. As a globally-oriented and independent family company with its headquarters in Esslingen, Germany, it has become the performance leader in its industry over the last 50 years, thanks to its innovations and problem-solving competence in all aspects of pneumatics as well as its unique range of industrial training and education programs. Today, the company provides pneumatic and electric drive technology for over 300,000 customers in 200 industries world-wide both for factory and process automation as well as cutting-edge training solutions. The company offers over 30,000 automation products, which can be tailored to specific customer needs in a variety of modular programs. The Festo Group achieved sales revenues € 2,45 billion in its fiscal year 2014 and with 17,800 employees is represented world-wide in 250 locations. Individual solutions for medical technology and laboratory automation Attention is focused on the development of system solutions for medical technology and the automation of laboratory processes in the field of business for medical technology and laboratory automation. Festo pursues an approach which involves mutual development of engineering concepts together with the customer during the earliest planning phase in this respect. Individual, validated process steps can be reliably transformed into automated process sequences which are perfectly integrated into an overall system in this way. Festo has been developing components and system solutions for equipment manufacturers who are specialised in the automation of laboratory processes and medical devices since 2004. Due to double-digit growth rates, the field of business for medical technology and laboratory automation has been a separate business area at Festo since 2015 and is being continuously expanded. Downloads: Festo Company Portrait Festo Company Portrait