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Festo Canada is announcing the launch of an authorized distributor agreement with one of Western Canada’s largest privately owned electrical distributors, Gescan, a Sonepar company. Gescan has 29 branch locations spanning British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and will sell and support the complete Festo product portfolio.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada

Gescan, new authorized Festo distributor for ...

Festo Canada is announcing the launch of an authorized distributor agreement with one of Western ...
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Research conducted by Festo finds a new generation of its low-energy flow-control valves utilized by Front Opening Unified Pods (FOUPs) purge systems can reduce Nitrogen gas (N2)  consumption by as much as 75%. A new Festo white paper details how these piezo-based flow-control systems help semiconductor fabrication plants (Fabs) reduce their carbon footprint and lower energy costs.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

New Nitrogen Purging Technology in Semiconductor ...

Research conducted by Festo finds a new generation of its low-energy flow-control valves utilized by ...
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Festo introduces Controlled Pneumatics, a digital closed-loop control strategy for delivering energy efficiency, high dynamic response, and precision movement. Controlled Pneumatics is an ideal solution for web tensioning; welding; surface processing; flexible gripping, including vacuum gripping; dispensing and pumping; PET bottle blowing; and diaphragm pump control.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

Festo Takes Pneumatics to a New Level of ...

Festo introduces Controlled Pneumatics, a digital closed-loop control strategy for delivering energy ...
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Festo is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2025. A family-owned global business with more than $3.7 billion in revenue and 20,000 employees, Festo is recognized as a premier automation supplier and innovator. Festo has operated in North America for more than 50 years.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
Mexico
USA

Festo Celebrates its Centenary – 100 Years in ...

Festo is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2025. A family-owned global business with more than $3 ...
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Festo has expanded the capabilities of its popular VEMD mass flow controller to maintain the unit’s cost competitiveness while improving connectivity, control dynamics, and flow range. The VEMD controller is applied in the medical laboratory, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, and food industries to automate the flow control of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Argon, CO2, and air. It is also used in 3D printing applications where inert gas protects printed material during deposition.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

Festo Enhanced Its Popular VEMD Mass Flow ...

Festo has expanded the capabilities of its popular VEMD mass flow controller to maintain the unit’s ...
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To mark the company's 100th anniversary, the automation specialist Festo has designed an extraordinary machine that will be presented for the first time at the Hannover Messe 2025. Based on the principle of a Rube Goldberg machine, it does not manufacture a specific product but tells the story of motion in automation technology that has significantly influenced the family-owned company.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

The Festo Incredible Machine celebrates its ...

To mark the company's 100th anniversary, the automation specialist Festo has designed an ...
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Festo introduces the VEFC mass flow controller, the company’s latest entry into its Controlled Pneumatics family of solutions. The VEFC features precisely controlled flow of inert gases of up to 200 l/min and is one of the most compact mass flow controllers on the market – only 24 mm wide. Like all Controlled Pneumatics solutions, the VEFC features energy efficient piezoelectric valve technology integrated with control algorithms and sensors for dynamic flow or pressure control to preset setpoints without hysteresis.  
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

Festo Introduces the VEFC Mass Flow Controller for ...

Festo introduces the VEFC mass flow controller, the company’s latest entry into its Controlled ...
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Creating added value for customers through innovation has been the driving force behind the family-owned company from the very beginning and remains the key to Festo's success today. With its constant determination to make people's work easier and thus increase efficiency, Festo has shaped an entire era of industrial production. Today, the company is a global player and a front runner in automation technology, as well as a world leader in technical education and training. Festo's anniversary is being celebrated with employees, customers, and...
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global
Belgium
Ireland
Netherlands
United Kingdom

Festo Celebrates its Centenary – 100 Years in ...

Creating added value for customers through innovation has been the driving force behind the family ...
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Festo introduces its new flagship valve terminal, the VTUX. The VTUX can serve as I/O, remote I/O, and decentralized I/O. These compact and rugged IP65/67-rated terminals can be located anywhere on a machine that boosts operational performance and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) installation productivity. VTUX modularity results in less inventory and lower overhead costs. Slated to replace Festo’s legacy terminals, the VTUX will be the company’s star for years. 
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

Festo Introduces the VTUX, the Company’s new ...

Festo introduces its new flagship valve terminal, the VTUX. The VTUX can serve as I/O, remote I/O ...
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Safe, thorough, and fast inspection of charged electric vehicle (EV) battery cells is essential for lowering production cost and ensuring the quality of EV batteries. Harris Hill Automation, Poland, Maine, USA, a young, nimble, and customer-focused machine builder, recently designed and built a handling system to feed battery cells into and out of their OEM customer’s proprietary quality inspection system. The Harris Hill Automation solution handles and tracks and traces batteries, while increasing production throughput twentyfold.
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Festo SE & Co. KG
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Canada
USA

A New Automated Handling System Dramatically ...

Safe, thorough, and fast inspection of charged electric vehicle (EV) battery cells is essential for ...
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Users today face the challenge of having to integrate different topics such as control and motion, AI, data integration and evaluation, predictive maintenance and much more into their applications at the same time, with short development cycles and ever new requirements. Festo AX Controls presents an automation portfolio that takes these requirements into account. The motto "from the workpiece to the cloud" is taken further here, and Festo AX Controls combines many software modules such as operating system, motion, visualization, high-level...
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AX Controls
Festo SE & Co. KG
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Global

More customer success through seamless data ...

Users today face the challenge of having to integrate different topics such as control and motion ...
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