Festo is expanding its portfolio to include multilayer manifolds made of plastic (bonded manifolds) in order to be able to offer manufacturers of medical and laboratory equipment solutions from a single source. To this end, Festo is taking over the production systems and processes for manufacturing these complex plastic manifolds from Carville, a leading company in this field.

Controlled Pneumatics es la revolucionaria tecnología de aire comprimido con la que Festo abre nuevas perspectivas para la neumática. Con esta tecnología, el compacto terminal de válvulas proporcionales VTEP consigue un control de la presión extremadamente sensible de hasta menos de 1 mbar, ideal para aplicaciones como el pulido de wafers o las aplicaciones de Patch-Clamp en ciencias de la vida. Además, Controlled Pneumatics utiliza válvulas piezoeléctricas de alta precisión para reducir el consumo de aire comprimido hasta en un 50 %.

Seeds are the new gold. Why is that? Plant-based foods can feed an ever-growing world population. But climate change, pests and diseases threaten plant breeding. To help develop resistant seeds and make them available to agriculture, plant breeders need vast amounts of DNA. That is precisely why Synchron Lab has developed the "DNA factory", which is automated with handling gantries, electric axes, pneumatic grippers and sensors from Festo.

Higher demands on throughput and precision – this is only possible with more automation in laboratory technology. Sensapex already equips more than 800 customers worldwide with high-precision micromanipulators, microscopes, and pressure controllers – from neuroscience research to in vitro fertilization (IVF) – to name only a few application examples. To work successfully the pressure controllers from Sensapex rely on the decentralized pressure and vacuum generator PGVA from Festo.