Mondelez has chosen Festo electric drive technology for a new automated chocolate Easter egg mixing installation at its site in Herentals, Belgium. The egg mixing line uses an ingenious system of conveyors to ensure that everyone finds a nice mix of flavours in their pack of chocolate eggs at Easter. Electric drives were chosen over pneumatics because they offer lower energy consumption, higher safety and more flexibility in controlling speeds and ...

Ergonomics improves efficiency thanks to a servo-pneumatic balancer that enables employees in assembly and logistics to lift and move loads effortlessly, using just two fingers. At the heart of the balancer is the powerful and reliable drive solution YHBP from Festo with automatic weight detection and safety Performance Level d – perfect for the automotive and packaging industries.

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, ...