Festo Assigns Teams to Respiratory Ventilator Development and Protective Gear Manufacture
Festo also continues supplying industrial automation products to businesses in the US, Mexico, and Canada.
Islandia, NY & Mississauga, ON, April 2020 – Festo North America and subsidiary Fabco-Air Inc., classified essential businesses, are continuing to supply pneumatic and electric drive technology to distributors, equipment manufacturers, and end-users in North America.
Supporting solutions for COVID-19
“Festo has launched focused coronavirus mitigation projects,” announced Carlos Miranda, CEO, Festo North America. “Among several initiatives, the first is to ensure that orders for components and systems used in medical devices receive priority treatment and are processed and shipped rapidly.
“A large research and development team is working full time on a design for a quick-to-manufacture emergency respiratory ventilator. Another team alongside a partner firm is developing a concept for automated production of protective masks. This team envisions a complete production system that can be set up and shipped within a standard transport container.”
Festo LifeTech Business Unit components are used in high-speed automated laboratory devices that are essential for the types of screening envisioned for sample analysis during the pandemic. Festo LifeTech components are also used by certified respiratory equipment manufacturers. Festo does not manufacture that equipment itself.
In addition to the medical and manufacturing sectors, Festo is keeping its overall production and logistics systems sound for the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and packaging industries as well as for washing systems for hospitals and care facilities.
Festo encourages the use of the company’s online resources, including the 24/7 online shop, for placing orders and checking delivery status, and online product configuration and engineering tools. The company continues to take measures to ensure continuity of production while protecting the health and safety of employees, suppliers, and the public.
For questions regarding the company’s ability to serve customers in the following essential industries – manufacturing, processing, medical device, and laboratory automation – please email essentialbusiness.na@festo.com. And visit Festo at https://www.festo.com/us/en/.
Festo en un coup d’œil
Festo, premier fournisseur mondial de technologies d'automatisation et de formation technique, déploie ses produits et services pour relever les défis de la numérisation et de la production intelligente. Fondée en 1925, l'entreprise familiale basée à Esslingen, en Allemagne, répond à un large éventail de besoins en matière de solutions avancées pour l'automatisation des usines et des processus. Au Canada, Festo soutient l'industrie canadienne depuis près de 50 ans, élevant continuellement l'état de la fabrication dans ce pays avec des produits innovants, des solutions de contrôle de mouvement optimisées et un support inégalé. Dans le monde entier, quelque 300 000 clients font confiance aux produits et à la technologie d'entraînement pneumatique et électrique de l'entreprise. En outre, Festo Didactic fournit des équipements de formation de pointe et des programmes éducatifs aux entreprises industrielles et aux établissements d'enseignement, soit environ 56 000 clients dans le monde. Le groupe Festo a enregistré un chiffre d'affaires de 3,65 milliards d'euros au cours de l'exercice 2023 et est représenté dans le monde entier sur 250 sites avec environ 20 600 employés. Environ 7,7 % de son chiffre d'affaires annuel est investi dans la recherche et le développement.
