Compact, customised manifold plates for precise fluid control: Diffusion Bonded Manifolds enable individualised, contamination-free fluidic solutions using an adhesive-free joining process. The technology complements existing standard components and is aimed in particular at applications in medical technology, diagnostics, laboratory automation and food analysis.

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.

Le terme "durabilité" se transforme trop souvent en pure parole. Ce n'est pas le cas chez Wellspect. Ce leader mondial dans la fabrication de solutions pour les soins médicaux d'incontinence a fait de la durabilité une partie intégrante de sa stratégie d'entreprise et s'engage à la mettre en pratique. Pas étonnant que l'usine de l'entreprise à Mölndal près de Göteborg, en Suède, s'appuie sur les services d'économie d'énergie de Festo qui permettent à Wellspect d'économiser 37 000 € par an en coûts énergétiques. Ces économies d'énergie...

The future belongs to human-robot cooperation. System builder BEC developed such a collaborative solution for Siemens Healthineers. It inserts coils weighing several tonnes precisely into the magnets of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. Electric cylinders from Festo, which ensure the coils are securely gripped, play a crucial role here.