Festo
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| Festo logo | |
| Kommanditgesellschaft | |
| Founded | Esslingen am Neckar, Weimar Republic (1925) |
| Founder | Gottlieb Stoll |
| Headquarters | Esslingen am Neckar, Germany |
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Number of locations
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Sankt Ingbert |
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Key people
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Eberhard Veit (CEO) |
| Revenue | €2.9 billion (2013) |
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Number of employees
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15,500 (2011) |
| Website | www.festo.com |
Festo is a German industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.[1] Festo is an engineering-driven company that sells pneumatic and electric transducers primarily to the automation industry. It also supplies programmable controllers, and educational courses around pneumatics and electronics.
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History
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Festo was founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Stoll and Albert Fezer. Initially, it manufactured wood cutting tools and later diversified into the automation industry. A noteworthy early product was the first portable, gasoline-powered chainsaw. In 2000, its portable power tool activities were spun off into an independent company, Festool. In 2002, Festo went to the United States Supreme Court to defend a change to a patent application in Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co...
