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Festo

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Number of locations
  
Website
  
www.festo.com

Location
  
Sankt Ingbert

Key people
  
Claus Jessen (CEO)

Revenue
  
2.45 billion EUR (2014)

Number of employees
  
17,800

Headquarters
  
Founded
  
1925, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany

Founders
  
Gottlieb Stoll, Albert Fezer

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Festo the company


Festo is a German industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. Festo is an engineering-driven company, producing and selling pneumatic and electrical control and drive technology for factory or process automation. Festo Didactic is a world market leader in industrial education and consultancy. Sales subsidiaries, distribution centers and factories are located in 61 countries worldwide.

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History

Festo was founded in 1925 by Albert Fezer and Gottlieb Stoll. Initially, the company 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...

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Festo Wikipedia


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