What are Festo Valves?

Festo valves are valves made by the Festo Company. This German company was founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Stoll and Albert Fezer It was originally a company that specialized in wood cutting tools. The company claims to be the inventor of the gas powered chain saw. Since those early years Festo has grown in size; Festo companies now have a presence in 176 countries, including South Africa and Taiwan, and have grown beyond its simple tool making days. Festo engineers a number of different products and offers consultants to develop engineering plans for the purchasers of those products. Festo strives to be a world wide leader in the use of nature inspired bionics for industrial use.

Festo valves are one of the better known of the product lines the Festo corporation offers. The variety of valves the company offers is extensive it includes:

Electrically or pneumatically actuated directional valves. There are standard directional valves, automated directional valves and directional valves designed for specific applications

Mechanically or manually actuated directional control valves. These valves may use any of a Number of control devices to alter direction manually or mechanically.

Valves for special functions are also offered. This category consists of such items as shut off valves, ball valves, logic valves, quick return valves and non return valves.

 Pressure control valves and pressure control regulators.

 Flow control valves including one way flow control valves and time delay valves.

 Proportional valves including proportional control regulators and proportional

 directional control valves.

Process and media valves. These may be actuated mechanically, electrically or pneumatically.

Festo offers a valve to meet a wide variety of situations and circumstances. In addition to the valves themselves Festo makes and offers a variety of accessories including counters to allow for more accurate record keeping. The engineering consulting that Festo offers means that even if no specific valve product they offer can be found to meet your needs, they will likely be able to come up with and provide a solution to your problem.

Valves are used in so many different situations and for so many different applications it is easy to forget how prevalent they are in our day to day lives, in our own homes and in the many different businesses, industries and services that make our modern world what it is today.

Anywhere something is flowing or moving valves are needed to see the item goes where it is needed, Water, petroleum products, electricity, air, liquefied gases and chemical products are each examples of items that flow through pipes or some other type of conduit and therefore need to be controlled with valves.

The more specific and detailed a valve can be engineered to meet the need for which it is designed the more precisely can the flow of the product be. Automated valve systems help increase efficiency by reducing the amount of time there actually has to be a human presence in a given location.

Festo takes pride in all its products and services. It takes no more pride in any of them than it does in its wide variety of high quality valves.