Festo and Gemu sign cooperation agreement

Automation supplier Festo has signed a cooperation agreement with the leading process valve manufacturer Gemu to offer a full range of products for factory automation and also for process automation

Automation supplier Festo has signed a cooperation agreement with the leading process valve manufacturer Gemu.

"We already provide products for the process industry.

Our cooperation with Gemu - the leading supplier of industrial and process valves - will enable us to offer a joint product range.

We aim to offer a full range of products, not only for factory automation but also for process automation," says Steve Sands of Festo.

Steve Orton, managing director of Gemu Valves says: "Cooperation with Festo is the next logical step for usIt enables us to take account of the growing integration of factory and process automation," adds Steve Orton, Managing Director of Gemu Valves.

"It also enables us to focus on our core competencies while at the same time tapping into new business fields and applications." Factory automation and process automation face similar challenges.

Decentralised intelligence and increased miniaturisation and integration call for clear solutions from the manufacturers of automation equipment.

This cooperation enables both companies to offer customers a larger and more complete range of products and services.

In particular, cooperation between Gemu and Festo will facilitate an increasing number of system-level solutions.

Festo already offers engineering tools which greatly simplify the design and configuration of automation components - playing a major role in reducing engineering costs and project lead times.

In future, these will be complemented by modules for the design and configuration of process valves, including the advanced Gemu valve range.

This agreement will help to reduce total cost of ownership.

* About Gemu - Gemu is one of the world's leading suppliers of industrial and process valves.

Its products can be found in water treatment processes as well as in the chemicals industry, mining and machine building.

Its valves control and regulate neutral, aggressive, liquid and gaseous media.

Gemu manufactures products at six locations, with over 850 employees, and markets them via 12 subsidiaries and an international network of dealers.

Gemu's UK office is in Warrington.

* About Festo - Festo currently offers 23,000 catalogue products alone in the field of pneumatic and electric automation, for over 200 application sectors including automobiles, electronics, food, packaging and process industries.

Festo's customers can choose between pneumatic, servo-pneumatic and electric drives, sub-systems and systems.

In addition, Festo provides numerous services in the field of industrial training and education.

Festo employs some 11,000 staff at 250 sites worldwide.

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