Automation for a world in motion. Highlights 2025 Festo 100 years 4 – 5 The first pneumatics catalog from 1956 comprised 166 items. Today’s portfolio has about 33,000 catalog products in several hundred thousand variants. In 1950, Kurt Stoll, the eldest son of Gottlieb and Berta Stoll, found out about pneumatics at a trade fair in Chicago and recognized its potential for automation. With his extraordinary, inventive spirit, he developed this topic further at his father’s company. Kurt Stoll made a significant contribution to Festo becoming a pioneering solution provider in automation technology. Wilfried Stoll, the second son of Berta and Gottlieb Stoll, pushed ahead with the international positioning and the founding of new Festo companies to strengthen the brand. He is pictured here during a trip to Southeast Asia in Singapore in 1973 in front of a Festo car. The exhibition stand in 1967 at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, Australia. Right from the early days, Festo has been present at national and international trade fairs. Festo has been listed as an exhibitor at the Hannover Messe since 1949 and continues to demonstrate its innovative strength at the world’s largest industrial trade fair. Development of the first pneumatic products from 1955. The picture shows the double- acting cylinder type DV.
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