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NEWS RELEASE: Festo Develops a New Flexible Pipetting Solution

[Photo courtesy of Festo]

This new solution is capable of pipette dispenses from 20 microliters up to 20 milliliters.

ISLANDIA, NY, January 31, 2024 — Festo is now showing customers and prospects several new life science automation innovations including the company’s wide-range flexible pipetting. Each of the new and customizable solutions combines Festo components into dynamic subsystems. Festo collaborates with OEMs and integrators to bring proven commercial technologies to labs around the globe.

“LifeTech is the fastest growing segment within Festo,” said Sam Stoney, LifeTech Industry Segment Manager. “We believe the reason for exceptional growth is that our product portfolio in high-speed sample and media handling is second to none, as is our Boston-based application engineering team. Festo supports its products globally and reduces risk …

Esslingen, Germany–based Festo will display a range of new products at Interphex 2021, the biotech and pharma technology event scheduled for October 19 to 21 at the Javits Center in New York City.

Included in the lineup will be its new VEAB pressure controller and the VEMD mass flow controller.

In addition, other new products on display will include the VYKA high speed, high accuracy isolation valve for automated laboratory equipment, the VAEM eight-channel valve controller and the PGVA compact onboard pressure and vacuum generator.

Media-separated solenoid valve VYKA. Image from Festo.

The company, whose U.S. headquarters are in Islandia, New York, will also showcase CPX-AP-I, its first decentralized I/O system.

Suited for large bioreaction systems, CPX-AP-I provides machine-mountable IP65/IP67-rated modules. In addition, the system supports networking of up to 80 modules.

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Festo develops a new flexible pipetting solution

Festo to show off latest automated liquid and gas handling technology at Interphex