Marking its 100th anniversary and 60 years of Festo Didactic, Festo is strengthening its long-standing commitment to technical skills excellence as a new Global Premium Partner of WorldSkills International. The company, the first-ever Global Industry Partner since 1991, now expands its collaboration to further support vocational education and training worldwide.
Festo Didactic specialists take an active role at multiple stages of WorldSkills competitions, working alongside competitors, skills experts, and other partners, contributing hundreds of hours of effort throughout the year. Through this engagement, the company helps foster passion for technical careers while celebrating the innovation and talent shaping the future.
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About Festo
Festo is a global player and an independent family-owned company with headquarters in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. The company supplies pneumatic and electrical automation technology to 300,000 customers of factory and process automation in over 35 industries. With about 20,600 employees in over 250 branch offices in around 60 countries worldwide, Festo achieved a turnover of around €3.65 billion in 2023. Festo Didactic SE is a leading provider of technical education and training and offers its customers worldwide comprehensive digital and physical learning solutions in the industrial environment.
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Isabelle Ouellet
Festo SE & Co. KG
Germany
