Festo recently introduced a new family of sanitary ball, angle seat and pinch valves at Interphex 2017 at the Javits Center in New York City. These valves are designed for use in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. With this introduction, Festo now offers seamless automation from control cabinet to pipe for steam, inert gases, water, cleaning solutions and powders applications.
The new automated valve solutions feature the company’s VZBE ball valves, VZXA angle seat valves, VZQA pinch valves, DFPD quarter-turn actuators, VSNC NAMUR pilot valves and the SRBC family of open/close sensor boxes.
Festo research and development efforts are currently engineering advanced diagnostics into the valves to support Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things functionality for greater flexibility and operational performance.