History
Festo was founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Stoll and Albert Fezer. Initially it manufactured wood cutting tools and later diversified into the automation industry. In 2000 its portable power tool activities were spun off into an independent company, Festool. In 2002, Festo went to the Supreme Court to defend a change to a patent application in Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co..
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