Media Release 22 Sep 2023

Media Release

FESTOOL: GOOD IS JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

Power Tool pioneer Festool offers a huge and sophisticated range

Think top end power tools and one has to think Festool. World renowned power tool manufacturer, German engineered Festool is also a South African power tool market leader. Distributed and comprehensively backed by Vermont Sales across Southern Africa, Festool's incredible best quality and highly durable range is ready to meet your toughest demands.

More than just a brand, Festool's obsession with quality and perfection has made its products more of a cult sacredly sustained by Festool Junkies around the world. Founded by Gottlieb Stoll almost a century ago in 1925, just good is simply not good enough for Festool. The company never stops in its quest for perfection. Festool thrives on continuously evolving its products and inventions out of its European manufacturing plants.

Festool has also revolutionised the power tool and woodworking industry over the years. Its orbital sander for instance reinvented surface finishing in 1951 and still today represents the world benchmark in that field. Festool also transformed the portable circular saw by combining it with a guide rail in 1964. And it was Festool that first fitted an extractor to its eccentric sander back in 1976.

Other Festool inventions include its sophisticated 2006 Domino jointing system, while the modular Festool Systainer storage system has kept workplaces tidy for decades. All the result of almost a century of perpetual development and passion to continually improve what is already a world-leading range.

Festool's incredible range spreads across all avenues of power tools, woodworking, and allied industries. From saws to drilling and screwdriving machines, to cutting, sanding, and routing, to polishing and planing devices, Festool has a broad and deep range of power tools and accessories to undertake any job. Festool also offers floor laying, stirring and edging machines, oscillators, timber construction and surface preparation machines.

Festool power tools come as cordless or plug-in. And there's far more to it than just power tools too. Thousands of woodworkers worldwide prefer the Domino jointing system, Festool's revolutionary guide and dust extraction systems, Systainer workplace organisation, transport storage and illumination system and the clever ExoActive exoskeleton all make for faster, easier work. Festool offers a broad range of accessories, consumables, and merchandise too.

Looking at some of its offerings, Festool's immense saw range spreads from regular, sliding, circular and compound mitre saws, to table saws portable saws and jigsaws, oscillators, plunge-cut, insulating-material and reciprocating saws, as well as trimming and sword saws. Each Festool saw is German engineered to deliver best results, whatever the application

The most versatile of its kind, the TS60K plunge cut saw is a fine example of supreme Festool German engineering. Backed by decades of development and powered by Festool's latest brushless EC-TEC motor, with 60 mm cutting depth, unmatched cross-cutting guide rail capability and KickbackStop safety, this market leading compound mitre saw system is compact, robust, powerful, and easy-to-use to accurately saw like a hot knife through butter.

Festool's incredible range of highest quality drills and hammer drills likewise includes all manner of regular, hammer and percussion drills, impact drivers and drywall screwdrivers. Once again available as both cord and cordless devices, several cool drill kits, bit assortments and bit holders are also easily available.

Festool's durable, effective, lightweight powerhouse impact drivers for example have super robust hammer mechanisms, those EC-TEC motors and long-life battery packs for maximum performance, endurance, and superb ergonomics. Powerful, compact, and versatile Festool four-gear Quadrive is the best percussion drill it has ever built. With unmatched switching, an EC-TEC motor and KickbackStop, best boring is guaranteed, whatever the material.

One of its coolest inventions, Festool's lightweight, compact, and quiet dust extractor not only revolutionises the wood workplace, but its maximum mobility flexible new suction hose and smooth exterior make this Systainer T-LOC compatible system the perfect anti-dust solution. Other Festool support accessories include cordless working lights site radios, energy sets and battery and charging technology.

Another brilliant example of a Festool workplace solution, is the ExoActive exoskeleton. This unique device lends power assistance to a tiring overhead worker's neck and arms to allow him or her to work longer, with less physical exertion. Lightweight and comfortable, ExoActive quite literally reduces the work load for greater efficiency, better focus, and job quality, let alone enhanced enjoyment.

So, whatever your power tool or woodworking need, there's no better answer than Festool. The company that invented many of the tools and systems that have streamlined those jobs over the years, Festool continues to lead the way, comprehensively supported by South Africa's power tool leaders, Vermont Sales.

Established in 1985, Vermont Sales offers a huge range of tool solutions from more than 50 leading, tried, tested, and guaranteed brands. Available through well over 3,000 outlets across Southern Africa, and backed by the Vermont Sales Force, the company also offers comprehensive training across all its brands. Learn more at vermontsales.co.za.