About Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology

PFEIFFER VACUUM TECHNOLOGY AG, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of components and systems for vacuum generation, measurement, and analysis. Products The company's products include a selection of pumps for vacuum generation, vacuum measurement and analytical devices, as well as installation elements and complete vacuum systems. With the aid of its products, pressure conditions are produced under vacuum that are similar to those that prevail in outer space and are indispensable in manufacturing any number of high-tech products and articles used in daily life. Vacuum generation Turbopumps: Turbopumps are the company's most important product family. The combination of rotating impellers and stationary stators enabled a hydrocarbon-free vacuum to be generated for the first time with these pumps. The company's portfolio includes a line of turbopumps. The company's turbopump, the magnetically levitated HiPace 3400 MC, is predominantly required in the semiconductor industry and for coating. Rotary vane pumps: Rotary vane pumps are rotational displacement pumps that number among what are called backing pumps. pfeiffer vacuum offers rotary vane pumps that incorporate one or two pumping stages for differing pressure ranges. The HenaLine pumps are single-stage pumps, whose applications include electron beam welding, vacuum drying and metallurgy. The UnoLine pumps are employed first and foremost in combination with Roots pumps in industrial applications. These pumps are water cooled and extremely insensitive to dust and dirt. The two-stage rotary vane pumps include the DuoLine and PentaLine products. Diaphragm pumps: Diaphragm pumps are displacement pumps that are especially suitable for use as backing pumps for turbopump pumping stations, for employment in analytical equipment and for leak detectors. Diaphragm pumps generate a dry, oil-free vacuum, which is why they number among the dry pumps. Piston pumps: The XtraDry pump operates in accordance with one of the oldest principles of vacuum generation. Dry piston pumps have higher pumping speeds than diaphragm pumps, and are employed where a clean, hydrocarbon-free vacuum is required, such as in the analytical industry or in the research & development market segment. Screw pumps: The HeptaDry is a screw pump for low and medium vacuum applications that require high pumping speeds. Roots pumps: Roots pumps number among the dry-running rotational displacement pumps. They are offered in various sizes and versions; as a standard pump either with or without magnetic coupling. Vacuum measurement and analysis Vacuum measurement and analysis equipment: The company offers three different series of equipment for total pressure measurement. Mass spectrometers pfeiffer vacuum supplies a selection of mass spectrometers ranging all the way to high-performance mass spectrometers for plasma analysis. Leak detectors: The company's helium leak detectors enable troublesome, quality-reducing leaks in products and processes to be identified. Installation elements: In order to interconnect the various vacuum components or to disconnect them from one another, the company offers a selection of installation elements, such as flanges, fasteners, piping components, feedthroughs, seals and valves. Vacuum system solutions Thin layer solar cell coating systems: Developed in close collaboration with its customer, these coating systems feature an ingenious, process-adapted vacuum system that incorporates the products from pfeiffer vacuum (turbopumps, pumping stations, dry backing pumps, measurement and analysis equipment). The systems comprise multiple successive chambers for the various coating processes under vacuum, as well as complex conveying facilities for the large-area panes of glass. Helium leak detection systems: pfeiffer vacuum develops and manufactures vacuum systems for customer-specific processes, such as components for applications in the automotive industry, for pressure vessels or for quality assurance in the food industry. The fully automated measurement method minimizes testing times and operating costs. HiCube turbopump pumping stations: With its HiCube turbopump pumping stations, the company offers customers a modularly designed, ready-to-run pumping system. These compact pumping stations essentially consist of a turbopump, a backing pump, a vacuum gauge and a controller. They are primarily employed in the field of analysis as well as in research & development. CombiLine pumping stations: The company supplies a range of CombiLine pumping stations in pressure ranges that extend from atmospheric to high vacuum. In addition to its standard pumping stations, in which various sizes of Roots pumps are combined with rotary vane and dry pumps as backing pumps, the company also offers custom solutions for specific processes. Multi-stage vacuum process: Together with die casting specialists, pfeiffer vacuum offers die casting technology, the Vacu2 multi-stage vacuum process. Markets and Customers Analytical industry: The company's major customers in this market are OEM customers, including manufacturers of analytical equipment that operates under vacuum. Complex analytical devices, such as scanning electron microscopes, are primarily employed for industrial quality control. Ever-smaller and lighter portable analyzers are required in environmental technology, in security technology or for doping analyses. The analytical industry primarily purchases small and medium-size turbopumps from the company, along with backing pumps and measurement equipment. The company's major customers in this market are located in the United States, Japan, England, and Germany. Industrial applications: This market includes a heterogeneous mix of industrial customers who require the company's vacuum technology in order to solve specific production steps. The automotive supplier industry needs leak detection systems from the company for fully automated quality assurance in the production of fuel tanks, aluminum rims, airbag cartridges or air conditioning lines. One new application consists of steel degassing, in which steel is degassed under vacuum with the aid of pumping stations in order to free the steel of as many gas inclusions as possible. The company's customers in the industrial segment come primarily from Germany and Europe, and from Southeastern Europe. Coating industry: The company's customers in this market come from all industrialized nations. Research & development: Whether in physics or chemistry laboratories at universities, prominent research institutions like the Fraunhofer or Max Planck Institutes, or in large multinational research facilities - all of them rely upon the quality and dependability of the company's mass spectro-meters, leak detection systems and turbopumps. Working in close cooperation with research facilities in Europe, the United States and Asia, new applications are repeatedly being created that subsequently be industrially marketed, such as ion beam therapy accelerators for highly accurate treatment of tumors. Semiconductor industry: The company's vacuum pumps are required in the semiconductor industry for the production of microprocessors, flat screen monitors and handling systems. Customers in this industry predominantly require medium-size and large turbopumps, as well as measurement equipment. The company's customers in this industry are primarily located in the United States and Asia. Chemical and process technology: The applications in the chemical and process technology market segment are closely related to those in industrial system technology. Employed primarily in the chemical industry are pumping stations consisting of backing pumps and Roots pumps in the production of plastic bottles. Process technology also includes the company's customers from the field of medical technology, who build accelerators for cancer therapy. The company's most important customers in this segment are located in Germany, Scandinavia and the United States. History PFEIFFER VACUUM TECHNOLOGY AG was founded in 1890.