For 165 years, the company Leybold, located at Cologne, Germany, has developed one of the world first vacuum pumps. Nowadays Leybold has developed and supplied vacuum systems, standardized and customized vacuum solutions and after sales services for a wide range of industrial and research-based applications.
For the process industry, Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum offers low, medium, high- and ultrahigh vacuum pumps, vacuum systems, measuring gauges and instruments, leak detectors, valves and fittings, as well as consulting and engineering for complete vacuum solutions with a broad portfolio for specific customer applications.
The foundation stone was laid in 1850: In this year, the company’s founder Ernst Leybold officially took over this enterprise as his own, paving the way for a comprehensive industrial use of vacuum technology. Even after selling the company again in 1970, his vision remained. One of the most important mile stones in the company’s history is the development of the molecular pump by physicist Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaede.
Leybold´s signature products
The name of the physicist is also relevant for another very successful pumping type, still being used in effective applications: for 100 years, the diffusion pump has been almost irreplaceable for many highvacuum processes.
The success story of the oil sealed rotary vane pump Trivac B started 80 years ago. These general purpose pumps are used in a high variety of vacuum technology applications and are proving their efficiency in industrial production as well as in research, generating pressures in the low and medium vacuum range, as well as backing pumps in combination with other types such as Roots pumps, diffusion pumps, turbo-molecular pumps or cryo pumps.
Pioneer of vacuum technology
„Due to this positive development and long standing expertise, Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum disposes of the most elaborated technological know-how of application and processes“, explains Dr. Martin Füllenbach, CEO Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum. „As pioneers of vacuum technology for Process Industry, Coating applications, Analytical methods and applications in Research and Development, we belong to the three largest suppliers in the world.
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