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Vacuum for life

Vacuum technology surrounds us everywhere in our daily lives - although we are often not aware of it. Many products that we take for granted in our lives could not be made without vacuum, which has become indispensable for the contemporary lifestyle we lead.

Eyeglass lenses are vacuum deposited with layers of scratch protection, and with reflective, antireflection and colored coatings. These optical coating processes are carried out in systems with custom vacuum chambers.
Pacemaker
In medical technology, vacuum is needed for things such as leak testing of pacemakers and for plasma sterilization of surgical instruments. Without vacuum technology, the compatibility of implants could not be guaranteed, and it would not be possible to use them in the human body. In these processes, ASM 380, HiPace 80 turbopumps as well as oil-free ACP Roots pumps are used.
Textiles
The surface finishing of modern textiles takes place under vacuum conditions. This treatment provides textiles with special functionalities which make them water resistant and airtight. Therefore, CombiLine Roots pumping stations and turbopumps are used.

Where does happiness come from?

Once we leave our working life behind us, retirement brings the long-awaited free time. Many large and small aids help us to enjoy life to the full and keep us active into old age. All these things would not exist without vacuum.

Happiness is found in small moments.

One of our turbopumps rotates more than 90.000 times per minutes – it thus nearly rotates with sound velocity at its outer radius.

Refrigerator
The cooling circuit in refrigerators is tested for leak-tightness with the aid of helium leak detectors, such as our ASM 340 leak detector. Furthermore, groceries such as milk powder or instant coffee are dried under vacuum. This makes them keep almost indefinitely. DuoLine rotary vane pumps, for example, are used for this purpose.
Kitchen faucets
Vacuum is used to equip kitchen faucets with scratch and decorative layers. Therefore, Roots pumping stations such as the CombiLine are used.
Drinking water
The quality and purity of our drinking water is tested with mass spectrometers. These analysis instruments conduct measurements in vacuum. Our PrismaPlus mass spectrometer, for instance, can be used to analyze water.

How do we know that it´s love?

Nothing in the world is more important to us than our family – thats why we do all we can to safeguard the wellbeing of our loved ones and devote ourselves to look after them. Vacuum technology is an invisible helper in our quest.

By the care we take to our actions.

Our products are manufactured with an accuracy of 1/100 μ.

UV protection
Vacuum is also used to equip sunglasses with UV protection. Combinations of backing pumps and turbopumps are used for this purpose.
Smartphone
Microprocessors that are used in modern communication media such as smartphones or PCs need to be manufactured under vacuum. Therefore, complete systems such as the ADPC are used for the detection and removal of contaminations. 
Insulation glass
The glass of building facades - for example of office buildings - is coated under vacuum with glare and climate protection layers as well as with visual protection. This is done with rotary vane pumps, Roots pumps, turbopumps as well as leak detectors.

The next step?

In our working life, we encounter a wide range of everyday products that require vacuum in production. Not only at our place of work, but also on our way there.

New thinking, new action!

Ultra-clean conditions are needed to manufacture semiconductor components – we detect particles of up to 0.1 μ.

Laptop
Memory chips in laptops and tablets are manufactured under vacuum in cleanrooms. The screens on these are also coated in a vacuum. Tablets, for example, can be provided with touchscreen features. Process pumps from the A4 range and ATH-M turbopumps make this possible.
Chips packaging
The packaging of groceries such as chips is coated under vacuum with flexible layers that prevent humidity and oxygen from entering and thus ensure a longer shelf time. Rotary vane pumps of the DuoLine combined with HiPace turbopumps are used in these processes.
Watches are coated with decorative layers under vacuum conditions. This surface finish is applied, for example, with Roots pumping stations such as CombiLine together with HiPace turbopumps.
PET bottles
Also PET bottles are coated under vacuum with so-called diffusion barrier layers. They prevent carbon dioxide from diffusing out of the bottle material. This makes beverages remain fresh for a longer time. Therefore, leak detectors such as the ASM 340 are used.

How do we become driven to something?

Gaming, learning, communicating, chilling out – young people today use digital media increasingly in their spare time thanks to modern communications. Vacuum is essential for this and other forms of entertainment.

Because the world deserves new ideas!

We manufacture to the highest standards. Only state-of-the-art technology is used in our manufacturing processes.

Automotive parts
Helium leak detection is conducted at many different automotive parts. For example, fuel tanks, air conditioning lines, airbags or injection systems are tested for leaks. Therefore, our complete helium leak detection systems are used.
LEDs
Also the LEDs in the headlights of cars and bikes as well as in automotive fixtures are manufactured using vacuum. This also goes for the components of navigation systems. Here, screw pumps such as the HeptaDry are used.
Paint surface
The paint surfaces of bikes or cars are tested with plasma weathering under vacuum. This ensures that the paint is weather and temperature resistant. In these processes, Roots pumping stations of the CombiLine are used as well as rotary vane pumps.

Where will the present lead us?

Mobile and flexible – these are features that describe our hectic lifestyle. No matter whether at home or at work, modern forms of transport are here to stay. They need vacuum to even work at all and to get us everywhere safely.

Into a world of mobility. Worldwide.

Our leak detectors identify holes that are far smaller than a human hair. This is why they reliably trace every leak and ensure a high safety level in the production processes.
LED TVs
Transistors can also be found in the screens of LED TVs. HiPace turbo pumps are used in their production, for example.
CD/DVD/Blu-Ray
Storage media such as CDs, DVDs and Blue Rays as well as hard drives are being coated with metallic layers under vacuum. In these processes, rotary vane pumps of the DuoLine are used.

What´s everyday´s life?

Its not just the way we communicate that is affected by new media. What we do in our free time is also changing more and more over the course of time – and not only for the youngest generation. Vacuum plays a decisive role in manufacturing these products.

Experience innovations!

Precision, quality and the exact focus on the specific requirements of the customers are vital for our experts already at the design stage.

We all need vacuum for life.

Behind all of this, there is Pfeiffer Vacuum

Our modern life is made possible thanks to products crafted each day by Pfeiffer Vacuum staff with the maximum precision and care.