VAT Vacuumvalves AG
VAT is the leading global developer, manufacturer and supplier of high-performance high-end vacuum valves, multi-valve modules, edge-welded bellows and related value-added services. The Group, headquartered in Haag, Switzerland, employs approximately 1,200 people worldwide. VAT has a global manufacturing footprint with production facilities in Haag, Switzerland, Penang, Malaysia, and Arad, Romania, as well as a facility in Xinwu, Taiwan, serving local customers. VAT’s products and services are mainly used in semiconductor, display and solar panel manufacturing as well as in a wide range of industry and research applications. The business offering is structured into the three segments Valves, Global Services and Industry.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Water and Wastewater
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1964
- Employees:
- 101-1000
About Us
VAT’s customer-facing activities are organized into four regions, the Americas, EMEA, Asia and ROW. Each region has sales, services and engineering support to ensure customers receive the highest level professional advice, quotations and service.
Over the last 50 years, VAT has built up a global leadership position in vacuum valves based on constant innovation and a single-minded focus on quality and reliability. Reliability refers not only to our products but also to the relationships we have established with our customers.
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History
The company was founded in 1964 by Siegfried Schertler and was at first based in the town of Flawil next to St.Gallen (Switzerland). In the beginning the market focus was on scientific research. Later the company moved its premises to Haag in the municipality of Sennwald in the Rhine valley (Switzerland). From 1984 the company entered the field of semiconductor technology. Together with the patenting of the MONOVAT technology, this was the basis for an enormous growth spurt. Another innovation, the development of control valves with intelligent and self-learning control components, led to further sustained growth. After the turn of the millennium, the company expanded into the flat screen and photovoltaic markets.
In February 2014 Capvis and Partners Group acquired VAT in a joint lead transaction.