History
We’ve Been a Part of It Right From the Very Beginning – For More than 100 Years!
1890 Arthur Pfeiffer founds the company in Wetzlar, Germany
1908 Pfeiffer invents and brings to market the "oleo-pneumatic pump"
1926 Pfeiffer numbers among the leaders in vacuum technology
1958 Pfeiffer invents and brings to market the turbomolecular pump,
which comes to be known as a generic class of pumps – the "turbopump"
1996 Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG is the first medium-sized German corporation
to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange
1998 Pfeiffer Vacuum receives its second listing, on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange´s
"Neuer Markt" (today the TecDAX)
2000 DigiLine™ – the first fully digital line of vacuum gauges
2002 Pfeiffer Vacuum brings a magnetically coupled line of rotary vane pumps to market
2003 HiMag™ – the first mag-lev turbopump with integrated drive system
2004 Pfeiffer Vacuum brings the XtraDry™ to market –
a new two-stage reciprocating vacuum pump
2005 Pfeiffer Vacuum brings the OnTool™ Booster to market –
a new high-vacuum pump that works against atmosphere
2006 10th anniversary IPO at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
2007 Biggest order in company history in double digit million Euro range for systems
to manufacture thin-layer solar cells
Delisting from New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
PentaLine™ – new generation of rotary vane pumps
2008 Pfeiffer Vacuum brings the HiPace™ 1,000 - 2,000 l/s class –
the new Dimension in Vacuum Technology