Our Company

Our Company

Since Leybold’s founding in 1850, we have been pioneers in vacuum innovation and our passionate employees have been at the heart of the company’s success. Their innovation, commitment and expertise are the reasons we are trusted by customers around the world.

Company overview

If there is one constant in our group’s history, it is innovation. 

In 2016, we joined the Atlas Copco Group. Since then, we have continued to provide innovations in vacuum technology with our brand promise of ‘Pioneering Products, Passionately Applied’. Today, Leybold is recognized globally as a leader in industrial and high vacuum applications as well as for its strong engineering competences and next generation products.

As a pioneer of vacuum technology, we offer a wide range of vacuum components, standardized and fully customized vacuum solutions, complemented by vacuum technology accessories and instrumentation.

Our core capabilities center on the development of application and customer-specific systems for the creation of vacuum and extraction of processing gases.

Pioneering products. Passionately applied.

Our Competences

We offer a wide range of advanced vacuum solutions for use in manufacturing and analytical processes, as well as for research purposes.

Our ability to meet the highest requirements of the most complex applications gives our customers the competitive edge to succeed. Whether high duty processes in metallurgy, clean-room conditions at worldwide renowned institutes for research and development, or coating applications of minute dimensions – we deliver high performance. 

History Leybold 170 Years

Market Segments

Areas of application are to be found in every-day-life, such as air conditioning, TV-displays and automotive applications, but also in high technological processes like coating of microchips, CDs and DVDs, as well as in the manufacturing of optical glass or analytical instruments.

With our experience since 1850 in vacuum technology, we offer a broad know how of processes and applications to our customers, supported by a worldwide sales and after sales network. We rank among the top  providers in the specific business segments of Process Industry, Information Technology, Analytical Processes and Research & Development.