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有历史的年轻公司

ALD作为真空冶金和真空热处理领域内工艺和服务的领先供应商,目前的地位可追溯到真空技术的重要企业家:
Wilhelm Carl Heraeus (1827-1904)和Ernst Leybold (1824-1907)。今天的ALD真空技术有限公司根源可追溯到Heraeus和Leybold公司,以及由Friedrich Ernst Roessler (1813-1883)于1873年成立的Degussa公司。滚动查看100多年发展的里程碑:

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1916

Heraeus enters the field of vacuum metallurgy when it succeeds in melting chromium-nickel alloys under vacuum conditions.

1930

Leybold starts manufacturing industrial vacuum equipment.

1950

Degussa decides to build vacuum furnaces too.

1952

Together with Degussa AG and Metallgesellschaft AG Leybold founds the Leybold-Hochvakuum-Anlagen GmbH.

1967

Spinning off its vacuum engineering division W.C. Heraeus founds Heraeus Hochvakuum GmbH. Thereafter both companies merge to Leybold-Heraeus GmbH.

1987

Degussa AG acquires all shares of Leybold-Heraeus GmbH, which is then renamed Leybold AG.

1991

Degussa spins off its Durferrit business including Degussa Industrial Furnaces, while Leybold AG sheds its vacuum metallurgy division. The two spin-offs merge to form Leybold Durferrit GmbH.

1994

The vacuum metallurgy and vacuum heat treatment business become part of the newly founded ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH.

ALD founds a sales subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan.

1999

Through founding the Own & Operate GmbH, ALD substantiates its service area of vacuum heat treatment.

The joint venture Vacuheat (Germany) becomes the first vacuum heat treatment service center.

2000

ALD enters into the vacuum coating business by acquiring all EB/PVD activities from Leybold AG.

2001

With ALD Thermal Treatment Inc. ALD starts off a vacuum heat treatment center in the USA.

2005

ALD TT Port Huron is established as the 2nd vacuum heat treatment center in the US.

ALD Holcroft is founded as a joint venture with AFC Holcroft to market new vacuum technologies in the US.

2006

ALD founds Furnaces Nuclear Applications Grenoble SAS (FNAG) in Grenoble.

AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. emerges from the Safeguard International Fund. Therein ALD forms the Engineering Division.

2007

Foundation of the vacuum heat treatment center ALD Tratamientos Termicos S.A. de C.V., in Ramos, Mexico.

2010

Participation in Dynatech Furnaces, Mumbai, India.

2011

ALD-C&K Vacuum Technologies Co., Ltd. is founded in Suzhou as a joint venture between ALD and C&K (China) Co., Ltd. from Hong Kong.

ALD acquires all shares of Dynatech Furnaces and names the company ALD Vacuum Technologies India Pvt. Ltd..

2013

ALD opens a branch in Moscow, Russia and Bangkok, Thailand.

2014

ALD founds the Russian company ALD Vacuum Technologies OOO in Moscow.

ALD France is founded as a merger of FNAG and Thermique Industrie Vide SAS (TIV).

2016

ALD acquires the remaining 50 % of the joint venture ALD Holcroft and rebrands it ALD Vacuum Systems.

ALD moves into new headquarters with offices and production halls at Otto-von-Guericke-Platz 1 in Hanau.

2017

A new storage and shipping building is put into operation at headquarters, centralizing all ALD business areas on one site for the first time.