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...
The vacuum metallurgy and vacuum heat treatment business become part of the newly founded ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH (Aichelin, Leybold, Durferrit). ALD founds a sales subsidiary in Tokyo,...
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.
