ALD - Synonym for Advanced Vacuum Technology

ALD Vacuum Technologies. A young company with rich tradition. A mid-sized player with global reach. Soon to be a listed security with growth potential.

ALD is the leading global supplier of processes and services in the field of vacuum process technology. Core specialties of ALD are the development of processes and the design of plants, which are made to ALD's concept by partners in the supplier industry. ALD serves a demanding group of international customers with its branches in North America, Japan, Britain, Russia and more than 70 representative offices around the world.

With its three technological specialties - vacuum metallurgy, vacuum heat treatment and vacuum thermal recycling -, ALD is a strong partner of important and growing branches of industry.

The company sees considerable additional growth potential in the expansion of its corporate strategy: "Own & Operate", e. g. operating company-owned plants as a service for customers, will in the future become a second strategic business area beside engineering, ideally complementing ALD's range of capabilities.

The company's superior technologies contribute substantially to the driving innovation in six of the sunrise branches cited by the 1998 Delphi Study of the Fraunhofer Society. These are energy and resources; chemicals and new materials; information and communications; transportation and aerospace engineering as well as environmental engineering.

A company of the  AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N. V., Netherlands, ALD its outstanding position in the market and, above all, the potential of the product, process and service portfolios, will make ALD attractive with a long-term perspective.