Company Performance Metrics
Ferrovac GmbH was founded in 1996 by Urs Maier and Andreas Vaterlaus as a spin-off company of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) in Zurich, Switzerland.
Their main fields of activitiy are the design and production of components for ultra high vacuum technology as well as the development of scientific instruments for surface science
and nanotechnology.
Ferrovac experts have profound knowledge of ultra high vacuum technology, experimental physics and scanning probe microscopy.
Their engineers work with most advanced 3D-CAD engineering technology. Thus Ferrovac is able to realize flexible solutions for various customer’s requests with reasonable lead time.
In the course of their long lasting business activity they set new standards for sample manipulation by the use and the perpetual advancement of magnetically coupled manipulators.
Their systems allow reliable loading, transferring and manipulating samples inside UHV multi chamber systems.
They are able to combine their concepts and components to complete, customer specified UHV-Systems or to refurbish existing experimental setups with their components.
Always based on the requests of their increasing number of customers, they endeavour to improve their products constantly and to adapt them to the changing needs.
