The subject of energy efficiency of vacuum solutions plays an important role in all areas of application. Not least for this reason, the vacuum supplier Leybold from Cologne has continuously reduced the energy consumption of its product range in recent years.

Users in research and industry increasingly rely on dry and robust vacuum solutions, which will also provide flexibility of use. With the

modernized, air-cooled Scrollvac plus, Leybold offers an new uncomplicated, reliable fore vacuum pump, which exactly meets this requirement profile. Suitable for a wide application range.

Being at the forefront of university research is very important for innovating next generation vacuum technology products. As a local partner with Pittsburgh based Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Leybold has been not only a supplier, but also a generous and benevolent sponsor for years. As an acknowledgement for this close cooperation, the CMU community named one of the new conference center and reception rooms ‘Leybold’ and celebrated this inauguration with a presentation and reception held at the CMU Nanofabrication Facility on May 22nd.

Cooperation between Universities and industrial enterprises are much more common in other countries, such as Great Britain and the United States. In Germany, cooperation is mostly restricted to the technology level and the subsequent transfer of basic research knowledge gained at the universities to the mass production opportunities of industry.

Leybold GmbH is the first vacuum pump manufacturer to test the diverse application possibilities of Augmented Reality (AR). While executing tasks, service technicians obtain useful additional information and graphical documentation, partly in 3D. Leybold plans to extend the scalable AR apps to other product areas such as training, repair and maintenance purposes.

The requirements for modern analytical instruments and systems are changing: users in laboratories and research facilities increasingly rely on low-noise, oil-free vacuum solutions to avoid contamination and, above all, unnecessary noise in laboratory environments. With the newly developed family of dry-compressing multi-stage Roots vacuum pump Ecodry plus, Leybold has now launched a new fore-vacuum pump for the analytics market.

A well-known Korean group producing lithium-ion batteries has awarded the contract for the supply of vacuum systems to Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum. The company will equip several production lines. The delivery of these systems for electrode drying is expected for summer 2016.

First helium plasma was generated at the nuclear fusion reactor Wendelstein 7-X of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) has been successful. On 10 December 2015, after more than ten years of construction and preparation, the researchers of the IPP succeeded in taking the world s largest fusion plant of the Stellarator type into pilot operation.

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum is pleased to announce the launch of the Vacuum Online Shop, the all-new online store for our vacuum technological products and accessories. After running the Vacuum Shop in the US successfully, the Online Store is now open and ready for operation in twelve additional countries in six languages to shop for products and after sales services.

For 165 years, the company Leybold, located at Cologne, Germany, has developed and supplied vacuum pumps, systems, standardized and customized vacuum solutions and after sales services for a wide range of industrial and research-based applications.