Outstanding inventive talent at Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum
Only creative companies with vision and a feeling for new ideas make it into the ranks of the
top one hundred most innovative SMEs. Oerlikon Leybold was among them in 2011, and was
presented with the Top 100 award by Lothar Spaeth in the Baltic resort of Warnemuende.
(industrietreff) - Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum GmbH specialises in the creation of vacuums for industrial
applications. A number of products are now manufactured under vacuum conditions,
including light bulbs, refrigerators, automotive components and computer parts. As far back
as 1850, the company's founder, Ernst Leybold, recognized the potential uses of a
vacuum. Nature on earth abhors a vacuum, but throughout its 160-year history the
company has consistently come up with new ways to benefit from it. "We are constantly
reinventing ourselves – despite or perhaps because of our long company history", said
CEO Andreas Widl.
To ensure that it keeps its finger firmly on the pulse of time, the company pays close
attention to what its customers actually need. Their wishes and requirements are fed into
an 'innovation pipeline' via the product marketing and development functions. A lot of
ideas are collected which are then reviewed and screened by the senior management.
Financial aspects play a key part in this selection process. As far as the company is
concerned, innovations management is also investment management. "Because no matter
how good an idea might be, implementing it will always require time and the allocation of a
certain budget", noted Andreas Widl.
This approach has proven successful and holds a lot of customer benefits, as the
innovations of recent years have proven. The dry compressing screw type vacuum pump
series DRYVAC and the magnetically levitated turbo molecular pumps TURBOVAC
MAGiNTEGRA are well received in the industry, offering an innovative and reliable
pumping concept: robust and almost maintenance-free. Optimizing manufacturing
processes by delivering vacuum systems designed to customers’ requirements is one of
Leybold Vacuum’s declared objectives.
The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration scrutinised the innovative
capabilities of 272 small and medium-sized German firms over a period of several months.
The 100 best companies – Oerlikon Leybold among them – bear the Top 100 seal of
approval for one year "Creative, innovative ideas and a fresh way of thinking are more
than ever an integral part of our corporate culture, which we believe will translate into
higher revenue and earnings in the medium term. That is why we are particularly proud to
receive the Top 100 award", commented Andreas Widl.
The 100 SMEs who were awarded the seal of approval in 2011 generated total revenue of
€11.2 billion last year. In 2010 alone, 769 German and 1,865 international patents were
registered. Forty-eight of the one hundred companies are top in their respective sector in
Germany, and 19 are actually global market leaders. In the past three years, 88 of the 100
award-winning firms grew faster than the average for their respective sector – by an
average of around 16 per cent.
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Unternehmensinformation / Kurzprofil:
A World Leader in Vacuum and Coating Technology
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum engineers, produces and markets vacuum pumps and coating
systems for a wide variety of vacuum applications in PV. For more information on the new
MAGiNTEGRA, the DRYVAC and the UNIVEX, or the full-line vacuum technology portfolio
offered by Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, please visit www.oerlikon.com/leybold.
About Oerlikon
Oerlikon (SIX: OERL) is a leading high-tech industrial group specializing in machine and plant
engineering. The Company is a provider of innovative industrial solutions and cutting-edge
technologies for textile manufacturing, thin-film coating, drive, vacuum, solar energy systems
and advanced nanotechnology. A Swiss company with a tradition going back 150 years,
Oerlikon is a global player with around 16,000 employees at over 150 locations in 36
countries and sales of CHF 2.9 billion in 2009. The Company invests more than CHF 200
million annually in R&D, with over 1,200 specialists working on future products and services.
The operative businesses rank either first or second in their respective global markets.
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum GmbH
Bonner Str. 498
D-50968 Köln
Christina Steigler
Corporate Communications
T: +49 221 347 1261
F : +49 221 347 31261
christina.steigler(at)oerlikon.com
www.oerlikon.com/leyboldvacuum
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Datum: 01.07.2011 - 16:55 Uhr
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