Did you Know ?

Zero Vibrations

Ion pumps have no moving parts.
Your eye can see to 1/10 millimetre an optical microscope to 1/10,000 millimetre, and an electron microscope takes you to 1/million of a millimetre by using electrons to overcome the diffraction limit of light. Vacuum is essential in this process… and most importantly with zero vibration.


We are able to create the purest vacuum environments on Earth.

Ion pumps achieve amazing ultimate pressure of <1E-12 mbar, lower than the pressure on the moon.

We create and maintain UHV conditions.

27km of Vacuum

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets to prove the existence of Higgs Boson. Charged particles circulate for hours in the storage ring, at constant energy, in an ultra-high vacuum environment. Vacuum stops the particles colliding with air and is used throughout the ring.

Ion pumps have exceptional radiation tolerance.

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Research in nuclear fusion largely involves attempts to recreate a reaction similar to that occurring in the sun by fusing two types of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, to create helium. This requires considerable energy as the gas has to be heated to very high temperatures, up to 100 million degrees Celsius, causing it to become a plasma. Vacuum pumps partly have to operate under high radiation and magnetic field levels in those applications.