Practical Vacuum Fair - Coating and Semicon applications

Coating processes are frequent in the semicon industry, the Practical Vacuum fair finds place in combination with Machine Building, Drives & Automation incorporating PneuMotion, IPOT, Machine Vision and Displays Technology, Mtec- Sensors, Measurement & Instrumentation featuring Industrial Networks. The 2007 edition took place in Birmingham NEC, UK from 14 to 15 February.

Still, rough vacuum is distant from the needs of coating applications, which base on 10^-5 mbar(a) pressure or less. Every high vacuum application goes through the rough vacuum or first vacuum stage and modern systems base on the centralization of rough vacuum. Depending on the specific application, several more pumps are operated in order to achieve the required vacuum level. With the coating industry being reserved for few high tech companies only,  this fair did not attract many visitors but allowed to get in touch with other OEM and specialists of this high evolved and continuously evolving industry. www.practicalvacuum.co.uk