- CEO
- Jalin Ketter
- Full Time Employees
- 1,015
- Sector
- Electronic technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Address
- Im Westpark 10 – 12 Wettenberg HE Germany 35435
- IPO Date
- Jun 21, 1999
- Business
- PVA TePla AG PVA TePla AG serves as a leading provider of high-tech systems and solutions for advanced materials processing, refinement, and metrology, focusing on vacuum, plasma, high-temperature processes, crystal growing, and quality inspection technologies primarily for the semiconductor, hard metal, electrical/electronics, optical, energy, photovoltaics, and environmental sectors. The company offers pressure sintering systems, high-vacuum brazing furnaces, diffusion bonding systems for large components, inductively heated vacuum melting and casting systems, plasma nitriding systems; crystal growing systems including floating zone and Czochralski methods for ultra-pure silicon and germanium crystals; plasma systems and infrared measuring systems for surface cleaning, activation, functionalization, coating, etching, and production monitoring such as wafer stress analysis and implant process control; scanning acoustic microscopy for ultrasound inspection of high-tech products including 300 mm silicon ingots; vacuum processing services encompassing brazing, heat treatment, and joining technology consulting; and software for industrial automation, high-precision measurement, image acquisition, and data analysis in semiconductor wafer inspection. PVA TePla AG operates through ten specialized subsidiaries with an international footprint including sites in Europe, Asia via PVA TePla Korea and China branches, and North America through PVA TePla America, Inc., targeting customers in high-precision manufacturing and research; founded in 1991 through the merger of PVA Vakuum Anlagenbau GmbH and TePla AG, the company maintains its headquarters in Wettenberg, Germany, near Giessen, and employs around 900 people worldwide. In recent developments, PVA TePla AG integrates DIVE imaging systems GmbH to expand high-precision optical material analysis capabilities and desconpro engineering GmbH to strengthen automation expertise and production capacities in metrology, both in early 2025; it previously acquired MPA Industrie SA in France to enhance industrial vacuum processes for silicon carbide components and coatings, founded PVA TePla Korea in 2022 for Asian sales and service expansion, and acquired Okos Solutions LLC in the USA to bolster ultrasound microscopy for aerospace and semiconductor markets.