company profile

  • Ferrovac GmbH was founded in 1996 as a spin-off of the solid state physics laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) in Zurich, Switzerland. Our main area is the design and construction of equipment for ultra high vacuum technology. The company founders have 20 years of experience in experimental physics and scanning probe microscopy and are combining their knowledge with the use of the most advanced 3D-CAD engineering technology. Thus Ferrovac is able to realize flexible solutions for various customer’s requests with reasonable lead time. In the course of our long lasting business activity we set new standards for sample manipulation by the use and the perpetual advancement of magnetically coupled manipulators. Our systems allow reliable loading, transferring and manipulating samples in UHV multi chamber systems. Moreover, the use of our “UHV-suitcase” permits the transfer of samples under UHV conditions between systems at different locations. We are able to combine our concepts and components to complete, customer specified UHV-Systems or to refurbish existing experimental setups with our components. Always based on the requests of our increasing number of customers, we endeavour to improve our products constantly and to adapt them to the changing needs.
    staff members

  • Urs Maier
    CEO, Research Engineer, IT-Engineer.
  • David von Gunten
    CAD-Engineer and Web-Programmer.
  • Adriano Zandonella
    CAD-Engineer.
  • Urs Wegmann
    Dipl. Engineer ETH.
  • Jeremy Knight
    Sales and Marketing.
  • Mirhat Abdija
    Office.
  • Hugo Cabrera
    Physicist
  • Denys Sutter
    Physics Laboratory Assistant
  • Pascal Behm
    Physics Laboratory Assistant
  • Bettina Guebeli
    Student