Busch Semiconductor Vacuum Group

The Busch Semiconductor Vacuum Group was founded in 1999 with the aim of better serving the vacuum needs of semiconductor and flat panel display market.

Busch Semiconductor Vacuum Group supply a range of products noted for their functionality, compactness, ease of use and minimal environmental impact. Continuous investment in R&D is fundamental to the group's remarkable success to date. This focus has resulted in the development of "next generation" products, together with our advanced pump monitoring system, universal tool interface and 300 mm compliant products.

Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems is one of the largest manufacturers of vacuum pumps, blowers and compressors in the world.

With over 50 years of experience and top qualified personnel, we are forward-looking and strive to improve our products and ourselves. We are constantly at work developing innovative technologies that will define the vacuum world of the future.

Our manufacturing plants utilize the most modern manufacturing techniques, machinery and equipment under very strict quality controls, which surpass DIN EN ISO 9001 requirements.

As of 2014, Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems employs 2600 people and features the largest selection of vacuum pumps for the industrial applications in the world. Due to its immense line of vacuum pumps, expertise and experience in the building of vacuum systems and the extensive service network, Busch is capable of providing ideal comprehensive solutions.

With 57 companies in 39 countries and sales agents in over 30 countries, we are strategically positioned throughout the world to provide our customers with the essentials for success.

Our goal always is to provide the customer with the highest possible return on investment. Personal consulting, choice of the optimum product and prompt service on site are key features of our comprehensive service that make the achievement of this goal reality. Our experience and know how in broadly diversified applications and product design furnish the basis.

Busch’s headquarters is located in Maulburg, Germany. Besides Busch Holding, the German manufacturing plant, Busch Produktions GmbH, the sales organization, Dr.-Ing. K. Busch GmbH and service company, Busch Dienste GmbH are headquartered here. In addition, Busch operates production plants in Switzerland, Denmark and the USA.

Dr.-Ing. Karl Busch and his wife Ayhan Busch founded the Dr.-Ing. K. Busch GmbH company in Schopfheim, Germany in 1963. Dr.-Ing. Karl Busch designed, built, tested and sold the company’s first vacuum pump in the basement of his house in record time.

A "Huckepack" type pump, it was the first vacuum pump in the world designed for the specific requirements of what was up to then an unheard of means of food packaging: vacuum packing. Huckepack was the prime initiator of the era of vacuum packing.

Today, all reputable manufacturers of vacuum packaging equipment place their confidence in Busch vacuum pumps. Since the Huckepack serial number 1 from 1963, hundreds of thousands of pumps have been commissioned in vacuum packaging.

From the beginning, a customer-oriented approach has always been central to our thinking. Rapid company development meant that we were constantly on the move, moving to larger rented production facilities until we built our first plant building in Maulburg in 1972.

A sense for practical technical development, early recognition of market trends and highly qualified personnel create the necessary environment for pioneering breakthroughs in vacuum technology. Following in the innovative footsteps of the Huckepack, the R 5 rotary vane vacuum pump is yet another revolutionary development. Its simple and modular construction has made it the best selling pump of our time. Introduction of the COBRA dry screw vacuum pump and the development of the rotary claw technology fundamentally changed the market for contact free and dry vacuum technologies.

In 1971, the company’s commitment to being where the customer needs it led to the founding of its first foreign subsidiary, Busch Ltd, in Great Britain.

Listed below, you will find a few of the milestones from Busch’s history:

1963 Dr.-Ing. Karl Busch and his wife Ayhan Busch found the company in Schopfheim, Germany
1971 Founding of Busch UK, England, the first foreign Busch company
1972 Building of the company owned production facility in Maulburg, Germany
1978 Joint Venture in China
1979 Building of the first foreign manufacturing plant in Virginia Beach, USA
1980 Building of the manufacturing plant in Chevenez, Switzerland
1996 Construction of a new building in Maulburg for the Vacuum Systems, Research and Development departments and training centre
1999 Founding of the Busch Semiconductor Vacuum Group
2002 Expansion of the manufacturing and office facilities in Maulburg, Chevenez and Virginia Beach
2006 Expansion of the Chevenez production plant. Commissioning of the most modern assembly line in Switzerland
2012 Building of the manufacturing plant Busch Manufacturing Korea LTD in Seoul, South Korea
2013 50th company anniversary