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VON ARDENNE GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1991
Seat Dresden , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management
  • Pia of Ardenne-Lichtenberg
Number of employees 679 (annual average 2014)
sales 201.6 million euros (2014)
Branch mechanical engineering
Website www.vonardenne.biz

Company headquarters in Dresden

The Von Ardenne GmbH (proper spelling: VON ARDENNE ) is a German engineering company based in Dresden . The family develops and manufactures equipment for industrial vacuum coating, among others, glass , wafers and plastic film . It is a world market leader , particularly in plant construction for large-scale architectural glass coating and thin film photovoltaics .

history

The Von Ardenne Anlagentechnik GmbH was founded in 1991 from the German scientist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne founded Dresdner Research Institute Manfred von Ardenne spun off and in 2013 Von Ardenne GmbH renamed.

Structure, memberships and products

Von Ardenne GmbH is 100 percent owned by the von Ardenne family. The group has subsidiaries in China , Japan , Malaysia , Vietnam and the United States . Von Ardenne GmbH is u. a. Member of the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Saxon State Foundation for Nature and Environment .

The managing director is Pia von Ardenne-Lichtenberg.

The company is a world market leader in plant construction for large-scale architectural glass coating and thin film photovoltaics and large-scale electron beam guns for melting furnaces.

The company is active in five business areas, of which the architectural glass and photovoltaics business areas together accounted for around 72% of the 2014 annual turnover of 201.6 million euros. The main sales market is Asia; the export quota was around 96% in 2014.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Annual financial statements for the 2014 financial year of Von Ardenne GmbH. In: Bundesanzeiger , March 15, 2016.
  2. Dresden District Court, HRB 2610. Change of name according to Change of October 24, 2013 in accordance with the resolution of the shareholders' meeting on September 16, 2013.
  3. Company history . Von Ardenne GmbH website, accessed on December 25, 2016.
  4. ^ A b Mario Brück: Von Ardenne: 40 patents per year. In: Wirtschaftswoche , November 6, 2009. Accessed December 25, 2016.
  5. From Ardenne - International . Von Ardenne GmbH website, accessed on December 25, 2016.
  6. VON ARDENNE GmbH: From the nucleus for the high-tech region of Dresden to a global player . Website of the city of Dresden, accessed on December 25, 2016 (profile of Von Ardenne GmbH in the section success stories in the field of funding and service ).
  7. Saxony's world market leader on track . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , June 29, 2015 (according to information and PDF on the Profiroll Technologies GmbH website, accessed on December 25, 2016).
  8. Katja Starke: The Baron lives in his works ... In: Wochenkurier , January 30, 2013, accessed on December 25, 2016.