Bright new ideas that keep vacuum pumps in a spin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 587 KB
• Volume: 2000
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(00)80025-5

✦ Synopsis

Customers want higher performance with cheaper running costs. Legislators want less pollution with lower environmental risks. Competitors just want a bigger slice of the pie. Just like their liquid-pump cousins, vacuum pump makers now suffer an onerous burden of market pressures that look set to change the technological and commercial landscape. Michael Cotter looks at the latest initiatives from the industry's biggest players.