# INFICON

Summary updated: 2026-10-04T15:11:02.941939Z
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## Overview

INFICON is a Swiss-based instrumentation and technology company serving semiconductor, industrial, and other high-tech markets. Its products include vacuum measurement and control equipment, leak detectors, gas-analysis instruments, sensors, and Smart Manufacturing software. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P5031089)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P21506011) The company describes its products and software as supporting productivity and quality. [3](https://www.inficon.com/en/company/about-us)

Headquartered in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, INFICON serves customers through production sites and a global sales, application-engineering, and service network spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P86370084)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P35989256) In FY2025, it reported net sales of USD 673.7 million and 1,731 employees. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P86139960)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T10841111)
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## Products & services

INFICON’s product portfolio includes leak-detection and vacuum-measurement equipment, process-monitoring systems, and analytical instruments. SMART-Spray is a wireless helium spray gun for leak detection, while the LDS3000 with EcoBoost is a helium leak detector designed to reduce helium consumption by up to 90%. Transpector CPX is a compact residual-gas analyzer for semiconductor process monitoring, and FabTime software provides real-time manufacturing insights. For battery production, ELT Vmax detects electrolyte leaks in inline cell testing; an electrolyte-sniffer system works with it to test battery modules and packs. Other named products include the HAPSITE 4 CDT chemical-identification system and Trigon vacuum gauge. [8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P62147880)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P78253952)

INFICON’s vacuum gauges and controllers cover measurement from ultra-high vacuum to atmospheric pressure, using Pirani, capacitance-diaphragm, and hot- or cold-ionization technologies, available as standalone or combined sensors. Its portfolio also includes customized sensors for solar-cell production and leak-testing applications for automotive components, lithium-ion batteries, battery stacks, and fuel cells. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P5031089)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P62147880)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P6401631)

Services include consulting and training, installation, commissioning, calibration, maintenance, repair, and equipment rental. INFICON reports a global sales and service organization of about 400 people, including more than 150 application engineers. [11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P35627845)

For FY2025, INFICON reported sales of USD 673.7 million. By end market, Semi & Vacuum Coating accounted for USD 330.0 million (49.0% of sales), General Vacuum USD 174.8 million (25.9%), Refrigeration, Air Conditioning & Automotive USD 137.1 million (20.3%), and Security & Energy USD 31.8 million (4.7%). These are end-market shares, not revenue percentages for individual products. [12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P110354110)[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P5927745)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P116202947)
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## Geographic presence

INFICON reports 2025 sales across Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, North America and Other. Sales were USD 168.6 million in Asia-Pacific (25.0% of total), USD 190.7 million in China (28.3%), USD 153.2 million in Europe (22.7%), USD 156.4 million in North America (23.2%) and USD 4.8 million in Other (0.7%); total sales were USD 673.7 million. China is presented as a separate sales region from Asia-Pacific. [15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T918460) The company reported that Asia-Pacific sales increased 19.2% in 2025, while Europe and America sales declined 3.0% and 12.4%, respectively. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P64649420)

The reported regional employee distribution was 609 in North America, 776 in Europe, 191 in Asia-Pacific and 155 in China. [17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P82054567) INFICON says its production spans Europe, China, Asia-Pacific and North America, and identifies manufacturing facilities in Germany, Liechtenstein, the United States, Malaysia and China. Its Malaysia production site became fully operational in 2025. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P86370084)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P86990625)

The locations covered by the report’s 2025 site data include Mariehamn, Finland; Balzers, Liechtenstein; Cologne, Germany; Linköping, Sweden; Shanghai, China; Syracuse, Overland Park and Longmont in the United States; and Shah Alam, Malaysia. [19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P34597116) INFICON lists its parent company in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, and subsidiaries in 18 countries, including locations across Europe, Asia, North America and Mexico. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T4791196)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P86990625) Its other named sales, service and office locations include sites in the United States and Mexico, several European cities, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and China. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P35989256)
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## Business segments

INFICON reports one global operating segment; it manages and evaluates performance for the Group as a whole. Its four end-market categories are revenue disclosures, not separate operating segments. [22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P16151402)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P90621885)

In FY2025, Semi & Vacuum Coating generated $330.0 million, approximately 49.0% of sales, serving semiconductor and thin-film coating applications with instruments, sensors, process-control and software solutions. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P5927745)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P33837070) General Vacuum contributed $174.8 million (25.9%), supplying vacuum analysis, control and measurement instruments to areas including solar, life sciences, food packaging, research and analytics. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P5927745)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P122066986) Automotive, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning generated $137.1 million (20.3%); its applications include leak detection and quality control for cooling systems and automotive components, as well as batteries and fuel cells. [14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P116202947)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P6401631) Security & Energy contributed $31.8 million (4.7%), providing gas and volatile-organic-compound detection and analysis for identifying hazardous substances. [14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P116202947)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P11326645) Shares are approximate and rounded; FY2025 total sales were $673.7 million. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P86139960)
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## Company history

INFICON traces its technical roots to Balzers and dates the INFICON name to 1969, when scientists and engineers in Syracuse, New York, developed a solid-state halogen leak detector. Its early milestones included development of a digitally controlled quadrupole mass spectrometer in the 1970s and launch of its first thin-film product in 1979. [27](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-celebrates-50-years-of-advancing-innovation) [28](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/a-legacy-nearly-half-a-century-in-the-making)

The instrumentation businesses that later formed INFICON were merged under OC Oerlikon in 1996; the combined company was formed in 2000 from Balzers Instruments, Leybold’s instrumentation business, and Leybold Inficon (USA), and adopted the INFICON name on July 1. [29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P51740434) [30](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/new-instrumentation-company-formed-from-three-well-known-names-in-vacuum-technology) INFICON held its IPO in November 2000 and listed shares on the SIX Swiss Exchange and Nasdaq; it delisted from Nasdaq in 2005. [31](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-announces-initial-public-offering-of-1-736-000-shares-of-common-stock-at-225-swiss-francs-per-share) Subsequent acquisitions broadened its instrumentation and software portfolio: Sentex Systems in 2003, Maxtek assets in 2007, Adixen Scandinavia in 2011, Final Phase Systems in 2018, and FabTime assets in 2024. [32](https://www.inficon.com/%2A/news/inficon-announces-acquisition-of-sentex-systems) [33](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-acquires-maxtek-inc) [34](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-announces-closing-of-acquisition-of-adixen-scandinavia-ab-from-pfeiffer-vacuum) [35](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-acquires-final-phase-systems) [36](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-acquires-all-assets-of-smart-manufacturing-software-specialist-fabtime)
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21. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/media/13315/download/Annual-Report-2025.pdf?inline=true&language=en&v=1)
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27. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-celebrates-50-years-of-advancing-innovation)
28. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/a-legacy-nearly-half-a-century-in-the-making)
29. [INFICON — Full financial report (2025 Y), p2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P51740434)
30. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/new-instrumentation-company-formed-from-three-well-known-names-in-vacuum-technology)
31. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-announces-initial-public-offering-of-1-736-000-shares-of-common-stock-at-225-swiss-francs-per-share)
32. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/%2A/news/inficon-announces-acquisition-of-sentex-systems)
33. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-acquires-maxtek-inc)
34. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-announces-closing-of-acquisition-of-adixen-scandinavia-ab-from-pfeiffer-vacuum)
35. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-acquires-final-phase-systems)
36. [www.inficon.com](https://www.inficon.com/en/news/inficon-acquires-all-assets-of-smart-manufacturing-software-specialist-fabtime)

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