History / Milestones - Dealing with the potentials of vacuum technology for 150 years
Ernst Leybold and Wilhelm Carl Heraeus laid the foundations for our present day success. Very early these two inventors dealt with the potentials of vacuum technology. In 1967 the companies of Leybold and Heraeus merged to form the precursor of today's Leybold Optics GmbH.
Ernst Leybold - from trader to industrialist
A haulage contractor, a coffee importer, a wholesaler dealer in chemist's supplies: Ernst Leybold from Cologne was a real multi-talent. In 1864 he opened his own company selling physical and pharmaceutical devices. Six years later he sold his associates the core of the company that is well-known all over the world today.
Wilhelm C. Heraeus - it all started in a chemist's shop
Heraeus had personal experience with pharmaceutics. In 1851 he took over his father's chemist's shop in Hanau. A few years later he was already working on the production and processing of precious metals.
