FHR AS A COMPANY
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thin film technology
Pioneers in Thin Film Technology
FHR Anlagenbau GmbH
We are experts in translating unique requirements into robust production systems and processes.
A Vital Group Company
We are FHR
A group of dedicated engineers from Dresden, with many years of experience in thin film and microsystems technology, founded FHR Anlagenbau GmbH in 1991 with the aim of implementing modern, functional coatings in customized concepts.
Today, we are The Thin Film Company.
THE ENGINE BEHIND OUR GROWTH
Our customer base has grown steadily since our pioneering days more than 30 years ago and includes well-known, high-caliber manufacturers, as well as small and medium-sized companies that nevertheless maintain a leading global position in their industry.
Even during the earliest development phases of products and processes, industrial and academic researchers and developers rely on our innovation and expertise in the field of functional coatings, and regularly present us with new challenges.
Our Core Competencies
What we do
Then, as now, our roots lie in the field of customized coating system technology. To date, we have already supplied more than 300 coating system platforms, thereby enabling us to draw on a large number of tried-and-tested assemblies that have proven effective in practice.
- We develop comprehensive production systems that are adapted to our customers’ applications.
- We handle the pre-production qualification process for you, or work with you to develop material compositions for the consumables (sputtering targets) in our systems that are specifically tailored to your requirements.
- A professional service and consultation are naturally part of our range of services, and round off our portfolio.
Engineering
The development of tailored systems is just as much a core competence for us as the derivation of system platforms and their implementation in series systems. The unifying feature of all our systems is the deposition of functional coatings in a vacuum.
Our aspiration
We make new findings from research and development usable for industrial applications – that is our mission. We follow this path together with our customers, starting with layer stack development, through implementation in pilot plants to scaling up on an industrial scale.
Our expertise lies in embracing individual customer requirements and developing in tandem a coating system tailored to the application. We combine an expert knowledge of process technology with mechanical design, software development and automation. The key to success here is to design individualized systems in such a way that they can be used to manufacture competitive products.
We have developed extensive process engineering expertise in various technologies. These include:
- Reactive and non-reactive magnetron sputtering
- Vacuum vaporizing
- CVD and PECVD to facilitate the efficient deposition of metals, oxides and nitrides
- Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for creating ultra-thin functional coatings with a homogeneous layer thickness on complex 3D surface structures
- Plasma-assisted etching technologies for surface treatment and extremely efficient material removal (high-rate etching)
The result is stable processes suitable for production. We are only satisfied when our customers can produce functional coatings to the desired quality.
Expertise in handling materials is crucial for the production of high-performance functional coatings on different substrates.
That is why we not only offer the equipment, but also the necessary consumables. For example, we develop and manufacture sputtering targets by experts who understand that the structure and grain size of the initial material can have an influence on the quality of functional coatings, and, therefore, on our customers’ products.
We manufacture and develop sputtering targets precisely to your requirements.
Your Contact Person
Do you have any questions?
Do you have questions and want personal advice? Get in touch with our Marketing Team – we will be happy to help you.
CAREER AT FHR ANLAGENBAU
With many years of know-how and creativity, we develop new technologies and innovative plant engineering that drive our customers forward - quality is our strength.
As a leading company in the field of vacuum coating technology, we offer you exciting career prospects in an attractive working environment. We are looking for creative minds who will advance us and our customers. Whether you are an electrician, a project manager or a commercial employee: You too can become part of our team.
News about Us
NEWS AND DATES AROUND FHR
24 - 26 Jan 2025KarrierestartHR Events
07 Aug 2024Quantum Materials: The New Era of Thin Film ApplicationNews
28 Sep 2022Ultra-thin glass used for full roll-to-roll deposition of OLEDsNews
05 Apr 2021Spatial atomic layer deposition system FHR.Star.400x300-SALD deliveredNews
05 Dec 2019centrotherm international AG strengthens its core business by selling its subsidiary FHR Anlagenbau GmbH to VitalNews
10 Jul 2018Continuing research collaboration between SERIS and FHR in the field of advanced TCO and contact coatingsNews
13 Jul 2017FHR Anlagenbau was awarded a major contract by Manz AG for the delivery of inline coating technology for CIGS solar module factories and aims at strategic partnership to further develop thin-film technologyNews
17 Mar 2015FHR to deliver roll-to-roll vacuum coating system for the production of thermal protection filmsNews
27 Nov 2014FHR provides third-generation tube coating solutions for solar thermal absorbers in concentrated solar power plants (CSP) – highly productive sputtering systems to deposit complex thin film systems on tube surfacesNews
05 Nov 2013Research collaboration initiated between the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) and FHR Anlagenbau GmbH in the field of new Transparent Conductive Oxide (TCO) coatingsNews![[Translate to English:]](/fileadmin/_processed_/9/d/csm_03-FHR.Roll.1600-Folie_bff23219b1.jpeg "[Translate to English:]")
24 Sep 2012FHR introduces highly productive CIGS foil coating solutions for the photovoltaics industry and presents outstanding results in layer deposition of transparent electrodes (TCO)News
18 Jul 2012FHR Anlagenbau informs customers and suppliers about its unchanged continuation of business operationsNews![[Translate to English:]](/fileadmin/_processed_/b/6/csm_fhrroll300-1200px-1_ffd9789224.jpg "[Translate to English:]")
07 Jun 2011FHR expands foil coating technology portfolio with the FHR.Roll.300-PECVD platformNews
17 Feb 2011centrotherm photovoltaics focuses on greater efficiency in the solar value chain with further improvements in its systems on show at SNEC in ShanghaiNews
15 Nov 2010centrotherm photovoltaics subsidiary FHR Anlagenbau receives major order for CIGS thin film solar cell production systemsNews