Edwards
has won an order worth more than €1m (£0.87m) to provide vacuum pumps for an in-line glass coater for
Interpane, a German manufacturer of flat glass.
In addition, the West Sussex-based global vacuum company has secured a service contract worth €100,000.
Edwards will supply a total vacuum system, which includes 80 iXA2205 turbo pumps and two HV8000/607/IDX1300 mechanical pumps, plus 14 EH boosters and four GV dry pumps for turbo support of the process chambers.
The company had already worked with Interpane on a glass coating system for manufacturing architectural glass.
Edwards carried out an ‘onboard control’ development programme for the turbo pumps, and provided an STPiXA2205 beta with Profibus, which ran a successful trial on a production glass coater for a year, until September 2008.
Delivery for the latest contract will be completed by June 2009 and will be part of a system to be commissioned in December 2009.
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