VAT facts and figures

VAT Vacuum Valves AG has an annual turnover of more than 300 million US dollars and employs a staff of over 900 of whom about 600 are in Switzerland. The proportion of exports is 99 per cent: Asia is the main market with about 45 per cent, next comes the USA with about 30 per cent, followed by Europe at 22 per cent.

VAT has a range of about 1000 products in its catalog. But over half of our worldwide turnover comes from tailor-made solutions for our customers.

The total area of our manufacturing plants in Switzerland, Romania and Taiwan is 237,000 sq ft or 22,000 sq m. All our plants are ISO-9001 certified.

VAT Facts

Structure of ownership and management:

VAT is privately owned and is 100 % self-financed.  


Chairman of the Board:

Dr. Richard Fischer
Richard Fischer

Executive management:

CEO

Mr. Karl Schlegel

Karl Schlegel

Director of research and development

Mr. Adrian Kauf

Adrian Kauf

Director of production

Mr. Markus Lareida

Lareida Markus

Director of marketing and engineering

Mr. Reto Loepfe

Loepfe Reto

Director of finance and corporate services

Mr. Christoph Pichler

Pichler Chrisph

Director of global quality and procurement

Mr. Andreas Scheibe

Andreas Scheibe
©2012 VAT Vacuumvalves AG | Switzerland
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