Our customers use these materials to make high-quality products such as architectural glass, displays for smartphones and touch screens, solar modules and heat protection foil for automotive glass.

VON ARDENNE was founded in 1991 as a spin-off of the Manfred von Ardenne Research Institute in Dresden. The technological principles and components which are vital to our current success had been developed and steadily improved by this institute since 1955. Read more about our company history.

Over 50 years of experience with electron beam processes and more than 40 years of competence in magnetron technology make VON ARDENNE a leading provider of glass coating systems and equipment for thin-film photovoltaics. This technology competence is used in all our products and guarantees that our customers receive reliable systems for their production.

VON ARDENNE relies on an international network with subsidiaries in China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan and the USA, in addition to our headquarters in Dresden, Germany.

At VON ARDENNE, we adhere strictly to the values which provided the basis for the work of Manfred von Ardenne - scientific meticulousness and curiosity, the constant search for innovative technical solutions, quality awareness, sustainable activity and reliability.

Quality Management

"Power lies in Quality" - Friedrich Nietzsche

For VON ARDENNE, quality means that our products are always reliable while using innovative and efficient technology. We commit to meeting the expectations of our customers and to their full satisfaction throughout the lifetime of each product.

We consider continuous improvement a task for everyone and a process of change, which encompasses all business areas of our suppliers. As a result, we can guarantee the excellent quality of our product portfolio: coating equipment, upgrades, spare parts and service.

Long-Term Partnership Ensures Mutual Success

We support our customers on their way to growth and help them reach their ambitious goals. Because our customers` success is our success!

Therefore, we are at your side - from the first consultation to after sales service. Together with you, we will strive for the best solutions in order to meet the requirements of the market. Our expertise, our advanced technologies and our ability to react quickly and reliably will ensure our mutual success.

Social Commitment Donations & Sponsoring

Being a company based in Saxony, VON ARDENNE feels committed to this region and its people. We express our commitment by getting involved in education, science, research, environment projects, sports and cultural activities.

Apart from that, we support the projects, clubs and associations that our employees are engaged in within their communities.

We support:

Elbhangfest Dresden city festival
Chinese Pavilion Dresden
Gymnasium Dresden-Buehlau high school
Mittelschule Weissig secondary school
KITA am Hochwald kindergarten
Physics awards at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Reconstruction of the Lingnerschloss mansion

Memberships

There are good reasons to get involved in different institutions as an active member or as a partner.

These institutions are platforms for presentations and publications as well as for sharing knowledge in interesting fields. With the help of these platforms, our experts get the chance to create networks, to discuss certain problems or to work on specific topics together with other institutions and associations.

AIMCAL - Association of Industrial Metalizers, Coaters and Laminators
The German Association of Small and Medium Sized Businesses (BVMW)
European Society of Thin Films (EFDS)
Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK)
Network of Competence of Industrial Plasma Surface Technology (INPLAS)
Saxon Regional Conservation Foundation
PLASMA Germany
Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)
Silicon Saxony e.V.

Observatory

"I could have become an astronomer", Manfred von Ardenne said when he remembered his enthusiasm for astronomy as a boy. When he was in school, he made telescopes that were up to two meters long out of spectacle lenses, curtain rods and wood from crates. With those telescopes, he observed moon craters, sunspots, phases of Venus and Jupiter. All his life, he kept an interest in astronomy.

In 1956, one year after he had arrived in Dresden, Manfred von Ardenne had anobservatorybuilt on the premises of his research institute. A Zeiss refracting telescope with a diameter of 200 millimeters and a focal length of 3,000 millimeters was installed into the observatory. Manfred von Ardenne had bought this rare specimen of optical and fine mechanical craftsmanship, which was built between 1909 and 1911. It is one of only six of its kind.

After the building and the refractory telescope had been restored, the observatory was reopened in 2007 on the occasion of Manfred von Ardennes 100^th birthday and was opened to the public.

If you look through this telescope, you might even spot the asteroid (4849 = 1936 QV), which was discovered in 1936 and named after Manfred von Ardenne in honor of his achievements.

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