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HHV was founded  in 1965 as Hind High Vacuum Company Private Limited, an  enterprise in India’s technological capital, Bangalore, to take up the challenge of pioneering the indigenous development  of  high vacuum equipment. It  was highly successful in this endeavour and is now a well-known name in the domestic and global market for a wide variety of high vacuum hardware and vacuum-based systems .

Based on the knowledge and experience accumulated in vacuum technology, HHV has branched out over the years into related areas like Thin Films and Solar Photovoltaics.  From its first vacuum-based thin film deposition system developed in 1977, HHV has not looked back . After establishing   its own  applications  laboratory for thin films in 1991,  it is now India’s leading supplier of thin film coatings  as well as deposition equipment for scientific and commercial purposes in the Infra-red, Optical and Ultra-violet  ranges.

Venturing into Solar Photovoltaics (SPV)  was a natural progression from thin films, with India’s abundant solar energy potential providing the pull.  But HHV was not content with just making SPV panels. Its aim was much higher  - to develop its own world class  technology and equipment to make the panels.  Beginning with the setting up of a dedicated SPV laboratory at its Bangalore unit, HHV has now successfully joined the handful of  international companies who can offer automated production lines to make high efficiency SPV panels of both crystalline silicon from solid wafers and thin film amorphous silicon deposited from gases.

HHV has expanded multifold since its beginnings five decades ago.  Besides its original unit in the Peenya Industrial Area of Bangalore,  with a covered area of 150,000 square feet, it now has a second manufacturing unit in a 6.5-acre campus at Dobbspet, some 60 kms from Bangalore.  Its manufacturing facilities are certified for ISO9001 – 2015 quality control system, ISO 14001 : 2015 and BS OSHAS 18001 : 2007.

HHV is a very technology-driven group and over one-third of its 600 strong employee strength comprises scientists and engineers .  The group maintains close collaborative links with India’s premier research institutions as well as its customers , most of whom  belong to the high tech fraternity such as Aerospace, Atomic Energy, Defence, Electronics, Medicine and Solar Energy.

Milestones

1965 S.V. Narasaiah establishes Hind High Vacuum Pvt. Ltd. to pioneer the manufacture of vacuum equipment in India. This was followed by a series of equipment designed and made for the first time in India by the company. These were :
1967 Thin film coating plant
1968 High vacuum rotary pump
1970 Space simulation chamber
1974 Electron beam guns for evaporation
1991 Establishment of Thin Films Division and application laboratory
1993 Completely automated Box Coater for Nano-technology coatings
1996 India’s largest vacuum heat treatment and brazing furnace
1999

Vacuum induction melting and casting furnace for processing of specialized and exotic alloys

1999

HHV becomes India’s first  ISO 9001 certified vacuum science and technology company

2000

Diffusion bonding hot press capable of going up to 2200 Deg C  for joining dissimilar metals

2001 Multi-chamber PECVD system for manufacture of a-Si Solar modules
2002 Reactive Ion Etching System (RIE)
2002

Large-area telescopic mirror coater for observatory in the  Himalayas

2003 Coaters and equipment for Plasma Display Panels (PDP)
2005

Robot-assisted sputter coater for coating canopies

2006 Induction heated CVD/CVI vacuum furnace capable of 2800 Deg.C
2007

Twin-chamber vacuum heat treatment furnace with Oil/Gas quenching facility

2007 Commencement of contract manufacturing operations for international customers
2008 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel project executed
2008

Development of  a complete production line for a-Si solar panels

2009 Export commences of  thin film equipment
2010 Export of  SPV  panels started
2011 Metallization system for automobile industry
2011 Large area sputter coater for 3.7 diameter telescope mirror
2012 High production rate sputter coater for automobile industry
2012 Cabin environment simulation system
2012 Compact cluster PECVD tool for R&D
2012 High productivity tungsten Carbide recyling system
2013 Xenon thruster engine testing equipment
2014 Vacuum ARC re-melting furnace
2015 Total gas analyzer
2015 Low pressure vacuum hardening furnace
2016 Autoclave system
2016 Large size vacuum system to leak test classified components
2017 Space Qualification For HMC metallized substrates
2017 Certificate of Qualification for Defence products
2017

Directional Solidification Furnace to produce Multicrystalline Silcon Ingot

2017 Atomic Layer Deposition System
2017 Glove Box with coater for solar cell applications
2017 Optics Fabrication Laboratory
2018 National Award from Government of India, Department of Science & Technology for successful commercialization of indigenous technology

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