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 – 2008 quality control system, ISO 14001 : 2004 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.