Hind High Vacuum founded as a Small-Scale Industry in Bangalore, India.

Developed India’s first indigenous 12” laboratory vacuum coating unit in association with the Indian Institute of Science.

Developed and manufactured India's first high vacuum rotary pump.

Developed an indigenous space simulation chamber to test leaks in pallets and allied components for rocket thrusters.

Moved to a 4.5 acre Peenya plant in Bangalore, India.

Established the thin films division and began producing optical filters.

India’s largest vacuum heat treatment and brazing furnace with a hot zone of size 1.8 meters in diameter and 2 meters in height and can achieve vacuum of 10(-6) mbar.

Built and supplied the largest vertical coating system for 2.2m diameter telescope mirror coatings at an elevation of 14800 ft. above sea level at Hanley, Ladakh.

Developed a robot- controlled sputter coating system for conductive and transparent coating on aircraft canopy and windshield with process technology.

Established the 6.5 acre Dabaspet plant in Bangalore, India which includes international contract manufacturing operations for Edwards' range of thin film deposition equipment and diffusion pumps.

Installed the Horton spheres at Trivandrum, India. The spheres are 16.13 meter in diameter (equivalent to the height of a five storied building), with a vacuum system of cycle speed of 1, 20,000 m3/hour. It is coupled with a hypersonic wind tunnel.

( i )Established HHV Pumps as a joint venture company to manufacture Rotary pumps, Roots pumps, Combination pumps, Piston pumps and Vacuum Pumping systems.

( ii )HHV's international activity commences with the export of thin-film deposition equipment, acquired the Edwards' thin films lineage and established HHV Ltd in United Kingdom.

Developed a complete turnkey line for the production of amorphous silicon solar panels with a capacity of 10MW per annum.

Developed a twin door metallization system for the automobile industry.

Developed and installed a large sputter coater for 3.7m diameter telescope mirror coating. 

Commissioned a robotized TIG welding system with man entry and external robot teaching facility for welding aircraft engine components in high purity inert gas environments. 

Developed a rotary vacuum brazing furnace for the brazing of diverging and converging exhaust nozzles used in the first and second stage launch vehicles. The furnace is 3.65 meters in diameter and 3.5 meters in length and can achieve vacuum of 10 mbar. 

Developed a large size ground-based integrated test facility to measure the thrust of high power (8.0 kW) ion-propulsion engines

Received Space Qualifications for Metallization for HMC substrates   

Launched India’s first commercial ALD reactor 

Designed and manufactured the TF1400, a thin film deposition system with a 1400 mm chamber for mass production

Established the Thin films and Optics facility to fabricate high precision optical components in the visible and infrared spectrum

Awarded the National R&D award by the President of India for establishing the production of thin film metallized substrates

Began the ATS 500, a fully automated thin film coating system, production line

Received Space Qualifications for Lithography of HMC substrates.