Company History
The company was founded in November 1999 by Andrew Taylor MD.
Otherwise known as Andy. Andy completed his apprenticeship with
Edwards high vacuum in 1987.Whilst under the BOC wing time was
spent in such departments as, diffusion pump test and assembly,high
vacuum coating plant,technical design of vacuum projects.
He continued with Edwards in the field service department.
Whilst with service and based from the UK headquarters in
Crawley.
Such site and clients would have included the following:
ICI imperial chemical company at numerous sites including
middlesborough and jeallotts hill Surrey."now known as
Syngenta"
Mclaren formula one racing on pumps and sytems used for carbon
fibre composite moulding.
Motorola, Siemens, Digital, fujitsu and Seagate semicondutor
plants all frequently serviced.
Shell Petronas smds site in Bitulu Malaysia. installation and
commsioning of 7 large scale WFE wiped film evaporators with 30b4
Edwards diffusion pumps and twin roots pump and rotary piston
pumps.
In 1992 he became involved with Vacuum and Industrial Products
at the close of this company he was the managing partner. Having
gained considerable experience in primarily service and then sales,
the decision was made to go it alone. Hence Absolute Vacuum was
born, and has been successfully meeting customers' demands since
its foundation.
In 2004 absolute vacuum bought out IVS vacuum and more recently
has bought out VIS vacuum and industrial services West.
In 2008 Simon Davies joined the Absolute team, he is the service
director of the company and has first hand experience on Applied
materials implant , having done his apprenticeship at Horsham. He
has global service experience with VG Scientific and Edwards high
vacuum service.
