Latest News: 2016, 6.-10. Juni OPTATEC Frankfurt

MacroTech Meeting

Once again MacroTech found huge success at this year's Optatec show! The MacroTech booth has seen numerous changes since 2004; however, the booth is not the only thing that has changed. With 500 machines working under the control of MacroTech's software, the show offered an opportunity to deepen existing relationships and start new ones.

The inviting nature of our team gave an agreeable atmosphere for many interesting expert discussions with our long standing business partners and potential new customers.

Picture of e-Gun
  1. 1994
  2. 2000
  3. 2002
  4. 2003
  5. 2004
  6. 2005
  7. 2006
  8. 2007
  9. 2009
  10. 2012
  11. 2013
  12. 2013
  13. 2014
  14. Today

  1. The Beginning

    1994

    MacroTech Steuerungstechnik was founded by Mr. Martin Bresch. PC based control software for OEM's and end customers (Provac, Schwab + Klug, BTW, etc.)

  2. Expanding

    2000

    Expanding the operational field with complete retrofits of existing production equipment (i.e. control software and control hardware).

  3. Facility

    2002

    New production facility in Freiburg im Breisgau with office rooms and machine shop.

  4. Building Relationships

    2003

    Start of the cooperation with the OEM customer Winter Vakuumtechnik.

  5. Cooperation and Facility Upgrade

    2004

    Start of the cooperation with OEM's in Asia (Korea and China). Expanding of the working space of our production facility in Freiburg.

  6. Thin Film Deposition

    2005

    Start with the production of complete thin film deposition systems.

  7. "Air to Air, Roll to Roll"

    2006

    Development of a control system for a "Air to Air, Roll to Roll" - sputter system for solar absorber films (BlueTec).

  8. e-Gun Evaporation Machine

    2007

    Development and construction of an e-Gun evaporation R&D machine for CIGS solar absorber films.

  9. Thin Film CIGS-solar cells

    2009

    Development and construction of inline production tools for the production of thin film CIGS-solar cells.

  10. Precision Optics

    2012

    Development and constructon of an inline e-gun evaporation production system for precision optics.

  11. Inovation

    2013

    Start of cooperation with Optotech Optikmaschinen GmbH. Development/Construction of an inline sputter tool for front contacts and TCO layers in thin film solar cells.

  12. Inovation (cont.)

    2013

    Development and Construction of precision optics evaporation systems with broad bank optica monitoring.

  13. VBA-5

    2014

    Introduction of the new VBA-5 "All in One" control software for evaporation systems.

  14. Today

    2016

    Today more than 500 systems worldwide work with MacroTech control systems in all fields of production and R&D.

image_back MacroTech Recently took part in the 13th anual Optatec event.

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