INFICON provides world-class instruments for gas analysis, measurement and control.
The Company
INFICON is a leading provider of innovative instrumentation, critical sensor technologies, and advanced process control software that enhance productivity and quality in sophisticated industrial vacuum processes. These analysis, measurement and control products are essential for gas leak detection in air conditioning/refrigeration and automotive manufacturing. They are vital to equipment manufacturers and end-users in the complex fabrication of semiconductors and thin film coatings for optics, flat panel displays, solar cells and industrial vacuum coating applications. Other users of our vacuum-based processes include the life sciences, research, aerospace, packaging, heat treatment, laser cutting and many other industrial processes. We also leverage our expertise in vacuum technology to provide unique, toxic chemical analysis products for emergency response, security, and environmental health and safety.
INFICON is headquartered in Switzerland and has world-class manufacturing facilities in Europe, the United States and China, as well as subsidiaries in China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
INFICON is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 registered at our main locations. Many of our instruments are manufactured RoHS compliant.
Products
INFICON offers a broad range of specialized instruments and software to meet the varying needs of its customers. Included are sensor integration and analysis systems, advanced process control software, mass spectrometers, residual gas analyzers, RF detectors, thin film deposition monitors and controllers, partial pressure controllers, helium, hydrogen and refrigerant gas leak detectors, vacuum gauges, vacuum valves, fittings and feedthroughs; gas chromatographs for petrochemical and alternative fuels applications; and chemical identification and detection equipment for emergency response, environmental health and safety.
Global Markets
Advanced instrumentation from INFICON addresses the needs of researchers, developers, manufacturers, and government agencies in the following fields:
- Semiconductors
- Storage Media
- Optical Coating and Display
- Lasers
- Materials Processes
- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Automotive
- Emergency Response
- Industrial Hygiene
- Environmental Assessment, Characterization, and Monitoring
- Homeland Defense
Corporate Philanthropy
INFICON is committed to a program of philanthropy that supports the Company's strategic business goals and invests in the quality of life in the communities where our employees work and live. INFICON contributions take the form of both monetary and volunteer resources.
Business Conduct and Ethics
At INFICON, we strive to do business in an environment of the utmost integrity and honesty, adhering to the highest ethical and legal standards. This commitment to ethical professional conduct is expected of every INFICON employee.
INFICON Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
This Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code”) is intended to articulate and make publicly available a general statement regarding INFICON’s (the “Company” or “INFICON”) expectations about the business conduct of the Company’s directors, officers and employees. This Code is not exclusive: Company personnel shall also be subject to other applicable policies of the Company as those policies may from time to time be implemented. This Code applies to the Company and all of its subsidiaries and other business entities controlled by it worldwide.
It is the policy of INFICON to conduct all Company business in accordance with high standards of integrity and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
Accordingly, all directors, officers and employees of INFICON are required to:
1. Act with honesty and integrity, ethically handling actual and apparent conflicts of interests between their personal interests and the Company’s interests.
2. The principal executive officer and senior financial officers, and others responsible for the preparation, evaluation and dissemination of INFICON’s financial information, shall provide full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable disclosure in reports and documents INFICON files with, or submits to, the SIX Swiss Exchange, and in public communications made by INFICON.
3. Comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations of federal, state, and provincial and local governments, and other appropriate private and public regulatory agencies. All directors, officers and employees of INFICON are expected to use good judgment and common sense in seeking to comply with the foregoing and to ask for appropriate advice in the event of uncertainty.
4. Seek guidance and promptly report any evidence of a violation of this Code to his or her supervisor or, if appropriate, to the Audit Committee of the INFICON Board of Directors, attention to Dr. Thomas Staehelin, Postfach 2879, St. Jakobs-Strasse 7, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland. Calls, detailed notes and/or emails will be dealt with confidentially.
The Company will not allow any retaliation against anyone who acts in good faith in reporting any such violation. Directors, officers and employees who violate this Code will be subject to appropriate discipline, up to and including dismissal from the Company and prosecution under the law. The Board of Directors shall have the sole and absolute discretion and authority to approve any deviation or waiver from this Code for executive officers and directors.
Environmental, Health and Safety Policy
The management of INFICON realizes the primacy of protecting the environment as a part of ongoing operational activities. INFICON strives to conduct all aspects of the business with the highest ethical and moral standards while maintaining compliance with all pertinent regulatory requirements.
The efficient and responsible use of environmental resources, not merely the minimization and prevention of pollution, is a primary focus. INFICON is proactive in the examination of ways to manage effective resource consumption by reduction, re-use and recycling.
INFICON is committed to the implementation and continuous improvement of a documented Environmental Management System. Our employees are trained to maximize their ability to implement this policy.
INFICON recognizes its responsibility and role as part of the community by making this policy available to the public, as well as maintaining viable communication links with internal and external interested parties.
