VAT Group
VAT Group is a leader in the Equipment (Front End) segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain, headquartered in Sennwald. Its key customers include ASML, Applied Materials, Lam Research.
Dominant maker of vacuum valves for semiconductor process tools.
- Ticker
- SIX: VACN
- Headquarters
- Sennwald
- Founded
- 1964
- Revenue
- $1.3B (FY2025) · +13.9% YoY
- Net income
- $265M
- Operating margin
- 21.4%
- Market position
- leader
- Value-chain segment
- Subsystems & Components
- Key products
- High-vacuum gate valves for CVD / ALD / etch tools, Pendulum control valves, Transfer module (loadlock) valves, Butterfly valves for pressure control, Vacuum sensor and gauge products
About VAT Group
VAT Group, headquartered in Switzerland, operates in the Subsystems & Components segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain and is positioned as a market leader there. Its key products include High-vacuum gate valves for CVD / ALD / etch tools, Pendulum control valves, Transfer module (loadlock) valves, Butterfly valves for pressure control, Vacuum sensor and gauge products. wafergraph maps 13 tracked customers for VAT Group across the value chain. It has a supply-chain criticality score of 85/100, with 250 companies downstream of it.
VAT Group AG is an internationally active Swiss company for high-performance vacuum valves that has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 2016. VAT is headquartered in Haag in the canton of St.Gallen (Switzerland). It has representatives in 29 countries and production sites in Haag, Penang (Malaysia) and Arad (Romania).
Role in the chain
VAT Group is a market leader in Equipment (Front End) (Subsystems & Components), headquartered in Switzerland. Dominant maker of vacuum valves for semiconductor process tools.
Diligence questions
- The dataset names 13 tracked customers for VAT Group. How concentrated is demand among those names, and which of them have a documented second source in this graph?
- VAT Group is positioned as a leader in Equipment (Front End). How replaceable is this vendor on the process step you are buying?
- VAT Group is headquartered in Switzerland. What jurisdiction, export-control or logistics risk sits at that HQ, versus at the fabs or plants the filings actually name?
- VAT Group trades as SIX:VACN. What does the latest reported period say about capacity and backlog versus the graph position above?
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Key products
- High-vacuum gate valves for CVD / ALD / etch tools
- Pendulum control valves
- Transfer module (loadlock) valves
- Butterfly valves for pressure control
- Vacuum sensor and gauge products
Customers
- ASML · relationship
- Applied Materials · relationship
- Lam Research · relationship
- Tokyo Electron · relationship
- KLA · relationship
- SCREEN Holdings · relationship
- TSMC · relationship
- Samsung Electronics · relationship
- Intel · relationship
- SK hynix · relationship
- Micron Technology · relationship
- SMIC · relationship
- GlobalFoundries · relationship
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Sources
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Cite as: wafergraph, “VAT Group — supply chain, financials & market position”, https://wafergraph.com/company/vat_group (data as of 2026-09-05).
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