SAES Getters SpA

(SAES) SAES Getters S.p.A., (estabilished 1940) located in Lainate (a suburb of Milan) Italy, is the world leader and pioneer of getter technology. A getter is a device (usually a metal alloy component) used to maintain very high vacuum or to ensure high purity of gas used in industrial and scientific applications.

SAES Getters Group has been developing and offering commercially gas purifiers for the Semiconductor, LED, Solar industries for the past 30 years. It offers gas purifiers for all the bulk and speciality gases used in their processes. Today SAES is the worldwide leader in the supply of gas purifiers to all the global gas companies and leading electronics manufactures.

Multiple purification technologies have been developed to satisfy the different needs depending on the quality of the inlet gas. For hydrogen the available purification technologies are based on: room temperature adsorbers, high temperature alloys and thick Pd membranes to remove a wide range of contaminants such as H20, O2, CO2 CO, THC, SO2 down to 9N's (99.9999999%) purity. The flow rates range from a few litres a minutes to hundreds of cubic metres an hour.