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Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG: Annouoncement of 9M/2015 results - Seite 2

Bender carries out further: "In the first nine months of 2015 we recorded
an operating cash flow of EUR 37.1 million. Our liquid assets amounted to
EUR 107.9 million at the end of the period and clearly surpassed the
financial liabilities of EUR 30.7 million. We continue to maintain a net
cash position on the balance sheet."

The development of sales by market segment, product and region behaved as
follows:

The distribution of sales by market segment showed a 31.1 percent increase
in semiconductor to EUR 110.3 million (9M/2014: EUR 84.1 million). Sales in
the industry segment rose 3.9 percent to EUR 83.2 million (9M/2014: EUR
80.1 million). The analytics segment increased 22.8 percent to EUR 69.3
million (9M/2014: EUR 56.4 million). Sales in the coating market segment
rose 5.1 percent to EUR 38.3 million in the reported period (9M/2014: EUR
36.4 million) and the sales contribution from the research and development
diminished by 3.4 percent to EUR 38.0 million (9M/2014: EUR 39.4 million).

In Europe, sales increased 4.1 percent to EUR 140.3 million in the nine
months of 2015 (9M/2014: EUR 134.7 million). Sales in Asia grew 20.7
percent to EUR 114.0 million in the reported period (9M/2014: EUR 94.4
million). In the Americas an increase of 25.7 percent was achieved, hence
taking the sales figure to EUR 83.8 million (9M/2014: EUR 66.7 million).

Concerning product sales, the increase in turbopumps amounted to 21.0
percent and took the figure to EUR 108.5 million (9M/2014: EUR 89.7
million). Backing pump sales experienced an increase of 18.5 percent to EUR
77.7 million (9M/2014: EUR 65.6 million). Sales with instruments and
components which amounted to EUR 73.3 million were 4.0 percent higher in
the reported period (9M/2014: EUR 70.5 million). The service business grew
by 16.4 percent to EUR 72.5 million (9M/2014: EUR 62.3 million). With sales
of EUR 7.1 million (9M/2014: EUR 8.4 million) the systems business
continues to play a limited role.

New orders in the first nine months of 2015 totaled EUR 349.8 million and
thus were 18.5 percent higher versus the previous corresponding figure
(9M/2014: EUR 295.2 million). The book-to-bill ratio, the ratio of order
intake to sales, was 1.03 for the period (9M/2014: 1.00). The company's
order backlog of EUR 70.1 million on September 30, 2015, was 17.2 percent
higher than the corresponding figure one year earlier (September 30, 2014:
EUR 59.8 million).

Pfeiffer Vacuum's gross profit margin in the first nine months of 2015
increased by 3.5 percentage points to 38.6 percent (9M/2014: 35.1 percent).