FENNVILLE -- The Fennville-based vacuum pump producer Metallurgical High Vacuum has released a new video showing the construction and manufacturing of its latest "Survivor" high vacuum pumps.

you’re going to need a vacuum. It’s in the name, after all. For a few thousand bucks, you can probably pick up a used turbo-molecular pump. But how did they make high vacuums back in the day?

The company has completed a state-of-the-art assembly chamber capable of manufacturing miniaturized ion trap vacuum packages that can sustain Extreme High Vacuum (XHV) – levels that are ...