UHV Technologies, Inc.

A nanoRANCH company

UHV Technologies, Inc. is a 30-year-old high technology company specializing in multi-disciplinary physical sciences R&D and expertise in advanced materials, devices & equipment manufacturing as well as latest machine learning/artificial intelligence (ML/AI) software for controlling/optimizing these products. Our expertise lies in complete business development from idea generation, prototype design & assembly, scale-up, manufacturing equipment development, facility/plant development and full commercialization in diverse technical areas. Over the last 30 years, UHV has successfully performed projects in the following areas:

  1. Artificial Intelligence based metals, plastics and bio-mass recycling systems utilizing multiple sensor (XRF, NIR, MIR and vision cameras) data -funded by US DOE

  2. Vacuum system design, assembly and manufacturing

  3. Thin film deposition equipment including sputtering systems, ion beam deposition, e-beam evaporation, chemical vapor deposition for semiconductor, optics, automotive and coating industries.

  4. Diamond and carbon nanotube (CNT) thin films and devices

  5. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) based analyzers for metal recycling, mercury emissions monitoring and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

UHV started as a high technology consulting company in 1994, but got its real commercial start from a SBIR phase I grant in 1998, and grew to $5.3 million in revenue in 2001. Over the last 3 decades, UHV has successfully completed over 20 Phase I & II SBIR/STTR project from US Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DoD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Currently, UHV operates out of two locations with 30,000 sq. ft. of laboratory and manufacturing space in Fort Worth, Texas and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Business Model: UHV creates innovative products and technologies with private, state and federal funding and commercializes them through spin-off companies.

Latest of these spin-offs is Sortera Technologies, Inc. based on UHV’s aluminum sorting project (DE-AR0000422) is located in Markle, IN and employs over 50 people currently. (http://sorteratechnologies.com/)

Previous spin-offs include nanoRANCH, International Delta Systems, Light Matrix Technologies (valued at over $1B in 2001), Genome Data Systems and nanoXRF.