INFICON Announces Date of Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2005 Results

SYRACUSE, N.Y. & ZURICH, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2006--INFICON (SWX Swiss Exchange:IFCN), a leading manufacturer of vacuum instrumentation and process control software for the semiconductor and vacuum-coating industries and other industrial applications, will issue a press release announcing its fourth quarter and year-end 2005 results at approximately 7:00 a.m. CET/1:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, February 14, 2006.

The company will also hold a joint Media-Analyst conference in Zurich on February 14, 2006 at 9:00 a.m. CET to discuss its financial results. The conference, which will take place at the Marriott Hotel Zurich, Neumuhlequai 42, will include presentations by Lukas Winkler, president and chief executive officer, and Peter Maier, chief financial officer. The presentations will be recorded and an archived version will be posted with accompanying visuals in the Investor Relations section of the INFICON website, http://www.inficon.com, later in the day.

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ABOUT INFICON
INFICON is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative instrumentation, critical sensor technologies, and advanced process control software for the semiconductor and vacuum-coating industries and other industrial applications. These analyses, measurement and control products are vital to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end-users in the complex manufacturing of semiconductors, flat panel displays, magnetic and optical storage media and precision optics. INFICON also provides essential instrumentation for gas leak detection to the air conditioning/refrigeration industries and toxic chemical analysis for emergency response and security markets. Headquartered in Syracuse, New York, INFICON has world-class manufacturing facilities in the United States and Europe and worldwide offices in the U.S., China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. INFICON is a publicly listed company, registered with the Swiss Stock Exchange (SWX). For more information about INFICON and its products, please visit the Company's website at www.inficon.com.

CONTACT: INFICON
BettyAnn Kram, +1-315-434-1122
BettyAnn.Kram@inficon.com
or
European Contact:
sensus pr GmbH
Bernhard Schweizer, +41-43-366-5511
bschweizer@sensus.ch

SOURCE: INFICON