PRESS RELEASE: Voting rights: Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG: Publication pursuant to §26 sect.1 WpHG (the German Securities Trading Act) with the aim of pan-European distribution

Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG / Voting rights: Legg Mason holdings by
3.02 % attributable to The Royce Fund 

Publication pursuant to §26 sect.1 WpHG (the German Securities
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Legg Mason & Co (UK) Ltd., London, Great Britain, notified Pfeiffer
Vacuum on November 4, 2009 pursuant to article 21 section 1 WpHG
("German Securities Trading Act") that the percentage of voting
rights of their subsidiary The Royce Fund, Wilmington, Delaware, USA,
in the company exceeded the threshold of 3 % on October 23, 2009 and
currently amounts to 3.02 % (270,650 voting rights). 

Asslar, November 4, 2009 

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Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG
Berliner Strasse 43 Asslar
Germany 

WKN: 691660; ISIN: DE0006916604; Index: TecDAX, CDAX, HDAX, MIDCAP,
Prime All Share, TECH All Share;
Listed: Prime Standard in Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse, Freiverkehr in
Börse Berlin,
Freiverkehr in Bayerische Börse München, Freiverkehr in Börse
Düsseldorf,
Freiverkehr in Börse Stuttgart, Freiverkehr in Hanseatische
Wertpapierbörse zu Hamburg,
Freiverkehr in Niedersächsische Börse zu Hannover, Open Market
(Freiverkehr) in Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse,
Regulierter Markt in Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse; 

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