10-02 :: February 2010
nanotimes
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Companies
Facts
2009 Kopin repurchased $5.3 million of stock under
its buy-back program and had capital expenditures
of $3.7 million. Kopin has no long-term debt. Based
on the current business environment, the Company
expects revenues of between $120 million and $130
million for 2010.

http://www.kopin.com
A
n interesting development using multifilament
yarns is a new fabric heater made by weaving
CNTEC
®
conductive yarns from Kuraray Living Co.,
Ltd. This fabric generates heat homogeneously all
over the surface because of its outstanding conduc-
tivity and is supposed to be the first commercial use
of Baytubes
®
CNTs from Bayer MaterialScience in
the Japanese market. The fabric heater is lightweight
and thin, compact and shows a long-lasting bending
resistance. It can be used for instance for car seats,
household electrical appliances, for heating of clo-
thes and as an anti-freezing material. Tests revealed
that it may for example be installed in the water sto-
rage tank of JR Hokkaido’s “Ryuhyo-Norokko” train.
Inside this train the temperature drops to around
-20° C (-4° Fahrenheit) in wintertime, because so
Thanks to the combination of two new dispersion technologies aqueous suspensions of Baytubes
®
carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
can be produced which contain single tubes and thus show a high electrical and thermal conductivity. Multifilament yarns
far no heating devices other than potbelly stoves are
coated with such CNT dispersions can be woven to efficient fabric heaters. Such heaters already performed well in pre-
available. According to JR Hokkaido railway compa-
venting the water in water storage tanks of JR Hokkaido’s “Ryuhyo-Norokko” train from freezing. © JR Hokkaido/BMS
ny the fabric heater performed well in preventing the
water from freezing. A seat heating application of the
fabric heater is still on trial on another JR Hokkaido
associated with the sale of Kenet; a loss of $1.2 mil- train line. It is anticipated that the aqueous dispersi-
lion associated with impairment of loans to KTC; and ons might as well be suitable for the compounding of
a non-cash impairment charge of $1.3 million related various kinds of materials.
to corporate debt securities.
Furthermore, the Company has developed and ini-
Cash and marketable securities totaled $114.5 milli- tiated sales of two new VECSTAR liquid crystalline
on at December 26, 2009, an increase of approxima- polymer products: CT-Z film with excellent heat
tely $14.5 million from December 27, 2008. During resistance and FB film with superior optical reflec-