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program will commence following the completion of the company‘s existing $75 million share repurchase program. The current program has $15 million remaining, which reflects $10 million of share re- purchases in the current quarter. The new program represents the Company‘s fourth and largest re- purchase program. Similar to the previous programs, the new program is expected to be funded from the Company‘s available cash balance. Share repurchases will be made from time to time, depending on market conditions, in open market transactions, at management‘s discretion. http://www.cabotcmp.com

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arl Zeiss SMS GmbH, Germany, and Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in soft-

ware and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, announced a collaboration to support the ZEISS tool family for in-die metrology so- lutions for the 32-nanometer (nm) technology node and below. Synopsys will offer support for ZEISS’ PROVE™, the next-generation registration metrology tool, through Synopsys’ CATS™, the technology- leading mask data preparation solution. Using CATS as the data preparation engine, mask engineers using PROVE can benefit from improved efficiency and usability of a registration metrology system that meets stringent overlay accuracy requirements. http://www.zeiss.com/smt

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VD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV) announced its financial results for the three

and nine months ended September 30, 2010. The revenue for the three and nine month periods en- ded September 30, 2010 reached approximate- ly $4,032,000 and $11,135,000 respectively, an increase of 13.4% and 1.4% above the revenue of

$3,557,000 and $10,984,000 respectively for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2009. The net income of approximately $143,000 and $156,000, $0.03 per share basic and diluted for the current three and nine month periods exceeded net income of $103,000, $.02 per share basic and diluted, for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and the net income of $27,000, $.01 per share basic and diluted for the nine months ended Sep- tember 30, 2009 by 38.8% and 478.8% respectively. As of September 30, 2010 the Company‘s backlog was approximately $7,634,000, an increase of 200% and 71% over the backlog of $2,549,000 at Decem- ber 31, 2009 and $4,464,000 at June 30, 2010. http://www.cvdequipment.com

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yesol is pleased to announce that it has appoin- ted Dr Gavin Tulloch to the Board of Directors.

Dr Tulloch was formerly Managing Director – Global and has spent his time more recently focusing on key technical projects, including the Tata Steel (Corus) Dyesol PV Accelerator in the U.K. His new company title is Director of Technology.

Executive Chairman, Richard Caldwell welcomed Dr Tulloch’s re-appointment to the Board as the Com- pany prepares itself for full commercialisation of its PV technology: “It has become abundantly clear that we require Dr Tulloch’s board presence, especially in relation to direction on the Tata project which is now bearing the fruit of the intense R&D that has been jointly undertaken over the past three years. He will also provide valuable guidance in newer projects, such as DyeTec Solar Inc. which is poised to advance significantly during 2011.” Furthermore, Dyesol Limited and Umicore AG & Co. KG have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) and

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