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$0.54 to $0.86 on a non-GAAP basis. For the full year, Veeco’s guidance is $963 million to $1.0 billi- on, with earnings per share forecasted to be between $4.49 to $4.79 on a GAAP basis and $4.81 to $5.11 on a non-GAAP basis. Please refer to the attached financial table for more details.
announced the shortlist for the 2011 Agrow Awards. Vive Nano has been nominated for the Best Formula- tion Innovation. The award recognizes the most signi- ficant innovation in the formulation of agrochemical or biopesticide products: innovations that could lead to improved product efficacy, improved user safety, or reduced environmental impact. The other two no- minees are DuPont Crop Protection and Huntsman Petrochemical/Fuzion Technologies.
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Vive Nano specializes in encapsulation, using their innovative materials to find simple small answers to big issues, with a focus on developing new formulati- ons for the Crop Protection industry.
Vive Nano has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 10 Cleantech Companies, as one of Canada’s Green 15™ leading green technology companies by Deloitte, and by Canadian Business magazine as the winner of Canada’s Clean15 competition. The company also received the 2010 Frost and Sullivan North American Technology of the Year Award for its nanotechnology encapsulation. The Company has received notable support from Sustainable Develop- ment Technology Canada (SDTC) and the Govern-
grow, the world‘s leading information provider for the global crop protection industry, has
ment of Ontario’s Innovation Demonstration Fund (IDF).
http://www.vivenano.com http://www.agrow.com
University of Jerusalem, and Morflora Israel Ltd., a trait delivery innovation company, have signed a collaborative agreement for the development of a revolutionary seed treatment technology for plant improvement. Using specific vectors, the TraitUP™ novel technology, invented by Prof. Ilan Sela and Prof. Haim D. Rabinowitch both from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the Hebrew University, enables the quick and efficient introduction of genetic materials into seeds and the expression of the trait or metabolic system so introduced throughout the entire plant, without modifying its DNA.
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The company targets the seed treatment market, and non-seed and plant treatment markets with plant protection and enhancement solutions in order to reduce dependency on chemical treatments in plants, and increase global crop yield.
iptronix Inc., the leading developer of direct bonding technology for advanced semicon-
ductor applications, announced that recent collabo- rations with major image-sensor manufacturers have
issum Research Development Company Ltd., the technology transfer company of the Hebrew
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