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12-04 :: April/May 2012
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he Nanostart holding ItN Nanovation (ISIN: DE000A0JL461, Germany) will combine its pre-
vious activities in the area of industrial coatings and contracted research into an independent business entity as part of its announced restructuring. This will enable ItN to better satisfy the requirements of its customers. This will also result in a clear separation of the activities in the water area. The new business entity will carry out all operational functions such as sales, product management, user and basic deve- lopment as well as production independently. The new business entity will be allocated the expertise it requires in the form of staff and related patents.
The industrial coatings division successfully develops and sells release and protective coatings to opti- mize industrial process operations. The NanoComp MetCast product line includes release coatings for extractive metallurgy and for automotive foundries to replace releasing agents that are sprayed extremely frequently. The NanoComp BC product is the first long-term coating for the casting of brass household fittings and is currently being launched on the mar- ket. Other products for the extraction of high-purity metals are in development.
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omori Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, and Landa Corporation of Rehovot, Israel, announced a
global strategic partnership whereby Landa will licen- se Komori Corporation to manufacture and market digital printing presses for commercial and other printing markets using Landa’s Nanographic Printing process. Landa Nanography is a new digital printing category employing water-based inks. It combines
the versatility of digital with the qualities and speed of offset printing – at unmatched cost-per-page.
Based on the strategic partnership, Landa will pro- vide Komori with Nanographic Printing technology and Landa NanoInk™, which are at the heart of the Nanographic Printing process. Comprised of pigment particles only tens of nanometres in size, these nano- pigments are extremely powerful absorbers of light and enable unprecedented image qualities. Landa Nanographic Printing is characterised by ultra-sharp dots of extremely high uniformity, high gloss fidelity and the broadest CMYK colour gamut.
Furthermore, Landa was receiving unprecedented levels of interest and orders (Letters of Intent with deposit) for its B1 format commercial digital press, the Landa S10 Nanographic Printing Press.
opin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN) reported financial results for the first quarter ended March
31, 2012. Total revenues were $25.2 million for the first quarter of 2012, compared with $34.9 million for the comparable period of 2011, primarily reflec- ting a decline in military display revenue associated with expected reductions in US defense spending. Revenues from III-V products were $14.3 million compared with $17.6 million for the first quarter of 2011, while revenues for display products totaled $10.9 million versus $17.3 million for the same peri- od of last year.
Operating expenses decreased by 16% to $27.6 mil- lion for the first quarter of 2012 from $32.8 million
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