May 16, 2005 — CVD Equipment Corp. of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., signed a contract with First Nano, Inc. of Carpinteria, Calif., to purchase some assets of its nanotechnology process development and equipment business.
First Nano develops and manufactures process equipment suited to nanotechnology applications, including carbon nanotubes, nanowires and other one-dimensional nanostructures and nanomaterials. CVD offers manufacturing products and services for the semiconductor, optoelectronic, MEMS and nanotechnology industrial markets.