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Company News Highlights 2001 p1 of 13:

• Robotic Vision Systems material-handling business acquired by the SICK Group
  DECEMBER 20--The SICK Group (Minneapolis, MN; www.sickusa.com), a privately held producer of sensor technology, and Robotic Vision Systems Inc. (RVSI; Canton, MA; www.rvsi.com), announced the acquisition, by affiliates of the SICK Group, of RVSI's material-handling business.
• Sagemark to open cancer diagnostic centers in 2002
  DECEMBER 19--The Sagemark Companies Ltd. has announced that its subsidiary, Premier PET Imaging International Inc., anticipates opening four additional positron-emission-tomography (PET) medical diagnostic imaging centers in the first half of 2002.
• AuthenTec TruePrint subsurface technology strengthens Novell access and security solutions
  DECEMBER 19--AuthenTec Inc. (Melbourne, FL; www.authentec.com), a provider of advanced biometric fingerprint sensors to the PC, wireless, PDA, access-control, and automotive markets, has announced its partnership with Novell Inc., a producer of eBusiness solutions and Net services software, which will enable organizations to effectively control access to their applications.
• Highest-resolution Earth imagery released
  DECEMBER 18--The QuickBird satellite, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (Broomfield, CO; www.ball.com), is providing the highest-resolution, commercially available imagery of Earth.
• 3D Systems names Flaharty executive vice president, Selzer senior vice president
  DECEMBER 18--The board of directors of 3D Systems Corp. (Valencia, CA; www.3dsystems.com) has named Grant R. Flaharty executive vice president of global business operations and E. James Selzer senior vice president, in recognition of the strong performance and leadership of these senior executives.
• Viisage to launch investment campaign to meet market demand for security technologies
  DECEMBER 17--Viisage Technology Inc. (Littleton, MA; www.viisage.com) has completed an $18.5 million private placement of common stock with several large institutional investors. Viisage sold approximately 1.9 million shares at $10.50 per share, representing a 5% discount to market from the $11.01 closing price on Friday, Dec. 14
• Large order placed for Piranha cameras
  DECEMBER 14--DALSA Corporation (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; www.dalsa.com) has received a large order for its high-speed digital-camera products from a major United States-based industrial-automation-system manufacturer.
• US government purchases Quantum explosives-detection devices
  DECEMBER 14--The US Navy has purchased two QScan QR160 explosives-detection devices from Quantum Magnetics Inc. (www.qm.com)--a wholly owned subsidiary of InVision Technologies Inc. (Newark, CA; www.invision-tech.com). The explosives-detection devices will be used for homeland defense.
• Critical-dimension system inspects MEMs
  DECEMBER 12--NanoVia (Londonderry, NH) has delivered its first high-speed critical-dimension inspection and alignment system for applications in MEMs and MEOMs volume-manufacturing applications.
• HexSight vision software selected for PCB rework machines
  DECEMBER 12--Adept Technology Inc. (San Jose, CA; www.adept.com), a manufacturer of flexible automation for the telecommunications, fiberoptics, and semiconductor industries, announced that Infotech AG (Solothurn, Switzerland; www.infotech-automation.com) will be using its HexSight machine-vision software for its high-performance PCB rework systems.

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