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Company News Highlights 2001 p13 of 13:

• Body-scan imaging center opens
  BodyScan Imaging LLC (Irvine, CA; www.bodyscanimaging.com) has opened a BodyScan Imaging Center in Kansas City, MO.
• Edmund Optics sells science catalog business
  Edmund Optics Inc. (EO; Barrington, NJ; www.edmundoptics.com) is selling its Edmund Scientific consumer science catalog business to Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories (Tonawanda, NY).
• Paper manufacturer installs web-inspection system
  Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Quebec City, Canada) has installed a Cognex Corp. (Natick, MA; www.cognex.com) SmartView ICN web-inspection system.
• Adept Technology to provide robots, controllers, and machine vision
  Adept Technology Inc. (San Jose, CA; www.adept.com), a leading manufacturer of flexible automation for the telecommunications, fiberoptics, and semiconductor industries, has been selected by JOT Automation Group plc (Oulunsalo, Finland; www.jotautomation.com), a manufacturer of production automation equipment for the electronics industry, to provide robotic mechanisms, controllers, and machine-vision systems as part of an OEM partnership.
• ChromaVision to deliver cell-imaging systems
  ChromaVision Medical Systems Inc. (San Juan Capistrano, CA; www.chromavision.com), a provider of automated cellular imaging systems (ACISs), has contracted with Pathology Services Associates LLC (PSA; Florence, SC: www.psapath.com), a national network of more than 80 independent pathology groups, to jointly market ACISs to PSA members.
• Intel's Q4 earnings up, but next quarter to dip
  According to Cahners Business Information (New York, NY; www.cahners.com), Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, CA; www.intel.com) reported a net income of $2.6 billion, or $0.38/share, for Q4 2000, up 10% from 1999 but down 9% from the previous quarter.
• Intel to acquire Xircom for $748 million
  Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, CA; www.intel.com) and Xircom Inc. (Thousand Oaks, CA; www.xircom.com) have agreed that Intel, through a wholly owned subsidiary, would acquire Xircom for approximately $748 million.
• Siemens and Agilent Technologies to develop process control technology
  Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA; www.agilent.com), a provider of technologies for electronics, communications, and life sciences, and Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems (Atlanta, GA; www.siplace.com), a manufacturer of electronics-assembly equipment, will jointly develop and implement integrated test and process-control technologies for electronics assembly lines.
• CR Technology expands facilities
  CR Technology (Aliso Viejo, CA; www.crtechnology.com), a manufacturer of automated vision and x-ray inspection systems for semiconductor and electronics manufacturers, has expanded its worldwide headquarters by 30% to meet the demand for its line of vision and x-ray inspection systems. The new 26,000-sq ft facility accommodates the growing sales generated by the printed-circuit-board assembly and semiconductor-packaging industries.

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