Seeking Alpha: CVD Equipment - Certain Risks And Potentially Significant Returns

I'm a fan of so-called repurposed technologies - technologies that were developed for one industry or application and are then introduced into new areas. In that sense, I'm intrigued by CVD Equipment's (CVV) attempts to bring chemical vapor deposition, a technique/technology long used in semiconductor manufacturing, into areas like solar power, LEDs, med-tech and nanotechnology. While the technologies are different, it's a basic approach that has worked for other companies like FEI Company (FEIC).

Unfortunately, while the basic concept of applying very thin layers of active materials to surfaces holds significant potential in many different end markets, there are many ways to skin a cat and CVD's tiny revenue base suggests that the company hasn't really made major commercial inroads yet. Applications in carbon nanotubes, nanowire, and graphene likewise hold huge theoretical potential, but there are many miles to go before it becomes anything like commonplace or commercial in scale.

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CVD Equipment - Certain Risks And Potentially Significant Returns

Investopedia: CVD - The Semiconductor Equipment Company That Isn't

Investors could be forgiven for taking a quick look at CVD Equipment (Nasdaq:CVV), seeing that it's involved in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) equipment, and just concluding that it's another semiconductor equipment company. What makes this an interesting company, though, is that it's taking well-understood technology that has indeed long been central to semiconductor manufacturing and is looking to apply it to a host of new industries and products.

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