BUSCH VACUUM SOLUTIONS USA ACQUIRES LONG-TERM SALES CHANNEL PARTNER
Distributor of vacuum equipment sales and service in Eastern Central Region

Virginia Beach, VA, February 4, 2021 - Busch Vacuum Solutions USA, one of the largest manufacturers of vacuum pumps, blowers, compressors and systems, announces the acquisition of Jennings Associates Inc. (dba Jennings Alberts Inc) a distributor for new equipment, maintenance, and repair for vacuum pumps blowers and heat exchangers. The acquisition of Jennings Alberts’ vacuum pump, blower and service portion of the business furthers Busch’s long-term goal of providing even better technical and service support for customers in the Eastern Central Region.

Busch partnered with Jennings Associates to represent them in Eastern PA, Southern NJ, and DE in 1977. Together, they have become prominent industry leaders supplying vacuum solutions for many applications including meat processing, food packaging, chemical, pharmaceutical, metallurgy and plastics.

“The Busch-Jennings family business relationship has continued to grow over the last 44 years. We are all very excited that the Jennings vacuum pump and blower, sales and service, business officially becomes part of the larger Busch company which is also a family-owned business.” said Mr. Bill Altier, part owner of Jennings Alberts. Mr. Altier joins Busch as a Regional Manager and will continue to serve customers in this market.

Also joining Busch as a Regional Sales Manager is Mrs. Lisa (Jennings) Dugery, part owner of Jennings Alberts, who said “We are excited to join the Busch team because of the success and mutual trust our companies have built over the years.” She also added, “And because of their long track record of innovation and great success, I know our family’s legacy is in good hands.”

According to Mr. Turgay Ozan, President of Busch USA, “As a vacuum industry leader, we are acquiring one of the foremost distributors and service organizations in the market. Joining with the Jennings team, after such a long partnership, is a logical step.” Mr. Ozan added, “For this region, we are becoming a direct resource for customers with access to Busch Product Managers, Engineers and Service Specialists, nationally and globally.”

Busch Vacuum Solutions manufactures products and designs systems in the USA and offers a wide national service network. The transition of the Jennings vacuum and blower business takes place immediately.

About Busch Vacuum Solutions
Busch Vacuum Solutions USA sales and manufacturing headquarters is in Virginia Beach, VA where a team of 500 dedicated employees takes care of all their customer’s industrial vacuum needs. Busch USA is part of the global Busch Vacuum Solutions family owned company with over 3500 employees in more than 40 countries.

For more information about Busch: www.buschusa.com

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Intermolecular, Inc. (“Intermolecular”), the trusted partner for materials innovation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the relocation of the Silicon Valley Innovation Hub from Menlo Park to Intermolecular’s San Jose facilities, combining Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s innovation efforts in the Bay area with Intermolecular’s services for materials and electronics, creating a unique space that empowers collaboration with startups.

The Silicon Valley Innovation Hub was established in 2017 in Menlo Park, CA. As part of the global Innovation Ecosystem of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, it strives to identify and develop viable new businesses and technologies between the company’s existing business sectors or break new ground beyond them.

“The mission of the Silicon Valley Innovation Hub is to identify and explore untapped innovation- and business opportunities for Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. In this context, the intersection of life science and material science is becoming increasingly important and opens new areas of innovation. Having the Silicon Valley Innovation Hub and Intermolecular under one roof now will allow us and our cooperation partners to develop and test new materials for biological applications. We are very excited about these new opportunities,” states Thomas Herget, head of the Silicon Valley Innovation Hub.

Intermolecular has a unique toolset and expertise to quickly test and prove new advanced technologies and materials for semiconductor devices and electronic applications.

Having the Innovation Hub in the same building will further strengthen collaboration of the company’s businesses with startups and innovative companies in and around the Bay Area to rapidly grow their business from concept to high-volume manufacturing. The building boasts 30,000 square feet of cleanroom, chemical labs, offices, a collaboration area and event spaces.

Intermolecular’s customizable services are tailored to meet a startup’s unique needs, whether it is achieving a proof-of-principle, a first prototype, or a small series production. Intermolecular assigns experts in emerging technologies and offers its manufacturing facilities, which can run experiments 24/7to test and validate materials critical to product development. Intermolecular’s flexible methodologies and quality data help accelerate product design innovation, at any phase of a startup’s product development cycle.

“Intermolecular offers a seamless process flow that is specific and confidential to each startup, which is key to speeding time to innovation,” said Casper van Oosten, business field head and managing director for Intermolecular, Inc. “By providing startups the tools and expertise to validate their ideas, we can help them accelerate their path to new investment and speed their product introductions by giving them concrete data needed to move quickly from a research phase to full production. Having the experts from the Silicon Valley Innovation Hub now under one roof, we are looking forward to branch out into new areas and exploring collaboration opportunities that bring benefits to our customers/startups.”

“Semiconductor companies, particularly companies working on current generation and emerging memories, need to do a lot of experimentation to get the best combination of processes and materials,” said Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates. “Companies such as Intermolecular can provide efficient ways to gather and analyze the required data to make the next generations of memory possible.”

About the Silicon Valley Innovation Hub

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s Silicon Valley Innovation Hub supports scouting for the company’s existing businesses, with the additional objective to look between and beyond their scopes. This means evaluating new technological opportunities, building and maintaining local relationships and partnerships, and driving new business in fields such as cell-based meat.

About Intermolecular

Intermolecular is a trusted partner for materials innovation and the Silicon Valley science hub of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and its Performance Materials business. Intermolecular explores, tests and develops advanced materials that are revolutionizing the next generation of electronics that make lives easier, entertaining and more productive. For more than 15 years, the team, methodologies and quality data have driven impactful outcomes, market opportunities and innovative product designs for customers.

About Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, operates across healthcare, life science and electronics. Around 58,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable ways to live. From advancing gene editing technologies and discovering unique ways to treat the most challenging diseases to enabling the intelligence of devices – the company is everywhere. In 2020, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, generated sales of € 17.5 billion in 66 countries.

The company holds the global rights to the name and trademark “Merck” internationally. The only exceptions are the United States and Canada, where the business sectors of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operate as EMD Serono in healthcare, MilliporeSigma in life science, and EMD Electronics. Since its founding 1668, scientific exploration and responsible entrepreneurship have been key to the company’s technological and scientific advances. To this day, the founding family remains the majority owner of the publicly listed company.

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TEMPE, Ariz., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EMD Performance Materials today announced an expanded focus on the US electronics business and a new name in the US: EMD Electronics. EMD Electronics, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, includes a broad portfolio of semiconductor materials, semiconductor delivery systems and services, display, and surface solutions. The Electronics business globally employs more than 7,400 – with a third of employees in the US across 29 sites, with plans for continued growth in planarization and thin films organizations following recent investments. More information about the Electronics business can be found here.

Additionally, the company announced the relocation of the Silicon Valley Innovation Hub from Menlo Park to Intermolecular's San Jose facilities, combining Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany's innovation efforts in the Bay area with Intermolecular's services for materials and electronics, creating a unique space that empowers collaboration with startups. This announcement follows the $22 million investment at the EMD Electronics site in Tempe, Arizona for its R&D and production for semiconductor materials announced in February.

"Our name change and investment in these centers demonstrate our commitment to continued innovation in electronics and supporting US customers' requirements for capitalizing on growing opportunities driven by digital transformations and data-driven electronics," said Jeff White, President of EMD Electronics. "Our customers are working on cutting-edge technologies and products that range from better immersive displays and surfaces in cars and consumer electronics to how to move neuromorphic and quantum computing to the next level. Our combined expertise and portfolio in display and surface innovations, semiconductor materials and the safe delivery and storage of speciality chemicals and gases will enable new discoveries and novel products not even imagined yet."

As the company behind the companies advancing digital living, the Electronics business sector is involved in all major technology trends – be it 5G, Big Data, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, or the Internet of Things. Thanks to these and other megatrends, the demand for ever smaller, faster and more energy-efficient electronics is continuously growing. Sample innovations enabled by EMD Electronics include:

• Patterning, deposition and spin-on dielectrics materials to make 3D NAND possible
• DSA – revolutionary way of building microchips of the future
OLED for brighter, thinner, free-form displays
• Liquid crystals for electronic steerable antennas to bring connectivity to places currently not reachable
• eyerise ® liquid crystal for greener windows and innovative building architecture.

These technologies and innovations are being implemented across a diverse set of customers including larger companies and start-up companies. To enable new inventions for start-ups, EMD Electronics has launched a program for early-stage and growth companies looking to advance their technologies in the areas of displays, semiconductor materials, neuromorphic computing, AI-enabled materials development and smart manufacturing by applying for the EvoNexus MarketLink Program by March 12.

About EMD Electronics

EMD Electronics is the North American electronics business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. EMD Electronics' portfolio covers a broad range of products and solutions, including high-tech materials and solutions for the semiconductor industry as well as liquid crystals and OLED materials for displays and effect pigments for coatings and cosmetics. Today, EMD Electronics has approximately 2,000 employees around the country with regional offices in Tempe (AZ) and Philadelphia (PA). For more information, please visit www.emd-electronics.com.

About Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, operates across healthcare, life science and electronics. Around 58,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people's lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable ways to live. From advancing gene editing technologies and discovering unique ways to treat the most challenging diseases to enabling the intelligence of devices – the company is everywhere. In 2020, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, generated sales of € 17.5 billion in 66 countries.

The company holds the global rights to the name and trademark "Merck" internationally. The only exceptions are the United States and Canada, where the business sectors of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operate as EMD Serono in healthcare, MilliporeSigma in life science, and EMD Electronics. Since its founding 1668, scientific exploration and responsible entrepreneurship have been key to the company's technological and scientific advances. To this day, the founding family remains the majority owner of the publicly listed company.

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Cylynt and Proof LCS are partnering to bring the software industry new capabilities for collecting installation/usage data, rapidly performing data analysis, and then monetizing those software licenses found to be over-installed or pirated.

The BSA Software Alliance has found that nearly 40% of all software installations worldwide are being used illegally. Software companies are losing more than $46 billion a year in revenue, making it vitally important for them to uncover misuse, gather evidentiary data, and pursue infringers to monetize their losses. Companies still employing home-grown license compliance solutions and internal teams to address this reality typically require an investment in technology and an increase in team capacity to move to the next level as in-house solutions become overextended.

The resources at Proof LCS have audited and negotiated resolutions with thousands of enterprise companies. Proof LCS is experienced at performing audits on entities that have tens of thousands of installations and equally adept at negotiating multi-million-dollar resolutions that consistently and fairly address discovered license issues.

“Partnering with Proof LCS to augment your audit and negotiation strength means you add highly experienced auditors and negotiators as a turnkey solution that can scale up and down as opportunity and licensing issues rise and fall,” remarks Lee Taylor, co-founder at Proof LCS. “Proof LCS is the new way to build a license compliance program—fast, easy, and effective.”

Cylynt’s software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based anti-piracy, license compliance and software monetization solutions gather telemetry and usage data that identifies parties who have used software beyond license limits, and provide precise, accurate details on who, where and how often the software is being used illegally. Cylynt usage analytics then analyze that data to deliver undeniable proof of illegal use that can reinforce legal settlement negotiations and successfully prevail in lawsuits.

“Cylynt’s industry-leading data gathering and usage analytics combined with Proof LCS’s auditing and negotiation expertise is a win/win for software companies,” says Ted Miracco, CEO of Cylynt. “Powered by Cylynt’s software technology, Proof LCS can discover licensing issues at customer sites faster, more economically, and, most importantly, quickly resolve these issues once discovered.”

“Using Cylynt technology, Proof LCS can discover licensing issues at customer sites faster and more economically, and, most importantly, quickly resolve these issues once discovered,” adds Ben Morgan, co-founder of Proof LCS.

About Proof LCS
Proof LCS represents a completely different approach to data collection, compliance program development/consulting, and negotiation resources. The people that we offer as resources have actually operated in world class compliance programs as negotiators and auditors. Proof LCS understands the importance of having a foundation of complete and accurate data underlying any resolution a company choses to pursue. Our measure of success is delivering data, and any other compliance resource, as efficiently and effectively as they have operated in our own previous programs.
Engage with Proof LCS at:
Website: www.prooflcs.com/
Email: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prooflcs/about/

About Cylynt
Cylynt, headquartered in Los Angeles and Dublin, Ireland, provides SaaS-based anti-piracy, license compliance and software monetization technology for the world’s leading software companies. Cylynt’s data-driven approach to software utilization enables technology companies to derive more value while protecting their intellectual property (IP). Cylynt helps clients make informed business decisions, correct licensing problems, and protect customers from unfair competition. With a solution for every budget, Cylynt’s innovative technologies organize, analyze, and interpret telemetry data into meaningful market insights and quality lead generation. To learn more about how Cylynt solutions can help protect software brand names and drive revenue generation efforts, call +1 (424) 278-9990 or email [email protected].

Engage with Cylynt at:
Website: www.cylynt.com
Email: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cylynt/

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Cylynt today revealed it has traced more than one-billion usage events in its software-as-service (SaaS) portal resulting in approximately $2 billion of additional revenue for its customers since its founding in 2014.

The usage event number is expected to double every 12 months going forward.

Cylynt’s technology is integrated into $50 billion worth of customer software. Actionable insights from its technology have been central to customers recovering an additional $2 billion in revenue.

Built on machine-learning techniques, Cylynt’s SaaS-based solutions deliver detailed usage analytics with precise, actionable insights to help companies convert unlicensed users to paying customers yielding new revenue or to better understand how users interact with their products.

“Software companies rely on Cylynt to provide insights into the use of their software to help them effectively grow their business,” says Graham Kill, Cylynt’s executive chairman. “Field data collected from our portal is versatile. Many customers use it to prioritize development efforts. Others apply it to license agreement compliance to effectively maximize software revenue recovery and grow their business.”

Cylynt’s expert systems, employed by leading software companies globally to manage their intellectual property, can be deployed in multiple scenarios to provide detailed data-driven intelligence that detects potential tampering and piracy. Identifying the presence of illegal software installations additionally helps protect end users from the threats posed by malware and ransomware that often come bundled with cracked software installations.

Cylynt software is offered as standalone or bundled solutions that include license compliance and usage analytics packages. To find out more about Cylynt’s suite of software monetization and anti-piracy solutions, email: [email protected].

About Cylynt
Cylynt, based in Los Angeles and Dublin, Ireland, provides SaaS-based usage analytics tools and anti-piracy, license compliance and software monetization technology for the world’s leading software companies. Cylynt’s data-driven approach to software utilization enables technology companies to derive more value while protecting their intellectual property (IP). Cylynt helps clients make informed business decisions, correct licensing problems, and protect customers from unfair competition. With a solution for every budget, Cylynt’s innovative technologies organize, analyze, and interpret telemetry data into meaningful market insights and quality lead generation. To learn more about how Cylynt solutions can help protect software brand names and drive revenue generation efforts, call +1 (424) 278-9990 or email [email protected].

Engage with Cylynt at:
Website: www.cylynt.com
Email: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cylynt/
Twitter: @CylyntInc

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SANTA ROSA, Calif., – February 17, 2021 – PNI Sensor, the world’s foremost expert in precision location, motion tracking, and fusion of sensor systems into real-world applications, today announced availability of the new TargetPoint TCM™ gyro-stabilized digital magnetic compass. TargetPoint TCM incorporates PNI’s high sensitivity Magneto-Inductive sensors with the latest high stability 3-axis MEMS accelerometer and 3-axis MEMS gyroscopes providing accurate orientation while in dynamic motion and in magnetically challenging environments. TargetPoint TCM excels in conditions that cause errors in traditional digital magnetic compasses.

TargetPoint TCM uses advanced magnetic distortion compensation and calibration scoring algorithms to counter the effects of hard and soft iron interference, providing highly accurate heading information in almost any environment and orientation.

TargetPoint TCM features and benefits include:
 Patented magnetic anomaly rejection algorithms eliminate errors due to magnetic distortion, even in magnetically harsh environments
 Gyro-stabilized compass for dynamic accuracy of sub-0.5 degrees of heading accuracy
 Multiple calibration methods, including 12-point hard- and soft-iron calibration methods, are available to ensure ease of calibration for all applications
 ITAR-free

“For military rangefinder and targeting systems developers who need accurate orientation in demanding conditions, TargetPoint TCM is a ruggedized digital magnetic compass built to handle weapons shock,” said Robin Stoecker, vice president of sales and marketing at PNI Sensor. “It’s an ideal choice for targeting applications that require reliability, consistency and accuracy.”

Pricing and Availability
For product specifications, download the TargetPoint TCM product sheet. For pricing and availability, please contact PNI Sales or your regional PNI representative.

About PNI Sensor
With over 30 years of experience, PNI is the world’s foremost expert in precision location, motion tracking, and fusion of sensor systems into real-world applications. PNI’s sensors and algorithms serve as the cornerstone of successful IoT projects and other mission-critical applications where pinpoint location, accuracy, and low power consumption are essential. Building on decades of patented sensor and algorithm development, PNI offers the industry’s highest-performance geomagnetic sensor in its class, location and motion coprocessors, high-performance modules, sensor fusion algorithms, and complete sensor systems. To learn more, please visit www.pnicorp.com.

Media Contact:
Robin Stoecker
PNI Sensor
Tel: +1 707-566-2260 |Email: [email protected]

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