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CVD Announces Appointment of New CFO

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y., (Business Wire) – February 7, 2019 – CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV), a leading provider of chemical vapor deposition systems and materials, today announced that Thomas McNeill has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, effective March 4, 2019.

Mr. McNeill has been a Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) since 1996 and has seventeen years’ of SEC reporting experience with two public companies, as well as a full range of financial and operational experience.  Since April 2015, he has been CFO at Century Direct, LLC, a printing and mailing company serving the direct mail marketing industry.  From November 2014 to April 2015, he was a consultant at Mailmen Inc. until its assets were purchased by Century Direct, LLC.  Mr. McNeill was CFO/COO at Nina Mclemore from July 2013 to June 2014, a woman’s retail apparel Company.  On the Public reporting side, he was CFO at DineWise, Inc. from April 2006 to April 2013, a direct to consumer prepared frozen foods company, and from October 1996 to April 2006, was CFO at Global Payment Technologies, Inc, a hi-tech manufacturing and engineering company.  Mr. McNeill started his career at KPMG, achieving the position of audit manager, and he has passed the CPA exam.

Leonard A. Rosenbaum, President and Board Chairman of CVD Equipment Corporation welcomed Mr. McNeill to the Company, stating “Mr. McNeill, through his experience in public, manufacturing and engineering companies will bring a unique insight and perspective to lead the finance team. He will be a valuable asset to CVD as our Company continues to expand and commercialize exciting new technologies. We look forward to working with Tom.”

About CVD Equipment Corporation

CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV) designs, develops, and manufactures a broad range of chemical vapor deposition, gas control, and other state-of-the-art equipment and process solutions used to develop and manufacture materials and coatings for research and industrial applications. This equipment is used by its customers to research, design, and manufacture these materials or coatings for aerospace engine components, medical implants, semiconductors, solar cells, smart glass, carbon nanotubes, nanowires, LEDs, MEMS, and other applications. Through its application laboratory, the Company provides process development support and process startup assistance with the focus on enabling tomorrow’s technologies™. It’s wholly owned subsidiary CVD Materials Corporation provides advanced materials and metal surface treatments and coatings to serve demanding applications in the electronic, biomedical, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and many other industrial markets.

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a “safe harbor” for forward-looking statements.  Certain information included in this press release (as well as information included in oral statements or other written statements made or to be made by CVD Equipment Corporation) contains statements that are forward-looking.  All statements other than statements of historical fact are hereby identified as “forward-looking statements, “as such term is defined in Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.  Such forward looking information involves a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or anticipated by management.  Potential risks and uncertainties include, among other factors, conditions, success of CVD Equipment Corporation’s growth and sales strategies, the possibility of customer changes in delivery schedules, cancellation of orders, potential delays in product shipments, delays in obtaining inventory parts from suppliers and failure to satisfy customer acceptance requirements.

For further information about this topic please contact:
Gina Franco
Phone: (631) 981-7081
Fax: (631) 981-7095
Email: investorrelations@cvdequipment.pairsite.com