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Hudson Technologies Inc/NY – ‘10-K’ for 12/31/18 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Friday, 3/15/19, at 4:07pm ET   ·   For:  12/31/18   ·   Accession #:  1144204-19-14301   ·   File #:  1-13412

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 3/15/19  Hudson Technologies Inc/NY        10-K       12/31/18   86:11M                                    Toppan Merrill/FA

Annual Report   —   Form 10-K   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-K        Annual Report                                       HTML    577K 
 2: EX-10.39    Material Contract                                   HTML     37K 
 3: EX-10.40    Material Contract                                   HTML     39K 
 4: EX-10.41    Material Contract                                   HTML     34K 
 5: EX-10.42    Material Contract                                   HTML     36K 
 6: EX-10.43    Material Contract                                   HTML     35K 
 7: EX-21       Subsidiaries List                                   HTML     23K 
 8: EX-23.1     Consent of Experts or Counsel                       HTML     23K 
 9: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     29K 
10: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     29K 
11: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     25K 
12: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     25K 
19: R1          Document And Entity Information                     HTML     59K 
20: R2          Consolidated Balance Sheets                         HTML    107K 
21: R3          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical)         HTML     46K 
22: R4          Consolidated Statements of Operations               HTML     81K 
23: R5          Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity     HTML     70K 
24: R6          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML    123K 
25: R7          Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML    192K 
26: R8          Fair Value                                          HTML     58K 
27: R9          Trade accounts receivable - net                     HTML     65K 
28: R10         Inventories                                         HTML     51K 
29: R11         Property, plant and equipment                       HTML    129K 
30: R12         Income taxes                                        HTML    212K 
31: R13         Goodwill and intangible assets                      HTML    195K 
32: R14         Short-term and long-term debt                       HTML    199K 
33: R15         Stockholders' equity                                HTML     30K 
34: R16         Commitments and contingencies                       HTML    121K 
35: R17         Share-based Compensation                            HTML    225K 
36: R18         Acquisition                                         HTML    209K 
37: R19         Quarterly Financial Data                            HTML    330K 
38: R20         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML    239K 
                (Policies)                                                       
39: R21         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML    109K 
                (Tables)                                                         
40: R22         Fair Value (Tables)                                 HTML     52K 
41: R23         Trade accounts receivable - net (Tables)            HTML     60K 
42: R24         Inventories (Tables)                                HTML     51K 
43: R25         Property, plant and equipment (Tables)              HTML    128K 
44: R26         Income taxes (Tables)                               HTML    207K 
45: R27         Goodwill and intangible assets (Tables)             HTML    188K 
46: R28         Short-term and long-term debt (Tables)              HTML    152K 
47: R29         Commitments and contingencies (Tables)              HTML    114K 
48: R30         Share-based compensation (Tables)                   HTML    213K 
49: R31         Acquisition (Tables)                                HTML    205K 
50: R32         Quarterly Financial Data (Tables)                   HTML    328K 
51: R33         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies -        HTML     32K 
                Company's Revenues (Detail)                                      
52: R34         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies -        HTML     43K 
                Reconciliation of Shares Used to Determine Net                   
                Income per Share (Detail)                                        
53: R35         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies -        HTML    107K 
                Additional Information (Detail)                                  
54: R36         Fair Value (Detail)                                 HTML     35K 
55: R37         Trade accounts receivable - net (Detail)            HTML     32K 
56: R38         Trade accounts receivable - net - Additional        HTML     27K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
57: R39         Inventories (Detail)                                HTML     32K 
58: R40         Inventories - Additional Information (Detail)       HTML     28K 
59: R41         Property, plant and equipment (Detail)              HTML     85K 
60: R42         Property, plant and equipment - Additional          HTML     31K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
61: R43         Provision for Income Taxes (Detail)                 HTML     55K 
62: R44         Reconciliation of Company's Actual Tax Rate to      HTML     45K 
                U.S. Federal Statutory Rate (Detail)                             
63: R45         Elements of Deferred Income Tax Assets              HTML     49K 
                (Liabilities) (Detail)                                           
64: R46         Income taxes - Additional Information (Detail)      HTML     54K 
65: R47         Goodwill and intangible assets (Detail)             HTML     58K 
66: R48         Goodwill and intangible assets - Additional         HTML     58K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
67: R49         Short-term and long-term debt (Detail)              HTML     49K 
68: R50         Short-term and long-term debt (Future minimum       HTML     41K 
                lease payments under capital leases) (Detail)                    
69: R51         Short-term and long-term debt (Maturities of        HTML     36K 
                long-term debt and capital lease obligations)                    
                (Detail)                                                         
70: R52         Short-term and long-term debt - Additional          HTML    129K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
71: R53         Stockholders' equity - Additional Information       HTML     45K 
                (Detail)                                                         
72: R54         Commitments and contingencies (Detail)              HTML     64K 
73: R55         Future Commitments under Operating Leases (Detail)  HTML     39K 
74: R56         Commitments and contingencies - Additional          HTML     29K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
75: R57         Share-Based Compensation - Weighted Average         HTML     40K 
                Assumptions Used in Determining Fair Value of                    
                Share Based Awards at Grant Date by Using                        
                Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model (Detail)                      
76: R58         Share-based compensation - Summary of Status of     HTML     50K 
                Company's Stock Option Plan (Detail)                             
77: R59         Share-based compensation - Weighted Average         HTML     51K 
                Contractual Life and Exercise Price (Detail)                     
78: R60         Share-Based Compensation - Intrinsic Value          HTML     29K 
                (Detail)                                                         
79: R61         Share-based compensation - Additional Information   HTML     75K 
                (Detail)                                                         
80: R62         Acquisition (Bdo) (Detail)                          HTML     78K 
81: R63         Acquisition - Business Pro Forma Information        HTML     32K 
                (Detail)                                                         
82: R64         Acquisition - Additional Information (Detail)       HTML     46K 
83: R65         Quarterly Financial Data (Detail)                   HTML     74K 
85: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    143K 
84: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX    100K 
13: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- hdsn-20181231                       XML   4.53M 
15: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- hdsn-20181231_cal               XML    191K 
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17: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- hdsn-20181231_lab                     XML   1.12M 
18: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- hdsn-20181231_pre              XML   1.01M 
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