Expansion & Development Continue for Purex Fume Extraction Systems

Recently we have made a number of changes within our organisation to improve our focus and responsiveness to you the customer. I would like to take this opportunity to share these changes with you.

As you are aware, just over 18 months ago, we purchased the leading manufacturer of extraction equipment for the wide format printing market, PAT Technology Systems Inc of Canada, to strengthen our existing position in North America and to complement our extensive range of extractors for the electronics and laser processing industries.

We are now announcing that we have consolidated both of our North American businesses into a new sales and distribution centre in Fort Worth, Texas. This location was carefully selected to be closer to the majority of our key customers thus reducing delivery costs and lead-times. Our US and Canadian sales team have stayed with the business, Jackie Smith has relocated to Fort Worth to run the day to day support activity, Scott and Jacques will continue to provide field based support to our customers.

Purex are a world leading manufacturer of high performance, advanced fume extraction systems for the electronics, laser and printing industries. Purex systems are available worldwide from a dedicated distributor and OEM network.

Due to the importance of this change, Bob Pitchford our Sales and Marketing Director, has been seconded to Fort Worth to head up the North American business. The manufacturing of the PAT product range has been transferred from Montreal to our main factory in Rotherham, England.

In the UK, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania & Bulgaria we have appointed eTEK Europe Ltd. as our master distributor and service & support supplier for the electronics markets. The cornerstone of eTEK’s business is service and our customers can be assured that the high level of support they previously received from Purex will be continued by eTEK.

To ensure continuity of service our Senior Sales Manager, David Quinn along with our Service Engineering Team of Henk, Andy and Martin have transferred to eTEK.

In Europe we have strengthened our Business Development Team with the addition of Jonathan Long. Jonathan has a proven track record in the sale of technical products into the electronic and CIJ market place. He is also well versed in the training and management of distributors and will be visiting our sales partners across Europe over the coming months. Jonathan joins the team that includes his fellow Business Development Manager, Geoff Williams and our Director of Business Development, Tony Lockwood. This group has over 40 years of experience of providing technical solutions for manufacturing challenges.

Product development continues apace at our headquarters in the UK and I am delighted to announce that our Product Development Director, Chau Vo, previously of PAT Technology, will be re-locating to the UK from 1st March 2010 to head the development team.

As you can see, we have made many positive changes over the past few months and we have more innovative developments to come in 2010. If you have any question then please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Priestley

Managing Director - Purex