| SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental Tectonics
Corporation's (Amex: ETC) Testing and Simulations Systems Division today
announced additional contracts. The company has been awarded two important
contracts to supply ETC Climatic Drive-in Chambers to First Automobile Works
(FAW) in Changchun, China and Tianjin Automobile Import and Export Corp. in
Tianjin, China. ETC has been designing and manufacturing the most advanced Testing and Simulations Systems for the Automotive and HVAC Industries for the last 32 years. The ETC test systems designed for the automotive industry includes Environmentally Controlled Drive-in Chambers, A/C Systems Test Benches and Calorimeters, Component and Full Vehicle Development Wind Tunnels, Engine Development Systems and Automotive Emissions Testing Systems. New vehicle design, development and performance verification requires extensive vehicle testing. This performance testing and verification is done under extreme environmental conditions. ETC's climatic drive-in chamber provides such a facility and is equipped with; a chassis dynamometer, temperature and humidity controls, solar and wind speed simulation, etc. The climate drive-in chamber can create conditions from extremely cold to extremely hot and humid in just a few hours, thus allows testing 24 hours a day and eliminates the need to drive the vehicle to places with extreme weather for testing. ETC's climatic drive-in chamber is a stainless steel chamber measuring 56 feet in length, 25 feet in width and is 12 feet high. The chamber has a temperature range -50.F to 122.F with relative humidity of 20% to 95%. The chamber includes a 250 kW chassis dynamometer, wind and solar simulation capability, and is equipped with the latest and most accurate sensors, controls, and data acquisition system, and is fully automated. The ETC chamber creates very precise test conditions thus generating very accurate and repeatable results. The chamber will be used to evaluate air conditioning systems, engine performance, and fuel economy, exhaust emissions, etc. William F. Mitchell, ETC's President and Chairman, commented that "Environmental testing and simulation products were ETC's first product line and they have been a steady performer for over 30 years. Their backlog currently stands at an all time high. I am especially pleased that we have booked projects for the number one and number three car manufacturers in China. I expect the Far East to be a growth area for the Environmental Division in the coming years." ETC designs, develops, installs, and maintains aircrew training systems, public entertainment systems, process simulation systems (sterilization and environmental), clinical hyperbaric systems, environmental testing and simulation systems and related products for domestic and international customers. This report contains certain "forward-looking statements" including, without limitation, statements containing the words "believes", "anticipates", "intends", "expects", and words of similar import relating to the Company's operations. There are important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements including contract cancellations, political unrest in customer countries, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Environmental Tectonics Corporation's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, Environmental Tectonics Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 23, 2001. |
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