| SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Environmental Tectonics
Corporation (Amex: ETC) is proud to announce that it has been awarded a
contract to deliver five of its Pro-Genesis(R) III cGMP Legacy Control System
upgrades to be fitted onto existing industrial sterilization equipment by an
international pharmaceutical manufacturer. ETC will develop a project
specific software program, integrate this into the new PLC control hardware
and install the new systems at the customer's facility. Pro-Genesis(R) III control systems are built on an industry standard platform that will give the customer ease of maintenance and reduce life-cycle costs. These controls will execute all process control and data retrieval in accordance with current FDA requirements. The installation of these ETC control platforms ensures that the customer has the greatest degree of flexibility to further upgrade both software and hardware as it becomes available. ETC provides customized sterilizer control systems upgrades and consultancy services to assist clients with identifying and selecting the most effective system solutions. This service enables companies wishing to develop, expand or update their sterilization control capability to optimize equipment selection and product throughput while maximizing facility safety. Michael W. Allen, V. P. of ETC's Biomedical Systems and Sterilizer Group, commented: "We can retrofit control systems to any manufacturers equipment. All of our legacy control systems upgrades reflect the latest technology being applied in the industry. Our ability and willingness to work with clients in their project planning phase ensures the system supplied will meet all functional requirements, extend the useful working life of the sterilizer and allow clients to get the best possible return on their investment." 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 press release may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We have based these forward- looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about the company that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any other future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may", "will", "could", "would", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "continue", or the negative of such terms or similar expressions. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, contract cancellations, political unrest in customer countries, general economic conditions, and those issues identified from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and other public documents including, without limitation, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 22, 2002. |
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