(COMTEX) B: NATIONAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES INC - Two Million Dol B: NATIONAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES INC - Two Million Dollar Order New York, New York, Apr. 06, 2000 (Market News Publishing via COMTEX) -- National Manufacturing Technologies Inc. ("NMT"), a value-added, vertically integrated manufacturer of enclosed electronic systems and their various sub-assembly components, Thursday announced that it has been awarded over $2 million of orders for the manufacture of printed circuit board assemblies from one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of data storage and storage area network solutions for the telecommunications industry and Internet service providers. NMT began shipping these orders in March 2000, and will complete this quarterly requirement within 90 days, prior to June 30, 2000. In subsequent periods, the company expects to additionally provide metal fabrication, box build and test services to this customer. The company projects this new business will add a minimum of $6-8 million of revenue over the next 12 months. "This represents the largest piece of new business our Electronics Group has landed to date," stated Steve Jones, vice president and general manager of NMT's Electronics Group. "We expect the rapid growth of this premier customer to continue, which will result in a growing opportunity for NMT," added Jones. The company also announced that it ended its quarter with a record setting revenue month in March, which will result in March 31, 2000 quarter ending manufacturing revenues increasing by more than 50% over the prior quarter, and by more than 70% over the same quarter of the prior year. "We are particularly pleased," stated Patrick W. Moore, chief executive officer, "that even with rapidly growing revenues and record shipments in the month of March, that our sales efforts resulted in us ending our fiscal year (March 31) with a backlog higher than at any other time in the company's history. We expect this revenue and sales growth to carry into our next fiscal year, which began April 1, 2000," added Moore. National Manufacturing Technologies Inc. (NMT) is a value-added, vertically integrated manufacturer of enclosed electronic systems and their various sub-assembly components supplying companies involved in aerospace, power conversion, telecommunication, fiber channel storage, and other high growth technologies. Complete capabilities information can be found at the company's Web site, which is located at www.NatManTech.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. These statements include, without limitation, statements relating to the company's future economic performance, management's opinions about the ability of the company to compete successfully and other non-historical information. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, without limitation, those risks discussed in item 6 under the heading "additional risk factors" as well as those discussed elsewhere in the company's annual report on Form 10-KSB. __________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ (c) Market News Publishing Inc. Tel:(604) 689-1101 All rights reserved. Fax:(604) 689-1106 MarketbyFax(tm) - To get the NEWS as it happens, call (604) 689-3041. -0- *** end of story *** |