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Stockreporter.De Announces Investment Opinion On Rhombic Corp.; Stockreporter Releases an Exclusive Interview With Larry Owen, President of Rhombic Corp. - NUKE -
BusinessWire, Wednesday, October 06, 1999 at 17:24
by Stockreporter.De
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1999--Some weeks ago Rhombic Corp. (OTC BB:NUKE) received a strong buy recommendation from the Stockreporter, a leading European financial Internet publication at www.stockreporter.de. The Stockreporter specializes in the coverage of micro caps and undervalued OTC and BB companies. Today Stockreporter released a brand new and exclusive interview with Larry Owen, President of Rhombic Corp., containing very promising statements. The release of the interview contains the following questions and answers:
Stockreporter: The offers of Rhombic Corp. are very well diversified. You offer products in different and promising high tech sectors. From which of your products do you expect in this connection the biggest contribution to a rapid growth of Rhombic Corp.? Please also explain the special importance of the new "Rhombic Explorer"! Mr. Owen: I find this question difficult to answer since the company anticipates earnings from the Daimler Benz Aerospace contract, the different applications of the "Forced Diffusion" technology, and the recently acquired Rhombic Explorer. Since the question calls for an answer to which of the products do I anticipate the biggest earnings contribution, I would with little hesitation say that today the varied applications of the "Forced Diffusion" diamond technology has the edge. The Rhombic Explorer will be very special, and will be in operation soon as a personal search engine that will save time and energy to those people and companies who are continuously surfing the internet for information. Stockreporter: With these attractive products you seem to be promisingly positioned and to dispose of a strategic lead with regard to competitors. Which efforts are you making at the moment in order to make these Rhombic Corp. products even more successful and more known worldwide? Please also explain in this context the special relations to DASA! Mr. Owen: At this moment Rhombic Corporation has prepaid a year's work at the University of Missouri. Projects now underway under the supervision of Dr. Mark Prelas, include the extraction by "Forced Diffusion" of impurities from both silicon carbide and gallium nitride materials; the development of doped diamond fuel cell electrodes for the hydrogen fuel cell market; the coloring of ordinary white diamonds; and the verification of previous n-type diamond related results. Rhombic's special relationship to Daimler Benz Aerospace (DASA) is the assignment to DASA by both Rhombic and the University of Illinois to develop and manufacture the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) device (neutron production by fusion) that will result in royalties for Rhombic for years to come. Stockreporter: Let us again come back to your newest standing leg, the Rhombic Explorer! Herewith you are positioned in a multimillion $ market whose potentials have not been recognized by any means by many people. Which position do you see for Rhombic Corp. on this market? Mr. Owen: Rhombic Corporation anticipates that the Rhombic Explorer will fill a niche not occupied now by any other Internet search engine. The Rhombic Explorer is designed to occupy a position as a new tool to compliment the exisiting array of web servers, automate and preschedule unattended web searchers, and finally download information into an organized knowledge base. These advantages over other web services should move Rhombic Corporation into the top category in the total Internet market. Stockreporter: Recently you announced that Rhombic received the results on "Silicon Carbide Purification". In which way these positive results will contribute to a further growth of Rhombic Corp.? Please also comment on the other news releases regarding the proposal to develop quality diamond coloration and the "Fuel Cell Electrode" to be developed! Mr. Owen: The initial analysis of the "Silicon Carbide Purification" project resulted in approximately 30% reduction in pollutants in the wafer material. If the final results further improve the quality of the SiC and GaN wafer materials, Rhombic will be in a good position to market the technology to the major SiC and GaN producers whose products will then be in greater demand by industrial users. The changing of ordinary white diamonds to blue, red, and other interesting colors will create a brand new market without competition. Enhancing diamond color through "Forced Diffusion" imitates the way nature colors diamonds and other semi precious and precious stones by introducing into those materials atoms of foreign elements such as boron which changes white to blue. The proposed diamond film electrode will provide the developing hydrogen fuel cells with superior electrodes giving a considerable improvement in the performance and longevity to the fuel cells. Stockreporter: Before this really promising background the present market capitalization of Rhombic Corp. seems to be unjustly low. What are you planning in order to make known this interesting share of your company to more investors and thus extend the investor relations? Please also describe the current IR campaign! Mr. Owen: We have a good feeling about the future of Rhombic's market capitalization that is now "unjustly" low. We anticipate that the Rhombic market will improve dramatically the moment royalty checks arrive from DASA through the sales of IEC devices, and the new buiness created by "Forced Diffusion" products, and the potential of the sales of the Rhombic Explorer. As of now Rhombic has announced contracts and agreements. The real Rhombic market will begin with the announcement of earnings. In the meantime, Rhombic maintains a reasonable market by phone conversations with both old and new shareholders, and the delivery of corporate information on request. Stockreporter: Next year you are awaiting almost clearly increasing revenues. How conservatively have you estimated in this connection, resp. how surely these revenues will be realized? Mr. Owen: The principals of Rhombic Corporation are very conservative when expressing future revenues to the public. Income from IEC sales, from the diamond technology, and the Rhombic Explorer are close to being realized. Once the initial income is in the treasury, income projections can be made with accuracy that would be only conjecture now. Stockreporter: Are for the current and the coming fiscal year any other measures planned, like for example private placements, public offerings, (stock) dividend payments etc.? Mr. Owen: Rhombic Corporation has completed two 504 financings designed to raise money in Canada. The company is now in the midst of a third 504 financing, raising enough money to prepay diamond technology development at the University of Missouri, to introduce the Rhombic Explorer on the Internet, to patent a number of its technologies, and to remain 100% debt free by promptly paying its obligations. Although Rhombic handles its own financing through the use of 504 stock, the company will consider a sizeable public offering if and when the opportunity comes about. Stock dividends will be considered once the income is sizeable, and after product development is realized and ready for market. Stockreporter: Correspondingly to the meteoric growth of your company the management is already discussing a listing at NASDAQ or Amex. With regard to this background you also try to be listed at a bigger European stock exchange. What do you expect from these steps and when may we expect the announcement of your applications? Mr. Owen: Regarding the possibility of listing Rhombic Corporation on any exchange other than NASDAQ, we feel it to be premature to speculate on these advanced steps until Rhombic can establish a consistent earnings record. Even a full listing on NASDAQ will mean that brokers and investors can put a pencil to the bottom line and show enough market value to justify the move. Rhombic initial listing objective is to elevate from the non-reporting section of the OTC Bulletin Board to the reporting section. We hope to accomplish this within the next several month. Treasury funds are often transferred to the company's stateside auditors and legal firm to accomplish this goal. Once on the fully reporting section of the OTC, Rhombic will take aim at a full NASDAQ listing. But, that will only take place when the company's income justifies the move. There are no plans at this time to be listed on a more sophisticated exchange either domestic or foreign. Stockreporter: Please, also explain which strategic partnerships or investments we may expect for the nearest future! For example, do you negotiate acquisitions which Rhombic Corp. wants to conclude? Mr. Owen: Regarding strategic partnerships, Rhombic has Daimler Benz Aerospace as a partner in the IEC project. It is also a possibility that Rhombic will join with DASA in the future on another Rhombic project. There has been interest shown by DASA. Rhombic Corporation has recently acquired from Russian, German, and American scientists two major technologies that will be developed by Rhombic alone, or by joint ventures with U.S. or European partners. Rhombic also has acquired the compact radionuclid battery designed for satellite and space flight; and the agreement for manufacturing dispersed composite materials (DCM). This latter technology, also known as dust plasma, was obtained from Russian, German, and American scientists. The DCM plasmas can be produced as catalysts, as abrasive wear-resistance grinding materials of high strength, and a special application as a coating that leads to a very low cost conversion of long lived nuclear wastes into safe stable nuclides. Finally, Rhombic acquired from Dr. Prelas the solid state diamond based neutron detector that will be developed as a portable detector of weapons grade nuclear materials. This proposed device also would be saleable to the purchases of the IEC units from DASA. This neutron detection device will help track the IEC neutron activity.
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