Emergency Filtration Products Issues Production Update
10/28/2005 3:26:02 PM
HENDERSON, Nev., Oct 28, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Emergency Filtration Products Inc. (EFP) (EMFP) today announced that it has received and is continuing to receive filters from its West Coast-based supplier at its facility in Henderson, Nev. The company expects to begin enhancing the pre-cut filters by coating them with nanoparticles next week. The company will then package the filters and begin shipping them to its distributors and customers shortly thereafter.
The company's initial production plans call for enhancing the filters at the rate of approximately 500,000 filters per week. Management believes that the current facility will be able to produce as many as 1 million filters per week, as demand dictates.
Separately, the company announced that it has appointed Karen Custodio as director of business development. Custodio's responsibilities will be to facilitate orders and coordinate sales and distribution. Previously, Custodio was business development manager for Ever Corp., a large, privately held Manila, Philippines, company. Prior to that assignment, Custodio worked as project manager for New Dimensions (H.K.) Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company.
The company also announced that it has named Douglas K. Beplate as chief executive officer. Beplate remains the company's president. Sherman Lazrus, who has acted as interim CEO, will remain chairman of the board of directors.
"We have been concentrating the company's efforts to producing a sufficient number of filters to fill the orders that we currently have on hand, as well as to establish production levels that will satisfy demand for the NanoMask," said Beplate. "We welcome Karen Custodio to our management team, who will help us in better serving our distributors and customers."
About NanoMask
(http://emergencyfiltration.com/Product Page/NanoMask.htm)
EFP's 2H Nano-Enhanced Environmental Mask, the NanoMask, relies on the company's core 2H Technology(TM) filtration system, which utilizes a combination of hydrophobic and hydrophilic filters able to capture and isolate bacterial and viral microorganisms with efficiencies of 99.9%. The environmental mask utilizes the company's patented 2H Technology(TM) and nanotechnology to enhance the capture-and-isolation characteristics of the filter media.
About Emergency Filtration Products
Emergency Filtration Products (http://www.emergencyfiltration.com/) is an air filtration products manufacturer whose patented 2H Technology(TM) filter system has produced filtration efficiencies of "greater than 99.99%" at a particulate size of 0.027 microns. Its initial products were developed for the medical market: the Vapor Isolation Valve(TM) and RespAide(R) CPR Isolation Mask used for resuscitation of respiratory/cardiac arrest cases; and the 2H Breathing Circuit Filter for ventilators, respirators and anesthesia circuitry. Each has received FDA approval. The company also markets an Automated External Defibrillator Prep Kit featuring RespAide; and the NanoMask(R), a nanotechnology-enhanced environmental mask. In addition to filtration products, the company supplies Superstat(R), a modified hemostatic collagen, to the U.S. military for surgery and extreme wound care.
SOURCE: Emergency Filtration Products Inc.
Emergency Filtration Products Inc., Henderson
Douglas K. Beplate, 702-558-5164
Fax: 702-567-1893
contactus@emergencyfiltration.com
www.emergencyfiltration.com
or
WPH Consultants Ltd.
Philippe Niemetz, 800-477-7570 or 212-344-6464
(Investor Relations)
Fax: 212-618-1276
p.Niemetz@panconsultants.com
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