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ALPNET and Stork TPS Announce Strategic Alliance SALT LAKE CITY, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- ALPNET, Inc. (Nasdaq: AILP - news), the international translation and localization services company and Stork TPS, today announced they will join efforts to provide services and marketing activities for industrial clients. After having worked closely together in producing multilingual documentation for automotive clients, ALPNET and Stork TPS have signed a partnership agreement to formalize the relationship. Stork TPS, a division of Stork NV, specializes in publishing standards such as SGML, HTML, and XML which lengthen the life cycle of industrial information. Together, they can offer state-of-the-art services to companies with a need to rapidly provide users around the world with product information via the Internet, Print, and CD-ROM. Charles Noall, Managing Director of Stork TPS, commented as follows, ''We are very excited about this alliance. We believe that the combination of our strength in information technology and ALPNET's translation capability and specialized translation software offers the industry a uniquely powerful, total solution for industrial information. Global information delivery is an essential requirement of Stork TPS and ALPNET's industrial clients. Together we will offer the optimal solution in terms of innovation, efficiency, quality, and lifecycle cost reduction. We believe that our total care concept will be greatly enhanced by this new partnership.'' Francois Massion, Director of ALPNET's worldwide automotive group commented, ''We have successfully worked together with Stork TPS for Volvo and want to extend this relationship to other ALPNET and Stork TPS clients. Advanced database publishing using the SGML standard is widely used in the automotive and aerospace industries since the documentation is produced faster, the process is more cost-effective, and the information is more easily maintained. This partnership will clearly strengthen our competitive advantage in this expanding marketplace as this form of publishing becomes more prevalent.'' ALPNET is the largest publicly-owned dedicated supplier of worldwide translation and product localization services, with more than 500 employees working in 14 countries throughout Europe, North America and Asia. ALPNET supplies its clients with language translation, product localization and multilingual publishing solutions. Additional information about ALPNET is available on the World Wide Web at alpnet.com . Additionally, a copy of ALPNET Review or an investor package can be obtained by calling our Investor Relations Department. Stork TPS is a division of Stork NV, the large, Netherlands-based technology concern that delivers production systems and technical services to the global industrial community. SOURCE: ALPNET, Inc.