GREAT NEWS !!
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 1999--
Integral Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB:ITKG.O) is proud to announce that
Aviation Week & Space Technology, aviationweek.com, has
selected Integral Technologies' newest antenna technology as one of
ten winners of its prestigious "Third Annual Technology Innovation
Award" in its May 10, 1999 issue.
Integral's Contrawound Toroidal Helical Antenna (CTHA) is
currently undergoing intensive study and testing by a number of
significant military, government and law enforcement organizations for
use in vehicle, ship, and aircraft communications systems as well as
GPS and other space-based communications devices plus cellular phones
and wireless LANs. Integral's innovations have improved the
conventional CTHA performance characteristics in all of these
applications.
The CTHA provides significant benefits in both in size,
performance, cost and form/factor in a variety of wireless
applications from 800 MHz to 2.4 GHz. The CTHA for these wireless
applications is realized as a printed circuit pattern occupying an
area of less that 2inx2in at 800 MHz and less than 1in x 1in at 1.5
GHz (GPS application). The printed circuit CTHA eliminates the
standard dipole antenna, thereby reducing the system cost and enhances
the wireless system's reliability.
The CTHA antenna concept has also been developed for applications
at HF, VHF, UHF frequencies In mobile field testing the
omnidirectional/isotropic CTHA has demonstrated range improvements of
up to 300% compared to monopole antennas and from 500 to 700% in
helicopter tests. The size of the CTHA antenna is dramatically smaller
than conventional antennas in these applications, for example at 150
MHz, the standard dipole antenna is 6 ft long and the CTHA is realized
as a ring with a diameter of 7 inches.
"The acceptance and commercialization of "disruptive"
technologies", is a difficult and lengthy process," said Bill Ince,
President of Integral Technologies. "In his recent book titled
"Innovators Dilema" Clayton Christensen discusses the difference
between sustaining technologies, those technologies which improve
product performance, and disruptive technologies, those technologies
which improve product performance by changing how a product performs.
Examples of "disruptive technologies" would be Ebay.com and
Amazon.com. You must overcome conventional wisdom and experience and
validate your ideas and concepts every step of the way. We are
grateful to see that many respected organizations have been and
continue to be, receptive to seeing our technology in action, view the
test results, and give it the recognition it deserves based on its
performance."
Aviation Week & Space Technology is a weekly publication of The
McGraw-Hill Companies, and has bureaus located throughout the US,
Europe, Australia and Asia. A panel of independent judges representing
the military, commercial and space sectors selected the winners,
including the CTHA, from nominees offered by Aviation Week's editors
and outside organizations. The winning companies vary from a division
of industry giant Lockheed Martin Corp. to venture companies such as
Integral.
Integral is particularly honored by the prestige bestowed by this
Award, given the accomplishments of the acclaimed panel of judges for
the third annual Technology Innovation Awards:
-- Dee H. Andrews, a human factors expert who is technical director
of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Warfighter Training
Research Division, Mesa, Arizona;
-- Anthony J. Broderick, a safety consultant who represents
manufacturers, airlines and governments and a retired associate
administrator of regulation and certification for the FAA;
-- Dan Griffith, a certification test pilot for the UK's Civil
Aviation Authority, who has logged in excess of 4,500 hours in
more than 200 aircraft types;
-- Lt. Col. Richard A. Lane, a USAF maintenance officer with more
than 32 years' experience and recently assigned to Kirtland AFB,
N.M., as director of command, control, communications, computers
and intelligence;
-- Michael F. Rioux, executive vice president of JDA Aviation
Technology Solutions, Washington, who has logged 4,800 hours and
925 carrier landings in F-4s and F-14s while in the US Navy;
-- Pedro L. Rustan, Jr., general manager of Ellipso Inc., which is
developing a satellite-based voice and data communications
system, and a retired Air Force colonel, formerly the National
Reconnaissance Office's director of small-satellite development;
-- Eugene R. Schwarting, director of strategic management for
Rockwell Collins' Collins General Aviation Div., and responsible
for long-range forecasting and identification and evaluation of
new business opportunities; and
-- Will Stackhouse, currently a consultant who retired from the US
Air Force as a colonel after 31 years of service and a former
fighter pilot who held director-level positions in the Air Force
Satcom and Milstar programs.
Robert M. Calis, General Manager of The Integral Group of
Companies went on to say that "...with the ongoing Research efforts
being conducted in our labs involving other new and Radical Antenna
Technologies, we will continue to be a significant driving force in
the field of radiating and receiving of wireless signals".
Integral, which is not presently a "reporting" company, intends
to file its Form 10 with the Securities and Exchange Commission as
soon as practical following the completion of the Company's audited
financials. The reader is advised that this release contains forward
looking statements of the Company and a variety of factors could cause
the Company's actual results and experience to differ materially from
the anticipated results or expectations expressed. Additional
information regarding those factors is available upon request.
For more detailed information on the company and the technologies
described above please visit our web site at www.itechfin.com or
contact Shareholder Relations at 888/666-8833.
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CONTACT: Integral Technologies, Inc.
Shareholder Relations, 888/666-8833
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