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July 1, 2010

ASI/Silica Machinery’s Innovative Designs Result in a 10+ Machine Order for Fiber Preform Manufacturing Equipment.

LOS ANGELES, CA, July 1, 2010 - ASI/Silica Machinery continues to lower the cost of producing fiber with their latest core and clad preform manufacturing equipment and processes. The lowest cost producer of optical fiber in the world today is powered by ASI/Silica Machinery equipment!

Our innovative Dual Spindle Deposition System produces two preforms at a time, more than doubling the km/hr output of our previous model, with the additional ability to produce preforms more than double the previous size. Our Sintering System offers a unique furnace construction that provides both lower operating costs and a fast heating rate. These innovations have led to a repeat order for 10+ machine and process order for fiber preform manufacturing equipment.

ASI/Silica Machinery, LLC, founded in 1997, is the global market leader having provided over 100 machines with the related process that are used in profitable preform manufacturing to the optical fiber manufacturing market. Twenty-five of those machines were sold in just the last two years. ASI/Silica Machinery is well established throughout the world, with installations in Europe, Asia and South America.

Our unmatched practical and operational atmospheric soot deposition experience for preform core and over-cladding, enables ASI/Silica Machinery to customize the equipment and processes specifically to our customers' needs. Utilizing proven equipment and technology, state of the art 3D CAD modeling, advanced material selections, and drawing on the extensive and practical operational expertise of the management and senior engineering group, ASI/Silica Machinery is the preform capital equipment supplier of choice in the optical fiber market.

Our engineers will be available to explain more about our successful designs at the 2010 International Wire and Cable Symposium.

Our website www.asisilica.com is also available for more information.