AüGRID Corporation Press Release:
AüGRID proceeds with order fulfillment for Z?Lektra Group.
Houston, Texas ? August 11, 2004 ? AüGRID Corporation (OTCBB: AGRD) announced today that it is moving forward with its order fulfillment to Z?Lektra Group. As previously announced, Optipure (www.opti-pure.com), AüGRID?s wholly owned subsidiary, entered into an exclusive binding contract to supply at least 500, 42? High Performance Optipure Plasmas for Z?Lektra and a Gym TV private network in the southeast. Part two of the order consists of 100 screens already in route, scheduled for delivery in late August 2004. The initial delivery of 50 screens was announced June 28th in the news release.
?We are establishing ourselves one satisfied customer at a time, and the quality of our products is starting to resonate across the world,? stated MJ Shaheed President and CEO of AüGRID Corporation. ?We are very pleased with the work our consultants in the states and overseas are doing as we pursue similar projects in Dubai, the U.A.E., Australia and Japan,? added Shaheed.
The Optipure advantage:
? Component Quality ? Robust Design ? Proprietary Glass Coating Technology ? Advance Firmware & Menu Structure
Component Quality: Optipure seeks out and utilizes nothing but the best quality and tightest tolerance components in the assembly of our products. Many manufacturers, in pursuit of reducing overhead, utilize lower standards and lesser quality components in the assembly of products being marketed to consumers in the US. It is typically the failure of these key components?power supply capacitors, MosFet Drivers and Op Amps?that is responsible for 90% of new product returns and equipment failures in the market.
Robust Design: At Optipure we maximize the performance of our products. We have identified key components responsible for the failure of Flat Panel Displays, especially plasma screens, and have compensated to minimize these failures. One of the key components we have addressed is the power supply. We over-spec (i.e. increase standard specifications) our power supplies by as much as 20%. This is evident by the current consumption of our screens. Our average 42? screen has a minimum consumption of 330 watts, compared to 290-300 watts on average for less expensive units. One method of testing this advantage is to press the ?pause? key of a DVD player in the middle of a movie, or presentation, after being run for 10-20 minutes. Unlike the less expensive units, the Optipure panels will not flicker the slightest bit, not even a single pixel.
Proprietary Glass technology: Protected by the recent filing of U.S. Patent #10/465729 and International #PCT/US2003/019479, our proprietary plasma glass coating substrate will soon prove to be a key factor in the advancement of plasma glass technology. Our glass coating offers the following benefits:
1) It enhances color balance by imposing an optical filter on the screen, which is tuned to very specific color frequencies, and ultimately minimizes the spikes in red, green and blue that are readily visible in the glass of most screens.
2) It reduces and even eliminates the reflective properties of the inside of the front plate allowing for higher voltage at the address buss. This permits our screens to achieve what we call ?perfect HEX??based on color specifications published by Adobe Systems, what is considered the ?standard? for the publishing industry. Our coated glass panels are capable of reproducing a perfect white Hex #FFFFFF, as well as a perfect Black Hex #000000, allowing viewers of our screens to more accurately see what the artist or composer had intended the viewer to see.
3) The diamond-hard silicon carbide coating protects the front glass plate from burn in images by as much as 800% over non-coated glass.
Advance Firmware & Menu structure: Optipure screens are equipped with sophisticated firmware, which allows them to maintain a vertical synch even when the input synch has changed. This enables the screen the inherent ability to stay awake, as well as prevents the screen?s software from crashing, when the input synch changes drastically. This is a common phenomenon with poorly written firmware, and it normally requires the screen to be turned off and on. This firmware also allows for a very sophisticated menu structure that enables the viewer controls to achieve the best picture possible under any signal quality. Our firmware has more than 21 picture adjustments and settings, with such advance settings as: Gamma; Individual Color Temperature; ICC (Input Color Compensation); Individual Gain (for each of the color inputs); and two Memory Banks, which allows the viewer to save presets for different venues.
In addition to the various technical properties that set our products apart, we are currently working on being able to move away from the current, widely used plastic frame, to an all aluminum structure in 2005. Another indication of the high quality we strive for in our products.
AüGRID Corporation and its subsidiaries, Alysium Corporation and Optipure, LLC, are technology-based organizations, specializing in the manufacturing, distribution and development of electronic and display devices, thermocouples, silicon carbide tools and specialty industrial products..
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The statements regarding AüGRID Corporation in this release that are not historical in nature, particularly those that utilize terminology such as "may," "should," "likely," "expects," "anticipates," "estimates," "believes" or "plans," or comparable terminology, are forward-looking statements based on current expectations about future events, which AüGRID Corporation has derived from the information currently available to it. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our results to be materially different from results implied in such forward-looking statements. Important factors known to AüGRID Corporation that could cause forward-looking statements to turn out to be incorrect are identified and discussed from time to time in AüGRID Corporation's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements contained in this release speak only as of the date hereof, and AüGRID Corporation undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. ________________________________________ Contact: AüGRID Corporation, Houston 713-532-2000 Website: www.augridcorp.com Investor Relations: Equitilink LLC, 877-788-1940
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