Palm Desert, Calif. & Vancouver, B.C., Oct. 4, 2000 Ñ USFilter and Service
Systems International (OTCBB: SVSY) have announced plans to form a strategic
alliance to market Service SystemsÕ ultraviolet disinfection technology
for water and wastewater applications.
USFilterÕs
Wallace and Tiernan Products group, Vineland, N.J., has signed a letter
of intent to form an exclusive alliance, in which Wallace and Tiernan
Products will sell Service SystemÕs Ultra Guard® advanced
ultraviolet disinfection technology.
Joe
Millen, executive vice president of USFilter, said the alliance will ensure
that USFilter remains a leader in this segment of the water and wastewater
treatment industry.
"The
Wallace & Tiernan Products group has 85 years of continued service to
its customers for the supply of disinfection equipment applying various
technologies. With UV disinfection systems, we will be even better positioned
to serve an evolving market need."
According
to Ken Fielding, Service Systems president and CEO, "The alliance will
represent a major milestone in a string of contract awards and independent
third party validations of the advantages, energy savings and superior
performance of Ultra Guard® treatment systems. The agreement
will give Service Systems access to an extensive sales and distribution
network associated with the worldÕs premier water and wastewater company.
With these resources, we will be poised to rapidly expand our business.
Steve
Wirtel, vice president of municipal sales for USFilter, added, "USFilter
has been aware of the benefits of ultraviolet disinfection and has been
actively searching for a UV disinfection technology to enhance our product
and service offering to our clients. We wanted to be sure that our choice
not only met short-term market demand, but also gave us sustainable value
for all of our corporate objectives, including existing and future treatment
plant operating contracts. The Ultra Guard® technology
is such a choice."
Ultra
Guard® UV disinfection technology features a number of innovations and
improvements over conventional systems. Among these are:
- Fewer lamps to
treat a given flow
- Enhanced hydraulics
resulting in consistent high quality disinfection
- Operational ease
and flexibility with its modular single lamp reactors
- Automatic dose
pacing and lamp wiping for unattended operation
- Internet-enabled
for centralized remote system control and monitoring
- Potable water
disinfection capability
- Higher lamp and
hydraulic efficiency allowing for cost effective disinfection of murky
waters, even combined sewer overflows
Consummation
of the alliance is subject to negotiation and execution of definitive
agreements and other customary conditions.
As
the leading supplier of chemical-feed equipment used in the treatment
and disinfection of potable water and wastewater, USFilterÕs Wallace &
Tiernan Products group designs and manufactures the most comprehensive
line of disinfection/chlorination equipment available, as well as analytical
instrumentation and controls, chemical-metering pumps, dry feeders, flowmeters
and systems.
USFilter,
a Vivendi Water company, is the leading global provider of commercial,
industrial, municipal and residential water and wastewater treatment systems,
products and services, with operations in more than 100 countries. USFilter,
which is based in Palm Desert, Calif. invites you to visit its web sites
at http://www.usfilter.com and http://www.wallaceandtiernan.usfilter.com.
Service
Systems International (SVSY), based in Burnaby, BC, Canada, manufactures
and markets a comprehensive range of water and wastewater disinfection
systems using its patented UltraGuard® technology. Service Systems invites
you to visit is web site at http://www.servicesystems.com.
Forward
Looking Statements: Certain of the foregoing information are forward-looking
statements regarding future events or the future financial performance
of the company and are subject to a number of risks and other factors,
which could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained
in the forward-looking statements. Among such factors are: general business
and economic conditions, customer acceptance of and demand for the CompanyÕs
products, the CompanyÕs overall ability to design, test and introduce
new and improved products on a timely basis, regulatory constraints, and
the risk factors listed from time to time in documents filed by the company
with the SEC.
Investor
Relations
Service
Systems International, Ltd.
Steve Stakiw
Phone: 1-888-516-7766 (tollfree)
Email: shareinfo@servicesystems.com
or
Karole
Colangelo
USFilter
1501 E. Woodfield Road, Ste 200
West Schaumburg, IL 60173
Tel: (847) 706-6947
Fax: (847) 706-6933
E-mail: colangek@usfilter.com
PR-239, 10/04/2000
USFILTER
40-004 COOK STREET
PALM DESERT, CA 92211
(760) 340-0098
