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_________________________________________ MILLEPEDE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 2002-01-24 ASX-SIGNAL-G
HOMEX - Perth
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Millepede International Limited is pleased to announce that its revolutionary "soft grip" plastic cable ties have been given a significant market boost after passing strict new international tests to determine low smoke and zero halogen (gas) emission characteristics in the event of fire.
The company's re-usable Mille-Ties have undergone stringent independent assessment with Warrington Fire Research in the United Kingdom. Specifically, Millepede Mille-Ties passed two commonly used test methods at Warrington Fire Research: BS 6853:1999 (smoke) and IEC 754-1 (halogen gas).
The test positive results are expected to provide the company with significant market impetus, especially with in the large telecom and data industry.
Millepede has previously been requested to provide a low smoke, zero halogen fastener and the success at Warrington Fire Research is an exciting development for the Company. It allows Millepede to meet increasing legislative requirements, especially in the European market.
The Company's plastic ties conform to the growing demand from industry -particularly in the UK and Europe - where cable suppliers are being asked to deliver a product that makes less of a contribution to the spread of flames in the event of a building fire.
As legislation increases, particularly throughout Europe, there are an increasing number of applications requiring the use of halogen-free (or non-PVC materials) with no specific fire performance characteristics.
The low smoke factor is considered important in the event of fire evacuations, as is zero halogen emission.
The Company notes that increasingly, public domain areas are insisting on low smoke, zero emission products. These included:
Hospitals; Offices; Public Transport; Airports; Data Processing Centres; Banks; Theatres; Power stations; and Railway Stations.
V de Villers MANAGING DIRECTOR
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To share plastic nail data with CSIRO
MILLEPEDE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 2001-11-27 ASX-SIGNAL-G
HOMEX - Perth
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Millepede International Limited is working with CSIRO's Division of Building, Construction and Engineering as part of the company's bid to develop the world's first mass-marketed plastic nail.
Millepede International, which controls a unique American plastic-hardening technology, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with CSIRO to exchange know-how over the next three months.
Millepede's RF Technology uses radio frequency to toughen plastics and will be applied to CSIRO's plastic nail. Millepede intends to apply for a Commonwealth Government research and development grant, in relation to the development of a plastic nail.
MILLEPEDE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 2001-11-22 ASX-SIGNAL-G
HOMEX - Perth
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Millepede International Limited is pleased to announce that it now has a controlling interest in an American joint venture with patent rights to a revolutionary technology capable of providing super-strength plastics.
Millepede, plans to apply the technology in the manufacture of a range of fasteners including super-tough plastic nails, screws and bolts.
The Company is confident that the joint venture agreement gives the company an opportunity to accelerate the development and marketing of a unique range of plastic and polymer products.
Millepede's joint venture partner is American corporation Advanced Polymer Technology, Inc which owns the revolutionary plastic-hardening RF Technology.
The RF Technology uses radio frequency to alter molecular structure to produce super-strong nylon and plastics. Prototype Mille-Nails have already been produced using the technology.
The Company is positioning itself to capitalise on a huge potential world market for its current range of plastic cable ties (Mille-Ties) and push forward with a new generation of super-strength plastic and nylon products such as Mille-Nails, Mille-Screws and Mille-Bolts.
Signing of the joint venture completes a key objective outlined to the Company's shareholders in Millepede's prospectus, dated June this year.
Millepede International Limited currently markets the award-winning Mille-Tie, a radical - design flexible plastic tie suitable for a range of domestic and industrial applications.
The Company also owns the rights to a revolutionary American-designed Continuous Injection Moulding Technology (CIM) already being used to trial-manufacture plastic and polymer strips, including Mille-Ties on a roll. It will be further developed to mass-produce Mille-Nails for nail gun belts and associated fastener products.
Locking up access to the exciting RF Technology underpins Millepede's International marketing, branding and sub-licensing strategy. The Company already has a strong international team in place and interest in the products is extremely high.
The company's re-usable Mille-Tie products are attracting strong interest from big international distributors and end-users such as the telecommunications industry, which had a need for reversible, non-restrictive and re-usable "soft" ties for sensitive cables.
Millepede International was on track with its worldwide marketing campaign for Mille-Ties, which earlier this year have been voted the "Most Innovative New Product 2000" award from Fastener & Fixing Magazine.
A feature of the Mille-Tie is its flexible "Intelligent-Grip Technology" that does not diminish or interfere with current in transmission cables, as is the case with more rigid conventional ties. In copper cabling most conduction electrons flow on the surface of wires, increasingly so at higher bendwidths, and performance drops when wires are kinked, crushed or compressed.
The Company is extremely happy with the response to the Mille-Ties but also holds high market expectations for the Mille-Nail and associated products due to their versatility, light weight, durability and non-corrosive nature, especially in the marine environment.
Although Millepede now has a 51% interest in the new joint venture entity (Nystyl LLC), operations would be based in Virginia. Research and development, as well as manufacturing would be based in Pennsylvania.
The Company's goal remains to establish a globally recognised brand name, "Millepede" for plastic fastening products of excellence innovation and quality.
V de Villers MANAGING DIRECTOR
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