UltraStrip's Filtration and WaterEye's Homeland Security Monitoring Systems Team Up
03 February 2006 - 12:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
STUART, Fla., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UltraStrip Systems,
Inc. (OTC:USTP) (BULLETIN BOARD: USTP) , the Stuart, Florida-based
homeland security technology company, announced that they have
formed an alliance with WaterEye Corporation for monitoring water
systems for Homeland Security, military, and industrial
applications. WaterEye's patented water monitoring systems will be
installed on the filtration equipment manufactured through
UltraStrip's wholly owned subsidiary, Ecosphere Technologies, Inc.
Ecosphere recently signed a Joint Marketing and Supply Agreement
with Pierce Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Oshkosh Truck
Corporation, to jointly manufacture a Tactical Water Filtration
Truck. "This is an innovative solution that can help protect our
nation's water supply from both natural disasters and terrorist
attacks," said Joe Allbaugh, former FEMA director and UltraStrip
board member. "It's a good example of how the private sector can
work together to help secure our nation's future." Tom Wolfe, Chief
Executive Officer of WaterEye Corporation, said, "Ecosphere
Technologies is the right company for us to partner with to bring
our unique monitoring equipment to the homeland security and
military markets. Our patented and secure systems can be monitored
24/7 through the Internet or a satellite if the Internet is down to
alert our water facilities of contamination issues. Ecosphere's
equipment is the only high-volume filtration system to be tested
and verified by the EPA through their Environmental Technology
Verification Program for a terrorist attack." Mickey Donn,
President of Ecosphere, said, "The Bioterrorism Act of 2002
requires community water systems to have an Emergency Response Plan
that includes equipment that can lessen the impact of a terrorist
attack. Recent reports of contaminated water in Iraq for our troops
could have been discovered immediately with the WaterEye monitoring
equipment. With the WaterEye technology and our filtration
equipment, we believe we will offer the finest detection and
remediation solution possible for our fighting forces." On December
5, 2005, the Company signed a Joint Marketing and Supply Agreement
with Pierce Manufacturing, Inc. (a subsidiary of Oshkosh Truck
Corporation, "OSK", NYSE). Pierce will assemble the Company's
mobile filtration units into the Pierce truck chassis and body to
produce the Tactical Water Filtration Truck and will market the
product through its well- established national sales force and
international dealerships. UltraStrip produces its filtration
equipment through its subsidiary, Ecosphere Technologies, Inc.
UltraStrip is a technology firm that develops and manufactures
patented equipment to provide solutions to homeland security,
military, and environmental problems. The Company's proprietary
Mobile Emergency Filtration Systems and Tactical Water Filtration
Trucks, provided through its Ecosphere Technologies subsidiary, are
breaking new ground by transforming its powerful water-filtration
and purification technology for use in the world's most challenging
applications, including the military (e.g., for troop deployments)
and Homeland Security (e.g., to areas hit by man-made or natural
events that damage vital water resources). The Company's Mobile
Emergency Filtration System successfully operated for two months in
Waveland, MS following that community's devastation from Hurricane
Katrina, providing bulk water for drinking, bathing, cooking, and
cleaning purposes. UltraStrip's patented robotic water jetting
systems are designed to provide an environmentally safe coatings
removal process in both heavy marine, automobile, and above-ground
storage tank applications. The robotic systems have been utilized
for U.S. Navy ships (including the U.S.S. Cole after its attack off
the coast of Yemen), cruise ships, and tankers in shipyards
throughout the world. Additional information on UltraStrip can be
obtained through its websites http://www.ultrastrip.com/ and
http://www.ecospheretech.com/ . WaterEye Corporation is a Web-based
technology company based near Sacramento, CA whose mission is to
make remote monitoring and data analysis services affordable and
available to a broad range of users. WaterEye's flagship patented
product is a sophisticated yet very easy to use Web-based
monitoring system utilized in a wide variety of applications. The
Bureau of Reclamation used WaterEye on their mobile water trailers
in the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina. WaterEye's system
is deployed for water system monitoring duties within refineries,
nuclear power stations and complex manufacturing facilities.
Industrial and municipal water and wastewater treatment plant
operators rely on WaterEye to provide the primary alarms and alert
functions when they are not physically present on site. Municipal
plants also use WaterEye's Web-based analysis and reporting
functions to generate state and federally mandated water quality
and discharge reports, providing SCADA class performance at a
fraction of the normal cost. http://www.watereye.com/ First Call
Analyst: FCMN Contact: DATASOURCE: UltraStrip Systems, Inc.
CONTACT: Mickey Donn, President of UltraStrip Systems, Inc.,
+1-772-287-4846, or Web site: http://www.ultrastrip.com/
http://www.ecospheretech.com/ http://www.watereye.com/
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