ASDWire distribution date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:33:00 GMT +0100

Integran and Dupont Engineering Polymers Enter Into a Market Development Alliance Agreement for Nanotechnology-enabled Materials

TORONTO, ON, October 25, 2007 --[ASDWire]-- Integran Technologies Inc. (Toronto, ON, Canada), announced today that it has entered into a Market Development Alliance Agreement (MDA) with DuPont Engineering Polymers (DuPont, Wilmington, DE, USA). Under the terms of the agreement, Integran and DuPont Engineering Polymers will collaborate exclusively to develop and commercialize several industrial products based upon MetaFuse™ nanometal/polymer hybrids - a novel hybrid material platform comprised of DuPont crystalline engineered polymers and polymer composites, and Integran’s nanocrystalline metal, alloy and metal-matrix composite technology.

“We are very pleased to be working with DuPont Engineering Polymers in this advanced materials development and commercialization initiative which seeks to achieve cost-effective functionality and structural performance well beyond the limitations of current engineered materials,” said Dr. Gino Palumbo, President & CEO of Integran. “The DuPont portfolio of proprietary crystalline engineering polymer technologies, their application development capability and their global market access are critical to achieving the aggressive development and commercialization goals we have jointly established for the MetaFuse™ nano/metal polymer technology.”

“This innovative metal over plastic technology brings not only a step-change in performance, but also provides product designers with a technology that can shift their paradigm. Early target applications for the MetaFuse™ technology include critical industrial components and consumer electronics“, said Clive Robertson, DuPont Engineering Polymers business development manager.

MetaFuse employs a proprietary process that precisely applies ultra high-strength nanometal to components made of DuPont Engineering Polymers to create lightweight components in myriad, complex shapes with the stiffness of magnesium or aluminum and higher strength. Nanoparticles are not created at any stage in this process."

About Integran
Integran Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the development and commercialization of advanced metallurgical nano-technologies. Integran’s affiliated companies include: Morph Technologies (Toronto, Canada) which is focused on advanced materials solutions for the automotive sector; Powermetal Technologies (Carlsbad, CA) which develops and manufactures products for the sports equipment and consumer product sectors; and Integran Defense Systems (Pittsburgh, PA) which develops leading-edge technologies for defense and homeland security. www.integran.com.

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