January 1, 2004

NEW BUSINESS MANAGER

Key Filters, Inc., an affiliate of Parkinson Technologies, Inc. and Marshall and Williams Plastics, is pleased to announce that John Whaley has become Business Manager of the company. John, a mechanical engineer, has 20 years of experience working as a project engineer in extrusion related processes at Marshall and Williams. He will have total responsibility for Key Filters’ sales, engineering, development and manufacturing activities. Ernest Abrahamson, President of Key Filters, said, “With his knowledge and background of the extrusion process, we are fortunate to have John as the leader of Key Filters’ effort to serve our current and future customers’ melt filtration requirements”.

Along with the addition of our new Business Manager, Key Filters has many exciting products, including:

• KSP Hydraulic Slide Plate Screen Changers offer an economical, efficient way for plastic processors to filter and remove contaminants from the polymer melt stream without shutting down the extrusion line. It can be used to filter any type of thermoplastic.

• KCN Continuous Screen Changers offer an economical, efficient way for plastic processors to filter the contaminants from polymer melt flows with no disruption to the process. KCN improves the quality of Blown Film, Pipe/Profile, Compounding, Coextruded Sheet/Film, Wire/Cable, and Sheet/Cast Film.

• Chiva Style Manual Screen Changers can be used to filter almost any type of thermoplastic material. MSC will eliminate the time and labor required to change out a stationary screen and facilitate the screen and breaker plate change. These Chiva Style machines are available with gear drive actuation making the screen change safer and more reliable.

John can be reached at (401) 762-2100 X304 or by email: jwhaley@keyfilters.com