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Arotech Armoring Subsidiary
Awarded $420,000 in New Contracts
Orders Include Vehicles for Military
and Commercial use
September 8, 2003 - Arotech
Corporation (NasdaqNM: ARTX) announced today that its vehicle-armoring
subsidiary was recently awarded new vehicle armoring contracts totaling
$420,000. These include the armoring of military vehicles and other
commercial vehicles.
MDT Protective Industries, Arotech's
Israel-based vehicle armoring subsidiary, is a leader in state-of the
art, lightweight armoring of vehicles. MDT armors vehicles ranging from
light tactical to passenger vehicles. MDT's vehicle armoring business
has years of battlefield experience and has provided life-saving protection
under the most extreme conditions, which include assault rifles and
bomb blasts.
“With the growing intensity of
the conflict in MDT’s area, as well as in other places around
the world, we are continuing to expand our armoring operations,”
said Robert S. Ehrlich, Arotech Chairman and CEO. “We are adding
new armored vehicle types and plan to expand into the US market very
shortly.”
About Arotech Corporation
Arotech's corporate mission is to
provide quality defense and security products for the military, law
enforcement and homeland security markets, including advanced zinc-air
batteries, multimedia interactive simulators/trainers and lightweight
armoring.
Arotech Corporation (www.arotech.com)
operates two business divisions: Electric Fuel Batteries — developing
and manufacturing zinc-air batteries for military and homeland security
applications and developing electric vehicle batteries for zero emission
public transportation; and Arotech Defense — consisting of IES
Interactive, which provides advanced high-tech multimedia training systems
for law enforcement and paramilitary organizations, MDT Armor, which
provides vehicle armoring for the military, industrial and private sectors,
and Arcon Security, which provides homeland security consulting and
other services.
Arotech is incorporated in Delaware
under the name “Electric Fuel Corporation” and has corporate
and sales offices in New York and Denver with research, development
and production subsidiaries in Alabama, Colorado and Israel.
Except for the historical information
herein, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking
statements, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements, as they are subject to various risks and
uncertainties that may cause actual results to vary significantly. These
risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks relating
to: product and technology development; the uncertainty of the market
for Arotech’s products; changing economic conditions; delay, cancellation
or non-renewal, in whole or in part, of contracts or of purchase orders;
significant future capital requirements; and other risk factors detailed
in Arotech’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2002, as amended, and other filings (under the
name Electric Fuel Corporation) with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Arotech assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.
Reference to the Company’s website above does not constitute incorporation
of any of the information thereon into this press release.
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