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Fort Washington, PA (PRWEB)
April 30, 2012


ElectriPlast™ Corporation Adds New Composite to its Family of Conductive Hybrid Plastics


New ElectriPlast™ Conductive Resin Provides 50-60% Weight Reduction Over Traditional Metals

ElectriPlast Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Technologies, Inc. [OTCBB: ITKG], (http://www.electriplast.com/) and makers of the ElectriPlast™ line of electrically conductive resins, announced today the immediate availability of ElectriPlast™- PBT/NiC, a new electrically conductive, resin-based material that has been engineered to meet demanding electro-magnetic shielding, thermal and mechanical properties for automotive, marine, consumer electronics, telecommunication and aerospace applications.


Composed of Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT) and nickel-plated carbon fiber, EP-PBT/NiC is resistant to solvents, cuts traditional component weight in half and is able to withstand temperatures to 215°C. Its extensive development and third-party testing was largely conducted in conjunction with Tier One suppliers intent on expanding into this field by improving the physical and performance characteristics of their products through the utilization of ElectriPlast™ technology.


“Our newest composite, EP- PBT/NiC, is a result of extensive research and development and many collaborative hours with our OEM clients,” states Herbert Reedman, CEO of ElectriPlast Corporation. “The material is flame resistant, can withstand high temperatures and corrosive environments and provides superior shielding while outperforming aluminum with a 50 to 60% percent reduction in weight. This is a significant new product for us and further expands our comprehensive line of ElectriPlast™ conductive plastics.”


EP-PBT/NiC is the latest in the expanding line of ElectriPlast™ conductive composites, a patented line of non-corrosive, electrically conductive resins whose properties allow it to be molded into any of the infinite shapes and sizes associated with plastics, rubbers and other polymers while reducing component weight by 50 to 60%. With continued innovation and the newest release of EP-PBT/NiC, ElectriPlast™ has broadened its portfolio to offer a wide spectrum of electrically conductive hybrid plastics for nearly every application and every market.


“Moldability, dimensional stability, environmental and temperature resistance coupled with excellent impact strength are all factors which led to the development of this latest composite,” states Mo Zeidan, director of research and development for ElectriPlast™ Corp. “Performance, portability and miniaturization is driving component manufacturers to meet tighter and tighter part tolerances, our new PBT/NiC composite will answer these and other market needs.”


Industries from automotive to electronics and consumer goods are seeking light-weight component solutions to meet consumer demand for lighter, more portable products and as a means to comply with stricter government fuel standards and greenhouse emissions. ElectriPlast™ is a comprehensive family of conductive resins with a broad intellectual property portfolio. Applications for ElectriPlast™ PBT/NiC include electrical connectors, electronics enclosures, sensors, motors, telecommunications, circuit breakers, fuse boxes and mobile devices.


Integral Technologies, Inc. [OTCBB: ITKG], through its wholly owned operating subsidiary, Electriplast Corporation, engages in the discovery, development, commercialization and licensing of electrically conductive hybrid plastics products used primarily as raw materials in the production of industrial, commercial and consumer products and services worldwide. It operates in four segments; Aerospace & Defense, Transportation, Industrial Materials and Electronics. Integral’s core product line, ElectriPlast™, is a family of non-corrosive, electrically-conductive resin-based materials whose properties allow it to be molded into any of the infinite shapes and sizes associated with plastics and rubbers, but which is as electrically conductive as if it were metal while reducing component weight by 40 to 60%.


Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the 1933 Securities Act and Section 21E of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act. These statements include, without limitation, predictions and guidance relating to the company’s future financial performance and the research, development and commercialization of its technologies. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as, “may,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations, but they involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, as the result of such factors, risks and uncertainties as (1) competition in the markets for the products and services sold by the company, (2) the ability of the company to execute its plans, (3) other factors detailed in the company’s public filings with the SEC, including, without limitation, those described in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2011 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available at http://www.sec.gov/.


Contact Information
Sales Inquiries:
Paul Mackenzie
Director of Global Sales ElectriPlast Corp.
1-800-524-6310
info@electriplast.com



Corporate/Media Inquiries:
Doug Bathauer
V.P. Corporate Development Integral Technologies
812-455-5767
dbathauer@itkg.net

ElectriPlast: Letter to Our Readers...

Up Next

Another

EB

Milestone



By Vince S.  ElectriPlast Blog Editor


Dear ElectriPlast Blog Readers:

The ElectriPlast Blog (EB) was started over six years ago at a time when the EB Publisher shared the concern of many other shareholders: There simply wasn’t enough information available from Integral Technologies and there was virtually nothing on the Internet about ElectriPlast (EP). To be sure, Integral had entered into hundreds of agreements via the NDA process and had issued scores of press releases to that point, but the excitement generated by the potential of EP lead many to wonder why the period between press releases was so barren. As one shareholder put it, “the silence was deafening.” The remedy to that silence was apparent: Create a voice, the ElectriPlast Blog, a forum by shareholders for shareholders, and anyone else interested in what was then an arcane subject.


To get the ball rolling, the EB Publisher scoured the Internet and found relevant articles to fill the void until the next press release was issued from Bellingham or the rare Internet piece on EP or conductive plastics surfaced. From the start, shareholders viewed ElectriPlast, our bellwether technology, as having great promise, even if our penchant for creating patents far outpaced our skills and abilities to market them. More notable, however, the gaps between public statements were still a cause for concern. To quote another ITKG investor, “I've been a shareholder for quite a while and their lack of communication with (and seeming lack of concern for) the shareholders is probably my biggest complaint.” Bulls eye!


Fortunately, there have been major changes in Integral’s communications’ policy and direction since the early days of ElectriPlast. And that posits a perfect segue for the purpose of this letter to you.


The EB staff (all two of us) stayed on top of the world of conductive plastics, and brought you articles and opinion pieces from the far reaches of the Internet. Moreover, by analyzing patents, we gleaned enough data to write articles that articulated the potential of EP in the automobile sector, the home construction industry, and the clothing industry, to name a few. Then we wrote about what a fully-functioning board of directors (still a work in progress), would look like. Another traced the history of copper, which EP mimics, and postulated how EP could replace some of coppers’ uses. Yet another piece looked at various medical applications in which ElectriPlast could play a role. Several articles talked about our patents, the patent process and where Integral stood in protecting our Intellectual Property. And, of course, we looked at many aspects of the automobile industry as well as others.


People and organizations who wanted to know more about our revolutionary new IP searched the Internet and were directed to our site. Each “hit” enhanced our reputation as a website and grew our SEO score as a result. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a tool used by Google and other search engines to determine where on a search results page a website is listed. The more hits there are on the search term “ElectriPlast,” for example, the higher EB is placed on a searchers’ results page. Moreover, StatCounter, a website tracking program we use, shows that more than 17,000 visitors per month are being directed to EB. While the majority of these hits are from the US, many are from various countries in Europe, and a number of repeat visitors are from Korea, Japan, Australia and China, which brings me back to the point of this letter.


Throughout our history as a dynamic voice for sharing the word on all things ElectriPlast, we have never lost our objectivity. The EB Publisher controls our editorial policy, which accounts for the numerous articles in which we felt justified in criticizing Integral for failures to communicate with shareholders, for lax marketing policies, for failure to follow-up with those 350-plus NDA signatories, etc. As an independent entity, sharing only the ElectriPlast name with Integral, we have gone our merry way providing shareholders with whatever data we could find. Frequently, our odyssey has led us to delays, disappointments, ill-timed projections, and reversals. Clearly, it has been a thankless task; however, not all of the eyes cast upon EB have been those of shareholders’ or from foreign shores.


By and large, we have been supportive of Integral Technologies and our Intellectual Property, ElectriPlast. And why not? Each of us on the EB staff are individual shareholders, holding a significant number of ITKG shares between us. We have provided candid and objective commentary on all aspects of Integral, including praise when we felt it was due, and criticism for communications’ lapses and/or tentative commercialization efforts. Nonetheless, while the tortoise moves ever so ponderously in the direction of commercialization, we feel that we have served the under served, the many shareholders whose voices appeared not to be reaching Bellingham.


Well, folks, it appears that the old proverb about the ‘squeaky wheel’ is true.


The powers that be in Bellingham have decided that we have a good thing going with the ElectriPlast Blog. After looking the other way for six-plus years, they can no longer ignore the fact that we have consistently pulled a very high SEO score, a solid 17,000 hits a month, and all that with no support from or contact with Integral. That is about to change, folks.


We have been contacted by none other than Mr. Outreach himself, Doug Bathauer, Vice President of Corporate Development, with a suggestion that we interview Integral Technologies’ officers! After due deliberation, we agreed. Naturally, we have to play by certain rules—no trick questions, nothing that can’t pass SEC muster, etc., —but how’s that for a milestone? What conclusions can shareholders draw from their decision to 'go public' by talking to EB? Are we (shareholders) entering into a new phase with Integral?


We are working out the details, so stay tuned to see what corporate has to say.

Cheers,

PK and Vince

ElectriPlast: The Start -- Marketplace Emergence...

Next Gen

ElectriPlast

Connectors

Standard

on Fisker's

Karma...


By: Marketwire,
April 17, 2012, 9:02 a.m. EDT

 

Karma Features New Generation of High Voltage Connector

FORT WASHINGTON, PA, Apr 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ElectriPlast Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Technologies, Inc., and makers of the ElectriPlast™ line of electrically conductive resins, announced today that the first Fisker-Karma electric vehicles equipped with a new generation of high-voltage connectors manufactured with ElectriPlast composite materials have rolled off assembly lines in Valmet, Finland and are now headed to dealers across the US & Canada.


"This marks an important milestone for ElectriPlast™," states Herbert Reedman, President and CEO of ElectriPlast Corporation. "High voltage connector applications offer unique challenges requiring tight tolerances and complex molding techniques. We have been working side-by-side with our OEM and Tier1 clients for several years to develop this technology and it is now embodied in the exciting and new Fisker-Karma."


Designed and engineered in California, the four-door, four-passenger Karma is a series plug-in hybrid that combines the zero-emission benefits of an all-electric car with the full driving range of a conventional car. It will offer a responsible alternative to those in the market for traditional full size, fully equipped luxury cars.


Recently named "The World's Most Interesting Vehicle," the Fisker Karma is the world's first premium plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and embodies Fisker Automotive's commitment to creating environmentally conscious vehicles with passion, style and performance.


ElectriPlast™, is a patented line of non-corrosive, electrically conductive resins whose properties allow it to be molded into any of the infinite shapes and sizes associated with plastics, rubbers and other polymers while reducing component weight by 40 to 60%. Applications for ElectriPlast™, conductive plastics include; wire, cable, power electronics, EMI shielding applications, antennas, capacitors, mobile devices and connectors.


Integral Technologies, Inc., through its wholly owned operating subsidiary, Electriplast Corporation, engages in the discovery, development, commercialization and licensing of electrically conductive hybrid plastics products used primarily as raw materials in the production of industrial, commercial and consumer products and services worldwide. It operates in four segments; Aerospace & Defense, Transportation, Industrial Materials and Electronics. Integral's core product line, ElectriPlast™, , is a family of non-corrosive, electrically-conductive resin-based materials whose properties allow it to be molded into any of the infinite shapes and sizes associated with plastics and rubbers, but which is as electrically conductive as if it were metal while reducing component weight by 40 to 60%. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.


Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the 1933 Securities Act and Section 21E of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act. These statements include, without limitation, predictions and guidance relating to the company's future financial performance and the research, development and commercialization of its technologies. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as, "may," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continue," or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations, but they involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, as the result of such factors, risks and uncertainties as:

(1) competition in the markets for the products and services sold by the company,
(2) the ability of the company to execute its plans,
(3) other factors detailed in the company's public filings with the SEC, including, without limitation, those described in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2011 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available at: http://www.sec.gov/.

You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements.



Sales Inquiries--Contact: Paul MacKenzie,
Director of Global Sales ElectriPlast Corp.
1-800-524-6310
Info@ElectriPlast.com

Corporate/Media Inquiries--Contact: Doug Bathauer,
V.P. Corporate Development, Integral Technologies
812-455-5767
DBathauer@ITKG.net

Investor Inquires: ITKGInquiry@ITKG.net

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Source: Integral Technologies Inc.