Barringer Technologies Inc. Awarded Contract From Sulzer Canada, Inc. for Heavy Water Liquid Analyzers.

WARREN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1999--

Contract Valued at $600,000

Barringer Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: BARR) today announced that it has been awarded a contract from Sulzer Canada, Inc. for the supply of two heavy water liquid analyzers to be used in the control and monitoring of a heavy water upgrader plant in Asia. Under terms of the contract, which is valued at $600,000, Barringer Technologies will deliver the analyzers and provide technical support and spares provisioning to the system integrator, Sulzer Canada, Inc., by June 2000.

Stanley Binder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Barringer Technologies, said, "The award of this contract is especially gratifying, in that it involves the sale of specialty instrumentation outside of Barringer's core drug and explosives detection business. We developed our heavy water analyzers a few years ago and the first delivered systems became operational in 1998. The award of this contract is a direct result of our success with these previous installations."

Headquartered in Warren, New Jersey, Barringer Technologies Inc. is principally engaged in developing, manufacturing, and marketing of high technology products for drug and explosive detection and other security and industrial applications. The IONSCAN(r) is the Company's proprietary trace particle drug and explosive detection unit.

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