Botex Industries Corp. Will Be Presenting at the Investment Reporter's Discovery Expo in San Francisco.

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Discovery Expo Winter 2000

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2000

Botex Industries Corp. (CDNX:BTX), an innovator in the plastics industry, will be presenting at the Investment Reporter's Discovery Expo in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday March 7, 2000.

The Discovery Expo is geared primarily to the financial investment industry and sophisticated investors. It will take place at the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco.

The Company has developed a proprietary material known as Botex together with a proprietary, patent-pending process for manufacturing a wide variety of products using the Botex material. Botex is a plastic-based liquid resin that can be cured to make rubber-like products better than rubber itself. Botex allows rubber manufacturers to make a much more versatile product at lower cost, with a faster production time, without environmental hazards.

For example, a shoe company using Botex could make an outsole that has several colors, is hard in the heel and toe and soft in the arch, and that will

outlast a rubber shoe sole by a very large margin. The design possibilities of what Botex can do to replace rubber are remarkable.

Botex can do this since the resin is a liquid, made from a proprietary mixture of petrochemical products. The mixture can be altered to have different properties -- different hardnesses, elasticities, densities, colors etc. Botex can be made spongy or firm. It can be made slippery or abrasive. It can make a product with several such characteristics in the same unit. Because it's a liquid, these various formulations can be injected into a mould, cured using Botex' proprietary process, and then have a different formulation poured on top of it and have it chemically bond.

That is the important part. Nobody else in the world has this ability to chemically bond different physical characteristics (densities, hardnesses, colours etc.) of rubber or synthetic rubber in a single mould. That is revolutionary.

Botex Industries Corp. (CDNX:BTX) went public last year to commercialize and market this exciting new product. The company currently manufactures products for the shoe industry, aqua gear market, sports medicine and other vertical markets. The Company's business model is simple: license the technology to large rubber products manufacturers wherein they buy a machine that cures the raw Botex resin into a rubber-like end product, and sign them to a long-term supply contract for the liquid resin.

Botex has the ability to dramatically increase the versatility of many rubber products at a much cheaper cost. The company has just started large scale commercial production of several products and is developing numerous other applications for several major global brands. For more information on this fast-growing company, please call Chris Wensley at 604/684-4691.

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