Electric and Gas Technology Closes Financing and Equity Investment.GARLAND, Texas -- Electric & Gas Technology, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :ELGT) today announced the completion of a financing arrangement that provides financing of its Garland, Texas manufacturing plant and the subsequent equity investment in the company by an affiliate. ELGT received financing of $3,250,000 from Government Personnel Mutual Life Insurance Company (GPM GPM - General Purpose Macro-generator ) headquartered in San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. . The financing is in connection with ELGT's 144,000 square foot manufacturing facility and corporate offices located in Garland, Texas. The transaction completes the purchase option of the real estate from affiliate, Interfederal Capital, Inc. (ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. ). In conjunction with the closing, ICI has made an equity investment in ELGT in the amount of $665,000. The equity is in the form of 3% Cumulative Preferred Stock Cumulative preferred stock Preferred stock whose dividends accrue, should the issuer not make timely dividend payments. Related: Non-cumulative preferred stock. which is convertible to ELGT common stock based on a two hundred day trailing average closing price of the ELGT common stock. The use of proceeds is for general working capital requirements Capital requirements Financing required for the operation of a business, composed of long-term and working capital plus fixed assets. . George Johnston, Executive Vice President and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , stated "This event is significant because it checks two high level objectives off our turn around list established several years ago. We have consolidated all operations into this fine facility and are confident it will serve our needs to $50,000,000 and beyond. The transaction also cleans up years of accumulated balances between ELGT and arms length affiliates. ICI remains affiliated but only as an equity investor." About Electric and Gas Technology, Inc. Electric & Gas Technology, Inc. (ELGT) is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. that, through its subsidiaries, operates in two main areas: (1) Utilities Products and (2) Contract Manufacturing. Headquartered in Garland, Texas, Reynolds Equipment Company, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , manufactures and sells gas measurement equipment to the natural gas industry world wide. The Company's products include mechanical instruments, electronic instruments and odorization equipment. Logic Metals Technology, Inc., a second operating subsidiary, has been a dynamic and reliable supplier of close tolerance fabricated metal components and assemblies to a variety of industries. The Company supplies precision fabricated parts to the telecommunications, electronics, medical, banking and sorting industries. Logic Metals provides precision sheet metal fabrication prototypes, small and large run parts and assemblies with exacting quality and engineering specifications. For additional information, visit our website www.elgt.com. This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which represents the Company's expectations or beliefs concerning, among other things, future operating results and various components thereof and the adequacy of future operations to provide sufficient liquidity. The Company cautions that such matters necessarily involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual operating results and liquidity needs to differ materially from such statements, including, without limitation: (i) increased competition, (ii) the price-sensitive nature of product demand, (iii) the Company's dependence upon favorable pricing from its suppliers and (iv) other risks indicated herein and in filings with the SEC. |
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