LandStar, Inc. Announces Facility Reorganization.Business Editors PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2001 LandStar, Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :BB LDSR, www.ldsr.com), advises that management have completed an analysis of market opportunities, production capacities and asset utilization and are undertaking a plant reconfiguration over the next six months as follows: 1. The Flatrock, Michigan facility will be taken out of production effective June 30. This plant has never produced a profit since it was established. The facility will be mothballed while the Company negotiates either an exit from or reconfiguration of the plant. 2. The Bristow, Oklahoma Bristow is a city in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 4,325 at the 2000 census. Geography Bristow is located at (35.830720, -96.390675)GR1. facility will undergo a reconfiguration of production with the installation of additional equipment to develop two full production lines. This reconfiguration will approximately double production volume and will increase product flexibility. 3. The Mesa, Arizona Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona and part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Area. It is the third-largest city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson. Mesa is one of the United States' fastest-growing cities, and currently ranks as the 38th-largest. facility will undergo an expansion and reconfiguration to double production capacity and diversify product options. The Company will install a new line to process truck tires and produce a variety of ambient processed crumb rubber Crumb rubber is generally manufactured from automotive and truck scrap tires. During the manufacturing process steel and fluff is removed leaving tire rubber with a granular consistency. materials. This facility entered into contracts last year to process truck tires for several counties but did not have truck tire processing capabilities. This plant has historically concentrated on supplying crumb rubber to the asphalt rubber industry primarily in Arizona. The Arizona asphalt rubber market has matured with a large proportion of roadways now topped with asphalt rubber. The new line will add product line diversity to mitigate against a potential slowdown in demand in Arizona. Asphalt Rubber Division: The Company continues with its development of its Asphalt Rubber Division with an agreement to acquire two real estate properties in Mesa, Arizona. The first property consists of 2.9 acres of land and a 23,000 sq.ft. building. This site will house offices and maintenance operations for the Division and will accommodate some manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. of asphalt rubber related equipment. The Company has agreed to acquire the adjacent site of 2.5 acres of land from the City of Mesa and will use some of this adjacent site for access to the asphalt rubber facility. New Corporate Facility: The Company intends to develop the lands purchased from the City of Mesa to accommodate part of the Company's corporate office needs and certain research and development operations. The Company expects that this site will in due course be the prime R&D facility with extensive staffing providing basic, advanced and developmental research support to all divisions of the Company. The Company has not determined a commencement date for design and construction. Other Information: Subsequent to the filing of the 10Q for the first quarter the Company has received expressions of concern from a number of Shareholders with respect to the significant loss recorded in the quarter. In the interest of allaying these concerns, the Company President, Elroy Fimrite, comments as follows: " The position of leadership that Landstar has achieved in the rubber recycling industry is a direct result of an investment in intellectual capital and research of all facets of the industry, worldwide. The Company has engaged an industry dominating team with knowledge and experience in rubber science, rubber manufacturing, tire processing (ambient, cryogenic cryogenic /cry·o·gen·ic/ (-jen´ik) producing low temperatures. cry·o·gen·ic adj. 1. Relating to or producing low temperatures. 2. and wet grind), general management, systems development, finance, equipment design, equipment manufacturing, asphalt rubber application, public company management and strategic management. This team has been assembled because it takes significant size and sophisticated management to build a successful recycling business. The business must be much larger than we currently are and the Company intends to aggressively pursue acquisitions to grow the Company horizontally and vertically. It is essential to this plan that we invest in manpower and the attendant costs of travel to pursue the goals of corporate growth and industry position. This commitment will be reflected in an operating loss operating loss The excess of operating expenses over revenue. As with operating income, operating losses exclude revenues and expenses from operations that are not considered a regular part of the business. Also called deficit. Compare operating income. until sufficient acquisitions are consummated to carry this corporate overhead." Mr. Fimrite further stated: "Our campaign to bring order to the chaos of the rubber recycling industry is akin to a military campaign. In the teachings of Sun Tzu Sun Tzu (s n dz ), fl. c.500–320. B.C. , (Honored Chinese military The Chinese Military could refer to two things:
tr.v. ex·pend·ed, ex·pend·ing, ex·pends 1. To lay out; spend: expending tax revenues on government operations. See Synonyms at spend. 2. each day to establish the army." Annual General Meeting: The Company advises that its Annual General Meeting will be held in Scottsdale, AZ on August 3, 2001. About LandStar, Inc. LandStar is a polymer redeployment re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. and polymer reactivation reactivation to become active after a period of quiescence or, as in bacterial and viral infections, latency. cross reactivation Company currently aggressively expanding through acquisitions and development of proprietary technologies in the polymer recycling industry. On behalf of the Company KCSA KCSA Krannert Center Student Association KCSA Kentucky Crushed Stone Association (Frankfort, KY) KCSA Kyiv City State Administration KCSA Kalamazoo Christian School Association KCSA Kentucky-Canadian Studies Association No Stock Exchange or Securities Commission has approved nor disapproved the statements in this release. Any statements that are not strictly historical are "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. " made pursuant to the "safe harbour" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995 and within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. These statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may affect actual events or results materially. All such forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, and whether made by or on behalf of the company are expressly qualified by these cautionary statements. In addition, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. This release is available on the KCSA Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Worldwide Web site at www.kcsa.com. |
|
||||||||||||||

n dz
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion