Seiler gets permit to build $12+ million vitrifier system.

DUBLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 1996--Seiler Pollution Control Systems, Inc. announced today the company received approval from the German government for installation of their first industrial high temperature vitrification system (HTVS). The facility, estimated to cost approximately $12.7 million, will be located in Freiberg, Germany.

Speaking from the company's Dublin, Ohio headquarters, Alan Sarko, vice president of North American Operations, said construction is expected to begin immediately. "The facility will use our patented vitrification process to physically and chemically change the structure of hazardous waste components into inert ceramic glass which results in a nonhazardous recycled material," Sarko explained.

"The facility will be able to process 10,000 tons of mixed wastes per year," Sarko added, noting that "The plant's capacity has been fully contracted by licensed hazardous waste facilities within a 20-mile radius of Freiberg."

Seiler's $12.7 million US (18.6 DM) project cost was financed through arrangements with the German government that secured a combination of grants and subsidies from the Dresdner Bank of Germany, according to Dr. Gerold Weser, vice president of European Operations. Weser, who will oversee the project from the company's Freiberg offices, said the Dresdner agreement calls for the bank to provide Seiler with a long term credit line of $6.8 million US (9.9 million DM) for installation, construction, land purchase, site work and start-up costs. An additional line of credit for $1.4 million US (2.1 million DM) will be subsequently available, if needed.

Coupled with the Dresdner credit, Seiler will receive approximately $4.5 million US (6.6 million DM) in German government grant monies for placing its high temperature vitrification recycling facility in Freiberg. Weser pointed out that the grants, which do not have to be re-paid, "are given by the government in connection with stimulating and encouraging investments from business, industry and the environmental sector to generate new job opportunities for the area."

Seiler demonstrated its first commercial-sized HTVS facility last Spring in Dottingen, Switzerland. The Swiss demo facility had a processing capacity of 250-500 kilograms of waste feedstock per hour and was designed to process the following hazardous wastes: industrial paint and hydroxide sludges, industrial wastewater treatment sludges, electroplating sludges, contaminated chemicals, petrochemicals, spent solvents and oils, pesticides, asbestos containing residuals, and mixed organic/inorganic residuals.

Seiler Pollution Controls Systems, Inc. is publicly traded in the NASDAQ Small Capitalization Market under the stock symbol SEPC. The company's annual meeting is set for December 12 at the Columbus Marriott North in Columbus, Ohio at 10:00 a.m.

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U.S./N.A.: Alan B. Sarko, 614/791-3272

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European: Dr. Gerold Weser, 49 3 73 178-1120

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