Tecmar Signs Major National Distributor.

LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1999--

Tecmar Technologies Inc. (OSE SMB:TTI) (www.tecmar.com) has widened its distribution channels by recently signing an agreement with D&H Distributing Co.

D&H will carry Tecmar's Ditto Max Professional line, Travan NS8 and NS20, and WangDAT tape backup drives.

According to Michael Ongarato, Tecmar's channel sales director: "The addition of D&H to our distribution network will greatly help us launch our Ditto Max Professional product line. This relationship will also allow Tecmar to pursue additional channels of business that are a key focus for D&H."

D&H is one of the 10 leading wholesale distributors of computer and peripheral products to resellers nationwide. The company has headquarters in Harrisburg, Penn., and has offices in Boston; Miami; Chicago; Dallas; and Visalia, Calif.

"We have been an Iomega/Ditto distributor, and we were very happy to hear of Tecmar's purchase of the Ditto product line. We believe Tecmar will continue to create interesting entry-level, as well as high-end, products," said Mark Greenwald, vice president of marketing at D&H Distributing.

Tecmar Technologies is a leading provider of high-performance tape storage solutions for the network storage environment and offers a wide range of tape storage systems, media and libraries. With headquarters in Longmont, the company has sales offices in the United States, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

The company's products are sold worldwide through OEMs and computer-system resellers. TTI is publicly traded on the SMB list of the Oslo Stock Exchange. TTI's address is 1900 Pike Rd., Bldg. E, Longmont, Colo. 80501; phone: [phone] or 303/682-3700; Web site: www.tecmar.com; fax: [phone].