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FRX Polymers Receives 2008 Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation of the Year Award

Business Wire, April 14, 2008

CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- FRX Polymers, LLC (FRX) has received the 2008 Frost & Sullivan North American Product Innovation of the Year Award for flame-retardant materials.

The Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation is presented each year to the company that has demonstrated excellence in new products and technologies within their industry. This year Frost & Sullivan awarded FRX Polymers, LLC in recognition of the company's creation of a new class of novel, high-performance flame-retardant plastics.

FRX's polymers are transparent, have high melt flow and are inherently fire resistance. They have a similar balance of mechanical and heat resistance properties to Polycarbonate. The company's polymers will find uses as specialty flame retardant plastics and also as non-halogen-containing polymeric phosphorus flame retardant additives. These plastics have the highest Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI) of all commercial thermoplastics at 65%. LOI indicates the oxygen content required to sustain a flame.

Frost and Sullivan Industry Analyst, Krzysztof Grzybowski said, "FRX Polymers has delivered an important innovation to the world of flame resistant plastics. FRX Polymers is the first company to commercialize polyphosphonates, an innovative approach that combines non-halogen-containing flame retardancy in a polymeric form. Grzybowski also noted, "They have proven that their products deliver flame retardancy according to the most demanding of the UL 94 standards while also improving the physical properties (mechanical, heat and rheological) of many host plastics, cost effectively. Frost & Sullivan believes that FRX's polymers will become commercially important new plastics in the near future".

"FRX is delighted to receive this Award from Frost & Sullivan. This acknowledgement from one of the world's premiere global growth consulting companies, is quite an honor for all of our employees who have worked so hard to make this new material a reality," said FRX President and CEO, Marc Lebel. "We are gaining important market momentum and we are confident that our new polymers will play an important role in the future of flame resistant plastics."

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, the Global Growth Consulting Company, partners with clients to accelerate their growth. The company's Growth Partnership Services, Growth Consulting and Career Best Practices empower clients to create a growth-focused culture that generates, evaluates and implements effective growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 30 offices on six continents. For more information about Frost & Sullivan's Growth Partnerships, visit http://www.awards.frost.com.

Frost & Sullivan Contact:

Stacie Kopecki

210.247.2450

Stacie.kopecki@frost.com

About FRX Polymers, LLC

FRX Polymers, LLC was founded in 2007 as a result of over five years of intensive research and development in the field of non-burning plastics. FRX currently has three main share holders: Triton Systems Inc, a performance materials incubator specializing in polymer-based products for the U.S. military and homeland defense, Gadin Technologies and Limburg Technologies. The company's mission is to commercialize a new family of non-halogen, transparent, high melt flowing, fire resistant plastics. FRX Polymers is headquartered in Chelmsford MA, where it operates both polymer and monomer pilot facilities. For more information about our products, visit our website at www.frxpolymers.com. For the Frost & Sullivan FRX award summary please visit http://www.frxpolymers.com/FRX_frost_announcement.pdf.> FRX Polymers Contact:

Diane Wilson

978.244.9500

dwilson@frxpolymers.com

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