LARGE ORDER IN HAND – SIMTRONICS TO DELIVER GAS DETECTION AND ENGINEERING SERVICES IN FRANCE

Simtronics ASA has today received a gas detection and engineering order from Cegelec for the EDF (Electricité de France) nuclear power plants in France. The project concerns the detection of hydrogen in the turbo-alternator of each Nuclear Unit, 58 in total.

The value of the contract is in excess of NOK 14.5 million. The deliveries will be executed over the next 5 years.

Service and maintenance activities may also follow this contract. Simtronics has supplied gas detection solutions to EDF facilities for a number of years, this contract builds on the one placed in June 2007. That contract required the hydrogen detection in Reactor and Auxiliary Nuclear buildings of each Nuclear Unit.

For further information, please contact:

Rune Martini, CEO, Simtronics ASA
Phone +47 48 07 80 80

Eliot Sizeland, Sales Director, Simtronics ASA
Phone +47 93 43 29 18


Simtronics ASA (Oslo Stock Exchange: SIMTRO) works to prevent disasters from happening. The company is an international supplier of fire and gas safety systems, active fire fighting solutions and fire prevention systems. Simtronics' flame and gas detectors represent the most accurate, reliable and robust safety technology available. The Company's products, solutions and systems are used by the oil and gas industry as well as in shipping, petrochemical and other process industries and in mining. Simtronics has a well established market base in Europe with Norway, France, UK and Germany as the single most important markets. Simtronics' heritage goes back to 1948.