December 10, 1999 - EarthFax Expands Business Opportunities to the Pacific Rim

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Engineering, Inc. and its affiliate EarthFax Development Corporation ("EarthFax") recently entered into an agreement with the California firm, Government & Export Sales Specialists ("GESS"), to develop opportunities for commercializing the patented white rot fungus ("WRF") technology in Pacific Rim countries and elsewhere. This technology utilizes naturally occurring forest fungi to degrade a wide variety of carbon-based contaminants, including wood preservatives, pesticides, herbicides, explosives, chlorinated solvents, PCBs, cyanide, dyes, and others. EarthFax sublicensed this technology in 1993 from Intech One-Eighty Corporation, a Logan, Utah-based company with a license from the Utah State University Foundation.

GESS is assisting EarthFax in identifying potential business partners in Asia and elsewhere who may wish to utilize the expertise of EarthFax for developing WRF bioremediation systems. Through this cooperative agreement, opportunities have been provided for EarthFax to begin discussions with several potential business clients, including a large Japanese trading company, an industrial technology development cooperative in Japan, waste incinerator manufacturers in Korea, and a worldwide dredging company based in Belgium.

EarthFax Engineering is an environmental and civil engineering consulting firm with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah and Lansing, Michigan. Its affiliate, EarthFax Development operates a microbiological and chemical laboratory in Logan, Utah. GESS is a business development consulting firm with offices in Fortuna, California.