IMPCO Promotes Jim Mitchell to Director Of Quality Control at Cerritos Facility

    CERRITOS, Calif., Feb. 7 IMPCO Technologies, Inc.
today announced it has promoted Jim Mitchell to Director of
Quality Control for the Cerritos, California Gaseous Fuel Products Division.
    (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990921/IMPCOLOGO )
    Mr. Dennis Hartman, Vice President and General Manager of the Gaseous Fuel
Products Division, said, "In this position Jim will be responsible for setting
the quality standards and assurance processes for Gaseous Fuel Products
Division's manufactured products.  He will be responsible for assuring that
IMPCO's products satisfy our global customer base.  Jim will further be
responsible for supplier quality interface and development."
    Jim has been with IMPCO since 1995 and has held various quality positions,
together with his more recent success as Regional Sales Manager, will give him
excellent perspective in this position.
    IMPCO's Gaseous Fuel Products Division is registered to ISO-9001 from
Underwriters Laboratory.

    IMPCO is the leading resource of advanced fuel storage, fuel metering and
electronic control systems for fuel cells, microturbines and internal
combustion engines enabling them to operate using economical, clean-burning
fuels such as hydrogen, propane, natural gas, sewer-gas and methanol.  IMPCO
designs each system to optimize efficiency and performance while reducing
emission to the lowest-levels.  IMPCO supplies systems to original equipment
manufacturers in the automotive, industrial, materials handling and power
generation industries.  We support the global aftermarket through a network of
more than 400 Distributors and Service Parts Organizations.

    Headquartered in Cerritos, California, IMPCO has 17 offices / facilities
worldwide including:  North America, Pacific Rim and South America.  It
operates in the Netherlands, France, Germany and the United Kingdom as
IMPCO-BERU Technologies, B.V.  IMPCO can be found at http://www.impco.ws .