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Centaur Thermal Systems Inc. Launches Production and Sales Of Heat Storage System

28 January 1998

Centaur Thermal Systems Inc. Launches Production and Sales Of Heat Storage System

   Automotive Rapid Heat System Provides Passenger Comfort, Lower Emissions

    DETROIT, Jan. 28 -- Centaur Thermal Systems Inc. today
announced the production and marketing launch of a revolutionary automotive
technology.
    Called the Centaur Heat Storage System, the product represents a major
advance in vehicle heating, defrosting and demisting, while reducing vehicle
emissions, and improving fuel economy, safety and passenger comfort.
    Speaking at an Automotive Press Association meeting at the Detroit
Athletic Club, Centaur president Klaus Woerner said, "The system recovers
waste heat from a car's engine and stores it for release on the next cold
start of the engine.  You don't have to preheat your car on cold wintery
mornings.  Or scrape the windshield until you're blue in the face."
    Production of the Heat Storage System is under way at Centaur Thermal
System's plant in Cambridge, Ontario.  The product is being shipped to Votex
GmbH, a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG in Germany, for installation in Golf and
Passat models by VW dealers in Europe.
    Later this year, the product will be offered in other Volkswagen and Audi
models, and is expected to be available as a dealer-installed option in North
America.
    Woerner said the product is in advanced testing stages at several European
and North American auto companies for original equipment application.
    Centaur Thermal Systems Inc. is a joint-venture of ATS Automation Tooling
Systems Inc., a designer and producer of automated manufacturing and test
systems, based in Cambridge, Ont.; and Standard Motor Products Inc., a
manufacturer of replacement parts for automotive engine electronics, climate
control systems and other components.

SOURCE  Centaur Thermal Systems Inc.