---

XXsys Demonstrates Its Bridge Strengthening Technologies

21 April 1998

XXsys Demonstrates Its Bridge Strengthening Technologies Against Truck Impact Damage To U.K.'s Highways Agency

    SAN DIEGO, April 21 -- XXsys Technologies, Inc.,
announced today that it began work on a contract from England's
Highways Agency to demonstrate the Company's earthquake retrofit technologies
on a concrete column on A30, the Bible Christian Overbridge in Cornwall, to
protect it against impact damage from Heavy Goods Vehicles, a phenomenon the
Highways Agency called "bridge bashing."
    The Highways Agency said in a press release that while earthquakes are not
a major problem in the United Kingdom, the technologies developed to withstand
their effects may prove a real benefit to all bridge structures.  "Modern
bridges are designed to prevent collapse after they may be hit by Heavy Goods
Vehicles.  However, some older bridges may still be vulnerable, and we want to
find the best way of strengthening them without causing lengthy delays while
the work is carried out.  These new methods offer the potential to halve the
time needed to effect repairs.  If the trial and other tests prove successful,
we should be able to strengthen all our vulnerable bridges, while maintaining
their aesthetic appearance," said Martin Lynch of the Highways Agency Quality
Services Division.
    "Technology is a critical driver to California's expanding economy," said
California Trade and Commerce Agency Secretary, Lee Grissom, whose agency is
the state's lead agency for attracting business and job creation.  "More than
479,000 new jobs were created in California during 1997, and more than 15
percent were in high technology and related industries."  Grissom noted that
the Trade and Commerce Agency has provided matching funds to the federal
research and development dollars to validate the efficacies of these new
methods.  "We are very pleased to see a small entrepreneurial company like
XXsys with California home-grown technologies making an impact elsewhere in
the globe."
    XXsys Technologies, Inc. is a San Diego, California-based company engaged
in developing and commercializing composite technologies from defense
industries to provide cost effective solutions for the emerging market of
infrastructure renewal, such as seismic retrofit and corrosion rehabilitation.
    This press release contains forms of forward-looking statements that are
based on the Company's beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information
currently available to the Company.  Such statements are subject to certain
risks, uncertainties and assumptions, which are identified and described in
the Company's registration statements and periodic reports on file with the
SEC, including the Company's 1997 Annual Report on Form 1O-KSB and subsequent
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-QSB.  Should one or more of these risks or
uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect,
actual results will vary materially from those anticipated, estimated, or
projected and the variation may be material.

SOURCE  XXsys Technologies, Inc.