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Universal Ice Blast, Inc. Announces it Is Coming of Age

6 October 1998

Universal Ice Blast, Inc. Announces it Is Coming of Age After Successful Contracts With the New York State Dept. of Transportation And The Robert Bosch Corporation

    BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 5 /PR Newswire/ -- In June, 1998, UIBI
(OTC Bulletin Board: UIBI) was awarded a contract from the New York DOT to
clean lead based paint from two highway bridges from an allotment of 13.  Over
the past several months, the project has been a great success and UIBI has
been commended by the NY DOT.
    "We intend to use ice blast again in future projects," said Tom Mannix,
structural engineer leading the project for the NY DOT Region 8.
    As a consequence of becoming the first ever to remove lead based paint,
UIBI and the NY DOT will give a joint presentation on the ice blast process at
the SSPC International Conference and Exhibition in Florida next month.  Proof
that the world has its eye on ice blast, this will be the second conference
that UIBI has been involved with in just three months.
    In September, UIBI's president, Sam Visaisouk, presented a paper to the
5th International Deburring and Surface Finishing Conference, a world-wide
event held every two years, which made its American debut for the first time
in San Francisco, Calif.  UIBI, heralded as a leader in the field of deburring
and edge finishing, presented a case study on the successful engineering and
development of their precision cleaning process for the Robert Bosch
Corporation, world reknown in the automotive parts manufacturing industry.
    "UIBI was very well received," said its company president, Sam Visaisouk
who presented the case study.  "The conference gave us international
recognition and has opened doors to future projects with Volvo in Sweden and
Mercedes Benz in Germany," he said.
    Universal Ice Blast, Inc. was established to aggressively market,
manufacture, sell and service its proprietary ice blast equipment and
technology.  Ice blast is a reliable, cost-effective and environmentally
friendly process applicable to asbestos and lead based paint removal,
deburring of machined parts, and nuclear decontamination, all with very little
waste and no dust.
    "There is now a great acceptance in key markets of the ice blast process
and UIBI has a significant foothold in each," said Rory Clarke, company
chairman.
    More information about Universal Ice Blast, Inc., is available at
http://www.iceblast.net or by calling 888-522-UIBI.