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DynaMotive Announces First Dynapower Sale to Italy

10 March 1999

DynaMotive Announces First Dynapower Sale to Italy -- A Key Entry Point Into the European Metal Cleaning Market

    VANCOUVER, B.C., March 10 -- DynaMotive Technologies
Corporation announced today that it has received its first
Italian order for the Company's DynaPower acid free wire cleaning system from
De Angeli Prodotti S.p.A.
    Based in northern Italy, De Angeli is Italy's leading manufacturer of
aluminum wire.  The sale was negotiated through an Italian agent and
represents the Company's first entry into the European market for DynaMotive's
environmentally friendly, metal cleaning technology.  De Angeli Prodotti
S.p.A. has ordered a high speed DynaPower system for cleaning aluminum-clad
steel (AS) wire, the third customer for this high value, wire cleaning
application.  AS ground wire is used by electric utilities in high voltage
transmission towers to carry fiber optic cables for high speed Internet,
telephone and cable transmissions.
    Commenting on the sale, DynaPower Vice President and General Manager
David Miller said, "Our first DynaPower sale to one of Italy's leading
industrial manufacturers represents a milestone in our international
development strategy.
    "European, and particularly Italian, metal and wire manufacturers run
innovative, technologically sophisticated operations that focus on the
production of high end wire products.  European metal and wire producers
operate under much more stringent regulations than in other parts of the world
covering the use and disposal of harmful acids, caustics and solvents
traditionally used in the industry.  Our DynaPower metal cleaning systems are
not only highly competitive with heavily regulated chemical metal cleaning
systems, but provide exceptional levels of cleanliness at lower operating
costs while eliminating acids, caustics and solvents in the cleaning process.
    "The DynaPower Business Unit has targeted high value niche markets
within the wire industry and is actively seeking strategic alliances with
European industrial partners to support our European marketing strategy,"
Miller added.  "The sale to De Angeli has positioned us to take advantage of
the technological and regulatory advances we see in Europe and to capture
market share in Europe's rapidly expanding industrial metal cleaning
industry."
    DynaMotive Technologies Corporation develops and commercializes
technologies that improve industrial efficiency and solve major environmental
problems.  The DynaPower Business Unit markets its patented ultrasonic and
electrolytic cleaning systems to the wire manufacturing industry to remove
lubricants and oxides and provide a metal surface that is clean, dry, pH
neutral and adaptable for various industry applications.  The cost effective
technology produces exceptional surface cleanliness at high speeds while
totally eliminating the use of acids, caustics and solvents traditionally used
by the industry.  Commercial systems have now been sold in eight countries in
North and South America, Europe and Asia.  DynaPower and DynaSonics are
registered trademarks.
    The Company's BioOil Business Unit is commercializing a unique,
waste-to-energy technology that converts low value forest and agricultural
waste into liquid BioOil.  This clean burning liquid fuel can be used as a
substitute for fossil fuels to generate "green" power.  The initial focus will
be to package BioOil production technology with gas turbines and stationary
diesels in the under-20MW (megawatt) power market.

    Forward-Looking Statement
    Statements in this news release concerning the Company's business outlook
or future economic performance; anticipated profitability, revenues, expenses,
or other financial items; and statements concerning assumptions made or
expectations as to any future events, conditions, performance or other
matters, are "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined under the
Federal Securities Laws.  Forward-looking statements are subject to risks,
uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual results to differ
materially from those stored in such statements.  Such risks, uncertainties
and factors include, but are not limited to, changes and delays in product
development plans and schedules, customer acceptance of new products, changes
in pricing or other actions by competitors, patents owned by the Company and
its competitors, and general economic conditions, as well as other risks
detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.