IMPCO's Gaseous Fuel Products Division Earns ISO 9001 Registration
7 June 2000
IMPCO's Gaseous Fuel Products Division Earns ISO 9001 RegistrationCERRITOS, Calif. - IMPCO Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has earned ISO 9001 Registration from Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. at the Gaseous Fuel Products Division located in Cerritos, California. The ISO 9000 series Standards are internationally recognized quality management system requirements developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 9001, the most comprehensive Standard in the ISO 9000 series, covers design, manufacturing, installation and servicing systems. "Preparing for the Registration process and earning Registration have facilitated to improve the quality of our operations, improve our core efficiency and decrease manufacturing and service costs," said Mr. Dennis Hartman, Vice President and General Manager of the Gaseous Fuel Products Division. "We're delighted to have earned Registration and are very proud of every employee who worked to meet the requirements necessary for Registration," Mr. Hartman continued. The IMPCO Gaseous Fuel Products Division began the registration process in 1998. As part of the process, UL performed an on-site assessment, examination of documentation procedures and a survey of the company's overall operations. To determine continued compliance with ISO 9001, UL will periodically conduct routine surveillance audits of IMPCO's operations. IMPCO is a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of advanced fuel storage, fuel delivery and electronic control systems that allow internal combustion engines and fuel cells to operate using clean fuels such as hydrogen, propane, natural gas and methanol. We have designed these systems to optimize the efficiency and performance by electronically sensing and regulating the proper proportion of fuel and air used by internal combustion engines and fuel cell systems. We supply our products to original equipment manufacturers of motor vehicles, buses, trucks, forklifts, and other material handling equipment and small portable to large stationary engines. We supply to the global aftermarket as well. We are enablement technology for advanced propulsion engine. Headquartered in Cerritos, California, the company has more than 400 dealers/ distributors and 17 offices / facilities worldwide including: United States, Australia, Japan and Mexico. It operates in the Netherlands, France, Germany and the United Kingdom as IMPCO-BERU Technologies, B.V. Certain matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current trends. These include, among other things, the growth of the alternative fuels and fuel cells market, OEM automotive product sales, competition, the Company's ability to design and market viable advanced fuel metering, fuel storage or electronic control products, the Company's ability to meet OEM specifications and other such risks as cited in the Company's 1999 annual report on Form 10-K and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.