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Newly Developed Sames System Surpasses Toyota Expectations For Worldwide Retrofit

10 August 2000

Newly Developed Sames System Surpasses Toyota Expectations For Worldwide Retrofit

    FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. - Sames Corporation announced today that, based on 
initial test results, its Cassette Bell System (CBS) competing for Toyota's 
worldwide retrofit program has "met or surpassed" Toyota's expectations.

    Arnold H. Dratt, Chairman, President and CEO, said, "We regard this as the
single most exciting business opportunity for Sames in the past several years.
It is a key part of our strategy to penetrate the Japanese automotive market
and represents a market opportunity for more than $100 million in sales over
five years."

    Toyota announced last year that it would be converting all of its
production facilities in Japan from solvent-borne paint to more eco-friendly
water-borne paint over the next five years.  Corresponding with Toyota's
announcement, Sames and Trinity Industrial Corporation, a general contractor
and supplier of automated paint application systems headquartered in Tokyo
City, Japan, have spent more than a year working on joint development of a
new, compact, low-cost paint application system that utilizes robots for
faster color change times and minimum paint loss.

    The results of tests conducted in July show that Sames' system "met or
surpassed" Toyota's goals in four critical areas: minimum paint loss, color-
change time, cleaning fluid utilization and paint transfer efficiency.
Following additional testing and further improvements, sales and marketing of
the system are expected to begin in 2001.

    Sames Corporation is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of high-
quality spray finishing and coating application equipment.  The Sames business
in noted for its global leadership position in electrostatic finishing
equipment for the automotive finishing market and for the general industrial
finishing market.