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"SAFETY: Uncover the Competitive Advantage" will be held in movie theaters in 45 cities across the U.S. beginning January 23, 2007. Highlighting the event is a full-screen movie production, featuring a who's-who cast of safety industry experts and leading-edge companies. The movie provides a big-screen approach to the education and tools needed to turn machine safety into a competitive advantage.

Pavilion Technologies, a world leader in model-based software, today announced Sinopec Yangzi, a leading petrochemical producer in China, has achieved considerable production benefits from the deployment of Pavilion's Polymer Solution. As part of the initiative, Sinopec Yangzi deployed Pavilion's Polymer Solution on a polypropylene line at its Nanjing, JiangSu Province facility. This project marks the first deployment of Pavilion's model predictive control (MPC) technology in China.

More than 150 industry professionals from 17 different countries participated in the European WBF Conference held at the Elewijt Center in Mechelen, Belgium, on 13-15 November 2006. WBF is an association of end-users, vendors, consultants, and academics with a strict, non-commercial agenda

Comtrol will sponsor Insight in the next DARPA Grand Challenge race, the Urban Challenge. Comtrol sponsored Insight in the 2005 Grand Challenge where Insight was a finalist. The DARPA Grand Challenge is a series of robotic vehicle races. Computer driven vehicles compete to demonstrate new advanced automotive control technology. Comtrol's server products aid communication with all sensors and computers in the race car.

The service and repair center, located at the company's headquarters in Tempe, Ariz., can calibrate almost all types of industrial flow measurement devices, including turbine, coriolis, positive displacement and variable area meters. A variety of calibration procedures can be performed, including Reynolds Number and Universal Viscosity Curve (UVC) calibrations.