National Security Labs Select Kontek Industries to Provide Homeland Security Protection

Perimeter security enhancements will offer one the world's most technologically
advanced and proven homeland security infrastructure solutions

New Madrid , Mo., September 23, 2004 — Kontek Industries announced today that two of the nations most important national security facilities, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (A Livermore, California based national security laboratory operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration) and Sandia National Laboratories (An Albuquerque, New Mexico based national security laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia's primary mission ensures that the U.S. nuclear arsenal is safe, secure, reliable, and can fully support our nation's deterrence policy.) have selected Kontek to install its state-of-the-art critical infrastructure protection products.

"We are very proud to have been chosen by two of the nation's most critical national security laboratories. It further confirms our position as a technology leader in homeland security and infrastructure protection," said Kontek President Don Utz. "We are very pleased to be a part of our nation's ongoing efforts to secure our homeland from a continuum of threats."

About Kontek Industries

Kontek Industries, headquartered in New Madrid, Mo., manufactures the world's most technologically advanced vehicle and delay access barriers, blast resistant barriers, L-8 and NIJ-4 guard house shelters, and telecommunication shelters in its 150,000 square-foot facility. To date Kontek has provided modular blast barriers to the United States Air Force Electronic Systems Center's Force Protection Command and Control Program Office. It has also provided vehicle and delay access barriers to 12 nuclear facilities throughout the United States.