LAS VEGAS, NV, Dec. 20, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DecisionLink Inc. (OTCBB:DLNK), announced that Enraf BV, of Delft, The Netherlands, a leading provider of land-based tank gauging systems and instruments worldwide, has entered into a global strategic marketing and sales alliance with DecisionLink's FCI Environmental unit (FCI) for FCI's proven PetroSense� continuous monitoring system.
This system will provide owners of tank farms and fuel depots fail-safe solutions to avoid damage to the environment from leaks and/or product spills. Enraf will serve the rapidly growing worldwide market for these types of environmental protection systems solutions.
Geoff Hewitt, Chairman of the Board and CEO of DecisionLink Inc., said, "This agreement with Enraf is another important step in DecisionLink's strategy to be positioned early in 2001 to address large global markets by partnering with industry leaders in their field. This particular alliance with Enraf will allow us to focus FCI Environmental on its core competencies in the area of designing high-tech solutions for protecting the environment."
He added, "Enraf has committed its global resources to the development of the tank farm market. We have put into place an agreement that provides FCI with specific revenue commitments over the life of the contract, beginning in the first quarter of 2001. We have also agreed to explore further opportunities to cooperate, in particular in combining DecisionLink's cutting-edge communication technologies with Enraf's state-of-the-art product line in order to provide new solutions to this important global market place. This alliance represents exactly the kind of opportunity we foresaw as a result of the synergies between DecisionLink's environmental and communications technologies."
Commenting on the alliance, Henk Algra, Managing Director of Enraf, said, "Combining Enraf's long history of superior tank gauging equipment with FCI Environmental's field-proven environmental protection systems allows us to bring new benefits to our customers. Our customers will particularly appreciate the cost-saving benefits that can now be realized as a result of combining both the inventory management and environmental protection functions into one system for each tank farm or depot."
Enraf BV is a unit of Delft Instruments of Delft, Holland. (Amsterdam Stock Exchange, DELFT) Contact Henk A. Algra, Enraf BV, The Netherlands (telephone +31 15 269 8510). For more on Enraf visit www.enraf.com.
DecisionLink's FCI Environmental Group has introduced small, low-cost sensor and communication products that use satellite communications and the Internet as the backbone for data transfer and control in the pipeline leak detection, aboveground storage tank monitoring, oil production, water quality monitoring and industrial wastewater compliance monitoring and control markets.
DecisionLink's Intrex Data Communications Group has developed a wide range of products for monitoring of propane and fuel oil tank levels, pipeline compressors, and many other multi-user remote asset monitoring applications for low-cost volume use of satellite communication pathways and the Internet. For more on DecisionLink, visit www.decisionlinkinc.com
