WILTON, Conn., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Startech Environmental
Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a fully reporting company,
announced today that it has appointed COGIM SpA of Via Riscassi n.8, San
Nicolo di Rottofreno, 29010 Piacenza-Italy and Via Principessa Clotilde, 7,
00196 Roma as the exclusive Startech distributor for the Italian Republic.
Giuseppe Fazio, Sales Manager, said, "We have made excellent progress
developing the Startech market in Italy during the past year. The
introduction of Startech Plasma Converter Systems into the COGIM capability
will permit COGIM to provide these systems to industry and clients enabling
them to meet their legal obligations to reduce the destructive impact of
waste on the environment.
"There is also a great interest here in alternative sources of energy
especially in using the Plasma Converted Gas to produce fuel-grade ethanol.
Our new Sales and Technical Center in Piacenza is also in a good
location to help support Startech sales in the rest of Europe."
For further information contact Giuseppe Fazio, info@cogim.it
giuseppefazio@comeco2.it, phone +39.0523.767811, fax +39.0523.763105
About COGIM
COGIM SpA is an International, Multi-disciplined Services Company and
General Contractor registered in Italy. The company specializes in the
provision of turnkey pre-engineered modular-accommodation solutions and
services particularly to the construction, oil and gas industries, plus
disaster relief, exploration and military and government installations. The
COGIM capability includes: professional services, design, manufacture,
construction management and all logistics and services in support of
project delivery and operations. The provision and management of water and
all waste disposal utilities are a major component of COGIM's services.
About Startech -- a Waste Industry and Energy Company
Startech Environmental is a Waste Industry and Energy company producing
and selling its innovative, proprietary plasma processing equipment known
as the Plasma Converter System(TM). The Plasma Converter System safely and
economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or lethal, and turns
them into useful and valuable products. In doing so, the System protects
the environment and helps to improve the public health and safety. The
System achieves closed-loop elemental recycling to safely and irreversibly
destroy Municipal Solid Waste, organics and inorganics, solids, liquids and
gases, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, industrial by-products and also
items such as "e-waste," medical waste, chemical industry waste and other
specialty wastes while converting many of them into useful commodity
products that can include metals and a synthesis-gas called Plasma
Converted Gas (PCG)(TM). Some of the many commercial uses for PCG include
the production of "green" electrical power, ethanol and also hydrogen for
sale.
The Startech Plasma Converter is also a manufacturing system producing
commodity products from feedstocks that were previously regarded as wastes.
Startech regards all wastes, hazardous and non-hazardous, as valuable
renewable resources.
For further information, please visit http://www.startech.net or contact Steve
Landa at (888) 807-9443, (203) 762-2499 x148 or sales@startech.net
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including
statements regarding the Company's plans and expectations regarding the
development and commercialization of its Plasma Converter(TM) technology.
All forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected.
Factors that could cause such a difference include, without limitation,
failure of the customer to obtain appropriate financing for the project,
general risks associated with product development, manufacturing, rapid
technological change and competition as well as other risks set forth in
the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The
forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of
this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or
undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such
statement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change
in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is
based.
Contacts:
Joseph F. Longo, President Philip Bourdillon / Gene Heller
Startech Environmental Corp. Silverman Heller Associates
203-762-2499 310-208-2550
SOURCE Startech Environmental Corporation
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Related links:
http://www.startech.net
CONTACT:
Joseph F. Longo, President of Startech
Environmental Corporation, +1-203-762-2499; or Philip Bourdillon
or Gene Heller, both of Silverman Heller Associates,
+1-310-208-2550, for Startech Environmental Corporation.
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