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SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES Receives Major Order for DVD Lines
November 17, 1999

During and immediately following the REPLItech Asia trade show held in Hong Kong from November 10-12, 1999, SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES received significant orders for CD, DVD and CD-R replication lines. In addition to numerous individual orders, a substantial order for more than 30 SPACELINE DVD replication lines was received, underscoring SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES' worldwide leadership position in this burgeoning segment of the market. The value of these orders is in excess of 100 million DM.

The success of DVD in the market became quite evident during the second half of the year as manifested by the enormous additional demand for replication lines. Replicators have exhausted their existing capacity, particularly for DVD 9. Orders placed by film studios cannot all be filled in time for the approaching Christmas season.

SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES plans to more than double its production of the SPACELINE in the year 2000 in order to accommodate the upsurge in market demand.