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Email: testingservices@intertek.intertek-cb. "The performance advancements of the LTQ Orbitrap address our
customers' need for faster, more accurate analysis.thermo.

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PARC utilizes 32 pilot plants to provide contract studies related to
petroleum refining, petroleum based fuels and lubricant products .

About PARC Technical Services, Inc.

About Thermo Electron
Thermo Electron Corporation is the world leader in analytical instruments. Thermo's Measurement and Control segment is dedicated
to providing analytical instruments used in a variety of manufacturing
processes and in-the-field applications, including those associated with
safety and homeland security. (MCM ),
leading designers and builders of custom test and assembly equipment,
announces it has formed a strategic alliance with Wes-Tech Automation
Solutions, Buffalo Grove, IL. "This has led to increasingly complex
manufacturing, assembly and functional testing requirements faced by engine
manufacturers .
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Website: http://www."
Over the past few years, Thermo has built the most dynamic mass
spectrometry portfolio in the world.
In addition to the LTQ Orbitrap, Thermo showcased at PITTCON 2006 its
total range of laboratory solutions that offer customers integrated technology
and services from sample preparation to sample analysis, on through to data
interpretation and storage.

Michigan Custom Machines Wes-Tech Automation Solutions Form Strategic Alliance

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("PARC "), a petroleum and chemical process and
automotive testing services company, from the Shareholders of Gemini Holdings,
Inc. This award recognized Thermo's market leadership, strong
financial and operational performance, as well as its outstanding technical
contributions to the analytical and scientific instrumentation market. The
entire IBO report can be found at http://www. MCM and Wes -Tech are uniquely positioned to solve the
challenges stemming from these complex testing and production requirements."
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PARC is engaged in the business of contract automotive, R+D and pilot
plant testing services to the petroleum, synthetic fuels, chemical, and
catalyst industries . Its successful Finnigan(TM) LTQ FT Mass
Spectrometer was the Silver Editor's Award winner at PITTCON three years ago.
As part of the strategic alliance, Wes-Tech and MCM formed a joint R+D
venture to develop the next generation of advanced automation technology
specifically aimed at the fuel injector assembly market for common rail, EUI
and HEUI Diesel versions and gasoline variants.

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Website: http://www.parctech.com.com
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An international network of over 200 laboratories serves clients
located in 118 nations.
Our instrument solutions enable our customers to make the world a healthier,
cleaner and safer place.com

About Wes-Tech
Wes-Tech is a manufacturing and high-precision assembly automation
designer and integrator.

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PARC provides an extensive range of refinery process
development services to help clients improve their operations. Geoff Wilson who , with the rest of the management team and staff, will
continue to run the business integrated into Caleb Brett. Other capabilities include RON, MON and cetane engines, full-scope
lubricant and engine oil testing, tribology, and wear, gearbox performance and
engine testing.apicerno@thermo.com

Wes-Tech has deep experience with flexible and modular
automation equipment designs.

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PARC also
offers customized services, including atmospheric and vacuum crude oil
distillation, Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC), hydrotreating and solvent
de-waxing. We are as excited as our
customers about the LTQ Orbitrap and its impact on promising research being
performed in laboratories worldwide .
Winning the Gold Editor's Award continues Thermo's positive momentum, as
it was also recently named "2005 Company of the Year" by Instrument Business
Outlook (IBO). This technology will
seamlessly and cost-effectively support the entire product life-cycle from lab
design and testing to fully automated production. (MCM) has advanced the innovation of custom
test and assembly solutions since 1994.wes -tech.

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Editors in attendance voted Thermo's LTQ(TM) Orbitrap(TM) hybrid mass
spectrometer the best new product introduction of the show, which featured
over 1000 exhibiting companies.

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As part of its catalyst and process technology evaluation services,
PARC operates a synthetic fuels laboratory for the development of
Gas-to-Liquids Fischer-Tropsch process technology, including slurry-bubble
column , ebullated bed, micro-reactor and CSTR catalyst testing capabilities. For more information, visit
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The acquisition
is directly in line with Caleb Brett's successful outsourcing strategy
enabling it to provide an enhanced range of highly valued support services to
its core client base as well as to new key target markets. PARC is managed by
Dr.
PARC automotive testing capabilities are extensive and include 25
individual test cells, an all-weather test area and related support
facilities.
Originated from the Gulf Oil Research and Development Company, PARC was
established in 1986 to provide independent testing services to global
petroleum and chemical companies.com.

Tribology: The science of the mechanisms of friction, lubrication, and wear of interacting surfaces that are in relative motion.

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These sites are from companies that make, manufacture, distribute or sale primarily lab instruments for tribology or the study of lubrication or its effects.

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Media Contact Information: Investor Contact Information:
Lori Gorski Ken Apicerno
Phone: 781-622-1242 Phone: 781-622-1111
E-mail: ken. Wes-Tech develops advanced automation conveyor and
gantry robot technology and automation applications that include injector
nozzle welding.

From the Greek tribos, a rubbing; tribein, to rub.

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PARC was purchased in 1998 by the
Shareholders of Gemini Holdings, Inc.

For more information please contact:
Erik Holladay
Global Marketing Director
Tel: 713., Thermo Electron
Corporation (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in analytical instruments, announced
that it received the Gold Editor's Award at PITTCON(R) 2006, the largest North
American conference and exposition on laboratory science and instrumentation.

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About Intertek Caleb Brett
Intertek Caleb Brett is the world's leading testing and inspection
services provider to the global petroleum, refining and petrochemical
industries. Casper, senior vice president
of Thermo.

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Services offered include laboratory outsourcing,
quality control, cargo inspection, R+D support, process + catalysis services ,
metallurgy + polymer testing, auditing and consulting. With expertise in diesel fuel system
component testing for end-of-line production, R+D and endurance, MCM test
solutions incorporate leading technology in hydraulics, electronics, 3D
parametric design, controls, data acquisition and assembly line integration .

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PARC brings to the Caleb Brett division new
specialist technology, testing skills and customers that complement our
current business. Caleb Brett will
provide PARC with the resources and global infrastructure to grow
internationally. WALTHAM, Mass. The partnership provides automotive OEMs with a
complete range of factory automation solutions that integrate seamlessly with
functional testing and calibration, delivering comprehensive capabilities
required in today's competitive manufacturing environment.
"Rapid advances in fuel injector technology are driven by the need to
achieve higher fuel efficiency and increased engine power," notes Michael
Schena, President, MCM, Inc.com /

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HOUSTON and PITTSBURGH, Intertek Caleb Brett, a
division of Intertek Group plc ("Intertek"), a leading global testing,
inspection and certification company, announces the acquisition of PARC
Technical Services, Inc.

Thermo Electron's Mass Spectrometry Technology Wins Top Award at PITTCON 2006

"We believe the LTQ Orbitrap's patented technology represents the most
significant breakthrough in mass spectrometry since the ion trap was
introduced over 20 years ago," commented Marc N. Also unveiled were Thermo's newest "lab to line"
solutions for both Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and the European
Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive."

About MCM
Michigan Custom Machines, Inc.

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PARC Technical Services Acquired By Intertek Caleb Brett

The PARC facility is
located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Partnership Provides OEMs with Integrated Automation, Testing Solutions

NOVI, Mich. Weskamp, President, Wes-Tech, "This alliance lets both partners
leverage technologies to develop new assembly, testing, and calibration
systems that are flexible enough for both the R+D lab and a full production
environment.

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, Michigan Custom Machines, Inc.mcm1.

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407.thermo.
MCM is QS-ISO 9001:2000 registered, and a member of the Association of
Manufacturing Technology and Automation Alley.

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Electrical and water brake dynamometers are available for testing
gear oils.
Intertek Caleb Brett Chief Executive Mark Loughead commented, "This is an
exciting opportunity for Intertek.com

Used in small molecule research, proteomics , metabolomics and drug
discovery applications, the LTQ Orbitrap is a hybrid mass spectrometer that
offers superior mass resolution and accuracy, detection power and dynamic
range as compared to existing Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology.thermo. We look forward to offering OEMs innovative, cost -effective
automation and testing solutions that fully integrate within today's complex
manufacturing environment. http://www.

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PARC will provide our current customers access to expanded
independent development services and testing capabilities. Thermo's Life and Laboratory Sciences segment
provides analytical instruments, scientific equipment, services and software
solutions for life science, drug discovery, clinical, environmental and
industrial laboratories.