NEWS (Cont.)

AUGUST 2004 - Alliance Formed to Provide Unique, High-End Cable Assemblies. Medallion Wire & Cable - a manufacturer of precision wire and cable and Strand Products, Inc. - a provider of high quality, custom assembly services to the medical industry - have formed an alliance that will enable either company to offer innovative, complex cable assemblies to medical OEM's.

Medallion Wire & Cable, located in Houston, TX, is a manufacturer of customer specified miniature wire, strands and cables. The company's capabilities include vertically integrated application and process engineering with state-of-the-art, custom designed equipment. They produce small to ultra-miniature diameters, solid or stranded, with or without plastic coatings, in a wide range of metals including medical grade alloys, precious metals, titanium, and other specialty alloys such as nitinol.