FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 27, 2009

EcoTek Lighting Named as Finalist in the Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering Category for TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards

LAKE FOREST, CA ­ EcoTek Lighting, a division of Expotrans, has been named a finalist in the Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering category for the TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards. Now in its 16th year, this premier business event celebrates excellence and achievement in the region’s technology industry, and honors local companies, individuals, and products that drive innovation in Orange County and the Inland Empire. This year’s winners will be announced at a dinner on May 14, 2009, at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Mesa, CA.

“We have worked hard to be the best company in our industry and we are honored to be a finalist in this year’s awards,” said Rick Farrell, CEO, EcoTek Lighting. “TechAmerica provides technology businesses of all sizes with collective services that we would not have been able to attain on our own. Thank you to TechAmerica for this honor.”

“We wish to thank all of the companies that prepared nominations for this year’s awards, and we congratulate EcoTek Lighting for being named a finalist” said Don Hicks, executive director, TechAmerica Orange County. “This region boasts many noteworthy companies, like EcoTek Lighting, that continue to influence technology development through out the rest of the world, and we’re excited to help highlight them.”

The awards categories this year include Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering Award, Innovative Product/Technology In 2008, Outstanding CEO In Technology, Outstanding Company In Medical Technologies, Outstanding Technology Company, and Outstanding Woman In Technology.

In addition to the awards, TechAmerica Orange County will recognize educators and students for their innovative use of science, math, and technology in the classroom and the community in conjunction with Project Tomorrow, the nation’s leading education nonprofit group focused on preparing today’s students to be tomorrow’s innovators.

For more information, please visit http://www.aeanet.org/ocawards.

About EcoTek Lighting
Ecotek Lighting, a division of Expotrans, is a leading provider of high performance light boxes, menu boards, poster frames and custom displays using LED illumination. Our LED backlit displays yield brilliant luminosity and deliver six times the energy efficiency of displays using edgelit T-8 fluorescent lamps. Ecotek Lighting’s eco-friendly products are 99% recyclable, UL, CUL and CE-listed and meet LEED, GreenGuard and Energy Star standards for energy efficiency. We design, engineer, manufacture and test each of our products in our state-of-the-art plant in Lake Forest, California. EcoTek Lighting was created with the mission of saving energy and producing Eco-Friendly products. Our innovative Direct LED Backlighting technology and our Green manufacturing processes significantly contribute to reducing emissions across the entire lifecycle of our products. Learn more at www.EcoTekLighting.com.

About TechAmerica
TechAmerica is the leading voice for the U.S. technology industry, which is the driving force behind productivity growth and jobs creation in the United States and the foundation of the global innovation economy. Representing approximately 1,500 member companies of all sizes from the public and commercial sectors of the economy, it is the industry’s largest advocacy organization and is dedicated to helping members’ top and bottom lines. It is also the technology industry's only grassroots-to-global advocacy network, with offices in state capitals around the United States, Washington, D.C., Europe (Brussels) and Asia (Beijing). TechAmerica was formed by the merger of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA). Learn more at www.techamerica.org.

EcoTek Lighting
26845 Vista Terrace
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Phone: 800-733-6661
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