CHICAGO – 2/19/01 - BST PRO MARK has announced that Michael Shrigley has joined the firm as Director of Sales. Mr. Shrigley has over 12 years of senior level experience in sales management with global organizations where he successfully managed new business development campaigns. Most recently Mr. Shrigley was Director of Sales & Marketing with Henry Technologies, a manufacturer of HVAC products for industrial, commercial and consumer markets. Mr. Shrigley also served as National Sales Manager with Culligan International from 1996 to 1998. The company experienced rapid growth during that period, including triple digit growth in 1997, and successfully launched many major OEM sales programs. Said Henry Rissier, President, "Michael Shrigley brings to BST PRO MARK an exceptional record of accomplishment and sales leadership. He will play a key role insuring our customers are more than satisfied with the process control systems we provide, and in our continuing quest to remain the world’s largest manufacturer of web inspection systems of all kinds." BST PRO MARK is a full line manufacturer of visual and 100% inspection systems, web guiding systems, closed-loop register control and offset ink metering systems. The company is a division of BST GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of EMG Electro-Mechanik and member of Elexis AG, a German conglomerate traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange which specializes in process control systems.