Acument Global Technologies Announces TORX® Drive System

World Class Quality Award Winners for 2008
TROY, Mich.--(Business Wire)--
Acument Global Technologies, Inc. (Acument), a leading supplier of mechanical
fastening technology, today announced the 2008 winners of its TORX Drive System
World Class Quality Awards. Owner of one of the largest and longest-running
intellectual property licensing programs in the fastening industry, Acument
established the annual award program in 2005 to recognize its high-performing,
qualified licensees who demonstrate the greatest commitment to manufacturing
high quality, authentic TORX fasteners and tooling during the previous calendar
year. Five drive tool producers and six fastener manufacturers representing
Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States were among Acument TORX licensees
receiving the award for 2008 performance. They include:

TORX Drive Tool Licensees

* Cooper Industries - Dayton, Ohio, USA (fourth time)
* Master Manufacturing Co., Inc. - Evansville, Ind., USA (third time)
* Robert Schroeder GmbH & Co. - Wuppertal, Germany (fourth time)
* Western Forge - Colorado Springs, Colo., USA (third time)
* Zephyr Manufacturing Company - Inglewood, Calif., USA (second time)

TORX Fastener Licensee

* Holbrook Manufacturing - Wheeling, Ill., USA (second time)
* Natec Co., Inc. - Esashi-City, Iwate, Japan (first time)
* PB Fasteners - Gardena, Calif., USA (first time)
* QST International Corporation - Tainan, Taiwan (second time)
* Semblex Corporation - Elmhurst, Ill, USA (first time)
* Yamashina Corporation - Kyoto, Japan (third time)

"The TORX World Class Quality Awards program`s global participation represents
the reach of Acument`s technology licensing activity and the extensive adoption
of our TORX Drive System by the world`s leading manufacturing markets," said
Marty Bieschke, Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing for Acument.
"Only two companies - Cooper Industries and Robert Schroeder GmbH & Co - have
won the award in each of the competition`s four years, achieving an elite level
of technical, manufacturing and service performance for licensed TORX
manufacturers around the world."

This year`s award winners illustrate the broad applicability of the TORX Drive
System to a myriad of manufacturing applications, from alternative energy
generation and aerospace assembly to the shipbuilding, medical and white goods
industries.

Since its introduction in the 1960s, the TORX Drive System has become the
world`s leading high-performance drive system for threaded assemblies in a broad
range of applications and end-use markets due to its clear advantages in
numerous assembly situations, Bieschke said. Qualified licensed manufacturers
have produced billions of TORX and the newer TORX PLUS drive systems for
automotive, industrial, electronics, aerospace, and other markets.

For more information on becoming a licensee of Acument Global Technologies, Inc.
and its renowned TORX and TORX PLUS Drive Systems, please visit the company`s
Website at http://www.acument.com/licensing/index.asp

About Acument Global Technologies, Inc.

Headquartered in Troy, Mich., USA, Acument Global Technologies, Inc., is among
the world`s leading providers of mechanical fastening systems and value-based
fastening solutions. For more information about Acument Global Technologies:
www.acument.com.

Media Contacts:
Timothy G. Weir, APR
(248) 813-6329
tweir@acument.com

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