ELMA BUSTRONIC LAUNCHES NEW BACKPLANEDESIGN.COM SITE

FREMONT, California, March 28, 2006 - Elma Bustronic Corporation, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high performance backplanes has launched a new Web site dedicated to custom backplane design. The new site BackplaneDesign.com will include information on backplane design, signal integrity analysis, application case studies, and more.

Elma Bustronic has been a leader in custom backplane design since 1989. The company’s custom design service combines creative engineering, highly sophisticated computer simulation and modern design techniques to offer customized backplanes that meet the most specialized system requirements. With volumes of reference information, the company sought to provide an informational site on custom design and applications. The company successfully launched another spinoff site called nextgenbackplanes.com in 2003, which focuses on new standard architectures. It receives over 1000 unique visitors per month. The backplanedesign.com site focuses on the challenges of non standards-based custom design. The company hopes and believes it will be as successful as its other Web sites.

“We’re proud and excited to launch backplanedesign.com” said Fred Hirsch, General Manager of Elma Bustronic. “The site offers a unique perspective and application details on custom backplane designs.”

For more information on backplanedesign.com, nextgenbackplanes.com, or elmabustronic.com contact Elma Bustronic at info@bustronic.com.