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Tom Grove Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (970) 407-6313

FORT COLLINS, Colorado (March 3, 1997)—Today, Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.(AE) launched a new World Wide Web site at http://www.advanced-energy.com. The site provides corporate and financial news, product specifications, product and application literature, sales support and marketing activity information, employment opportunities as well as used equipment sales.

According to AE’s President and CEO Doug Schatz, “We’re excited about launching this site. It gives us another communication path with customers and interested members of the markets we serve. It’s designed to encourage visitors to e-mail us from within our site, allowing us to respond very quickly to technical and commercial requests. We also offer links to other industry and community sites.” Schatz added, “AE’s new Web site offers us another avenue for delighting our customers.”

Because we continuously update the AE Web site, we invite interested people to visit it often for the latest industry and company information.

Founded in 1980, AE is a leading supplier of power conversion and control systems for plasma-based thin film production equipment. Our systems are critical to industrial processes that use gaseous plasmas to deposit or etch thin film layers on materials or substrates such as glass, silicon, and metals during the manufacture of semiconductors, data storage media, flat panel displays, and a host of other products.