Allied Electronics Partners with STI to Distribute Machine Safeguarding Solutions

Fort Worth, TX – Allied Electronics has partnered with Scientific Technologies, Inc. (STI) (Nasdaq:STIZ), a leading North American provider of automation safeguarding products, to distribute its safety products throughout North America.

Allied will distribute STI's most popular machine safety products, including safety light curtains and other optical-based safety devices. The partnership will also give customers ready access to interlocking solutions tailored to MRO needs.

"We are delighted to join forces with a respected distribution partner in Allied Electronics. Their experience and mode of operation has proven effective in penetrating the vast user and MRO areas of the machine safeguarding market," said James A. Lazzara, Senior Vice President of Sales for STI. "Coupled with our comprehensive line of automation safety products and commitment to making people safe and productive, this should prove to be a win-win relationship."

With more than 280,000 parts online and more than 135,000 products in the Allied Catalog, engineers and purchasers often look to Allied for prototyping due to its broad range of available technology solutions. For more information, visit www.alliedelec.com.

About Allied Electronics
Allied Electronics’ headquarters are located in Fort Worth, Texas with 57 sales branches across the United States and Canada. Allied is a subsidiary of Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), the world leading catalog component distributor. Electrocomponents has operations in six continents and headquarters in Oxford, England. For more information, visit www.alliedelec.com.

About Scientific Technologies Inc.
Scientific Technologies, Inc. (STI) is a North American leading provider of automation safeguarding products and services through its Safety Products Group. STI's Optical Sensor Division (OSD) provides safety products that are used to protect workers around machinery, automated equipment and industrial robots. Our products serve a wide variety of applications and markets, including semiconductor, automotive, electronics manufacturing, packaging and consumer markets. STI's Machine Services Division (MSD) provides safety services such as: safeguarding equipment installations, machine safety assessments, and the design and custom fabrication of guarding solutions. MSD specializes in machinery services including the repair, relocation, installation and service of fabricating machinery. MSD serves customers in a variety of industries, including metal fabrication, aerospace, electronics, building materials, automotive and food processing. Our web site is located at www.sti.com.

STI’s Automation Products Group serves the factory automation, semiconductor, transportation, oil and gas, consumer and food processing industries with a diversified offering of sensing technologies. Products include level, flow, pressure sensing, positioning transducers, vehicle separation, profiling and ultrasonic sensors and controls. Further information is available at the Group’s web sites: www.automationsensors.com, and www.stiscanners.com.

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