Z Corporation Deepens Commitment to Asia as Companies in Region Compete to Streamline Product Design

Z Corporation Deepens Commitment to Asia as Companies in Region Compete to Streamline Product Design

April 24, 2006

3D printer company sees 56 percent sales increase in Asia Pacific, opens two new offices

    BURLINGTON, Mass., April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Z
Corporation, maker of the world's fastest 3D printers,
today announced it has deepened its commitment to the
fast-growing Asia Pacific market, where companies are
aggressively adopting 3D printing to improve and streamline
product development.

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    Z Corp. opened new regional offices on April 3 on Hong
Kong Island and in Yokohama, Japan. The company also
expanded the largest rapid prototyping channel in the Asia
Pacific region to 25 authorized dealers by signing Euroasia
Enterprises Ltd (China), GDL Software Science &
Technology (China), ETC Service Co. (Thailand), ARKK
Australia & New Zealand Pty Ltd (Australia),
TechniGraphics Inc. (India), Hankook Delcam Ltd (Korea) and
E.Mation Technologies Pte Ltd (Singapore) as partners. 

    The new offices support escalating 3D printing demand
as companies in the region work to make their product
development processes more efficient. One hundred
twenty-six new Asia Pacific customers invested in Z Corp.
3D printers last year, including HTC (Taiwan), BenQ
(Taiwan), Samsung (Korea), New Balance (China), Sony
(Japan) and Toyota (Japan). Many of these customers
purchased the full-color Spectrum Z(TM)510 3D Printing
System, the only high-definition color 3D printer on the
market, helping boost Z Corp.'s 2005 sales revenue in the
region by 56 percent over 2004. 

    New service and support for Asia Pacific region

    Z Corp. is introducing new services to the region along
with the new offices. Customers can now receive same
time-zone service and support and the convenience of a
sales showroom in Hong Kong. Channel partners can obtain
certification training.

    "In addition to last year's success, we saw more
strong growth in the first quarter of this year," said
Tuan Tran, director of Asia Pacific sales for Z Corp.
"This tells us that customers are spreading the word
about the Z Corp. difference, including unsurpassed speed,
color, affordability and high definition. Asia is the
world's manufacturing center, and the region is benefiting
tremendously from the ability to create prototypes on
demand throughout the product development and engineering
processes to bring better products more quickly to
market."

    Companies use Z Corp. 3D printers to turn digital
designs into 3D physical models as easily as 2D printers
generate documents. Manufacturing companies and their
suppliers use 3D printing for concept models, presentation
models, functional testing, finite element analysis and
metal casting. Companies in architecture, education,
geographic information systems (GIS) and medicine also
depend on 3D printing for their work.

    Contact information for the new offices:

     Hong Kong                              Japan
     Regional Sales and Service             Regional Sales
     Level 3, Three Pacific Place           Yokohama
Landmark Tower 30th Floor
     No.1 Queen's Road East                 2-2-1
Minato-Mirai
     Hong Kong                              Nishi-ku
     Tel:  [phone]                 Yokohama
220-8130
     Fax:  [phone]                 Japan
     Email: [e-mail]                  Phone: +81
(0)45-224-3272
                                            Fax:   +81
(0)45-224-3274
                                            Email:
[e-mail]

    About Z Corporation

    Z Corporation develops, manufactures and markets the
world's fastest high-definition 3D printers -- machines
that produce 3D physical prototypes of real-world objects
with the speed, ease and affordability of 2D desktop
printing. Z Corp. systems are not only the fastest 3D
printers on the market but also offer the only color 3D
printing capabilities. Z Corp. holds patents on its
proprietary 3D printing materials and equipment and
licenses others from MIT, where the company's technology
was originally developed. For the latest news and
information from Z Corp., visit the company's Web site at
http://www.zcorp.com .

    For more information, please contact:

     Kevin Lach,
     Z Corporation
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Charna Cummings,
     Beaupre & Co. Public Relations
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

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