FARO Laser Trackers Dominate Global Market

FARO Laser Trackers Dominate Global Market

September 13, 2006

    LAKE MARY, Fla., Sept. 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- FARO
Technologies, Inc., the world's single source for a
complete line of portable CAM2 solutions, has officially
established itself as the worldwide market leader in laser
tracker sales.

    The Company's next largest competitor's recent press
release showed that they shipped more than 400 units in
approximately three years. In that same time frame, FARO
shipped over 600 Laser Trackers - outselling the other
brand by 50 percent. The third-place competitor may have
sold fewer than 75 in the same time period.

    "Market demand is clearly shifting toward FARO
Laser Trackers," FARO President and Co-CEO Jay
Freeland said. "To date, sales continue to remain
strong, and we are well on pace to produce our 1,000th unit
by October 2006. This is a considerable achievement and
testament to the growing reputation of the Tracker's
state-of-the-art technology."

    In addition to growing its market share in the
automotive and heavy equipment industries, FARO logged
major contracts with aerospace giants Boeing and Airbus, as
well as their respective subsidiaries and OEM suppliers.
Freeland credits the FARO Tracker's popularity with its
unique features that increase productivity, including
automatic warm-up and compensation routines.  Also of
benefit is the fact that FARO is the first manufacturer to
conform to the ASME B89.4.19 Standard for laser tracker
performance, and is the only manufacturer with an ISO-17025
accreditation based on this procedure.

    The FARO Laser Tracker is a portable, computerized
measurement device that creates a 3-D "blueprint"
of large objects and parts up to 230 feet in size. As the
user guides a mirrored target over the object's entire
surface, the Tracker emits a laser beam that is reflected
back from the target, allowing the system's laptop computer
to simultaneously draw and record all of its 3-D
measurements with up to .001" accuracy. The Tracker
can also take automatic measurements by steering the laser
to multiple targets positioned on the object. 

    Engineers and designers use the data to
reverse-engineer, improve or create new parts and products
-- or improve how they're made. Quality control personnel
use it to verify that the parts have been made correctly,
and, if not, where they need to be corrected.

    The FARO Tracker's portability and advanced technology
allow users to increase production efficiency while
decreasing time-to-market, scrap, and re-work costs by
measuring on the production shop floor, design room, or
anywhere it's convenient.

    For more information visit http://www.faro.com .

    About FARO

    With approximately 12,500 installations and 5,500
customers globally, FARO Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FARO)
and its international subsidiaries design, develop, and
market software and portable, computerized measurement
devices. The Company's products allow manufacturers to
perform 3-D inspections of parts and assemblies on the shop
floor. This helps eliminate manufacturing errors, and
thereby increases productivity and profitability for a
variety of industries in FARO's worldwide customer base.
Principal products include the Platinum, Titanium,
Advantage, and Digital Template FaroArms; the FARO Gage,
Gage-PLUS and PowerGAGE; the FARO Laser ScanArm; the FARO
Laser Tracker X and Xi; the FARO Laser Scanner LS; and the
CAM2 family of advanced CAD-based measurement and reporting
software. FARO Technologies is ISO-9001:2000 certified, and
accredited to ISO-17025 Calibration Laboratory Standard.

    This press release contains forward-looking statements
(within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995) that are subject to risks and
uncertainties, such as statements about our plans,
objectives, projections, expectations, assumptions,
strategies, or future events. Statements that are not
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objectives, projections, expectations, assumptions,
strategies, or goals are forward-looking statements. In
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forward-looking statements, also may be made by the Company
from time to time. Forward-looking statements are not
guarantees of future performance and are subject to various
known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors
that may cause actual results, performances, or
achievements to differ materially from future results,
performances, or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Consequently, undue reliance
should not be placed on these forward-looking statements.

    Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from what is expressed or forecasted in
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited
to:

     -- unforeseen issues affecting the Company's ability
to produce laser 
        trackers at its various facilities.

    Forward-looking statements in this release represent
the Company's judgment as of the date of this release. The
Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events, or otherwise.

    For more information, please contact:

     Darin Sahler, 
     Global PR Manager,
     FARO Technologies, Inc. 
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail] 

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