Woburn, MA, June 1, 2005 - Boston Applied Technologies, Incorporated (BATi) announced today that it has succeeded in increasing its ceramics fabrication capabilities with a new set of production-line equipment added to its facility earlier this year. Achievement of this milestone not only doubled its materials fabrication output, but also enabled BATi to realize an even lower overall production cost.

Dr. Kevin Zou, the Chief Technology Officer at BATi, commented, “This is a significant accomplishment on the part of the Materials Research Group. It will allow BATi to bring its advanced materials developed at the R&D scale to full production mode in the shortest possible time, and thus further strengthen its competitive edge. It also shows the seriousness of BATi’s commercialization efforts.”


About BATi
Boston Applied Technologies, Incorporated (BATi) was formed in 2002 by the key management and technical team formerly with Corning Applied Technologies, a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated. With many years' development effort and a group of industry pioneers, BATi has established a unique leading position in designing, manufacturing and marketing a variety of light and polarization management components for the telecommunications and instrumentation markets.