SAINT PAUL, MN/SOMERSET, WI - January 25, 2010 - Aspect Automation and Preco, Inc. will unveil an innovative partnership plan at the ATX West trade show in Anaheim, California February 9-11, 2010.

Aspect will design and build custom modules and provide validation support expertise for Preco's Rotary Converting Platform (RCP) to create innovative, flexible web converting and die cutting solutions for a broad array of industries, including medical, pharmaceutical, industrial, and consumer products.

Preco's RCP processes web widths at a maximum speed of 300 feet per minute, and provides precision servo registration on all die cutting stations. The modular design can incorporate rotary die cutting, laminating, continuous laser cutting, and island placement.

Aspect will add custom solution capabilities to Preco's modular chassis, creating a highly flexible platform designed to unique project specifications. In particular, Aspect has developed comprehensive processes to support manufacturing solutions requiring regulatory compliance and validation.

Aspect and Preco will formally introduce their partnership by sharing Booth 4315 at the ATX West show in Anaheim.

About Aspect Automation

For more than sixty years, Aspect Automation has designed and built custom automated manufacturing equipment and provided innovative, collaborative solutions incorporating leading-edge applied technologies for discrete assembly, packaging and filling, and web processing, coating, and converting. Additional information is available at www.aspectautomation.com.

About Preco, Inc.

For more than fifty years, Preco, Inc. has manufactured die cutting, laser processing, and screen printing systems for high speed, precision cutting, perforating, welding, and other specialized industrial processing applications. Additional information is available at www.precoinc.com.

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