Tucson, Arizona – January 5, 2010 – General Plasma Inc. is pleased to announce Dr. Troy Shangguan has joined the company as its Chief Technology Officer.

Dr. Shangguan is a recognized visionary in the large‐area thin film industry with a strong track record of innovation in low temperature polysilicon technology, thin film transistor process technology, and chemical vapor deposition process chamber development. Dr. Shangguan is acknowledged as an originator of remote plasma source cleaning technology and the commercial use of inkjet for color filter technology.

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Tucson, Arizona – December 3, 2009 – General Plasma Inc. (GPI), a provider of thin film coating equipment for solar, architectural glass, and other industries, was named the Small Company Innovator of the Year at the Arizona Governor’s Celebration of Innovation (GCOI), an annual awards gala honoring Arizona’s technology leaders.

General Plasma received the award for significant
business success and technical innovation.

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Tucson, Arizona – November 11, 2009 – General Plasma is featured as one of the successful and growing companies that help shape the future of the solar industry in SITE Selection.

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Tucson, Arizona – August 31, 2009 – General Plasma Inc. today announced it has been named a finalist in the Arizona Technology Council’s 2009 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation (GCOI) awards. Click here for GCOI complete press release.

Tucson, Arizona – July 15, 2009 – General Plasma Inc. (GPI), an innovation leader in vacuum thin film coating, strengthens its presence in the United States by appointing Vacuum Solutions Group as its Eastern United States sales and support representative. Vacuum Solutions Group is a technical sales representative firm for manufacturers of vacuum components, equipment, and systems.

Vacuum Solutions Group will represent GPI’s whole Advanced Sources product portfolio, which consists of:

• Rotary Magnetron Sputter Cathode – High performance industrial design
• Moving Magnet Planar Magnetron – 60% target utilization guaranteed
• Pointed Pole Anode Layer Ion Source – High dynamic etch rate
• Classic Ion Source – Reliable, field-proven design

GPI’s product line is being represented in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia exclusively by Vacuum Solutions Group beginning July of 2009.

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Tucson, Arizona – June 25, 2009 – General Plasma is featured as one of the five companies at the innovative forefront of the exciting global solar industry in BizTucson.

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General Plasma Inc. (GPI), an innovation leader in vacuum thin film coating, today announced that it has recently appointed JUST VACUUM as the company’s European Advanced Sources sales representative. JUST VACUUM brings 16 years of vacuum engineering to the GPI team as the company expands its footprint in the European market.

GPI’s product line has been distributed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein exclusively by JUST VACUUM since May of 2009. JUST VACUUM represents the full product range including Moving Magnet Planar Magnetrons, Rotary Magnetrons and Linear Ion Sources. Detailed information can be found on the internet at www.justvacuum.com.

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General Plasma’s improved Rotary Magnetron Cathode was featured in the January-March 2009 issue of PV International.  Click on the magazine cover to read the news release.

December 1^st, 2008 – The Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE) has asked Company President, John Madocks, to serve on their External Advisory Board. AzRISE is a global institute created at the University of Arizona with academic and industrial partners to foster, support and coordinate collaborative efforts between academia, industry, business, national laboratories, local governments and the public through research and development, economic and public policy analysis, and education at all levels. For further information, visit www.azrise.org

Dr. Mark George, GPI Director of Research, shared his expertise on the status of sputtering, CVD and their roles in solar photovoltaics in the November 2008 issue of Solar Industry. Click on the magazine cover to read the featured article.