Ocean Optics and Custom Sensors & Technology Announce Partnership on Systems for Process Applications

Customers to Benefit from New, Cost-effective Tools for Process Monitoring

Dunedin, Florida (September 2006) – Ocean Optics has partnered with Custom Sensors & Technology (CS&T) to develop process application solutions combining Ocean Optics’ miniature fiber optic spectrometers and CS&T’s process expertise, packaging and components.

Ocean Optics is the world’s leading supplier of miniature fiber optic spectrometers, with nearly a thousand products that address measurement technologies including absorbance, fluorescence and transmittance for the UV, Visible and NIR wavelength ranges. CS&T specializes in providing probes, flow cells and sample handling systems, as well as complete turnkey solutions, to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, water quality, and pulp & paper industries.

“Ocean Optics spectrometers are the perfect complement to Custom Sensors & Technology’s process-ready components for the growing number of process monitoring applications demanding multi-wavelength analysis,” said Mike Ponstingl, president and founder of CS&T. “The marriage of the two companies’ areas of expertise provides an ideal fit for our customers looking for quality, cost -effective solutions for process and other applications.”

Headquartered in Dunedin, Fla., Ocean Optics’ line of spectrometers, chemical sensors, metrology instrumentation, optical fibers, thin films and optics are used for diverse applications in medical and biological research, environmental monitoring, science education, and entertainment lighting and display. Ocean Optics is recognized as the inventor of miniature fiber optic spectroscopy, and is now part of the Halma group of safety and detection companies. For more information, phone 727.733.2447.