​Delphon Acquires TouchMark

Packaging Firm invests in New Venture

HAYWARD, CA, JANUARY 10, 2006: Delphon Industries announced its acquisition of TouchMark, Inc. of Hayward, CA. The move is part of an ongoing strategy to merge innovative technologies in order to provide unique materials and services for the packaging, shipping and handling of its customer's products. "With TouchMark's expertise in high quality pad printing on a wide variety of surfaces, we will be able to offer our customers an even greater degree of customization for their unique packaging needs" says Jeanne Beacham CEO of Delphon Industries.

Touchmark, established in 1992, provides customers with high quality pad printing services such as company logos, graphics, and part identification. Services are available for prototypes or full production parts and range from printing on large panels to microscopic printing for medical applications. The company also provides graphic design and assembly services. "We consider ourselves to be THE Pad Printing Experts. We have successfully pad printed on difficult substrates such as Santoprene, Polypropylene, Polycarbonate, rubber and powder coated metals. We have even applied pad printing in recessed and difficult to reach areas" said Gary Jones, President of TouchMark, Inc.

About Delphon: Delphon Industries, LLC was started in 2004 in order to provide a platform for merging innovative technologies. The company specializes in bringing together unique high technology products and services in order to meet the specific needs of its customers. Under its corporate umbrella, the company operates Gel-Pak of Hayward, CA, Quik-Pak of San Diego, CA and TouchMark of Hayward, CA. For more information, visit www.delphon.com.

Gel-Pak device carriers are used in a wide variety of industries that require the proprietary Gel solution for the safe shipping and handling of leading edge technologies. When companies around the world need to transport valuable devices without risk of damage, they rely on products made by Gel-Pak. For more information, visit www.gelpak.com.

Quik-Pak uses its patented Open-Cavity Package technology and complementary assembly services to produce IC prototypes for semiconductor and MEMS manufacturers, and Fabless IC design firms. Quik-Pak can process any plastic package at any time. For more information, visit www.icproto.com.

TouchMark provides high quality pad printing services to the medical device manufacturing and consumer electronic markets. For more information, visit www.padprint.com.

Company Contact:

Darby Davis, (510) 576-2220 or darby@gelpak.com

Marketing Contact:

Jennifer Nunes (510) 576-2253 or jnunes@gelpak.com