BreconRidge and AFORE Solutions Announce Strategic Partnership to Provide Complete Design and Manufacturing Solutions for Electronic Equipment Suppliers

Ottawa, Canada, September 16, 2008 - BreconRidge Corporation, a world class provider of design and manufacturing services for electronic products, and AFORE Solutions Inc., a leader in the design and delivery of technology solutions for embedded systems, today announced the formation of a strategic partnership that will enable customers to exploit the best of each company’s core strengths.

Together, the companies offer a powerful solution for vertically integrated engineering and manufacturing, including collaborative design and manufacturing (CDM) and total product outsourcing (TPO). Such solutions enable equipment providers in telecommunications, defense, aerospace, medical and industrial segments to outsource complete turnkey projects from the architecture phase through detailed design and verification to product production, for complete systems or sub-systems, specific to a customers’ solution. In addition, the partnership allows complete product lines to be outsourced. This includes sustaining engineering, ongoing feature development, cost reduction, and manufacturing which provides our customer’s internal engineering and manufacturing teams the flexibility to focus on forward looking products and plans while knowing that their existing product lines are in good hands.

BreconRidge collaborates extensively with customers throughout a product’s lifecycle — from design, prototype, new product introduction (NPI), to volume manufacturing and after sales support. By establishing a strategic relationship with AFORE Solutions, BreconRidge is able to expand the scope of this full suite of product lifecycle services to include embedded software and systems development.

“Our strategic partnership offers an exciting future for our mutual and new customers with the ability to offer complete design and manufacturing solutions,” said Alex Berlin, president and CEO of AFORE Solutions. “Together, BreconRidge and AFORE offer customers the ability to more effectively leverage and optimize their design and manufacturing requirements.”

“BreconRidge’s collaborative design and manufacturing competencies, coupled with AFORE’s advanced systems development capabilities offers a unique value proposition to OEM’s requiring product development as well as manufacturing services” said Cyril McKelvie, president and CEO of BreconRidge.