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Magplane Joint Venture in Inner Mongolia Executes Entry Agreement
with the Baotou Rare Earth High-Tech Industrial Development Zone
BEDFORD, Mass., 29 October 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Magplane Technology, Inc. (Pink Sheets: MAGP) announces today
that its Joint Venture, Inner Mongolia Magplane Pipeline Technology
Co., Ltd., has executed a formal agreement with the Baotou Rare
Earth High-Tech Industrial Development Zone. This so called ˇ°Entry
Agreementˇ± grants the Joint Venture permission to locate within the
Economic Zone and to receive the most favorable treatment that is
given to companies within the zone including substantial tax
benefits.
The agreement grants the JV Company 32 acres
of land to establish a production base with a manufacturing capacity
of 200 km/year of double pipeline and to construct a 1 kilometer
customer demonstration line. The cost of the land will be covered
by the Economic Zone further demonstrating the importance of this
project to the Inner Mongolia mining industry.
The agreement also guarantees that the Central
Government quota of permanent magnet rare earth materials will
specifically include sufficient supply for the Joint Venture to meet
its production of pipeline, which will require 1,500 tonnes of rare
earth material per year.
Binson Du, Magplane Vice President of China
Operations, and General Manager of the Joint Venture, notes that
ˇ°this guarantee of rare earth material supply is particularly
important and valuable because the Government has established a
strict quota system on rare earth material.ˇ±
The MagPipe product is expected to become an
important technology in Inner Mongolia to reduce the transportation
bottleneck currently faced by the coal industry as well reducing
cost and pollution levels compared to diesel trucks.ˇˇ |