MFG.com Makes Debut on the World Wide Web and Captures First Move Advantage

Atlanta, Ga., - February 14, 2000 - MFG.com LLC announced today the official launch of a new industrial World Wide Web site at www.MFG.com. This exclusive Internet service is designed to serve as the first Web-based marketplace that connects job shops with companies purchasing custom manufacturing services. The web site allows buyers to conduct a private quoting process to procure the best value in cost and quality from participating job shops. Unlike other web sites, which primarily offer or bid for industrial hard goods, MFG.com focuses on providing a secure virtual stockyard of Request for Quotations (RFQs) for manufacturing services such as precision CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication and rapid prototyping.

MFG.com also offers a broad spectrum of industrial products and services including software, translation services, and more. The MFG.com online service is simple to use. Companies buying manufacturing services or Buyers post an RFQ by completing an online form and attaching a drawing. Job shops or Vendors who are MFG.com members can search for RFQs that meet their expertise and capacity at any time. To bid, they just fill out an on-line quote submission form that is sent directly to the buyer. This process generates competitive quotes from jobs shops delivered via E-mail to potential customers...in record time. "MFG.com provides a private negotiating channel for manufacturing companies with buying power to solicit a competitive deal with qualified job shops," states Mitch Free, president of MFG.com®. "The site is easy-to-navigate with state-of-the-art security. Companies can post and search Request for Quotations (RFQs) 24 hours a day.

MFG.com will be a 'win-win' for both buyers and sellers looking to improve their bottom line and reduce the total bidding process from weeks to days. The site will also consistently expand to provide value-added products, information and services for our audience of manufacturing-oriented businesses - both large and small. Our mission is to make MFG.com a household word in the industrial marketplace."

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About MFG.com
MFG.com is the largest global online marketplace for the manufacturing industry. MFG.com instantly and intelligently matches sourcing professionals and engineers with suppliers who have the right expertise and capacity to manufacture parts and tooling on demand in accordance with their engineering drawings and CAD files. MFG.com's on-demand service is consolidating the once- fragmented world of manufacturing into an efficient marketplace, enabling products to be sourced and built more easily, quickly, inexpensively, and at higher quality levels. For more information, please visit http://www.MFG.com.