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| February 13, 2023

E Tech Group Promotes Navid Radnia, PMP to Director of Project Management

We’re pleased to announce that Navid Radnia has been promoted to the role of Corporate Director of PMO (Project Management Office). In this new role, Navid’s mission will be to create and continually improve on processes and methodologies that positions E Tech to deliver exceptional service to our clients on every project. Navid’s initial main focus will be to help establish project management and execution standards for the company. He will lead this collaborative effort with internal teams, using E Tech Playbook as a starting point, and pulling in best practices from other areas of the company to formulate a standard set of operating procedures that work best for the company as a whole. Navid has been with E Tech Group since the end of 2021, quickly earning the respect of his colleagues. He was nominated for several ETG Group Awards, including Rookie of the Year. Navid has a proven track record in project management excellence, delivering projects such as the world’s first compact proton therapy center – a highly targeted radiation treatment for cancer patients. His well-rounded expertise includes roles in Project Management and Production Control, as well as Field Service Engineer. Navid is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has his Six Sigma Green Belt.

| February 2, 2023

Delivering a 1.5 Year ROI on a $2M Line Automation Recontrol

A large steel service center client was seeing troubling trends in its temper mill cut-to-length line: increasing downtime, lower-than-desired yields, and higher scrap losses. The client needed the problem(s) identified and mitigated ASAP so as to avoid more productivity loss and material hemorrhaging. Obstacle: Hack a Standalone Black-Box Control System The client was hampered in its ability to troubleshoot and improve the processes because the OEM equipment and its controls and drives programs were a “black box” solution. This meant only the OEM and its technicians had the source code of the software used to run the equipment. Without expert eyes, there was no way for the client to access and properly reconfigure the equipment and its controls. Solution: Perform a Comprehensive Process Analysis on the Mill Line Enter E Tech Group. With a 30-year Center of Excellence in the metals industry, electrical and mechanical engineering expertise, and deep knowledge of coordinated drive systems and automation modernization, E Tech Group consultants studied the client’s entire temper mill line. This included evaluating all of the upstream and downstream processes, the equipment and automation platforms, and the variety of alloys being cut to length. E Tech Group has held long-term partnerships with key automation manufacturers having executed thousands upgrades and recontrol projects over the past thirty years. As a Gold Partner with Rockwell and Solution Partner with Siemens, we confidently proposed the Rockwell PLC and Siemens Drives – a combination used often throughout many of E Tech Group’s previous projects that delivers the “best of breed” for both the PLC and Drives platforms. In addition, newly replaced levelers, hydraulic stands and piping were coupled with the far more accurate sensor and data reporting from the new PLCs and Drives back to the operators for enhanced and timely notification and decision making. Results: A Complete Control System Solution … Continued

| January 19, 2023

New Additions to E Tech Group’s Metals and Life Sciences Teams

We are beginning the New Year with additions to our executive team: Carmelo Bottari is our new Director of Business for the Metals Division. Carmelo is from the Chicago area and joins us from Kay Manufacturing where he held roles such as Engineer, Engineering Manager, & Plant Manager over his 13 year career with them. Carmelo has a BS in Engineering and a Master’s in Engineering Management from Northwestern University. Patricio Gomez is our new Business Development Manager for the Southern California Area. Gomez is from Chile, and has a BS in Computer and Information Engineering and diploma in Telecommunications from Universidad de Santiago de Chile. For 13+ years, he worked for our automation partners at Rockwell, where he led their Latin America marketing divisions, and served as Account Manager for the Waste Water Industry. Welcome to the E Tech Group team!

| January 18, 2023

Congratulations to Our Recently Promoted Team Members

We are kicking off 2023 with some exciting management promotions. Laurie Cavanaugh is promoted to Vice President of Business Development for Strategic Industries. Laurie has been with E Tech Group for more than 7 years. During that time she has demonstrated her ability to grow the business and sales team through her direct sales efforts, leadership and dedication. Jeff Allen has accepted the position as Manager of Application Engineering. Jeff has done a fantastic job leading our Metals team over the past year, and we look forward to him to bringing the same kind of high impact contribution to his new role. Ryan Brown is promoted to Business Director for our General Industries Program. Ryan has been with E Tech Group for almost 17 years and has made an impact in variety of technical & sales roles. Within Process Industries, we have also promoted Josh Brumback to PEM for CPG/F&B, Shawn Cochran to GEM for General Industries, & Melissa Bruno-Phelps to GEM for Material Handling. Andrew Maruszewski has been promoted to CRM Manager. Andrew has been instrumental in the planning and implementation of our CRM system company wide and is responsible for its successful adoption and maintaining its data integrity. Thank you all for your dedication and hard work to E Tech Group and our clients.