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Title: OTCBB:MTNA Material Technologies, Inc' 11661 San Vicente Blvd, Suite 707 Los Angeles, CA 90049 310 2


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(OTC-BBMTNA)Material Technologies, Inc.11661
San Vicente Blvd, Suite 707Los Angeles, CA
90049(310) 208-5589 Fax (310)
473-3177matech_at_att.net Statements in this
document looking forward in time involve risks
and uncertainties. Therefore actual results may
be materially different. Factors that could cause
actual results to differ include activity levels
in the securities markets and other risk factors
such as customer order rates, cancellations, late
delivery of customer, late system delivery,
production delays, dependence upon certain
customers, dependencies upon key executives,
competition, product liability risk, control by
management, and other risks detailed in the
applicable U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission filings. 8-12-05
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What Does Matech Do?
  • Provides metal fatigue monitoring systems for
    bridges
  • Exclusive rights to 7 patents
  • What our systems do
  • Find fatigue cracks more accurately (and often
    earlier) than conventional means
  • Divisions
  • Highway Bridges (100,000 inspections/yr)
  • Ready to perform final testing prior to taking
    products to the market

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Bridge Inspection Division
  • Why is more accurate (and earlier) fatigue
    detection in bridges
  • important?
  • Cracks at fatigue-critical locations can lead to
    catastrophic failures
  • Can lead to more efficient utilization of
    resources
  • For bridges, finding metal fatigue earlier leads
    to less expensive repairs,
  • avoiding later traffic rerouting, delays other
    economic penalties.
  • Avoids more expensive unnecessary secondary
    inspections, potentially saving governments
    millions!

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What would it mean to commerceif this
bridge was suddenly posted to disallow heavy
vehicle traffic?
5
The Bridge Inspection Market
Number of Metal Bridges in US 200,000
Each must be inspected at least every two years
by federal law (ie, 100,000 mandated
inspections/yr) These inspections performed
by 200 inspection companies, or local
government agencies / bridge authorities And
how do you think they are inspected????
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Bridge Inspection Methodology
And how do you think they are inspected???
A man on a ladder with a
hammer! i.e.,
visual inspection is primary The Federal
Highway Administration has said 56 of these
inspections are incorrect either by failing to
detect cracks and other structural flaws, or by
falsely reporting cracks or flaws.
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C u r r e n t B r i d g eI n s p e c t i o n
P r a c t i c e s
  • A visual inspection is performed
  • If a defect is suspected gt A second in-depth
    inspection is performed
  • using X-Ray, Ultrasound, Eddy Current, etc.
  • T H I S I S E X P E N S I V E !
  • 50 of the time, nothing was seriously wrong, so
    a second inspection was not necessary. Causing a
    waste of money and resources.
  • Potentially catastrophic structural flaws are
    frequently not
  • detected by visual-only inspections.
  • Needed maintenance that can increase useful
    bridge lifetime or prevent
  • catastrophic collapse will not be performed.

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The Matech Solution for bridge inspection
The Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor (EFS) small
currents are detected, collected, processed to
document a crack as small as 1/200 inch (or to
determine no crack with HIGH confidence) EKG
on a Bridge Most of the research and
development of this technology produced under US
Government funding (8.3M over 5 yrs) Validated
in the lab by Rockwell Scientific Corp. in late
02, - funded by MATECH
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E F S V a l u e P r o p o s i t i o nt o t h
e G o v e r n m e n t
  • Screens out unnecessary false positive
  • second inspections costing 20K or more
  • Designed to detect imminent catastrophic failure
  • Repair budget spent where really needed
  • Flags bridges that truly need more frequent
    monitoring
  • Can address bridges where heavy vehicles can lead
    to collapse

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Matechs EFS Value Propositionto Bridge
Inspection Companies(For a Typical 2-3 Span
Bridge)
  • Capital Expense 10K inspection kit (gt50 uses)
  • Typical Variable Expense Cost per inspection
  • 32 man hours _at_ 50/hr 1,600
  • 100 in disposables, 1,000 in direct overhead
  • 1,000 royalty to Matech
  • Total variable cost 3,700
  • MATECH ESTIMATES GOVERNMENT WILL PAY 10,000 FOR
    AN INSPECTION DONE w/EFS SYSTEM
  • Since inspection is much better, and costs are
    avoided
  • SEVERAL STATE DOTs INDICATE THIS COST IS VERY
    ACCEPTABLE

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EFS Revenue ModelPrimarily from licensing of
the technology
  • ROYALTY
  • 1,000 per inspection
  • (some additional profit from sale of kits and
    test consumables, too)

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Matech Alliancesto promote adoption of EFS
technology
  • We have good Washington DC and Pennsylvania
    political contacts
  • US Committee for Bridge Safety
  • A legislative effort to include the best
    available technology for bridge inspection
  • Its goal to mandate use of EFS-equivalent
    technology
  • Relationships with Departments of Transportation
  • Penn DOT, Turnpike -- New Jersey
  • California CALTrans

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Key Members ofBoard of Advisors
  • Nick Simionescu
  • Sr VP of HNTB, a large international
    infrastructure
  • engineering co.
  • Sam Schwartz
  • former head of NYC Dept. of Bridges, now
    heads up a
  • 60person infrastructure consulting firm,
    Sam Schwartz Co.
  • Marybeth Miceli
  • Director of Marketing for Sam Schwartz,
    LLC, Graduate of
  • Johns Hopkins University, MS in Materials
    Science and Engineering.
  • Brent Phares
  • Associate Director for Bridges and
    Structures at Iowa State University,
  • Previous Consulting Research Engineer at
    the Federal Highway
  • Administrations Non-Destructive
    Evaluation Validation Center.
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