Edmonton, AB – August 19, 2004 Matrikon Inc. (TSX:MTK) today announced that Sasol's Secunda site in South Africa has entered into a site-wide license for ProcessDoctor, Matrikon's solution for monitoring and optimizing the assets that control plants. Secunda is one of the world's largest stand-alone manufacturing facilities with 19 plants covering an area of 14 km2. ProcessDoctor will monitor and help sustain the performance of 9,400 control loops at the 19 plants. The value of the contract was not disclosed.Matrikon's ProcessDoctor product manager, Warren Mitchell, commented on the site license: "Our ProcessDoctor technology has once again been validated. We are pleased that Sasol, one of the world's largest and most advanced manufacturing facilities, has selected ProcessDoctor as their control monitoring solution following a thorough evaluation of the products available. This contract increases the market penetration of ProcessDoctor in the chemicals industry and improves our opportunity for similar agreements with other major companies."ProcessDoctor is a total solution for identifying opportunities to improve control performance and subsequently ensuring control performance is maintained at optimal levels. Plant profitability, both in terms of revenue generated and cost to produce, is a direct result of control performance. ProcessDoctor provides a unified platform for detecting and correcting problems, benchmarking and improving control performance and reducing maintenance costs through a condition-based approach.About Sasol GroupThe Sasol Group of companies comprises diversified fuel, chemical and related manufacturing and marketing operations, complemented by interests in technology development and oil and gas exploration and production.Its principal feedstocks are obtained from coal, which the company converts into value-added hydrocarbons through Fischer-Tropsch process technologies. Sasol also uses various petrochemical feedstocks in its chemical plants outside of South Africa. It also has interests in crude oil refining and chemical production and marketing through a number of global strategic partners or joint ventures. More recently, Sasol has embarked on developing international gas-to-liquids ventures, based on its unique Slurry Phase Distillate process.Sasol is listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange, (JSE), symbol (SOL) and on the New York Securities Exchange (NYSE), symbol (SSL).About Matrikon Inc.Matrikon (www.matrikon.com) is a leading provider of technology that delivers solutions for industrial agility and through innovation, is shaping the future of industrial plants. Our technology enables plants to achieve operational excellence by transforming production data into knowledge to predict and prevent problems and optimize operations. Our customers achieve agile operations through the combination of external market and plant data to make informed, intelligent decisions in real-time.With offices in major cities throughout North America, Australia, Europe and the Middle East and a global client base including industry leaders in a wide range of manufacturing and process industries, Matrikon’s reach is global.
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