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November 14, 2001

JL White Joins SCIVEX Team

Scivex, Inc., an Oak Harbor, WA, holding company, announces that JL White Technical Sales, Inc. of Santa Clara, CA, joined forces October 11 with its other component companies: Upchurch Scientific of Oak Harbor, WA, and Sapphire Engineering of Pocasset, MA. Scivex companies specialize in fluid-transfer components for analytical lab, diagnostic and medical device instruments.

JL White provides technical sales and customer support in northern California for Upchurch Scientific and Sapphire Engineering along with other client companies. The company is a manufacturers' representative specializing in advanced polymers and fluidic components for the analytical and diagnostic industries.

“The JL White sales team, brings tremendous engineering experience and sales contacts to Scivex,” said Alan Schell, CEO of Scivex and Upchurch Scientific. “They are one of the best sales engineering groups in Scivex’s target market.”

JL White CEO Jim White was also enthusiastic about the merger.

“We look forward to working more closely with Upchurch and Sapphire,” said White. “They offer some of the finest products and processes for solutions to customer needs in the liquid transfer industry.

“We have the desire and the experience needed to listen to the technical needs and concerns of our customers in all phases of the design through decision making processes,” White continued. “We are committed to bringing further success to Upchurch and Sapphire — as well as our other principals and, most importantly, to our customers — through the core values of trust, honesty and integrity.”

Schell agreed and commented further.

“They have a seal line that compliments Scivex’s existing products,” said Schell. “This is an important step in our strategy of offering the total fluidic solution for our customers.” KRG Capital Partners, L.L.C. is the leading equity sponsor of Scivex. KRG is a Denver, CO based private equity firm with approximately $700 million in committed capital under management.



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