The agreement also enables EKOBASE to purchase a number of Startech Plasma Converter Systems uniformly during the following years as a minimum requirement to maintain the possession of the distributorship.

Ales Oblak, EKOBASE’s president and chief operating officer said, ‘Our primary territory of more than 30 million people is a region that has suffered greatly from environmental abuses, and also from the neglect of former regimes. We are now working closely with various municipal administrations that hold sacred the United Nations’ objectives and aspirations for ‘Sustainable Development,’ and we are working to reverse the threat to the public-health-and-safety. Plans are already in progress for our first Plasma Converter facility to be located in Slovenia.’

‘While much of our focus is in the Balkans, we will also be serving markets in Central Europe and in the Near-east. Primar.en d.o.o. of Maribor, a fully-owned subsidiary of EKOBASE, will provide the technical and engineering support for the Distributorship.’

Joseph F. Longo, president of Startech, said, ‘Austria, Slovenia and the Balkan Region are unique in a great many respects wherein EKOBASE will help to strengthen Startech’s presence in Central Europe. The Republic of Slovenia is one of the newest members of the European Union. The EU is a major economic and political community of twenty-seven countries with some 500 million citizens. Slovenia recently held the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, and it is also a member of NATO. It has adopted the Euro as its currency.’