[Amps] upcoming CPI/Eimac move --- TSPA

[John T. M. Lyles]

This note came in todays mail, a press release from CPI/Eimac Division.

"September 15, 2004

To Our Valued Customers:

Communications and Power Industries (CPI) has reached final agreement 
with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) for the purchase by PAMF 
of the San Carlos, CA. property presently occupied by CPI's Eimac 
Division. As a result, the Eimac factor will be relocating to the CPI 
world headquarters in Palo Alto, CA., where they will be located 
alongside CPI's largest division at the ISO 9001 certified factory 
that produces world leading klystrons, TWT's, gyrotrons, complex 
transmitter subsystems, and microwave power modules (MPMs).

Planning for the Eimac Disivon move has been underway for several 
months, and site preparation in Palo Alto is already progressing. The 
factory relocation will begin in the Spring of 2005, and will be 
completed prior to September 2006. All current Eimac products and 
product lines will be moved, and continued produciton with minimal 
disruption is anticipated. The move will be carried out in planned 
phases, so that a timely relocation of a product line or specific 
process is accomplished prior to moving the next. The Palo Alto 
locaiton is just 14 miles south of the present Eimac San Carlos 
location, making the move logistics manageable and the disruption to 
the Eimac workforce minimal.

CPI is committed to completing this relocation of the Eimac Division 
with minimal disruption to the supply of products, while maintaining 
high quality and performance of our products that you have come to 
expcet from Eimac."