Montreal, Canada and Brooklyn, New York— August 5, 2009 — RECOM POWER Inc. and Future Electronics today announced that both companies have agreed to an Americas franchise distribution partnership. Future's strong application engineering, marketing, and supply chain management will provide RECOM with a differentiated partner and the opportunity to service customers in the Americas.

"RECOM is very pleased to be represented by Future Electronics, a world-class leader in distribution for 40 years. Future's sales coverage in the Americas, will allow RECOM and Future to expand the advantages of our technology to their customers," said Christoph Wolf, RECOM POWER’s Vice President of Sales. "Future recognizes the great opportunities with RECOM. Our state of the art products offer extremely high quality and are very price competitive against discrete solutions or other suppliers on the market."

"We are very excited with this new partnership with RECOM in the Americas," said Ryan Petsche, Product Line Manager, Future Electronics. "RECOM's power products will enable Future's sales and engineering team to provide efficient solutions to our customers' design challenges in a wide range of Power and Lighting applications."