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Press
Release Archives: 02/23/2004
Itronics
Announces Bulk Sales of GOLD'n GRO Liquid Fertilizer
May Double in First Quarter
RENO,
Nev., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Itronics Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: ITRO; Frankfurt Stock Exchange:
ITG), inventor and developer of the "Beneficial
Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water Recycling"
technology that produces environmentally beneficial
GOLD'n GRO liquid fertilizers, today announced bulk
sales of the fertilizer by its subsidiary, Itronics
Metallurgical, Inc., are up significantly since November.
"Our sales in January and February to date already
exceed the entire first quarter of 2003 and could double
last year's first quarter," said Dr. John Whitney,
Itronics President.
"We
are off to an excellent start in 2004, partly because
of mild winter weather in the western U.S. and especially
as a result of our 2003 and ongoing field trials. Our
products are increasingly being accepted as effective,
environmentally positive and the answer for large growers
and users of fertilizers," Dr. Whitney said. "We
continue to add new products, and are increasing the
number of distributor stores selling GOLD'n GRO, the
combination of which is driving the current sales expansion."
Itronics,
through its subsidiary Itronics Metallurgical, Inc.,
is the only company in the world with the technology
to extract more than 99 percent of the silver and virtually
all the other toxic heavy metals from used photoliquids
and to convert the resulting liquid into environmentally
beneficial, chelated, multinutrient liquid fertilizer
products sold under the trademark GOLD'n GRO, and animal
repellent/fertilizer products under the trademark GOLD'n
GRO GUARDIAN. These environmentally friendly liquid
fertilizers, which can be used for lawns and houseplants,
and the popular Silver Nevada Miner bars, a souvenir
of the Silver State, are available at the Company's
Web site: http://www.itronics.com/ .
Itronics
Inc. is one of Nevada's leading process technology companies
and a world leader in photochemical recycling. Headquartered
in Reno, Nevada, it recycles spent liquid photochemicals
into liquid GOLD'n GRO fertilizer products and GOLD'n
GRO GUARDIAN animal repellent/fertilizer products, recovers,
refines, and sells silver, manufactures a line of photochemical
silver concentrators, and provides project planning
and technical services to the mining industry. Dr. John
Whitney, Itronics President, was selected as Nevada's
Inventor of the Year for 2000 and is a member of the
Inventor's Hall of Fame at the University of Nevada,
Reno. Itronics was one of five finalists for the 2001
Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Award, the most prestigious
worldwide award in chemical engineering technologies.
VISIT
OUR WEB SITE: http://www.itronics.com/
(Statements
in this press release may constitute forward-looking
statements and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties,
including the failure to complete successfully the development
of new or enhanced products, the Company's future capital
needs, the lack of market demand for any new or enhanced
products the Company may develop, any actions by the
Company's partners that may be adverse to the Company,
the success of competitive products, other economic
factors affecting the Company and its markets, and other
risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The actual
results may differ materially from those contained in
this press release. The Company disclaims any obligation
to update any statements in this press release.)
CONTACT:
Paul Knopick, +1-888-795-6336, for Itronics, Inc.
Web
site: http://www.itronics.com/
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