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Press
Release Archives: 04/20/2005
Experienced
'Green Industry' Professional, Howland Green, Appointed
to Itronics Board of Directors
RENO, Nev.,
April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Itronics Inc. (OTC
Bulletin Board: ITRO; Frankfurt and Berlin Stock
Exchanges: ITG) reported today that its Board of
Directors has appointed Howland Green, President of
Holly Ridge Nursery Company, West Kingston, Rhode
Island, and founding member of the North American Deer
Management Network, as a Director. Mr. Green also will
assist Itronics wholly-owned subsidiary, Itronics
Metallurgical, Inc. as Northeast Manager for GOLD'n GRO
Sales Development.
"Mr. Green
brings to Itronics more than 30 years of business
management and sales experience in the Green Industry in
the northeastern U.S.," said Dr. John Whitney, Itronics
President. Mr. Green has been a leader in developing
deer repelling products to protect landscape plantings
at homes and commercial facilities while not harming the
animals. "Our Board of Directors believes that Mr.
Green's extensive knowledge of the Landscape
Construction and Maintenance and Wholesale and Retail
Nursery markets will bring new growth opportunities to
the Company and is pleased that Mr. Green has agreed to
join Itronics management team," said Dr. Whitney.
Mr. Green is an experienced businessman and investor and
has been an Itronics shareholder for several years. He
has operated his own landscape construction and
maintenance business and retail nurseries for almost 30
years. He is also an experienced horticulturist and
earned a B.Sc. degree in Plant Sciences and Architecture
from the University of Rhode Island.
Itronics, through its subsidiary, Itronics
Metallurgical, Inc., is the only company in the world
with a "Beneficial Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water
Recycling" facility that extracts more than 99 percent
of the silver and virtually all the other toxic heavy
metals from used photoliquids and converts the resulting
liquids into environmentally beneficial, chelated,
multinutrient liquid fertilizer products sold under the
GOLD'n GRO trademark, and 5 troy ounce, 0.999 pure,
Silver Nevada Miner numismatic bars. The environmentally
friendly liquid fertilizers can be used for lawns and
houseplants, and are available, along with GOLD'n GRO
liquid fertilizer injectors, at the Company's "e-store"
catalog at http://www.goldngro.com. The popular Silver
Nevada Miner bars are available at the Company's
"e-store" catalog at http://www.itromet.com.
Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, Itronics Inc. is Nevada's
leading "Beneficial Use Recycling" company and a world
leader in photochemical recycling. The Company also
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.
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(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.)
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