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Press
Release Archives: 05/04/2006
Itronics
Adds Senior Agronomist to GOLD'n GRO Fertilizer Sales
Team
RENO, Nev., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Itronics
Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ITRO; Frankfurt and Berlin
Stock Exchanges: ITG) reported today that its
wholly-owned subsidiary Itronics Metallurgical has
appointed Dr. Perry Bosshart, a highly qualified
agronomist, soil scientist, and environmental
remediation specialist, to its GOLD'n GRO sales team as
Senior Agronomist.
Dr. Bosshart earned Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Agronomy
from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg, Va., and a B.Sc. in Agricultural
Science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Ill. He is a Certified Professional Agronomist,
Certified Professional Soil Scientist, and a Certified
Crop Adviser.
Dr. Bosshart has more than 30 years experience as a
leader and manager of research, market development, and
the use of the latest technology to optimize plant
growth, minimize production costs, conserve natural
resources, and safe guard the environment by remediation
of metal contaminated soils. His field crop experience
includes annual and perennial, food and fiber,
herbaceous and woody, rain fed and irrigated, temperate
and tropical, including sugarcane, oil palm, cacao,
rice, forages, hybrid poplar, corn, and soybeans. Past
employers include the Hawaiian Sugar Planters'
Association, Potash & Phosphate Institute, Horsehead
Resource Development Co., Inc., MeadWestVaco Corp. and
Horizon Ag-Products.
"Dr. Bosshart will be responsible for on-going
development and advancement of crop fertilization
applications for the GOLD'n GRO liquid fertilizers,"
said Dr. John Whitney, Itronics President. "We are
excited to add such a highly qualified person to our
GOLD'n GRO agronomy group. This addition to Itronics
professional staff will enable the Company to move
forward more quickly in implementation of its previously
adopted eight part long term business growth plan."
About Itronics
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://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 a
"Creative Environmental Technology" company and a world
leader in photochemical recycling. The Company also
provides project planning and technical services to the
mining industry and operates the global Internet
Information Portal, http://www.insidemetals.com. 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. Itronics was awarded second place, Highly
Commended in the Environmental Technology category, at
the prestigious Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
2005 Worldwide Environmental Award ceremonies at the
Royal Courts of Justice in London, England in September
2005. Itronics was awarded the USA Gold Award at the
House of Commons in London in November 2005 as part of
the International Green Apple Environmental Awards
contest, one of the largest and most prestigious of its
kind in the world. Itronics' GOLD'n GRO fertilizer was
named one of the top 10 new technologies representing
the best of agricultural innovation by the Canadian
Association of Agri-Retailers in its December 2005
publication "Communicator."
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