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Atrion hosts largest International User Group Conference in Company History

Montreal, Canada, September 17, 2007— Atrion today announced that it has hosted yet another successful International User Group Conference — the largest in company history. Last week in Montreal, at the Marriott Chateau Champlain, over 90 customers assembled to hear Atrion’s management, staff and experts present information on corporate vision and mission, the future of REACH and its implications on their business as well as product roadmaps, new features and improvements.  Future release information for SAP® EH&S, content, applications and rules was shared via interactive demo pods.

The annual IUG conference offers Atrion the opportunity to hear directly from its customers about their regulatory and technical business challenges. This year, Atrion also invited valued partners, Actio Corporation, Linx/AS, REACHWay Oy and Infor to participate to show a deep commitment to customer needs. During the 3 day event, global customers such as: Ecolab, Sun Chemicals, Jotun, Akzo Nobel and DSM offered users a broad range of perspectives in a variety of presentations and testimonials.

Peter Goddard, Yara International, outgoing board member of Atrion’s International User Group said, “this year’s event went well beyond expectations for attendance, diversity of subjects covered and peer-presentations. Atrion showed an openness to discuss matters not often put on the table at this type of venue.”

Patrick Lavoie, President & CEO of Atrion International stated, “we’d like to thank all participants for attending and we’re pleased to have brought so many industry-leading representatives under one roof to help them optimize investments in Atrion solutions. We’d also like to extend a warm welcome to our incoming IUG Board: Simon Hosken, Cookson Electronics, Enthone, Liv Marthe Føllesdal, Dynea Oy and Mark Howe from PPG Industries.”

Atrion International Inc.

Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, is the leading developer of solutions combining regulatory expertise and industry-leading technology to help create, manage and distribute a variety of hazard communication documents and reports in over 40 languages.  Atrion provides an innovative approach for manufacturing organizations with Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) departments tasked with managing hazardous and regulated materials. Atrion International is a global software company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.

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