Press Release

Aug. 30, 2010

EXXCEL Breaks Ground on Yaskawa Motoman Robotics Headquarters
300,000-square-foot facility is first Dayton project for design-build firm

COLUMBUS – EXXCEL Project Management, a leading design-build firm in Columbus, announced the groundbreaking of the 300,000-square-foot Robotics Division Global headquarters/manufacturing facility for Yaskawa America Inc.’s Motoman Robotics division in Miamisburg, a suburb of Dayton. The project, EXXCEL’s first in the Dayton area, is scheduled to be completed in May. The facility, located at the northwest corner of I-75 and Austin Boulevard, will feature 85,000 square feet of corporate office space and approximately 215,000 square feet of manufacturing space, and will employ approximately 250-275. Motoman Robotics is a leading industrial robotics developer and manufacturer. Its products are used in the automotive, food processing and distribution industries, among others. “EXXCEL is excited to be entering the Dayton market, and hopes to build more projects in that area,” said Doug Reardon, EXXCEL president. In addition to the Motoman Robotics’ groundbreaking, EXXCEL is nearing completion of a new industrial processing facility in North Baltimore, Ohio, and a warehouse expansion for S.P. Richards Co., a leading business products wholesaler, at Rickenbacker Area Industrial Park in Columbus. Recently EXXCEL completed a 500,000-square-foot addition for commercial real estate developer Kirco at the Center Point Business Park in Columbus.

About EXXCEL Project Management
EXXCEL Project Management, founded in 1991, has built a niche in partnering with clients throughout the entire pre-development, development, design, site procurement, construction and post-construction process. The company possesses the capacity, skills and technology to implement solutions that work to the client’s advantage, and responds to today's facility and real estate challenges. For almost two decades, EXXCEL has successfully provided project management, construction and real estate development services to multi-unit corporation, investors and developers to partners in numerous states throughout the country and Canada. Engineering News Record magazine has ranked EXXCEL as one of the nation’s top 100 design-build firms and top 400 contractors. For more information, visit www.exxcel.com.

About Motoman Robotics Division and Yaskawa
Motoman Robotics, a division of Yaskawa America, Inc., was founded in 1989 and has grown to become the second largest robotics company in the Americas with an installed base of approximately 30,000 units. Its products include robotic automation solutions for virtually every industry and robotic application, including arc welding, assembly, coating, dispensing, material handling, material cutting, material removal and spot welding operations. Motoman Robotics’ parent, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, is the world’s leading robot manufacturer with an installed base of more than 200,000 robots and is the world’s largest manufacturer of AC drives and motion control products, including adjustable frequency drives, servo amplifiers, servomotors, machine controllers and motion controllers. For more information, visit www.motoman.com.