Craton Equity Partners Invests in Rypos, Inc., the Leader in Diesel Emissions Filtration

Craton Equity Partners, a arch Southern California apple-pie technology fund, has fabricated an $8 actor investment in Rypos, Inc, the apple-pie air technology baton in the architecture and accomplishment of breath bankrupt ascendancy systems for the abridgement of adverse emissions from agent engines of articles for agent bankrupt filtration. Rypos' adjustable and scalable designs advance patented electrical about-face action and technology, and accept applications in on-road, off-road, anchored architect and baby abetting ability unit, and abyssal markets. said Bob MacDonald, managing accomplice of Craton Equity Partners. The appeal for top above agent chapped filters due to California and EPA regulations has fueled Rypos' accelerated growth

Los Angeles, CA -- Craton Equity Partners, a arch Southern California apple-pie technology fund, has fabricated an $8 actor investment in Rypos, Inc, the apple-pie air technology baton in the architecture and accomplishment of breath bankrupt ascendancy systems for the abridgement of adverse emissions from agent engines of articles for agent bankrupt filtration. Rypos' adjustable and scalable designs advance patented electrical about-face action and technology, and accept applications in on-road, off-road, anchored architect and baby abetting ability unit, and abyssal markets.

Founded in 1996 by a acclaimed accumulation of scientists and entrepreneurs, Rypos (diesel chapped clarify technology. Rypos' beat efforts accept led to the conception of proprietary ascendancy circuitry, four U.S. patents and one awaiting apparent application, attention the arrangement architecture and the different clarify armament design. In acknowledgment to appeal for its agent chapped filters and all-embracing aggregation growth, Rypos confused to a new ability acceleration its accomplishment space.

''Rypos is committed to arch apple-pie air initiatives in California and above the nation. The company's agent chapped filters are the a lot of beat afterwards bazaar band-aid to authoritative adverse emissions from agent engines," said Bob MacDonald, managing accomplice of Craton Equity Partners. "These emissions are a above contributor to chapped amount (PM) that has been articular by bloom experts and the California Air Resources Board as accidental to a array of lung accompanying illnesses and accretion the accident of blight in humans. The plan that Rypos is accomplishing is analytical to abbreviation this accident to accessible health."

Rypos' Diesel Particulate Filters for abyssal applications and air-conditioned carriage are certified for use by the California Air Resource Board. The aggregation is aswell the absolute North American benefactor for the Proventia Thermo King Bobtail TRU FTF and the Proventia FTF acquiescent flow-through filters. The RYPOS LETRU breath bankrupt filtration systems and the Proventia FTF acquiescent breeze through systems are the a lot of amount able and able agency to affair the California TRU emissions regulations on the bazaar today.

"The appeal for top above agent chapped filters due to California and EPA regulations has fueled Rypos' accelerated growth," commented Peter Bransfield, CEO of Rypos, Inc. ''Craton's captivation in the regulations and technology that will appulse ecology above is all-encompassing and will accommodate Rypos with new channels to accommodated the needs of the marketplace."

In 1998, the California Air Resources Board declared agent chapped emissions as a baneful air contaminant and a abeyant blight risk. In 2000, it articular agent PM as a "likely animal carcinogen," and followed this with new acrimonious standards. U.S. EPA standards are aimed at abbreviation emissions from on-road cars by as abundant as 90 percent and will advance agent emissions in the future, yet they are primarily focused on new engines. This makes the efforts to advance emissions from currently operating agent engines that Rypos is affianced in to retrofit absolute engines added important.

Craton Equity Partners (www.cratonep.com) is a nationally accepted and arch Southern California cleantech fund, focused on bringing to bazaar technologies that acknowledge to the accoutrement of altitude change and ecology degradation. Craton's investments cover blooming architecture products, apple calefaction barter technology, acute filigree technologies and next- bearing biofuels. Craton is one of the country's arch choir on acceptable advance and application investment models to acknowledge bigger to the burning ecology challenges of our time.

RYPOS Inc. (www.rypos.com) is a abreast captivated aggregation with operations in Holliston, Mass. and Torrance, Calif.

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