Gatan obtains ISO9001:2000 certification

May 19, 2008

Warrendale, PA and Pleasanton, CA, April 25, 2008 – Gatan, Inc. successfully obtained ISO9001:2000 certification. This certification covers both Gatan's Manufacturing headquarters in Warrendale, PA and its Research and Development headquarters in Pleasanton, CA. This milestone corroborates Gatan’s long-lived commitment to improve the quality of our products and services to our customers. Since our inception, Gatan has and continues to set and implement measureable and definitive quality objectives throughout the company to advance our quality management system. Our ultimate goal is to become the benchmark of quality and service for imaging and analysis products in the electron microscopy industry.