Hach Water Information Management Solution(tm) combines with GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms’ Water Solutions Pack 2008 to provide configurable solution for water system operations.

Loveland, Colo. – June 18, 2009 – Hach Company announced that its Hach Water Information Management Solution(tm) (Hach WIMS(tm)) is able to link to GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms’ Water Solutions Pack 2008. This highly configurable solution presents critical information of water

system operations, including process, lab and field data, to plant personnel directly from the SCADA system.

Hach WIMS is powerful, scalable water-industry-focused software that easily creates regulatory reports and helps manage water system operations. Its streamlined reporting, user-defined alerts, powerful charting, graphing, modeling and mapping tools provide accurate information for informed decisions. Hach WIMS is configurable to meet the needs of organizations of any size.

Proficy(r) HMI/SCADA – iFIX is a next-generation visualization, control and real-time information management solution, helping users to drive better analytics and leverage more reliability, flexibility and

scalability across the enterprise. The Water Solutions Pack 2008 delivers a sustainable advantage to customers with the addition of an extensive industry-specific dynamo library, NERC recommended security features, and tight integration with Hach’s WIMS software. “The Water Solutions Pack 2008 is powerful offering for iFIX designed to help water system operators reduce costs, improve quality and secure operations,” GE Fanuc’s Global Water Industry Manager Alan Hinchman said. “Our goal is to provide a rich set of tools addressing the broad needs of this industry with benefits to users that address key needs like Security and Regulatory Reporting.”

“In today’s economic climate, utilities are faced with downward pressure on costs, while also being challenged to reduce carbon footprints and increase testing with tighter specifications. Effective and sustainable water information management solutions are imperative to face these challenges,” Chuck Scholpp, Manager of IIM Business Development, said. “The direct link between the GE Fanuc and Hach products allows operators and managers access to critical water system information that is a

combination of process, lab and manual data, without leaving GE’s Proficy HMI/SCADA – iFIX environment. This collaboration is a natural combination of expertise in the water industry to provide more immediate and complete information to manage the many challenges utilities face.”

About Hach Company

For over 60 years, Hach Company (www.hach.com) has been developing innovative solutions used to test the quality of water, other aqueous solutions and air. Manufactured and distributed worldwide, Hach systems are designed to simplify analysis by offering sophisticated on-line instrumentation, accurate portable laboratory equipment, high-quality prepared reagents, complete easy-to-follow methods, and life-time technical support. Hach is a wholly owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation (www.danaher.com), a fortune 500 leader.

For more information on Hach Company and its WIMS products, please call 1-800-677-0067 in the United States, outside of the United States, please call 1-505 892-6700 or visit www.hach.com/wims.