"WORLD LEADER BUILDING MATERIALS ENGINEERING BUSINESS INTRODUCES NEW ON-LINE CATALOGUE OF PRODUCTS"

With a unique 30-year track record in international development, energy and transport, a Midlands company is introducing a new action-oriented approach to ethical business on a small scale.

JPM Parry & Associates Ltd (JPA) - based in Cradley Heath, West Midlands, UK - has successfully traded in the field of overseas development since the late 1970s.  The company is also active in the energy and transport markets.  Alongside the Soil Association, Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), IT Power and other specialist companies, JPA is a 'child of Schumacher' - not the racing driver but Dr E F Schumacher, the visionary economist who in the late 1960's changed the way the world thinks about technology, the environment and the relief of poverty in the third world.

The company's website www.parryassociates.com has unveiled its new interactive construction products page to the world.  This element of the website has changed completely and now boasts a number of new features.  Upon opening the construction products page prospective customers will see a drawing of a sample building with a range of building materials products at the base of the drawing.  The separate pages (or chapters) are listed numerically on the left hand side of the drawing.  Each CHAPTER can be viewed (in pdf format) and printed off separately.  The 'On-Line Catalogue' can be viewed as a book starting at chapter 1 and navigating through the catalogue using the Index, Next and Previous options.  Customers can also print off the complete catalogue if they wish.  With simple, easy to use navigation and clear text and drawings customers will be able to easily assess the product(s) they are interested in.

Details included on the site include:

 - full details of the company's activities in the overseas development, energy and transport fields;
 - examples of successful projects using Parry technology in Malawi, the Gambia, Kenya and Mozambique;
 - a guide to common issues in the developing world and how Parry technology addresses them;
 - AN EASY TO USE ON-LINE CATALOGUE to guide customers to our product range;

Parry technology enables development with environmental responsibility, making best use of locally-available resources.  JPA provides a full technical support service to its customers, arranging for trained African technicians to instruct new users, sometimes in other countries and continents, in the best use of the equipment.  This is an example of 'south-to-south' co-operation.

Livelihoods for tens of thousands of people in Africa, Asia and Central American have developed out of the successful introduction of Parry building materials technology using local resources.  Once set up, small workshops become viable and sustainable businesses producing materials which are in great demand for quality construction.

Partner organisations that have funded programmes based on Parry technology include the Commonwealth Secretariat, the UK's Department for International Development, and numerous non-governmental organisations (NGO's) from around the world.  JPA products are also bought by local entrepreneurs in developing countries in order to generate viable businesses in their communities.

Notes:

1.  JPM Parry & Associates Ltd was founded in 1974 by John Parry, one of the early team of directors of the Intermediate Technology Development Group and chair of its Building Materials Panel, to offer technical services to the construction industry in Britain and overseas.  Shortly afterwards, the company started to develop a range of intermediate technology machinery which could be used to produce quality building materials in developing countries using local resources.  These are now in service in over 80 countries.

2.  Applied to transport,  the Parry approach to technological development produced the flywheel energy storage system licensed to Parry People Movers Ltd (www.parrypeoplemovers.com) and which has been trialled on a branch of the UK's rail network over twelve months between December 2005 and December 2006 and due to go into full service on this same branch line in late 2008.

For further information, please contact:

John Parry MBE
CHAIRMAN

JPM Parry & Associates Ltd
Overend Road
Cradley Heath
West Midlands
B64 7DD

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