Esko Records Another Quarter of Profitable Growth

For the first nine months of 2006, Esko sees its consolidated packaging business growing by more than 14 percent over the same period in 2005. New system sales (excluding services) during the period increased by 27 percent year-over-year. The EBITDA margin for the full period exceeds nine percent of revenues, an improvement of four times greater than the same period in the previous year.