EarthShell Corporation And DT Industries, Inc. Announce Expanded Equipment Vendor Agreement

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EarthShell Corporation And DT Industries, Inc.

Announce Expanded Equipment Vendor Agreement

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EarthShell Corporation And DT Industries, Inc.

Announce Expanded Equipment Vendor Agreement

DTE to Assist in Manufacturing Operations as EarthShell

Seeks New Licensee To Replace Green Earth Packaging/Green Packaging

CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, Jun. 3 -/E-Wire/Business Wire/-- EarthShell(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: ERTH), innovators of food service packaging designed with the environment in mind, and DT Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTII), an engineering-driven designer, manufacturer and integrator of automation systems and related equipment used to manufacture, assemble, test or package industrial and consumer products, announced today that EarthShell and Detroit Tool and Engineering Company (DTE), a DT Industries, Inc. subsidiary, have signed an expanded equipment vendor agreement which designates DTE's proprietary equipment platform and product manufacturing process as the preferred technology for the equipment to be used in the production of EarthShell Packaging products other than hot cups.

Under the terms of the agreement, DTE will be the exclusive supplier of equipment incorporating DTE's proprietary equipment platform and product manufacturing processes.

Significant progress and development with this equipment have enabled DTE to guarantee specific levels of performance, which in turn, provides customers confidence to purchase these new lines which will produce EarthShell Packaging products, such as plates and bowls, at targeted economic and commercial levels.

Additionally, DTE has committed to temporarily assist EarthShell in its manufacturing operations for the production of EarthShell Packaging plates and bowls at DTE's Lebanon, Missouri facility. Products manufactured in Lebanon, Missouri will supply current EarthShell Packaging customers including Wal-Mart and other retail accounts, federal, state and local government agencies as well as other food service operations.

EarthShell also announced today that it is currently working to conclude the licensing agreement with Green Earth Packaging/Green Packaging. Green Earth Packaging/Green Packaging and EarthShell have become mutually concerned regarding the resources committed to service current customers properly and the ability and timing to achieve specific goals. Today's announcement regarding DTE's temporary assistance in the manufacturing of EarthShell Packaging is the result of a decision to discontinue the licensing relationship between EarthShell and Green Earth Packaging/Green Packaging.

EarthShell sandwich containers, plates, bowls and wraps are designed with the environment in mind. Developed over many years using a "life cycle inventory" and in consultation with leading environmental experts, EarthShell products reduce the environmental burdens of rigid food service packaging through the careful selection of raw materials, processes and suppliers. The products are made primarily from natural limestone and potato starch. The new packaging poses substantially fewer risks to wildlife than polystyrene foam packaging because it biodegrades when exposed to moisture in nature, physically disintegrates in water when crushed or broken, and can be composted in a commercial facility (where available) or in your backyard. In addition, the company has recently introduced flexible packaging in the form of sandwich wraps that also have been developed using a "life cycle inventory." Like EarthShell's rigid packaging, the wraps also biodegrade when exposed to moisture and bacteria in nature and can be composted in a commercial facility (where available) or in your backyard.

EarthShell Corporation is a development stage company engaged in the licensing and commercialization of proprietary composite material technology for the manufacture of foodservice disposable packaging, including cups, plates, bowls, hinged-lid containers, and sandwich wraps. In addition to certain environmental characteristics, EarthShell Packaging is designed to be cost and performance competitive compared to other foodservice packaging materials.

For more information about EarthShell Corporation, please visit www.earthshell.com and for DT Industries, please visit www.dtindustries.com.

This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties of other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in the Company's most recent Form 10-K and other documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EarthShell Corporation

EarthShell Corporation, Media Inquiries: Cindy Eikenberg,

410/847-9420, Investor Inquiries: 866/438-3784,

[REDACTED-EMAIL] or Media Inquiries: Euro RSCG Middleberg, Rosemary Ostmann, 212/699-2635,

[REDACTED-EMAIL], or DT Industries, Inc.,

John M. Casper, 937/586-5600

http://www.earthshell.com

http://www.dtindustries.com

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