Press release Toyota Industries discloses the preliminary end result of its public tender offer Uster, Switzerland - 7 May 2012 -Toyota Industries Corporation, Kariya-shi, Japan ("Toyota") has disclosed today the preliminary end result of its public tender offer for all publicly held registered shares of Uster Technologies Ltd ("Uster").

Until completion of the additional acceptance period of the public tender offer on 4 May 2012, 04.00 pm,
4,444,101 registered shares in Uster were tendered to Toyota. Assuming a later settlement of the public tender offer, the aggregate position of Toyota, considering the 4,444,101 Uster shares tendered under the public tender offer, amounted to a total of 8,702,478 Uster shares at the end of the additional acceptance period, corresponding to 99.4% of all Uster shares issued as of 4 May 2012 (including the 295,500 newly issued shares from the RSU Plan (out of conditional capital), according to section F.4.c. of the offer prospectus).
The settlement of the tender is scheduled for 15 May 2012 and is subject to the offer conditions having been satisfied. For detailed information please refer to the final end result of Toyota's public tender offer, which is expected to be published by Toyota in Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Le Temps on 10 May 2012.

Contacts Max U. Zellweger Geoffrey Scott Chairman of the Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer Uster Technologies Ltd Uster Technologies Ltd Sonnenbergstrasse 10 Sonnenbergstrasse 10

CH-8610 Uster / Schweiz CH-8610 Uster / Schweiz
Tel. +41 43 366 36 00 Tel. +41 43 366 36 00
Fax +41 43 366 36 04 Fax +41 43 366 36 04
E-mail investorrelations@uster.com E-mail investorrelations@uster.com

About Uster Technologies Ltd

The Uster Group is the leading high technology instrument manufacturer of products for quality measurement and certification for the textile industry. The Group provides testing and monitoring instruments, systems and services that allow optimization of quality through each individual stage of textile production; from the raw textile fiber, such as cotton, wool or synthetic filament yarns, to the final finished fabric. The Uster Group provides benchmarks that are a basis for the trading of textile products at assured levels of quality across global markets. The Group is headquartered in Uster, Switzerland and operates through a worldwide Market Organization complemented by Technology Centers. It has sales and service subsidiaries in the major textile markets and Technology Centers in Uster (Switzerland), Knoxville (USA) and Suzhou (China). In 2011, the Uster Group generated gross sales of CHF

193 million and an operating profit (EBITA) of CHF 57 million, with a workforce of approximately 500 employees.

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