FARO to Present at Needham Growth Stock Conference

LAKE MARY, Fla., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FARO Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FARO), the world market leader in portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser tracker sales, announced that President and CEO Jay Freeland and Senior Vice President and CFO Keith Bair will present at the Ninth Annual Needham Growth Stock Conference. They will deliver the presentation on January 10, 2007 at 8:00 a.m. (ET) at New York Palace Hotel, New York, NY.

The audio will be simultaneously web cast on http://www.wsw.com/webcast/needham16/faro/. (Some web sites register the address as two lines, inexplicably add an extra space and/or omit the link segment after the line break. If necessary, please copy and paste both URL segments and delete any extra spaces.)

It is recommended that interested parties register at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the presentation to ensure timely access.

For more information on the FARO's global industries, applications and products, visit www.faro.com

About FARO

With more than 13,000 installations and 5,700 customers globally, FARO Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and markets portable, computerized measurement devices and software used to create digital models -- or to perform evaluations against an existing model -- for anything requiring highly detailed 3-D measurements, including part and assembly inspection, factory planning and asset documentation, as well as specialized applications ranging from surveying, recreating accident sites and crime scenes to digitally preserving historical sites.

FARO's technology increases productivity by dramatically reducing the amount of on-site measuring time, and the various industry-specific software packages enable users to process and present their results quickly and more effectively.

Principal products include the world's best-selling portable measurement arm -- the FaroArm; the world's best-selling laser tracker -- the FARO Laser Tracker X and Xi; the FARO Laser ScanArm; FARO Laser Scanner LS; the FARO Gage, Gage-PLUS and PowerGAGE; and the CAM2 family of advanced CAD-based measurement and reporting software. FARO Technologies is ISO-9001 certified and ISO-17025 laboratory registered.

Learn more at www.faro.com

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Web site: http://www.faro.com
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