FARO to Present at Noble Financial Equity Conference

LAKE MARY, Fla., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FARO Technologies, Inc., (Nasdaq: FARO) the world leader in portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software, announced that President and CEO Jay Freeland and Senior Vice President and CFO Keith Bair will present at the Fourth Annual Noble Financial Equity Conference at 4:30 p.m. (PT) on Monday, August 18, 2008 at the Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort, Nevada.

The audio will be simultaneously web cast on www.faro.com/Noble-Q3-08 .

FARO recommends registering at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the presentation to ensure timely access.

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

About FARO

With approximately 17,000 installations and 7,800 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 Photon Laser Scanners; the FARO Gage, Gage-PLUS and PowerGAGE; and the CAM2 Q family of advanced CAD-based measurement and reporting software. FARO Technologies is ISO-9001 certified and ISO-17025 laboratory registered.

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