ARGONAUT TECHNOLOGIES

Argonaut Technologies, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of products designed to help chemists. The company’s principal markets are in the United States, Western Europe, and the Far East. The company offers its products in 15 foreign countries, including China, Australia, Korea, Eastern Europe, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy and Spain. Subsidiaries The company has five wholly owned subsidiaries, Argonaut Technologies Systems, Inc. in Indiana; Argonaut Technologies KK in Japan; Argonaut Technologies AG in Switzerland; Argonaut Technologies, Ltd. in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom; and Jones Chromatography, Inc. in Redwood City, California.