R&D tax rebates give manufacturers incentive to innovate.

TORONTO, ON. – January 11, 2007 - T-JI Talfourd-Jones Inc., the North American leader in custom Reflex Bumpers™ and fenders for transit, announced that, the Federal Government’s R&D tax rebates were a key encouragement in developing it’s new Reflex technology. “Funding such an enormous project was thought provoking for us,” said Bill Cherry, President of T-Ji, a key player in the transit industry, “But the rebating of some of our tax paid dollars gave us that extra incentive to go for it.”

T-Ji’s new Reflex Bumpers Reduce Maintenance Costs
“The objective was to design and build a transit bumper that would reduce the cost of maintaining a Transit Bus,” stated Cherry. “this amounts to Federal Dollars providing indirect funding to Transit agencies through huge cost reductions due to longer life and lower modular replacement costs.” Attacking both the OEM and aftermarket, T-Ji is quickly establishing share of mind at the agency level by addressing this number one issue plaguing transit industry managers – operating costs. T-Ji’s new line of standard Reflex Bumpers is specifically designed to leverage Life Cycle Costing, a significant new tool, which managers are increasingly using to combat rising operating costs. High-performance, corrosion-resistant Reflex Bumpers have the lowest lifetime maintenance and replacement cost in the industry. T-Ji’s new Standard Reflex Bumpers are supplied with a unique isolator which eliminates galvanic corrosion and allows fit-up to virtually any bus. Whether dressing up an aging fleet or deployed on the latest BRT, transit managers and OEM engineers alike are taking advantage of T-Ji’s superior Reflex Technology.

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