Glenro and TRCM Consolidate Operations.

PATERSON, N.J. & MAYSVILLE, Ky. -- Glenro Inc. of Paterson, New Jersey and TRCM of Maysville, Kentucky announced today that Glenro and TRCM have consolidated operations effective January 01, 2005. The name of the consolidated entity is Glenro Inc. and the manufacturing operations in Maysville will be the TRCM Division of Glenro Inc.

Since 1988 TRCM, a contract manufacturing company, has manufactured hot air dryers and thermal oxidizers that Glenro has sold, designed and engineered. More recently, TRCM has also been manufacturing Glenro flatbed laminating machines. Glenro has manufactured infrared heaters and ovens in New Jersey since 1958 and in Paterson since 1979. TRCM is now expanding and manufacturing some of Glenro's infrared heaters and ovens.

In announcing the consolidation Gary Van Denend, who has been President of Glenro and TRCM said, "As a manufacturer I know the importance of working with innovative suppliers who offer goods and services that enable Glenro to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and create new capabilities. For over 45 years Glenro infrared heaters and ovens, hot air dryers, thermal oxidizers, flatbed laminating machines, and most importantly, process heating engineering have helped customers reduce energy costs, increase line speeds and productivity, as well as develop and make new products. This consolidation will give Glenro the flexibility and capacity to continue to provide innovative industrial ovens and dryers that are manufactured in the United States at competitive costs."

Glenro has been supplying process heating equipment since 1958. "We intend on serving the process heating needs of our customers well into the future," said Van Denend. "In fact, we have recently added high intensity infrared heat tunnels to our infrared oven line and are now offering our popular Radround(R) infrared heaters with the same rapid response infrared heating elements that we use in our Radplane(R) infrared heaters and ovens." This product line extension will enable manufacturers of tubing, insulated wire and extruded profiles to enjoy the benefit of almost instant heat-up and cool-down that manufacturers who dry and predry technical textiles and coated webs enjoy with Glenro's infrared heaters and ovens. Glenro will continue to offer one of the broadest lines of process heating equipment that includes infrared, convection and conduction heat transfer technologies.

Since late 2000 Glenro has been offering flatbed laminating machines and complete flatbed laminating production lines. Glenro also offers contract laminating services for making technical textiles and consolidating nonwovens and is expanding contract laminating services. Thomas Van Denend, Vice President and Product Manager Lamination said, "Contract laminating allows Glenro to process high value added products for customers until they see fit to do the manufacturing themselves with one of our flatbed laminating machines. Having laminated the product on one of our flatbed laminating machines in the contract laminating facility insures that the Glenro laminating machine that the customer purchases will produce a high quality laminated product immediately."

Glenro's engineering, lab, sales support, marketing, accounting and human resources will continue at the current location in Paterson. Glenro sales consultants will continue to work from regional sales offices and the Paterson facility will continue to have a shop for fast turnaround on repairs for northeast and southeast customers and for building developmental infrared heaters, dryers and ovens.

The TRCM division of Glenro will also continue to provide contract manufacturing of metal fabrications and laser cut parts. The company operated for over 100 years in Ripley, Ohio where it was known as The Ripley Corporation. TRCM also offers design capabilities to help customers who need engineering services as well as contract manufacturing services. A recent example of TRCM's success was designing and manufacturing stainless steel coal chutes to replace old tile lined coal chutes. The new chutes improved the flow of coal dust to lime purifying furnaces while reducing time consuming maintenance and fire hazards.