Hemiwedge(R) Cartridge Valve Selects Brock Easley as Sales Rep

Tag: Wedge Gate Valve

Shumate Industries
(OTC Bulletin Board: SHMT) announced today that its Hemiwedge Valve
Corporation division has appointed Brock Easley LLC of Centennial,
Colorado, as sales representative for Hemiwedge(R) Cartridge Valve in the
Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. Brock Easley LLC is a leader in
the supply and service of critical service valves, instrumentation,
automated valve services, over-pressure protection products, as well as
other process capital equipment. Sales coverage includes Colorado, Nevada,
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and
Idaho.

Larry Prentice, President of Brock Easley and Valve Repair Consultants,
said, "Our job is to provide innovative products and services that will
save our customers money. The Hemiwedge(R) Cartridge Valve is unique and is
supported by a very talented engineering staff in Conroe, Texas. Through
our service technicians, we experience on a daily basis, customers with
failed critical service valves. It is great to have a new solution for many
of their challenging applications."

The Hemiwedge(R) Cartridge Valve is a proprietary technology that
targets process and industrial applications such as isolation block valves,
emergency shut-down, CO2 and water injection, and especially critical
shutoff of service fluids with entrained sand and abrasive particulates.
Hemiwedge(R)'s patented hemispherical wedge design offers improved shutoff
performance over legacy engineered ball, gate, and plug valves due to
wedging action during the final seating. The proprietary cartridge
technology encases all the internals of the valve within the cartridge and
allows in-line replacements, significantly reducing down-time and supply
disruption, especially in higher maintenance service applications
containing entrained solids such as line scale, sand, and debris.

Kevin Vincent, Sales Manager for Hemiwedge Valve Corporation, said, "We
are excited to partner with Brock Easley to bring the Hemiwedge(R)
Cartridge Valve to this geographic market. We were looking for a
technically oriented organization of sales professionals to match our
product to the right applications within the oil, gas, and power
industries. This is exactly what Brock Easley has built its tremendous
reputation and success on -- solving valve application problems." Vincent
further stated, "After a ramping up period, we currently anticipate sales
of the Hemiwedge(R) Cartridge Valve to be several million annually in the
Rocky Mountain region."

Ken Chickering, President of Hemiwedge Valve Corporation, stated,
"Brock Easley's sales organization has an impeccable reputation for
professional services to their clients, and we are pleased to be aligned
with them."

Shumate Industries, Inc. is a Texas-based energy field services company
that incorporates new technologies to bring products to market leveraging
its existing infrastructure, expertise and customer channels. The Company
operates through two wholly owned subsidiaries: 1.) Shumate Machine Works,
a contract machining and manufacturing division focused in oilfield tubular
products, and 2.) Hemiwedge Valve Corporation, a proprietary new valve
technology division. The Hemiwedge division commercialized its Hemiwedge(R)
Cartridge valve product line targeting oil, gas, process and power markets
in early 2007 and is in prototype development of its Hemiwedge(R) sub-sea
high pressure valve product line and a Hemiwedge(R) down-hole valve product
line which it intends to commercialize via corporate partners. For
additional information on the Company and its products, please visit
http://www.shumateinc.com.

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difficulties in refinancing its debt, difficulties in consolidating the
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accelerating internal sales growth, volatility of the energy business and
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acceptance within the energy industry, restrictive covenants in our
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