Met-Pro Corporation Director Receives Award
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Harleysville, PA, September 10, 2008 - Raymond J. De Hont, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Met-Pro Corporation (NYSE: MPR), is proud to announce that one of the Company's long time Directors, Dr. Alan Lawley, has been recognized as a coauthor of the "Outstanding Technical Paper" from PM 2008, the World Congress on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials, held in Washington, DC, in June 2008.
Coauthored by colleagues at Drexel University and the Hoeganaes Corporation, the paper titled "Development of a Dual-Phase Precipitation-Hardening PM Stainless Steel" was selected by the Technical Board of the Metal Powder Industries Federation from over 300 technical presentations.
"We congratulate Dr. Lawley on this most recent award," said De Hont. "Met-Pro has consistently benefited from Dr. Lawley's insight, knowledge and experience for the past eighteen years and we know that this recognition is well deserved."
Dr. Lawley is Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineers (AIME) and served as co-chair for PM 2008. Dr. Lawley is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of ASM and APMI International, and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Powder Metallurgy. He is an expert in physical and mechanical metallurgy, powder metallurgy, composite materials, and materials engineering design and has consulted, lectured and published extensively in these areas. Currently, Dr. Lawley serves as a member of Met-Pro's Audit Committee, and as co-chairman of the Product Development Steering Committee.
About Met-Pro
Met-Pro Corporation, with headquarters at 160 Cassell Road, Harleysville, Pennsylvania, was recognized, for the second consecutive year, as one of America's "200 Best Small Companies" by Forbes magazine. The Company was also named as one of the world's "Top Small to Midsize Manufacturers" by Start-It magazine for the second year in a row. Through its business units, in the United States, Canada, Europe and The People's Republic of China, a wide range of products and services are offered for industrial, commercial, municipal and residential markets worldwide. These include product recovery and pollution control technologies for purification of air and liquids; fluid handling technologies for corrosive, abrasive and high temperature liquids; Mefiag filtration technologies for harsh, corrosive liquid filtration applications; and filtration and purification technologies which include proprietary water treatment chemicals and filter products for air and liquid filtration. For more information, please visit www.met-pro.com.
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Gary J. Morgan,
Senior Vice President of Finance, CFO
215-723-6751, gmorgan@met-pro.com
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