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Bruce R. Hotze, Chairman and CEO
Compressor Engineering Corporation
5440 Alder; Houston, Texas 77081
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CECO Celebrates 45 years of Continuous Success

HOUSTON, TEXAS: June 5, 2009 – Forty-five years ago, on June 5, 1964, from salesman Ernest Hotze’s desire to provide his customer with needed parts for a compressor on a gas pipeline, Compressor Engineering Corporation (CECO) was formed.  From its early days in Hotze’s garage, CECO has grown into a family of companies, with locations across Texas and the South, becoming a leader in providing products and services to gas pipelines, gathering and processing companies, petrochemical, industrial and refrigeration plants worldwide.

Hotze’s original company, CECO, is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of engine and compressor replacement parts. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, CECO has repair facilities and parts inventories in Odessa and Dallas, and Walker, Louisiana, as well as an online quotation and sales system at www.ceconet.com.

CECO Pipeline Services Corporation (CPSC) constructs, repairs and maintains natural gas pipelines with services that include pipeline integrity work, pipe fabrication, coating applications, corrosion services, erosion control, grounds maintenance, compliance work and mechanical services.  CPSC’s operations are based in Houston and Irondale, Alabama.

CECO’s ACTT division provides technical training, technical services, and consulting for the natural gas and petrochemical industries and offers classroom, hands on, and online technical training programs related to the operation, maintenance and analysis of industrial machinery at refineries, chemical plants and compressor stations.  In addition, ACTT’s consultants are solving challenges presented by equipment operators across the country.

CECO founder Ernest Hotze died in 1995, but four sons -- Bruce, Mark, David and Richard -- are involved in day-to-day operations, and Ernest’s widow Margaret and son Steven sit on the boards of the privately held companies.  Bruce Hotze, CEO, said that the key to CECO’s success is to follow his father’s entrepreneurial example and remember his slogan, “Find a need, and fill it.”

More information on CECO and its family of companies is available at www.tryceco.com.

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