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RT Industries, Inc. and Quality Automotive Company Merger Completed

4 September 1997

RT Industries, Inc. and Quality Automotive Company Merger Completed

    ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 4 -- RT Industries, Inc.
a Sanford, Florida manufacturer and distributor of automotive brake pads and
Quality Automotive Company, Inc. a privately held manufacturer of friction
materials and brake pads and a remanufacturer of automotive brake shoes, with
over 160 employees based in Tappahannock, Virginia, today announced that they
have completed the merger of the two companies originally announced in June.
    RT Industries will conduct operations under the name U.S. Automotive
Manufacturing, Inc., which name shall be licensed by the wholly owned
subsidiary of Quality Automotive of the same name (such subsidiary to change
its operating name to, and hereafter be known as, U.S. Automotive Friction,
Inc.).  U.S. Automotive will employ materials manufactured by U.S. Friction
with respect to all of its product offerings and will relocate its corporate
headquarters to Tappahannock, Virginia.  The Sanford facility of U.S.
Automotive will continue to manufacture brake pads and shall serve as the
regional distribution center for the full line of automotive brake products.
    Quality Automotive which has conducted operations under that name since
1980 will continue to operate under the Quality Automotive name.  Martin
Chevalier, the President and CEO of Quality Automotive since 1989 has become
the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of the combined company.
John W. Kohut, a director since 1987 and Chairman of the Finance Committee of
Quality Automotive, has become Chairman of the Board of Directors of U.S.
Automotive.  Messrs. Chevalier and Kohut, the prior owners of Quality
Automotive, at closing, have become the largest shareholders of U.S.
Automotive.  David Love will continue to serve U.S. as a director and as
chairman of its Audit Committee.  Mandel Sherman will also continue as
director of U.S. Automotive.
    For the calendar end December 31, 1996, the combined net revenues of RT
and Quality were in excess of $20,000,000.
    U.S. Automotive believes that the merger will provide a platform for the
future growth of the combined companies.  U.S. Automotive intends to position
itself to compete more formidably in the manufacture and sale of friction
materials as well as other "under car" automotive parts through both
acquisitions and internal growth.

SOURCE  RT Industries, Inc.