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SPX Service Solutions and Keating Technologies Announce Business Agreement

15 April 1999

SPX Service Solutions and Keating Technologies Announce Business Agreement

    WARREN, Mich., April 15 -- Service Solutions, a unit of SPX
Corporation , today announced that they have reached an agreement
with Keating Technologies, Tucson, Arizona, to supply inspection and emissions
testing equipment for the emissions testing program in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
    After an extensive evaluation, SPX Service Solutions was chosen for the
quality and value of its equipment including the engineering of the supporting
software.  SPX Service Solutions will provide roughly 50% of the required
equipment to Keating Technologies, the network contractor for the
Massachusetts Enhanced Vehicle Inspection Program.  The contract also includes
a 7-year service warranty and service provision for the SPX Service Solutions
portion of the estimated 1,200 Keating provided units.
    Tom Fournier, Executive Vice President, Keating Technologies, remarked,
"This new equipment will provide state of the art technology to the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, assisting in the effort to reduce the amount of
air pollution contributed by vehicles in the Commonwealth.  This activity will
put the Commonwealth in compliance with Federal EPA, clean air mandates and
the program should serve as a model for activity in other jurisdictions."
    Tom Riordan, President, SPX Service Solutions, commented, "We are pleased
to have been put through such an extensive evaluation of potential partners.
SPX was clearly a leader in meeting the uncompromising value, quality, high
performance, and stringent service needs of both the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and Keating Technologies."
    Keating Technologies is a leading contractor in the design, development,
implementation and operation of both centralized and decentralized emissions
programs.
    Service Solutions, a unit of SPX Corporation, is a leader in special
service tools and equipment, electronic diagnostics, emissions testing
equipment and technical information services for the global motor vehicle
industry.  SPX Corporation is a global provider of industrial products and
services, technical products and systems, service solutions and vehicle
components.  The Internet address for SPX Corporation's home page is
http://www.spx.com.
    Certain statements in this press release are forward looking statements
within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended and are subject to the safe harbor created thereby.  Please refer to
the Company's Form 10-K for 1998, and its 1998 Third Quarter Report on Form
10-Q for discussion of certain important factors that relate to forward
looking statements contained in this press release.  Although the Company
believes that the expectations reflected in any such forward looking
statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations
will prove to be correct.