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C-Tech Industries' Parent Buys Victor Midland, Inc.

25 October 1999

C-Tech Industries' Parent Buys Victor Midland, Inc.

    CAMAS, Wash., Oct. 25 -- C-Tech Industries, formerly known as
Cleaning Technologies Group, announced today that its parent company, Harbour
Group, has acquired Victor Midland, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of
equipment, parts, and accessories for the industrial cleaning equipment
market.  Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
    As announced in July of this year, The Hotsy Corp., of Englewood, Colo.;
Landa, Inc., of Camas; Cuda Cleaning Systems, Inc., of Calumet, Mich.; and
Rhino Industries, of Minneapolis were combined into a new company called
Cleaning Technologies Group.  Cleaning Technologies Group has been renamed
C-Tech Industries.
    C-Tech, based here, is the leading North American manufacturer and
distributor of cleaning equipment.  Through its Hotsy, Landa, Cuda, and Rhino
companies, C-Tech manufactures hot and cold pressure washers, waste water
treatment and recycling systems, evaporators, parts washers, detergents, parts
and accessories.
    Victor Midland, based in Springdale, Ark., owns Spraymart Pressure Supply
and Tuff Manufacturing.  Spraymart is the leading distributor of parts and
accessories for pressure washers.  Tuff is a full-line manufacturer of hot and
cold pressure washers.  Founded in 1988, Victor Midland has 157 employees and
approximately 90,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehousing space.
Products are sold through traditional pressure washer and cleaning equipment
channels.
    C-Tech President Andrew Gale said, "The acquisition of Victor Midland
enhances our ability to provide our customers with the broadest line of
industrial cleaning equipment and significantly improves our ability to
service them with parts and accessories.  We look forward to the synergies it
will provide and to further growth through organic expansion and additional
acquisitions in the future."
    C-Tech is a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Harbour Group.  Sam Fox,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Harbour Group, said the acquisition
exemplifies Harbour Group's commitment to the industrial cleaning equipment
market.  "This acquisition is the second this year for C-Tech and creates
significant marketing and manufacturing synergies with the other C-Tech
companies," he said.
    Harbour Group is privately owned.  Harbour Group, its related companies
and former subsidiaries (the public companies in which Harbour Group retains
varying amounts of stock ownership), are also engaged in the manufacture of
industrial products including automated production equipment, auxiliary
plastic processing equipment, automotive accessories, spray equipment and
products, textile machinery, component parts for the computer industry, pre-
engineered building components, and heat exchange equipment.  These businesses
have annual revenues in excess of $1 billion.