ConMet Updates Company Image with New Web Site and Collateral Material

6-13-2005

Portland, OR – Consolidated Metco Inc. (ConMet), the leader in lightweight component technology for the heavy-duty transportation industry, announced today it has updated its company’s image with all new product literature, advertising, trade show booth and web site.

"As a leader in the industry for over 40 years, we felt it was time our marketing materials reflected that image,” explains Mark Jorgensen, ConMet's Marketing Communications Manager. "We developed a whole new look and introduced a tagline that captures our reputation for product innovation applied to the Commercial vehicle market - Pointing the Way"

The new tagline along with a dynamic red and gray graphic stripe are featured in ConMet's new hub and drum brochures, print advertisements, trade show booth and web site. "Everything is cut from the same cloth," Jorgensen continues. "We want customers to identify us immediately and know the kind of quality they can expect from ConMet."

ConMet’s new trade show booth, which premiered at the 2005 MidAmerica Trucking Show this spring in Louisville, Kentucky, featured a new graphic color scheme, a new two-story tower with the company logo and "pointing the way" tagline and the latest wheel-end product displays.

The updated ConMet web site (www.conmet.com) has improved navigation, up-to-date news sections and a new on-line newsletter (The ConMet Connection).

The web site continues to offer such features as:

An on-line catalog that allows visitors to input pertinent data for selecting the appropriate hub and responds by displaying the products that best meet the customers’ requirements.
Industry links that help visitors find valuable information on truck and trailer OEM’s, industry associations, trade publications and web sites
Brochures, service manuals and catalogs downloadable as PDF’s
FAQ’s for ConMet wheel ends
Complete descriptions of ConMet products, locations, capabilities and service organization
Consolidated Metco, a major Class 8 truck supplier, is a subsidiary of AMSTED Industries, one of the world's largest transportation component manufacturers, specializing in products that serve the rail, heavy-duty vehicle, automotive, construction/building, and general industrial markets. Amsted is also one of the largest 100 percent employee-owned companies in the United States. For additional information about ConMet or its line of products, call 800-547-9473 or visit www.conmet.com .

Media Contact

For more information on any ConMet news, please contact:

Mark Jorgensen
Marketing Communications Manager
Consolidated Metco, Inc.

Phone: 503.978.6689
Fax: 503.240.5443
mjorgensen@conmet.com