New President Appointed to AW-Lake Company & SDS

FRANKSVILLE, WI – April 17, 2008
Yolande Burnham was appointed President of AW-Lake Company & Sheepscot Dispensing Systems (SDS), companies of TASI Group.

Burnham will be based at the AW-Lake Company Headquarters in Franksville, WI.

Prior to joining AW-Lake and SDS, Burnham served in various senior management roles for divisions of Emerson and Ansaldo-Finmeccanica. She has an MBA from Vanderbilt University, and is originally from VietNam. She speaks Vietnamese, English, French, and Spanish. She will work closely with sister flow company KEM-Kueppers based near Munich, Germany.

“I am really pleased that we could find a highly experienced instrumentation professional to take us to the next level and expand our global market share,” commented TASI Group CEO, David Huberfield. "With nearly 30 years of senior executive experience in major organizations such as Rosemount Union Switch & Signal and Emerson, she brings a wealth of business experience to the company and will be instrumental in generating new opportunities."

About AW-Lake Company

AW-Lake Company, a TASI Group company, is a leading North American manufacturer and distributor of flow control products servicing the fluid control needs of several industries, including oil & gas, paints & coatings, hydraulics & pneumatics, food processing, fluid power and waste water treatment. Together with its German sister company, KEM, the company has distribution throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. For information, please contact Marcia Reiff, Marketing Manager, at 800-850-6110, e-mail mreiff@aw-lake.com, or visit AW-Lake’s Web site at www.aw-lake.com.

About SDS

Sheepscot Dispensing Systems (SDS), a TASI Group company, is a leading manufacturer of high quality equipment for the metering and dispensing of single-component fluids and plural-component reactive resins such as epoxies, urethanes, and silicones. For more than twenty-eight years, Sheepscot has designed and manufactured both standard and custom dispensing products for customers in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, please contact Todd Williams, Sales Manager, at 207-563-2299, email sales@sheepscotdispensing.com, or visit Sheepscot’s Web site at www.sheepscotdispensing.com.

About the TASI Group

The TASI Group of Companies is comprised of three technologically advanced product platforms commonly linked by a disciplined focus on Flow, Leak & Measurement, and Assembly & Test. Each TASI company delivers products and services to today’s world manufacturing environments, focusing on Automotive, Medical Devices, Oil and Gas, Plastic Containers, Consumer and General Industrial markets. For more information about the TASI Group, visit their Web site at www.tasigroup.com.