Wholesale Mine Supply Orders Continue to Spike

PITTSBURGH, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Leading industrial communications provider Wholesale Mine Supply, already on a high with orders for its Becker and Varis leaky feeder systems for underground operations at every corner of the mining industry, has marked a new one-week sales milestone of $3.7 million.

The identities of the purchasers, two large Eastern U.S. mining companies, are undisclosed. However, WMS president Bill Hensler said the respective purchase orders of $1.9 million and $1.8 million will provide full system infrastructure for communications systems at seven West Virginia underground coal mines.

“These orders were received the first week of March, and we expect the installations will occur within the next three months,” Hensler said.

Officials for WMS are also confident that 2008 will be its strongest year ever from a sales and service perspective thanks to new requirements brought forth in the mining industry by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006, or MINER Act.

“We are conducting ongoing talks with other operators in the industry,” according to Hensler. “This is just the top of the iceberg. We expect even more purchase orders by mid-summer.”

“We are the world leader in underground mining communications, with 85 systems in mines across the United States,” said Hensler. “We have system in tunneling jobs across the USA in sites in Seattle, at the Hoover Dam, and in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Nashville, just to name a few.”

WMS’s VARIS/Becker systems have several safety- and production-enhancing benefits, including the use of a single cable to distribute wired or wireless voice, video, and data signals to an underground work force and equipment, miner tracking using RFID tags and interrogators, and easy maintenance and expansion.

WHOLESALE Mine Supply, based in Irwin, Pennsylvania, is a leading communications provider for the tunneling and underground mining industries and the largest supplier of two-way underground communications. It has more than 85 systems in American mines alone and 25 years of experience in the servicing of mining and tunneling.

   Contact: Bill Hensler, President            Wholesale Mine Supply           (724) 816-4992  

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CONTACT: Bill Hensler, President of Wholesale Mine Supply,+1-724-816-4992

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