WOODINGS RESPONDS TO SEVERSTAL'S NEED FOR BURNER VALVE

(July 25, 2005) Wooding Industrial Corporation has completed delivery of a new burner valve for Severstal NA of Dearborn, Michigan.

The valve is a newly manufactured water-cooled burner valve featuring a disc with spiral cooling and a valve body with body seat cooling

"This is yet another example of Woodings' ongoing focus on delivering the best valve products available for our blast furnace customers," said President Robert Woodings.

Severstal NA, formerly Rouge Steel, is now owned by Russia's SeverStal Group and is the eighth largest integrated steel manufacturer in the United States.

About Woodings Industrial Corp.
The only hot metal equipment supplier offering design, engineering, manufacturing and service from one source, Woodings Industrial Corp. is the oldest continuous family-operated business in North America’s steel industry. A worldwide leader in the manufacture of metals industry equipment, Woodings uses the most current technologies to design, engineer and manufacture an extensive line of traditional and not-so-traditional hot metal equipment, such as tap hole drills, clay guns, tuyere stocks, blast furnace valves and engineering specialty products for continuous casters. Woodings is the exclusive supplier of Grabe overlay components in North America and has plants at its headquarters in Mars and Harmony, Pa., along with offices in Detroit and Gary, Ind.