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Dixie Engineering Company Is New EvapTech Sales Representative
June 11, 2009 - Tim Wigger, Vice President Sales and Marketing, has announced that Dixie Engineering Company, Inc. has joined the EvapTech sales team to meet the new, replacement, after market services, and parts cooling tower needs of our inudstrial and power market customers in Alabama and the panhandle of Florida.

Dixie Engineering is a leading manufacturer’s representative serving the Chemical Process, Power, and Pulp and Paper industries for over 50 years. In our contractual relationship, Dixie Engineering will work with EvapTech to present innovative solutions to customer problems; help to assure that parts and service are maintained at customer sites, and to introduce new technologies that enhance reliability, performance, and operation of existing equipment.

The Dixie team representing EvapTech comes from multi-talented and diverse backgrounds. They are committed to provide the highest level of customer service. The company is staffed with well trained and attentive customer service staff. They are available on a 24 hour 7 days a week basis. The key managers for the company are as follows:

Dick Hillhouse is the president of Dixie Engineering. Dick was graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. His background includes various positions in project engineering in the metals industry as well as project management in construction. He purchased the company from the original owner in 1988.

Jason Fant is vice president of Dixie Engineering. Jason has been with Dixie Engineering for 11 years and came from BE&K Construction. At Dixie, Jason specializes in working with industrial and chemical process customers on boiler optimization, heat transfer, and management issues.

Johnny Dedeaux manages the Mobile, Alabama Sales Office. Johnny has an Industrial Engineering degree from the University of Alabama. Upon graduation he began his career with McAbee Construction as the pressure vessel and heat exchanger fabrication manager and from there went to KBR Mobile as a senior heat exchanger and pressure vessel engineer. Johnny has been with Dixie for six years.

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EvapTech, Inc. is a subsidiary of Evapco, Inc., an employee owned manufacturing company with global resources and solutions for worldwide heat transfer applications. EvapTech is a premier cooling tower designer, manufacturer, and contractor providing Innovative Cooling Solutions for the satisfaction of customer needs in the power generation, industrial, and refrigeration and HVAC evaporative cooling markets. EvapTech offers new and replacement field erected cooling towers and a variety of field erected cooling tower parts and after market services.