Monday March 31, 11:51 am ET

CONROE, Texas, March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shumate Industries (OTC Bulletin Board: SHMT - News) announced today that its Hemiwedge Valve Corporation division has appointed Brock Easley LLC of Centennial, Colorado, as sales representative for Hemiwedge® Cartridge Valve in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. Brock Easley LLC is a leader in the supply and service of critical service valves, instrumentation, automated valve services, over-pressure protection products, as well as other process capital equipment. Sales coverage includes Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Idaho.

Larry Prentice, President of Brock Easley and Valve Repair Consultants, said, "Our job is to provide innovative products and services that will save our customers money. The Hemiwedge® Cartridge Valve is unique and is supported by a very talented engineering staff in Conroe, Texas. Through our service technicians, we experience on a daily basis, customers with failed critical service valves. It is great to have a new solution for many of their challenging applications."

The Hemiwedge® Cartridge Valve is a proprietary technology that targets process and industrial applications such as isolation block valves, emergency shut-down, CO2 and water injection, and especially critical shutoff of service fluids with entrained sand and abrasive particulates. Hemiwedge®'s patented hemispherical wedge design offers improved shutoff performance over legacy engineered ball, gate, and plug valves due to wedging action during the final seating. The proprietary cartridge technology encases all the internals of the valve within the cartridge and allows in-line replacements, significantly reducing down-time and supply disruption, especially in higher maintenance service applications containing entrained solids such as line scale, sand, and debris.

Kevin Vincent, Sales Manager for Hemiwedge Valve Corporation, said, "We are excited to partner with Brock Easley to bring the Hemiwedge® Cartridge Valve to this geographic market. We were looking for a technically oriented organization of sales professionals to match our product to the right applications within the oil, gas, and power industries. This is exactly what Brock Easley has built its tremendous reputation and success on -- solving valve application problems." Vincent further stated, "After a ramping up period, we currently anticipate sales of the Hemiwedge® Cartridge Valve to be several million annually in the Rocky Mountain region."

Ken Chickering, President of Hemiwedge Valve Corporation, stated, "Brock Easley's sales organization has an impeccable reputation for professional services to their clients, and we are pleased to be aligned with them."

Shumate Industries, Inc. is a Texas-based energy field services company that incorporates new technologies to bring products to market leveraging its existing infrastructure, expertise and customer channels. The Company operates through two wholly owned subsidiaries: 1.) Shumate Machine Works, a contract machining and manufacturing division focused in oilfield tubular products, and 2.) Hemiwedge Valve Corporation, a proprietary new valve technology division. The Hemiwedge® division commercialized its Hemiwedge® Cartridge valve product line targeting oil, gas, process and power markets in early 2007 and is in prototype development of its Hemiwedge® sub-sea high pressure valve product line and a Hemiwedge® down-hole valve product line which it intends to commercialize via corporate partners. For additional information on the Company and its products, please visit www.shumateinc.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This document contains discussion of items that may constitute forward- looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurances that its expectations will be achieved. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from expectations include, but are not limited to, customer concentration risk, difficulties in refinancing its debt, difficulties in consolidating the operations of the Company's operating subsidiaries, difficulties in accelerating internal sales growth, volatility of the energy business and its effects on the Company's business, difficulties in new technology acceptance within the energy industry, restrictive covenants in our existing credit facilities, fluctuations in metals prices, general economic conditions in markets in which we do business, extensive environmental and workplace regulation by federal and state agencies and other general risks related to its common stock, and other uncertainties and business issues that are detailed in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this release and in the attachments is as of March 31, 2008 and the Company undertakes no duty to update this information.

Contact:

North Coast Advisors, Investor Relations for the Company:
Craig Stewart, Principal, at 5852187371, or,
Don Michlin, Principal, at 9362712423

The Company:
Shumate Industries, Inc., Conroe, Texas
Matthew Flemming, CFO 9365395770

Source: Shumate Industries, Inc.