Emerson Climate Technologies™ Announces Strategic Partnership with Innovative Thermal Solutions

Innovative Thermal Solutions joins the group’s extensive network of engineering, testing and design facilities

ST. LOUIS, September 01, 2004 – Emerson Climate Technologies, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), today announced a strategic partnership between its Design Services Network and Innovative Thermal Solutions, LLC. The partnership enhances and extends the engineering, testing and design capabilities of both companies.

Emerson’s Design Services Network is a leading provider of sophisticated thermal system solutions for commercial, industrial and scientific system manufacturers worldwide. The company combines system design, analysis, and testing capabilities, so that it can seamlessly integrate with customer processes to manage an entire project from start to finish. The Adrian, Michigan-based Innovative Thermal Solutions is an engineering consulting firm offering services in mechanical design and thermal management including heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and refrigeration industries, making Innovative Thermal Solutions an ideal partner to Design Services Network.

“With years of new product development and manufacturing experience, Innovative Thermal Solutions specializes in helping clients develop and launch new products”, said Rob Lehman, managing director of Design Services Network. “Innovative Thermal Solutions will expand our services offering and increase our already strong ability to develop custom solutions and innovate for our clients.”

Design Services Network’s expertise ranges from ultra-low temperature to heated system design and analysis, as well as sound, vibration and Finite Element Analysis. The core competencies of Innovative Thermal Solutions include mechanical and thermal technology and product development, manufacturing and process improvement, as well as project and technology management. By combining their expertise and testing capabilities, Design Services Network and Innovative Thermal Solutions can offer clients a more extensive service.

“At its heart, Design Services Network is a client-driven organization that can reduce the total product development time and expose critical design and manufacturing issues early in the design cycle” said Lehman. “By managing an entire project from start to finish, or simply providing critical expert design, manufacturing or testing capabilities as needed, our personnel can help companies add expertise, save time, reduce technical risks, cut costs and ensure product viability and performance. This partnership will allow us to better provide these services to our clients.”

In addition to complete thermal system outsourced design capabilities, Design Services Network offers a fully staffed and certified testing laboratory capable of conducting industry standard sanitation and safety assessments, such as NSF and UL tests, or customer-specific performance tests including ASHRAE, ARI, vibration and shipping.

Headquartered in Sidney, Ohio, Design Services Network has fully-staffed facilities located across the United States, including in Illinois, California, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Texas. The partnership with Innovative Thermal Solutions now adds facilities in Michigan.

About Emerson and Emerson Climate Technologies
St. Louis-based Emerson is a global leader in providing customers with innovative technologies and solutions in five business segments: industrial automation; process control; heating, ventilating and air conditioning; electronics and telecommunications; and appliance and tools. Sales in fiscal 2003 were $14 billion. Emerson Climate Technologies™, a business of Emerson, is the world’s leading provider of HVAC and refrigeration solutions for residential, industrial and commercial applications. The group combines best-in-class technology with proven engineering, design, distribution, educational and monitoring services to provide customized, integrated climate control solutions for customers worldwide. Emerson Climate Technologies’ innovative solutions, which include industry-leading brands such as Copeland Scroll™ and White-Rodgers®, improve human comfort, safeguard food and protect the environment.

About Design Services Network
Design Services Network, part of Emerson Climate Technologies, is a leading provider of advanced refrigeration, cooling and air-conditioning solutions for commercial, industrial and scientific system manufacturers worldwide. Design Services Network is comprised of a team of experienced engineering professionals with broad expertise in thermal system testing, design and development. Design Service Network’s unique combination of application knowledge and state of the art test facilities allows the company to manage an entire development project from start to finish. Design Services Network is headquartered in Sidney, Ohio.

About Innovative Thermal Solutions
Innovative Thermal Solutions based in Adrian, Michigan specializes in providing innovative solutions to complex engineering problems. With extensive experience designing and developing mechanical and heat transfer technology for air conditioning, refrigeration and related thermal management applications, the company offers valuable consulting solutions geared towards assisting companies in their product development cycle.