ENVIRON Opens New Offices in Phoenix and San Francisco

ARLINGTON, VA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/18/08 -- Ewire -- With more than 70 offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, these newest US locations will provide new and existing clients enhanced access to ENVIRON's full suite of services.

Phoenix Office Expands Reach in Southwest

Ronald E. Hutchens, President of ENVIRON International Corporation, is pleased to announce the firm's expansion in the southwestern United States with the addition of a new office in Phoenix, Arizona. According to Hutchens, "The Phoenix office's strategic location in the fifth largest metropolitan area in the US places ENVIRON directly on hand to serve our clients in this dynamic and rapidly growing region."

An integral component of ENVIRON's worldwide network of offices, the new Phoenix location offers the firm's broad range of environmental, energy, health, safety, and sustainability services to national and multinational industries, law firms, developers and property managers, private equity firms, and lending institutions. Key Phoenix staff members include Principal Consultants Paul Harper and Gavin Thompson, and Manager John M. Pekala.

Principal Consultant Paul Harper has more than 25 years of experience in environment, health, and safety management and engineering and risk management. His experience has focused on corporate management of EHS and risk management matters, including safety improvement, loss prevention, insurance acquisition, productivity, dealing with complex environmental liabilities in mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy and corporate restructurings, remediation, and EHS management systems.

Principal Consultant Gavin Thompson, PhD, has 20 years of broad experience in analytical, environmental, product, and regulatory chemistry. Dr. Thompson has designed, supervised, and interpreted the analysis of additives, ingredients, and chemical contaminants in a wide variety of environmental media, consumer products, drug excipients and medical devices, foods and food-contact substances, and novel industrial and commercial materials. He has provided critical expert opinions on chemical characterizations for safety assessments, regulatory consultations and compliance, litigation support, and product stewardship.

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Our Phoenix office can be reached at: 1702 E. Highland Avenue, Suite 412 Phoenix, Arizona 85016 +1 602.734.7700 www.environcorp.com/phoenix

Our San Francisco office can be reached at: 201 California Street, Suite 1280 San Francisco, CA 94111 +1 415.796.1950 www.environcorp.com/sanfrancisco

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For more information, please contact: Britta Zygler Marketing Communications Manager ENVIRON Holdings, Inc. +1 609.243.9868 bzygler@environcorp.com

2008-03-18 17:10:52 0315632 MARKETWIRE