Valiant Named Boeing Supplier of the Year in Non-Production Category

Windsor, Ontario, April 18, 2008

Valiant Machine & Tool Inc., a global supplier of innovative solutions for the automotive, aerospace, construction and forestry industries, has been recognized as Supplier of the Year in the Non-Production/Shared Services Group category by The Boeing Company. Valiant was one of 11 companies honoured last night for its commitment to superior performance and customer satisfaction.

The 2007 Suppliers of the Year were selected from a pool of 250 Boeing Performance Excellence Award winners. These companies – a select group among Boeing worldwide suppliers – hold 2007 Boeing Performance Excellence Awards for achieving silver or gold levels of performance, based on quality and delivery metrics over a 12-month period.

“We are proud to recognize the performance excellence of our 11 Suppliers of the Year, who have demonstrated that they are the best in the Boeing supply base,” said Steve Schaffer, Boeing enterprise leader of Supplier Management and vice president and general manager of Supplier Management for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. “Boeing is committed to rewarding, retaining and developing our top-performing suppliers who share our focus on first-time quality and on-time delivery.”

Valiant provides a wide range of services – from advanced engineering and 3D modeling and simulation to fabrication, machining and assembly of automated production systems, special machines and tooling. Valiant provides Boeing with large, complex-design build projects, tooling, and capital equipment for production and spare parts for programs including 737, 747, 767, 777, and 787. Valiant builds on the experience of its engineering team, colocated with project managers and design engineers, giving the team interactive knowledge of manufacturing and design. “Valiant employees demonstrated an exemplary performance in design-innovation, engineering concepts, quality standards and timing requirements, ensuring our customers continue to be successful in an extremely competitive global environment,” said Marty Solcz, C.O.O. Valiant Corporation.

For more information on the Boeing Supplier of the Year award, including a complete list of award recipients, visit http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2008/q2/080417b_nr.html

Valiant has been supplying tooling and equipment for aero-engine production, forming tools and molds for composites, and aero-structure assembly jigs and fixtures for plant and field support material handling systems to Boeing and other aerospace customers for over 35 years. Valiant is a proud member of the Ontario Aerospace Council (OAC) and is registered with Aerospace Industries
Association of Canada (AIAC). Valiant is also registered as a Controlled Goods Program compliant.

For further information contact:

Mr. Guy DiPonio
Vice-President Business Development, Aerospace
Valiant Machine & Tool Inc.
9355 Anchor Drive
Windsor, Ont. N8N 5A8
Cell Phone: 519.796.3047
http://www.valiantcorp.com/

Ontario Aerospace Council
http://www.ontaero.org/

Aerospace Industries Association of Canada
http://www.aiac.ca/