HOUSTON, TEXAS – Shale-Inland Holdings, LLC celebrated the grand opening of its new 185,000 sq. ft. leading Valve and Automation Center together with an open house on October 30, 2014 in Pasadena, TX along with the opening of its new northwest Houston sales office. The opening of both marks Shale-Inland’s continued investment in the Valve and Automation space and to focus on being a leading provider of Specialized PVF and Value Added Services to the energy and industrial markets.

Above, front: Larry Feld, President of Valves and Automation Sunbelt Supply; Frank Riddick, Chief Executive Officer of Shale-Inland; Rob Beardmore, Vice President of Sales Sunbelt Supply; and Paul Rangel, Director of Business Development Sunbelt Supply, join the team in officially opening the state of the art headquarters and warehouse facility conveniently located at 3720 Texas 225 in the Houston ship channel area.

“The new facility culminates several years of planning to consolidate and expand several locations of Sunbelt Supply’s Houston operations. Sunbelt has grown over the course of the last several decades to be a market leading valve and automation company; the new location was the latest key capability to be added to Sunbelt to enable it to achieve its long term strategic objective of being a global provider of valves and automation products and services,” said Frank Riddick, Chief Executive Officer of Shale-Inland. “The new center will serve as the Valve and Automation’s global operations center and house all support teams and leaders in one location with market leading capabilities to service both local and large global multinational customers,” said Larry Feld, President of Valves and Automation.

“Concurrent with the new center opening, the Valves and Automation segment also announced the opening of its new northwest Houston sales office to add further reach to sales efforts and support the new center,” added Riddick.

About SHALE-INLAND

Shale-Inland is a specialty industrial supplier that provides technical solutions to the energy and industrial sectors. Through our strategic locations in North America, Shale-Inland delivers a broad spectrum of metal, pipe, valves, fittings and related products just-in-time. Our close proximity to our customers allows us to act as a critical link in their supply chain. For more information, visit www.shale-inland.com.