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OPW Fueling Components President, David Crouse, announced today the appointment of Fernando Whitaker to the newly created position of Managing Director – Latin America. Mr. Whitaker assumed this position on August 3, 2009.

OPW Fueling Components, a Dover Company (NYSE: DOV) and the global leader in commercial and retail fueling equipment, has just released an installation video for its revolutionary OPW 71SO CARB/EVR Certified Vapor-Tight Overfill Prevention Valve. The purpose of the video is to familiarize customers with the proper procedures for assembling and installing the OPW 71SO valve.

OPW Fueling Components, a Dover Company (NYSE: DOV) and the global leader in commercial and retail fueling equipment, is proud to announce that the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) and Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Quality have each approved the OPW 21Gv™ ORVR Nozzle for use at existing Stage II Vapor Recovery installations in those states. Prior to these latest approvals, the States of Texas and Wisconsin had already approved the 21Gv.

This is a new position as OPWFTG, in an effort to further enhance the organization's ability to provide its global customer base with industry-leading solutions, has streamlined its four business units and eight global operations into two global business units: OPWFTG Global Transportation and OPWFTG Global Chemical & Industrial.

The desired result of this restructuring is to align its resources to more efficiently provide its global customer base with industry-leading solutions through its well-known brands that include Civacon, Midland, Sure Seal, Hiltap and OPW Engineered Systems.

The OPWFTG Global Transportation Business Unit will consist of two market-focused entities: Global Rail and Global Cargo Tank/Truck. To ensure the smooth transition to and operation of the Global Cargo Tank/Truck Business Unit, OPWFTG has appointed Simon Hill as Director of the business unit. In this position, Hill will report to Tom Zant, Vice President of the Global Transportation Business Unit.

A critical step in making this transition is the appointment of Dan Taylor to the position of Site Manager for the Global Transportation Business Unit's manufacturing operation in Kansas City, MO. I

These two new business units are the result of the streamlining of OPWFTG's previous four business units and eight global operations. This has been done in an effort to align the company's substantial resources to further enhance its ability to provide its global customer base with industry-leading solutions through its well-known brands that include Civacon, Midland, Hiltap and OPW Engineered Systems.

Helping ease the transition to this new organizational setup will be Greg Carrino, who has been named Director, Sales & Marketing for the Global Chemical & Industrial Business Unit. In this position, Carrino will report to Jeff Reichert, Vice President of the new OPWFTG Global Chemical & Industrial Business Unit.

OPW Fluid Transfer Group President, Tim Warning, announced today that the company has made several strategic organizational changes to align OPW's substantial resources to further enhance the organization's ability to provide its global customer base with industry-leading solutions.

The Brazilian operations of OPW Fueling Components (OPW-FC) and OPW Fluid Transfer Group (OPW-FTG) have been joined to further strengthen the presence and actions of these important divisions of Dover Corporation in Brazil.

OPW Fuel Management Systems, a business unit of OPW Fueling Components, has scheduled its next onsite product-training seminar for June 9-11 in the Parsippany/Newark, NJ, area at the Staybridge Suites, 61 Interpace Parkway, Parsippany, NJ, 07054.

The 21Gv ORVR Nozzle is designed to make ORVR compliance easy and affordable for marketers by eliminating the need for proprietary ORVR vapor recovery equipment, significantly reducing their overall equipment, installation and maintenance costs.

Ms. Hathaway joined Dover in 2001, beginning with OPW Engineered Systems. In 2005, she assumed the position of CFO for OPW Fluid Transfer Group, the parent company for OPW Engineered Systems. She will be replacing Mr. David Harris who is retiring in mid-May of this year. Mr. Harris has served as CFO for the company since 2007.

OPW Fueling Components, a Dover Company (NYSE: DOV) and the global leader in commercial and retail fueling equipment announced today that the OPW EDGE™ double-wall spill container and EDGE 1™ single-wall spill container have each received California Air Resources Board (CARB) certification as CARB EVR Phase 1 compatible equipment (Executive Order VR-102-J).

OPW Fueling Components president, David Crouse, announced today that the company has made several strategic organizational changes to align OPW's substantial resources to further enhance the organization's ability to provide their customers with industry-leading solutions. A component of this change is the streamlining of OPW's six-business-unit structure into three.

Jim is a 25-year veteran of OPW and for the past eight years has served as Vice President, OPW Environmental Systems for the company. This position has been created as part of the company's new strategic growth initiative recently introduced by OPW President, David Crouse.

The OPW-FC business unit will be responsible for OPW's Dispensing products and systems, AST products and systems, CleanEnergy™ Fueling Products, and Richards' products.

OPW recently streamlined its six business unit structure into three as part of a new strategic growth initiative introduced by OPW President, David Crouse. The three business units are OPW Fueling Components (OPW-FC), Fueling Containment Systems (OPW-FCS) and Fuel Management Systems (OPW-FMS).