Thermal Energy Hires Leading Industry Expert, Luc Mandeville, as Senior Project Engineer

OTTAWA, ONTARIO / TheNewswire - Thermal Energy International Inc. ("Thermal Energy" or the "Company") (TSXV: TMG), a global provider of proprietary energy efficiency solutions to the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors, today announced it has hired leading industry expert, Luc Mandeville as a Senior Project Engineer, effective immediately. Luc Mandeville has over 30 years of experience in the energy efficiency sector, with considerable expertise in the areas of condensing heat recovery, direct fired water heaters, boilers, and NOx control. Most recently, Mr. Mandeville was the Chief Technology Officer of Sofame Technologies Inc., a cleantech company that he also co-founded, and which has a number of product offerings similar and complementary to Thermal Energy's business.

"We are pleased to welcome Luc Mandeville to our team as our new Senior Project Engineer," said William Crossland, CEO of Thermal Energy. "Luc brings extensive experience developing and implementing a large number of energy efficiency projects in a wide variety of sectors. In addition to numerous projects with food and beverage, consumer products, pharmaceutical and energy companies, he has also completed projects at a number of major hospitals, including McGill University Heath Centre and the Centre hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, as well as a number of universities including Princeton and Rutgers. While much of Luc's experience is similar to our existing business, much more is complementary in terms of both product and application expansion. In this regard we are excited about both the depth and breadth Luc adds to our growing engineering and project development capabilities."

Under Mr. Mandeville's leadership, Sofame Technologies Inc., designed, engineered and manufactured a variety of heat recovery, industrial water heating and NOx control systems. He served as Sofame's President for over 20 years and has developed markets in North America and Europe for Sofame's products since the company's founding in 1984. Prior to starting Sofame, he worked in the water treatment field for ten years with Degremont Limited. Luc Mandeville is an industrial engineering graduate from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal.

About Thermal Energy International Inc.

Thermal Energy International Inc. is an established global supplier of proprietary, proven energy efficiency and emissions reduction solutions to the industrial and institutional sectors. We save our customers money and improve their bottom line by reducing their fuel use and cutting their carbon emissions. Our customers include a large number of Fortune 500 and other leading multinational companies across a wide range of industry sectors.

Thermal Energy's proprietary products include; GEMTM - Steam traps, FLU-ACE(R) - Direct contact condensing heat recovery, and Dry-Rex(R) - Low temperature biomass drying systems.
Thermal Energy International Inc. has offices in Ottawa, Canada as well as Bristol, U.K., United States, Germany, Italy and China. The Company's common shares are traded on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V) under the symbol TMG.

For more information, visit the Company's website at www.thermalenergy.com and follow @GoThermalEnergy on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GoThermalEnergy.