$1.2 Million Order from Leading Fortune 500 Food & Beverage Customer

“We are pleased to announce the receipt of another significant order from this corporate account,” said William Crossland, CEO of Thermal Energy.

“This $1.2 million FLU-ACE order is the third substantial order from this customer in the past twelve months. Last summer we announced a $1.46 million “Super-Efficient Cogeneration™” heat recovery project in August and a $1.82 million FLU-ACE order in July 2017. Including this latest order, we have now sold our heat recovery systems to seven of this customer’s sites, and have either partially or fully converted 28 of their sites over to our GEM™ venturi orifice steam traps. Importantly, all of our business with this customer to date has been with one division in one geographical area, and they have hundreds of sites across several divisions around the globe. With our products’ wide applications in the food and beverage industry, this customer continues to choose Thermal Energy to help them reduce their energy costs while lowering their greenhouse gas emissions.”

The FLU-ACE system will recover the energy from the waste heat generated in the flue gases of one of the onsite boilers. The waste heat recovered will be returned to process in the form of hot water. The FLU-ACE system is expected to provide the site with annual utility savings of approximately $245 thousand while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2,085 tonnes per year.

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 is also a fully accredited professional engineering firm and by providing a unique mix of proprietary products together with process, energy and, environmental engineering expertise, Thermal Energy is able to deliver unique turnkey projects with significant financial and environmental benefits for our customers.

Thermal Energy's proprietary products include; GEMTM - Steam traps, FLU-ACE® - Direct contact condensing heat recovery, and Dry-Rex® - 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 our website at www.thermalenergy.com and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GoThermalEnergy.

William Crossland
President and CEO
Thermal Energy International Inc.
613-723-6776
bill.crossland@thermalenergy.com

Trevor Heisler
Investor Relations
Heisler Communications
416-500-8061
trevor@heislercommunications.com

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