Trinity Highway Products to Stop Shipments of ET-Plus® System

DALLAS, Oct. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Trinity Highway Products, LLC announced today that it will stop the shipment of the ET-Plus^® System until additional crash testing can be completed. 

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently requested additional crash testing of the ET-Plus^® System in support of its ongoing evaluation of the ET-Plus^® System. The Company will continue working with FHWA related to further testing and will stop shipment of the product until requested testing is completed.

"In light of FHWA's request, the right thing to do is to stop shipping the product until the additional testing has been completed," said Gregg Mitchell, President, Trinity Highway Products, LLC.  "We have confidence in the ET-Plus^® System as designed and crash tested by Texas A&M Transportation Institute.  It has met all tests previously requested by FHWA. We take the safety of the products we manufacture very seriously," Mitchell said.

Trinity Highway Products, LLC is a subsidiary of Trinity Industries, Inc. (NYSE:TRN).

Trinity Industries, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a diversified industrial company that owns market-leading businesses, which provide products and services to the energy, transportation, chemical, and construction sectors. Trinity reports its financial results in five principal business segments: the Rail Group, the Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, the Inland Barge Group, the Construction Products Group, and the Energy Equipment Group. For more information, visit: www.trin.net. Revenue for the ET-Plus^® System through the first three quarters of 2014 have been approximately $33 million.

Some statements in this release, which are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements about Trinity's estimates, expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies for the future, and the assumptions underlying these forward-looking statements. Trinity uses the words "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "forecasts," "may," "will," "should," "guidance" and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical experience or our present expectations. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" and "Forward-Looking Statements" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year.

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