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JER Adds to Senior Management

May 7, 2005 -- JER Envirotech International Corp. (TSX Venture: JER) (the "Company" or "JER") is pleased to announce that it has added two senior personnel to its management team. Effective May 1, 2005, Mr. David Austin has been appointed as Sr. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and Mr. Ernesto Calica as Vice President of Administration, Operations and General Manager.



Mr. Austin has worked in the Middle East, Australia, Canada and the United States in various industries including mining, lumber and furniture manufacturing. For the past 25 years, he has been exclusively involved in the sale, design and construction of injection molding, thermoforming and extrusion factories for the plastics industry across Canada and the United States. Mr. Austin has successfully built turn-key production facilities that incorporate complex material handling systems, plant process piping for heating and cooling, heavy equipment rigging and steel construction.



In 1992, Mr. Austin designed and built Quality Colors Inc., his plastics and compounding factory in Delta, B.C. His company manufactured a broad range of color concentrates, compounds and additives for customers in Canada, the Western United States, Mexico and China. In 2003, he successfully sold his company to a Swiss multi-national public corporation. Mr. Austin holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).



Mr. Ernesto Calica has more than 25 years of extensive experience in project management, financial management, business development, preparation of feasibility and viability studies, loan syndication, management consulting, and international marketing. Prior to joining JER, Mr. Calica was a Business Development Manager of BCIT responsible for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.He was also Vice President for Technology Training Associates Ltd. which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BCIT. Mr. Calica was directly responsible for developing business and managing BCIT's international projects particularly those funded by Asian Development Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He also initiated educational and twinning collaborations with other post-secondary institutions in Brunei, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand. Prior to his post with BCIT, Mr. Calica was Vice President and Director for S.E.A Consultants Inc, Philippines, where he directed and managed day to day operations in the fields of management consulting, finance and administration human resource development, and marketing. Mr. Calica is an alumnus of De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines and St. Louis University, Baguio City, Philippines where he completed his BS Management and BSC in Accounting respectively.



About JER:

JER is focused on the alternative wood products industry and is commercializing breakthrough intellectual property in various wood-plastic composites (WPC) markets. The Company has developed, in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), 42 WPC patent pending formulations. The Company is in the process of establishing manufacturing operations in Canada, Philippines, China, Malaysia and India to produce WPC compound and related products for several industries including the automotive industry and the building and construction industry.



Further information on the Company is available at www.jerenvirotech.com.



JER Envirotech International Corp.



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