DEPI - Duro Enzyme Products Inc. (fka DEPI)

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Duro moves forward with LLC formation to produce revenues & announces appointment to Board of Directors

Listed: OTC BB Trading Symbol: DEPI LANGLEY, BC, May 22, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- DURO ENZYME PRODUCTS INC. (the "Company") (OTCBB: DEPI) last week announced its subsidiary Duro Enzyme Solutions Inc. signed a definitive agreement with Petruzzo Products Inc. to form a new Limited Liability Corporation. DEPI is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Ralph Petruzzo to its Board of Directors.

Mr. Petruzzo is a successful entrepreneur and inventor with a focus on environmental businesses and technologies that use sludges, and other organic materials, to create high- demand, high-value products. Mr. Petruzzo's proprietary technologies are currently used in paper sludge drying and gasification systems that have been operating profitably in New York State, 24-hours a day, 7-days a week, since 1998. Mr. Petruzzo has guided the growth of Petruzzo Products Inc., a family- owned, US corporation, which has expanded from New England's oldest bark mulch manufacturer into a multi-faceted operation that includes transportation, hauling, equipment rental, and the production of biodegradable products from top soil to humus, animal bedding to kitty litter, and fertilizers to decorative landscaping mulches. Mr. Petruzzo additionally owns and operates J.B.H. Associates Inc., a developing partner in a 3,000-ton per day landfill in Southern California. This landfill is already permitted to receive 400-tons per day of bio-solids, an enormous waste management problem for the State of California and excellent feedstock for enzyme manufacture and gasification.

Throughout his career, Ralph Petruzzo has fostered business relationships with a diverse group of individuals in a wide variety of industries and organizations including 20 years with International Paper Company, Evergreen Recycling, the chains of Chase Pitkin Home Centers and Hewitts Garden Stores, Waste Management of New York, Franklin Mushroom Company (the largest mushroom growing facility in North America), Tully Construction (primary contractor to World Trade Centers recovery site), Blue Circle Cement (second largest US cement company), Kirtland Air Force Base of New Mexico, Precision Environmental Services, New England Organics, Wheelabrator Technologies - Bio Gro Division, and numerous municipalities. Mr. Petruzzo also founded and operated Aspen Construction, Inc., of Rockland County, NY, a commercial construction business that completed such notable projects as the world's first and largest Ferrari dealership.

"Ralph Petruzzo delivers proven talent and complementary know-how to the Duro team. We will aggressively exploit the many opportunities he brings to the table and look forward to a long and mutually rewarding association," stated Duro president, Perry Smith.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of: DURO ENZYME PRODUCTS INC. "Perry Smith" Perry Smith, President Web Site: www.durotechnologies.com Investor Relations: Market Watch Corporation [phone] [e-mail] Forward-

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