Exhibit 99.1


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andrew J. Mayer, Jr.
Vice President-Finance and
Chief Financial Officer
Transtech Industries, Inc.
(732) 564-3122
Web Site: www.Transtechindustries.com


TRANSTECH INDUSTRIES, INC. ANNOUNCES DECISION
TO DEREGISTER ON OR ABOUT MAY 13, 2010

	PISCATAWAY, N.J., April 16, 2010 - Robert V. Silva, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Transtech Industries, Inc. (OTC BULLETIN BOARD:
TRTI) has announced that the Board of Directors has decided to discontinue
filing period reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
("SEC") (a procedure known as a "Deregistration"), to be effective with the
filing of a Form 15 with the SEC on or about May 13, 2010.

The text of the letter issued to shareholders describing the decision
follows:

THIS LETTER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT A
REQUEST FOR A PROXY OR SHAREHOLDER'S VOTE

						April 16, 2010

Dear Fellow Shareholder:

	We write to share with you a difficult decision which has
been made by the Company's Board of Directors.  The Company
intends to discontinue filing periodic reports with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").  The Company
plans to file a Form 15 with the SEC on or about May 13, 2010 at
which time the Company will no longer be required to file its
periodic reports.

	As is always the case with a decision of this magnitude, it
was based on a number of factors.  One of the most significant
was the continuing legal and environmental liabilities from the
Company's prior operations in waste handling and solvent
recovery.  These claims, both actual and contingent, have made it
infeasible to use the public markets to raise debt or equity
capital to fund the Company's growth or acquisitions.  Thus, a
major benefit of filing periodic reports with the SEC is not
available for the Company.

	Also, the expense of preparing the periodic reports has been
draining more and more of the Company's financial and human
resources in order to comply with the ever-increasing SEC
reporting requirements.  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX")
ushered in many new reporting requirements for public companies,
some of which had been deferred for small reporting companies
like Transtech.  However, those deferrals have lapsed, and now
the smaller reporting companies must comply with the expanded
disclosure requirements of SOX.

	In addition to the increased costs of reporting, the trading
market for the Company's stock has been very limited.  Shares of
the Company's stock currently trade on the Over The Counter
Bulletin Board (the "OTCBB") which is an electronic market that
requires the sponsorship of one or more market-makers.  The price
of the stock has drifted downward from a high of $.12 during the
first quarter of 2009 to as low as $.03 in the fourth quarter of
2009.  There were only 23 trades of the Company's stock for all
of 2009, in which a total of 132,742 of the 2,979,190 shares
outstanding were traded, down from 218,527 shares traded in 41
trades during 2008.

	Therefore, the Board of Directors has decided that the
Company will file a Form 15 on or about May 13, 2010, thereby
ending its reporting obligations.

	Trading of the Company's common stock on the OTCBB will
discontinue with the filing of the Form 15.  However, trading may
continue on another market through the OTC known as the Pink
Sheets, but only if a market maker continues to support the
stock.

	For more information on what this process may mean to you
please see the Company's web site (www.Transtechindustries.com)
for a list of answers to questions you may have.

	As previously disclosed, three of the Company's subsidiaries
have been embroiled in litigation regarding certain significant
properties owned by them.  The Company is engaged in settlement
discussions but is uncertain of the outcome and the timing of
such efforts.  This uncertainty has impacted the Company's
ability to sell these properties at an appropriate value.  It is
hoped that the sale of these dormant properties in the future
will provide the Company the liquidity to continue its
operations, to settle its obligations as they become due and to
pursue other business opportunities.  However, there are no
guarantees.

	The Company filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2009 with the SEC on March 31, 2010.  A
copy of the report may be down-loaded from the SEC's website
(SEC.gov), the Company's website or may be obtained by request
from the Company.  We urge you to read this report carefully.

						Sincerely,

Robert V. Silva			Andrew J. Mayer, Jr.
Chairman, President and		Vice President-Finance
Chief Executive Officer		Chief Financial Officer
				and Secretary

	This news release may contain forward-looking statements as defined by
federal securities laws, that are based on current expectations and involve
a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that
may cause the actual results, levels of activity, performance or
achievements to differ materially from results expressed or implied by this
press release.  Such risks and uncertainties include among others, the
following: general economic and business conditions; the ability of the
Company to implement its business strategy; the Company's ability to
successfully identify new business opportunities; changes in the industry;
competition; the effect of regulatory and legal proceedings.  The forward-
looking statements contained in this news release speak only as of the date
of release; and the Company does not undertake to revise those forward-
looking statements to reflect events after the date of this release.