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NORTH AMERICAN STEEL CONFERENCE

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PERSPECTIVES

Despite tepid US steel demand, EAF steelmakers are making gains

Hans Mueller reports from CRU’s conference in Chicago, USA

Permeability control in sintering

Konecranes Lift Trucks’ Andreas Falk answers our tough questions

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CONTENTS - NOVEMBER/DECEMEBER 2016

MINIMILLS

NORTH AMERICAN STEEL CONFERENCE

IRONMAKING

PERSPECTIVES

Despite tepid US steel demand, EAF steelmakers are making gains

Hans Mueller reports from CRU’s conference in Chicago, USA

Permeability control in sintering

Konecranes Lift Trucks’ Andreas Falk answers our tough questions

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2 Leader Will Trump be good for steel?

21 Ironmaking Permeability control in sintering.

4 News The latest steel industry news.

28 CRU steel conference report Cautious optimism.

9 USA update Production still under pressure.

31 Mini-mills The mighty minis.

11 Latin America update Vale and Brazilian steel.

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14 Innovations The latest industry products.

36 History The ‘mad’ iron master.

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LEADER

Donald Trump will be good news for US steel

Matthew Moggridge Editor matthewmoggridge@quartzltd.com

In addition to showering the United States of America with cheap steel, the Chinese have been critical of the US Presidential elections and the fact that Donald Trump has emerged victorious. That said, one thing the Chinese cannot boast about is China’s complete lack of a democratic electoral system of its own.

I was watching a BBC television news report recently and was appalled to see how reporter John Sudworth was prevented from interviewing a potential candidate in China’s forthcoming nationwide ballot by what amounted to the heavy-handed tactics of Chinese thugs, clearly sympathetic towards the aims and objectives of ‘the party’.

While there are many people in the USA, and elsewhere in the world, who doubt President-elect Trump’s credibility for the role of leader of the free world – and are worried for what the future might hold – one thing is undeniable: it was the result of a democratic process, fought out, in all its ugliness, in front of television cameras.

It is miles too early to pass judgement on Trump, although there are many who have spoken out about the sort of world a Trump presidency is likely to create.

The general consensus of opinion is that Trump will be a ‘no-nonsense’ President who will take no prisoners; and somebody strongly in favour of trade protectionism.

Where anti-dumping and countervailing duties on imported steel are concerned, the USA has been far more aggressive than other regions of the world, notably Europe.

It is highly likely that, ‘the Donald’, as he is affectionately known, will intensify such activity, particularly when you consider that Dan DiMicco, former head of Nucor, is now Mr Trump’s senior trade advisor.

Speaking to The Economist, DiMicco said that the era of trade deficits is over.

“It will be: let’s talk, but otherwise we put tariffs on,” he said, and went on to praise Ronald Reagan’s 45% tariff on Japanese motorcycles in the 1980s. In DiMicco’s eyes, it’s all about bringing people to the negotiating table.

With DiMicco on-side for trade, Trump is highly likely to champion the US steel industry and, hopefully, revive its flagging fortunes, which many believe are caused by the dumping of cheap Chinese steel.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

SMA responds to US election result

Nucor orders hot metal ladle crane American steelmaker Nucor has ordered a hot metal ladle crane from overhead crane and hoist manufacturer Ace World Companies (AWC).

The crane will be installed at Nucor’s Kankakee facility in Illinois, which produces rebar and merchant bar products, such as rounds, flats and angles.

Nippon downgrades 2016 earnings A slack steel market and ‘skyrocketing’ coking coal prices are behind Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal’s decision to downgrade its fiscal 2016 earnings, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review.

The company is expecting – or rather predicting – a 50% drop in group pretax profits and is slashing profit guidance to around 100 billion yen ($950 million).

The President of the Steel Manufacturers’ Association (SMA) has responded to the outcome of the USA's Presidential election.

SMA president Philip K. Bell stated: “The SMA has a long-standing tradition of operating in a bipartisan manner. We are pleased that this contentious election season is now behind us. We look forward to working with both the new Administration and the newly elected 115thCongress to advance policies

that support the health and vitality of the US steel industry.

“The SMA was pleased to see many Congressional Steel Caucus members win re-election,” Bell said. “Senator Rob Portman has been a champion for our industry, and he persevered through a challenging race.

Among the SMA’s top priorities going into 2017 will be strengthening participation in the Steel Caucus and educating new poli-

Kinnock says Tata reports disgraceful

Tata plans still unclear Speculation continues as to what Tata Steel is planning for its UK operations now that the Indian parent company has decided to sell its British steel operations.

While the likelihood of a joint venture to run the plant has not gone away, it is still a long way off, according to the head of ThyssenKrupp India, Ravi Kriplani, and now there is talk of a partnership deal for the Indian steelmaker’s entire European operation.

worldsteel’s 2016 Steel Statistical Yearbook The 2016 Steel Statistical Yearbook presents a cross-section of steel industry statistics. It contains comprehensive figures from 2006 to 2015 on crude steel production by country and process, steel production by product, steel trade by product, apparent steel use and apparent steel use per capita by country, as well as production and trade of pig iron and directly reduced iron. It also includes data on production and trade of iron ore and trade of scrap.

The statistics were collected from members of worldsteel and various international organisations.

A PDF copy of the yearbook and all previous editions can be downloaded free from www. worldsteel.org

Stephen Kinnock MP for Aberavon, South Wales, home of Tata’s Port Talbot steel works, has responded to reports that Tata Steel is rushing to close the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) in order to avoid a £60 million payment that

is due into the scheme.

“It is an absolute disgrace if these reports are true,” he said, adding that Tata has not only legal, but also moral and social responsibilities to the members of the BSPS as well as the workforce

cymakers and staff on the SMA’s priorities. “Steel issues received an unprecedented level of attention during this election season,” Bell said. "We must work to maintain this focus and to address the challenges that face 21st Century Steelmakers, such as global steel overcapacity. We also hope for a productive lame-duck session, including passage of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016,” Bell said. across the UK. “To seek to escape those responsibilities and avoid their obligations, by exploiting a technicality, is not only a slap in the face to the workers and pensioners who have sought to work with the company to find a resolution, but it should trouble us all,” Kinnock said.

“For this news to leak out in the manner that it has, threatens to fracture the trust upon which these negotiations have been based.

“I hope that Tata will now stand by its obligations to pensioners and steelworkers and comes out to disown these deeply troubling reports in the strongest possible terms,” he concluded.

Rebar imports damage US industry Steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Japan, Taiwan and Turkey have materially injured the US rebar industry, according to the US International Trade Commission.

An announcement from the USbased Wiley Rein’s international trade practice claims that the ITC has ‘preliminarily determined’ that there is ‘a reasonable indication’ that these countries’ actions are injurious to the US steel industry’s health.

“This ruling confirms the injurious effects that Japanese, Taiwanese and Turkish imports of rebar are having on the US industry,” said Alan H Price, chair of Wiley Rein’s International Trade Practice and lead counsel to the Rebar Trade Action Coalition (RTAC).

“Producers in each of these countries are using unfair pricing practices to steal market share from domestic producers,” he said, add-

ing that, as a result, the domestic rebar industry has been forced ‘to lower prices and has experienced significant declines in profitability’.

The ITC determination is in response to a 20 September 2016 petition filed by RTAC, which is a coalition of US rebar producers, alleging that unfairly dumped rebar from Japan, Taiwan and Turkey, and subsidised rebar from Turkey are not only injuring the US industry, but threatening it with additional injury.

According to Wiley Rein, the ITC’s affirmative preliminary injury determination paves the way for the US Department of Commerce to continue moving forward with its investigations. “Commerce is expected to issue preliminary anti-dumping and countervailing duty determinations no later than the first half of next year,” said Wiley Rein. “If Commerce reaches

an affirmative preliminary determination in these cases, provisional anti-dumping and countervailing duties will be collected based on the preliminary margins calculated,” said the company.

Between 2013 and 2015, rebar imports from Japan, Taiwan and Turkey increased 160.4%. In 2013 the tonnage was 742.3kt (short tons) and this increased to 1mt in 2014 and 1.9Mt in 2015. Imports have continued to remain strong in 2016, claims Wiley Rein.

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MPI chief speaks out on Brexit

Seventh blast furnace for EVRAZ EVRAZ Group is to build a seventh blast furnace at its NTMK facility in Nizhnij Tagil, Russia.

The new furnace will be of similar design to the existing BF5 and BF6 furnaces with a hearth diameter of 9.8 metres, an inner volume of 2,200 cubic metres, 22 tuyeres and 2 tap holes, each unit can produce 2.5Mt of hot metal per year.

EVRAZ plans to commission the new BF 7 in 2018. The new ironmaking plant configuration will allow full steel production even during periodical repairs of the site’s

blast furnaces, says the company.

“Contracts have now been signed by EVRAZ-NTMK and Paul Wurth for the design and supply of technology and key equipment, which will ensure reproducible operations and support a long campaign for this modern furnace,” said Paul Wurth. “This includes a parallel hopper Bell Less Top charging system, a hearth refractory lining with a ceramic cup and two sets of fully hydraulic tapping machinery.”

According to Paul Wurth, ver-

tical copper stave coolers in the high-heat loaded bosh, belly and stack area – the same configuration as the plant’s BF5 and BF6 since 2004 – will repeat their successful application in an evaporative cooling system. The BF top gas cleaning plant with axial cyclone and annular gap scrubber as well as the de-dusting systems for stockhouse and casthouse will ensure minimal environmental impact and a maximum material return to the main process of steelmaking.

SSAB’s Nordic investment

Chris McDonald, chief executive of the Materials Processing Institute (MPI) outlined the challenges and opportunities of Brexit in a public lecture entitled The effect of Brexit on Innovation.

The lecture took place earlier this month in Teesside University’s Centuria building.

Commenting in a report conducted by the MPI, McDonald said: “In leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom will face many challenges but it also opens up opportunities as we move to an international tradebased economy.

NLMK announces Q3 sales boost Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced a quarter-on-quarter sales increase for Q3 2016 of 7% to 4.2Mt. Crude steel output was down 4% to 4Mt. Over the first nine months of 2016 group crude steel output and sales increased by 2% yearon-year to 12.3Mt and the capacity utilisation rate was up one percentage point to 95%.

Safe EAF door cleaning at CMC Oklahoma CMC Oklahoma has placed an order with Danieli Centro Met for a new Motank technological package, which will enable a safe EAF door cleaning operation avoiding the use of a forklift manned unit.

Motank, which is part of the Danieli’s Q-Melt automatic furnace technology, is designed to clear unmelted scrap and excess slag deposits from the EAF slag tunnel, prior to temperature or sample being taken by an automatic sampling manipulator.

Swedish steelmaker SSAB plans to invest more than SEK 500 million (US$55 million) in its Nordic operations.

The plan is to support the company’s automotive growth strategy, increase production stability and reduce energy consumption.

Investments are planned for operations at the Hämeenlinna and Luleå sites and projects get underway towards the end of the year.

SSAB will invest SEK 370 million (US$41 million) on modernising the first section of the pickling line at its Hämmeenlinna Works in Finland. www.steeltimesint.com

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According to the company, the investment will support the steelmaker’s automotive growth strategy and secure stable and longterm production of coated strip products.

All steel strip at Hämeenlinna is pickled by passing it through hydrochloric acid baths before cold rolling and subsequent metal coating. The metal-coated strip products are sold directly to automotive and construction customers.

Olavi Hutala, head of SSAB Europe, commented, “Automotive is an important segment for us and one where we see clear potential

for growth. The investments in Hämeenlinna will now support that strategy further.”

In Luleå, Sweden, an investment of SEK 156 million (US$17 million) will be made in a new blower for hot metal production. The blower can be viewed as the engine of the blast furnace and the installation of a new one will reduce energy consumption and increase production stability.

According to SSAB, the investments are part an already communicated capital expenditure programme and will start towards the end of 2016.

Merger plans boost profits The joining together of two of China’s biggest steelmakers – Baosteel Group and Wuhan Iron and Steel Group – is proving to be good news for Baoshan Iron & Steel and Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. Since the announcement of the planned merger both steelmakers have witnessed a revival in fortunes on the Shanghai Stock Exchange with Baoshan’s stock gaining 18% and Wuhan’s 21%.

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Safety awards for steelmakers

UK Steel welcomes revaluation Gareth Stace (pictured below) director of UK Steel, has welcomed the news that UK business rates are to be revaluated. He said that such a move will have a positive impact on the British steel industry.

According to Stace, the UK Government in Westminster could learn a lot from the Welsh Government in terms of the speed of implementing business rate cuts.

“The steel sector continues to face very difficult economic conditions and, therefore, needs solutions to level the playing field to ensure it has every ability to invest, which benefits both the local and national economies and ensures world leading competitiveness.

Six leading steel companies, all members of the World Steel Association, have been recognised for their commitment to the highest safety and health standards in the World Steel Association’s Safety and Health Recognition Programme 2016.

ArcelorMittal, Arrium, Gerdau, Hadeed, Tata Steel and Ternium have all delivered ‘demonstrable improvements in safety and health for steel industry employees and were presented with certificates at the recently held World Steel-50 conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Henk Reimink, director, Industry Excellence, at worldsteel, commented: “Membership of worldsteel brings the benefit of being able to share best practices, which is of crucial importance in health and safety, where setting high standards can make a real difference to our employees’ and contractors’ lives. Not only does the Safety and Health Recognition programme facilitate this, but it also shows that the steel industry is committed to tireless improvement in this discipline and it is rewarding to see colleagues continue to strive for excellence. My sincerest thanks to the companies recognised this year for making a difference and for showing the world that steel is responsible and can be made in a safe way.”

ArcelorMittal’s Belval plant in

Luxembourg introduced what it called its Maturity Project to beef up safety standards, which had been slipping. The introduction of the project was to bring about an ambitious cultural change to ensure that the highest safety standards were at the forefront of everyday production processes. A large-scale leadership training programme ensured that plant leadership had the necessary technical knowledge and soft skills to empower staff.

Meanwhile, in Peru, Arrium introduced a Driver Awareness Programme (DAP), having carried out a review that showed 87% of road transport incidents were the result of unsafe driver behaviour. DAP engaged and trained drivers on how to make sure they returned home safely. Structured communication channels were set up to swiftly and accurately learn from incidents that did occur and a formal audit programme verified compliance with expected safety procedures. The end result was a 44% reduction in road transport incidents over a three-year period.

Safety managers at Gerdau’s Ouro Branco plant in Brazil noticed that an overhead crane, used in the plant’s new rolling mill whenever the rolls needed to be removed for grinding, unnecessarily exposed shop floor workers to the risk of falling objects. By replacing the crane with a hydraulic

arm eliminated the risk and made the shop floor safer, significantly improving the plant’s Safety Cultural Index.

Upgrading the ladle furnace dedusting system at Hadeed in Saudi Arabia reduced the concentration of particulate matter in the air from 18.8 to 6.62mg/m3 where, during steel refining operations at the company’s long product facility, it had previously exceeded recommended levels.

The objective of Tata Steel, worldwide, is to have all high level management committed to zero safety incidents, hence the company’s leadership engagement in safety excellence, a journey encapsulated by the steelmaker’s Felt Leadership Programme. There have been a number of initiatives involving management and senior union leaders, including the Find it, Own it, Fix it campaign, which has led to a decrease in Tata’s Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR).

To minimise fire hazards on a painting line, Ternium’s Juventud plant in Mexico carried out a project to reduce the risk during the painting process when handling, preparing and applying paint. An emergency response procedure was established, monitoring systems were installed around the ovens, improvements were made to ventilation and fire protection systems were installed in storage areas.

Liberty restarts UK rod and bar mills “With the emergence of an industrial strategy, now is the time for government to go further and remove plant and machinery from the calculation of business rates to bring us fully in line with our near competitors, such as France and Germany, and stop taxing companies that invest in the modernisation of their processes.”

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Rod and bar mills in Sheerness, Kent, UK, previously owned by Thames Steel, are to be re-started

by Liberty House in its bid to expand its integrated UK steel and engineering business.

The land on which the 750kt/yr mills are located is owned by Peel Ports. While the initial plan was to move all the equipment, including melt shop and rolling mills, to a Liberty-owned site, the steelmaker has since agreed to a new longterm lease with Peel Ports and

aims to restart rod and bar production next year.

Liberty recently re-opened the Dalzell plate mill in Motherwell near Glasgow.

“We are particularly excited about the prospect of restarting the Sheerness rolling mills which were closed by the previous owner four years ago.

Although we originally thought we would move the mills elsewhere, we now believe it will be better to reopen the existing site as

it will save time and cost and allow us to take advantage of emerging opportunities in the market,” said VB Garg, chief executive officer of Liberty Steel.

The plan is to recruit an initial workforce of 60, rising to 100, for the Sheerness facility depending upon market conditions.

“We hope some of the former workers will consider coming back but either way we intend to invest in building skills for the future,” he said. www.steeltimesint.com

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INDUSTRY NEWS

World crude steel production up 2% World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 132.9Mt in September 2016, up 2.0% up on September last year.

In the first nine months of 2016, Asia produced 825.9 Mt of crude steel, an increase of 0.6% over the first three quarters of 2015. Over the same period, the EU produced 121.3 Mt of crude steel, down by 4.8%.

North America’s crude steel production for the period was 83.9 Mt, down 1.4% while the CIS produced 76.4 Mt down 0.1%.

In China, crude steel production

for September 2016 was 68.2 Mt, an increase of 3.9% compared to September 2015. Elsewhere in Asia, Japan produced 8.4 Mt, a decrease of 1.5% and South Korea’s crude steel production was 5.7 Mt, up by 1.1% when compared with September 2015.

Germany produced 3.2 Mt of crude steel in September 2016, down 3.9%; Italy produced 2.0 Mt, down 5.3% and France produced 1.3 Mt, up by 2.2% yearon-year.

Turkey’s crude steel production for September 2016 was 2.7 Mt, up 8.1% on September 2015.

Russia produced 5.7 Mt of

crude steel in September 2016, down 2.1% on September 2015.

Ukraine produced 1.9 Mt, down 8.0%.

The United States produced 6.3 Mt of crude steel in September 2016, a decrease of -3.8% when compared with September 2015.

Crude steel production in Brazil for September 2016 was up 3.1% to 2.6Mt. In terms of the crude steel capacity utilisation ratio for the 66 countries, the figure stood at 70% for September 2016, up from 69.5% last year and 1.5 percentage points higher than in August 2016.

Amazing Facts and Figures • Over 92% of BOF production decline this year came from a voluntary idling of production capacity as opposed to integrated producers losing market share to the mini-mills.

Source: Metal Strategies Inc.

• In addition to owning Jaguar Land Rover, the Mumbai-based Tata Group, which also owns Tata Steel UK, owns Tetley Tea.

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November 2016 24-25 Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference, Linz, Austria.

Chaired by Franz Rotter, member of the management board of voestalpine AG, this event will cover a range of topics including powder for MAM; systems and engineering for MAM and additive design and engineering.

For further information, log on to www.mamc.org

24-25 Automatic & Information Technology in Iron & Steel, Ranchi, India.

An international conference organised by the Computer Society of India and bringing together scientists, researchers and engineers from academia and the steel industry. The event will focus on automation, engineering and IT. For further information, log on to www.aitism-ranchi.in

December 2016 12 20th Middle East Iron & Steel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Organised by Metal Bulletin Events, this year’s conference will include presentations from senior executives at Sabic, Bahrain Steel and Unicoil. The event is chiefly aimed at steel mills, iron ore, DRI and HBI producers.

For further information, log on to www.metalbulletinevents.com

Source: The Guardian.

• By 2025 almost 80% to 85% of all domestic steelmaking capacity in the USA will be EAF. Source: Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

May 2017

• Less than 1% of the earth’s accessible water is suitable for human consumption.

Source: IMOA.

• It costs more than twice as much to move scrap from New Jersey, USA, to inland US steel mills as from New Jersey to Turkey, the USA’s largest scrap export market.

Source: Metalico Inc. www.steeltimesint.com

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• In the United States, 65% of steel tonnage today derives from scrap.

8-11 AISTech 2017, Nashville, USA A major, ‘must attend’ event organised by the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST).

The best way to describe this event is ‘a major global steel event with an American flavour’.

Not only is there a healthy and comprehensive conference programme, but also major forums attended by the great and the good of the American steel industry. Don’t miss it!

For further information, log on to www.aist.org

Source: Institute of Materials.

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Production still under pressure US trade sanctions to curb imports have not helped bring the US steel industry out of the present slowdown in which it seems to be languishing. By Manik Mehta*

THIS is also evident from the latest figures provided by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), which reported that production until 1 October 2016 stood at 67.17Mt, a 1.8% decline from 68.43Mt during the previous year. 2015 was a problematic year for the steel industry and also for the Minnesota iron ore industry, which supplies this raw material to the steelmakers.

Steel industry pundits refuted the claims of some that the crisis in the domestic steel and taconite industries was over.

Indeed, Thomas Gibson, the AISI president, categorically denied that the surge in foreign steel imports was over.

“The surge of foreign steel (entering the US) still goes on,” he recently said at Hibbing Taconite where he presented the AISI’s 2016 Congressional Champion of Steel award to US congressman Rick Nolan, D-Crosby, who has galvanised support for tough trade sanctions against what is called “illegal dumping” of steel which, simply put, means that foreign suppliers were selling their products below cost and thus violating trade laws.

In some product categories, tariffs imposed have been as high as 200, 300 or even 500% depending on the steel products, particularly, from China. AISI sources claim that tariffs and strict vigilance against unfairly traded steel had slashed imports by 30%, though Gibson has been saying that steel supplied at below the production costs continued to pour into the country and that, in fact, more action was

needed. Gibson, who called for “keeping the pressure on” to help US mills produce more steel, acknowledged that some progress had been made but that this was “not a victory parade” while attending the award ceremony for Congressman Nolan.

According to trade union sources, some 25,000 steelworkers are without jobs, one of the reasons being that some US industry sectors are slow. Take the case of US Steel whose Granite City Works, near St. Louis, which produces oil industry pipes, has been idled because of the slowdown in new oil production. That resulted in the continued closure of the company’s Keetac taconite operations in Keewatin that supplied Granite City with taconite iron ore, keeping hundreds of steelworkers without work in Keewatin.

But other steel-consuming US industries have been more robust and have been buying steel. Nevertheless, the glut of foreign steel imports entering the US in recent years still continues to have a lingering impact even after the trade sanctions were imposed, as Lourenco Goncalves, president and CEO of Clevelandbased Cliffs Natural Resources, was telling the media. Many US buyers had stockpiled foreign steel when it was cheap, before sanctions were imposed, but some, like Goncalves, fear that that accumulated steel will take a long time before the stocks are exhausted.

Congressman Nolan urged the US government to keep up the pressure and pursue cases against steel from other

nations, but also recommended that the US must negotiate with its largest trade partners, such as the G-20 group of nations, to curb the ‘ridiculous overcapacity’ of global steel production.

Steelworkers’ jobs figured prominently in the US Presidential election campaign.

President-elect Donald Trump, who frequently spoke of his “deep concern” for steel jobs – he even pledged during a natural gas convention in Pittsburgh on 22 September that he would bring back the steel jobs – was criticised by many, including Jim Johnston, president of the United Steelworkers Local 1219, dismissed such claims, calling Trump’s actions as the “total opposite”.

According to a Newsweek report quoting Johnson, it was discovered that in Trump’s recent building projects he had “opted to purchase his steel and aluminium from Chinese manufacturers rather than United States corporations based in states like Pennsylvania”.

Trump campaign senior policy adviser Curtis Ellis issued a statement that countered the Newsweek story as “false on its face. … The Trump Organisation does not purchase steel — it works with contractors to build buildings. Those contractors follow the market, a market that the Chinese have exploited with subsidies, dumping and other predatory trade practices”.

“America’s steelworkers know that Hillary’s support of NAFTA and China’s entry into the WTO are responsible for job

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losses and devastation in their industry,” said the statement, referring to a 1990s trade deal and China’s entry into the global trade regime.

Steel demand in the US is projected to grow by 1.1% in 2017, according to the World Steel Association’s “Short Range Outlook 2016-2017”.

The study noted that while the US economy is strong, steel demand has struggled to grow because of the collapse in shale drilling and a strong dollar that hurts US manufacturers and allows foreign suppliers to be more competitive on price.

But US steel companies have been focusing on the study’s prediction that worldwide China and emerging economies would drive much of the growth for the steel industry in coming years. China’s gross domestic product in 2017 should be the lowest since 1990, but its steel sector is not expected to slow much because of government stimulus projects like spending on infrastructure. Steel demand in China should drop by only 1% this year, and 2% next year, according to the forecast.

India’s emerging economy One such emerging economy that has been eyeing the US market is India. Recently, a large delegation from the mineral-rich state of Jharkhand in eastern India, led by the state’s chief minister, Raghubar Das, was in New York to court US investors, highlighting to them the huge mineral deposits, particularly iron ore, that would appeal to steel companies interested in setting up operations in that state.

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Das said that his interest was also to attract small and medium-sized companies from the developed countries, particularly the USA. Of great interest to steel suppliers will be the state’s projected establishment of ‘smart cities’ which will generate a huge demand for steel. “We will welcome FDI (foreign direct investment) from any part of the world. My (state) government is mulling the creation of smart cities with modernised infrastructure. We have set a target of 20,000 MW of electricity by the year 2020, and we have created a one-stop window to facilitate FDI into our state,” Das said, reminding that India’s pioneer steel industry group Tata had started its first operation in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, in 1907. “It was the largest private investment in Asia at that time A representative of JSW Steel, India’s leading steel manufacturing company, was also present during Das’ presentation.

Biswadip Gupta, JSW Steel’s president (corporate affairs), who is based in Mumbai, said that his company management had been working with the Jharkhand authorities to set up operations in that state.

In an interview with Steel Times International, Gupta said that the Indian Government had set the ambitious target of producing 300Mt of steel by 2025.

“India’s current production is around 85Mt. Steel consumption is accounted for by construction, infrastructure, machinery production, modernisation and expansion of ports, highways and so on. A significant amount of

steel is consumed in India by production of appliances, automobiles, etc,” he said.

Gupta said that JSW Steel had been present in Jharkhand for the last 10 years.

“In the beginning we were struggling with land acquisition, but today we have in our possession about 1000 acres of land and are looking for another 1000 acres,” he said.

Gupta said that his company was setting up a Greenfield project subject to, as he predicated his statement, finalisation of iron-ore and coal issues with the state and the federal government. The new plant will start with 3Mt, increasing incrementally to 10Mt. JSW Steel’s biggest plant is located in Belari (Karnataka) with 12Mt, and another one in Dolvi (Maharashtra) with 5Mt. A third plant is located in Salem, Tamil Nadu, in the south of the country with one million tonnes alloy steel output. The company’s total output is around 18Mt, which is the highest in India.

But, like in the US, India’s steelmakers

are equally worried about steel dumping

by China whose overcapacity causes concern because the cheap, excessive steel, invariably, ends up in foreign markets.

“Indian experts agree that China is indeed dumping steel in India.

The Indian Government has imposed a surcharge on Chinese imports, which will be guided by the minimum import price regulation. Under this regulation, foreign suppliers have to comply with the requirement of minimum import prices, failing which their products are subject to the MIP and anti-dumping duties. India imported about 9Mt of steel from China, Japan, Korea, Ukraine and so on. India’s steel producers want this dumping to stop,” Gupta emphasised. � www.steeltimesint.com

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Vale and Brazilian steel In May 2016, Vale concluded the sale of its minority stake in Companhia Siderúrgica do Atlântico (CSA) to German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp as one its initiatives to streamline its asset portfolio. In June 2016, Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP), a joint venture between Vale, Dongkuk and Posco started-up. Because the two events occurred almost simultaneously, it is worthwhile examining those investments, which can be divided into three phases. By Germano Mendes de Paula*

PHASE 1: Greenfield projects Vale’s investments in the Brazilian steel industry are not new. As iron ore consumers, the company was involved in the implementation of coke integrated steel mills during the 1950s and 1970s. In 1942 Vale was established as a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE).

In the late-1950s, the Brazilian government decided to invest intensely in the steel industry and constructed two coke integrated mills (Usiminas and Cosipa), in complement to CSN that was commissioned in 1946. Usiminas was founded in 1958 as a joint venture between Brazilian and Japanese investors. When Usiminas started-up in 1962, Vale held a 9% stake in the business. Ipatinga, the city where Usiminas was erected, is located some 110km from Itabira, where Vale began its operations as an iron ore miner.

In addition, Usiminas was constructed adjacent to the Vitória-Minas Railway (EFVM) that transports Vale’s iron ore to Vitória, in the State of Espírito Santo.

In 1966, Vale opened a new harbour (Tubarão), also located in the city of Vitória and constructed pelletising plants nearby, three of them in association with foreign investors from Japan, Italy and Spain.

Negotiations held by Vale with these companies have paved the way for the start of negotiations concerning the construction of Companhia Siderúrgica de Tubarão (CST).

In the shareholders' agreement of 1974, Vale held 10% of CST. The foreign investors were Kawasaki Steel (Japan) and Finsider (Italy), while majority control was in Brazilian hands.

Vale’s investments in Usiminas and CST had two similarities: a) they were joint ventures between the Brazilian government (including SOEs, like Vale) and foreign steelmakers; b) the goal was the construction of greenfield coke integrated mills. Over time, governmental stakes in Brazilian state-owned steelmakers came under the control of Siderbrás, a sectorial holding.

Phase two: Greenfield projects The Brazilian government privatised its large steel mills between 1991-1993. Vale bought stakes in four companies: Usiminas (15%), CST (15%), CSN (9%) and Açominas (5%). Vale had two motivations to acquire these shares. Commercially, it wanted to ensure the sale of iron ore, in particular to Usiminas, CST and Açominas, all of whom are served by EFVM. CSN, for its turn, still operates its high quality iron ore mine, Casa de Pedra.

The second stimulus was a financial one.

Vale had accumulated a large amount of Siderbrás’ debentures, which were received as payment for supplying iron ore to the steelmaker’s subsidiaries. The problem was that these debt instruments had little or no liquidity. In the privatisation auctions of Brazilian steel corporations, the mentioned debentures, like any other securities issued in the country, were accepted at face value, that is, without considering the negative goodwill. It is estimated that during this process, the average discount on the

*Professor of Economics, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil. E-mail: germano@ufu.br www.steeltimesint.com

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securities used for the purchase of shares was 49%. Thus, Vale was able to convert non-liquid assets into liquid ones, without any penalty.

Again, Vale got rid of all these stakes afterwards. It sold its stake in Açominas to the remaining shareholders in 2000. The following year, Vale sold its 10.3% stake in CSN to its own pension fund (Valia), ending cross-ownership with CSN. Vale increased its stake in CST when the Brazilian banks Bozano Simonsen and Unibanco traded their shares in 1996.

Seven years later, it acquired more shares, which belonged to Acesita. Finally, it sold its total stake to Arcelor in 2004. In Usiminas, Vale enlarged its stake in 1998, before disposing of all shares in 2009. The second phase can be characterised as the purchase and resale of minority shareholdings in existing coke integrated mills.

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Phase 3: Greenfield projects again While Vale was selling its interests in existing steel mills, it also stimulated the construction of other greenfield projects. In 2004, ThyssenKrupp and Vale signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for building CSA. The foundation stone was laid in 2006.

Vale increased its stake in the venture from 10% to 27% in 2009 in order to ensure it would be completed without further delay.

CSA was commissioned in 2010, with a 5Mt/yr capacity of slabs.

This year, Vale sold its participation in CSA to ThyssenKrupp for a ‘symbolic price’. It retained its rights to sell iron ore to the plant, but the other contracts and agreements were extinguished. The Brazilian miner will, however, be entitled to future income if ThyssenKrupp eventually sells a controlling stake in CSA to a third party.

CSP was established in 2007, as a joint venture between Vale and Dongkuk. In 2011, Posco's engineering and construction division was awarded the contract to build the mill. It also became a shareholder. Since then, Vale holds a 50% stake, while Dongkuk and Posco have 30% and 20%, respectively. CSP has a 3Mt/yr slabs capacity.

Vale’s investments in CSA and CSP share similar characteristics, because they are: a) greenfield coke integrated mills; b) joint ventures with international steelmakers; c) specialised on slab production; d) located on the coast. In this way, the third phase can be considered as almost a reproduction of the first one.

Other mills Since the early noughties, Vale intended to foster the construction of other mills in Brazil, such as: a) BVA, associated with Baosteel and Arcelor in the State of Maranhão; b) Companhia Siderúrgica Vitoria (CSV), jointly with Baosteel in the State of Espírito Santo.

In 2009, Baosteel dropped out of the project and Vale gained full control, renaming it as Companhia Siderúrgia Ubu (CSU); c) Aços Laminados do Pará (ALPA), a 100% Vale-owned project. The latter can be understood as an exception, because it would be situated near the Carajás iron ore mine (far from the coast) and it wanted to verticalise into flat steel products (instead of fabricating merely semis). In fact, only in rolling mills would Vale establish a joint venture with a local player. BVA was formally cancelled, while CSU and ALPA stayed on the paper.

Nowadays, Vale’s participation in Brazilian steel companies is restricted to CSP, prompting one final question: When will it sell its stake in CSP? � www.steeltimesint.com

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The last of three converters In September, the last of three LD (BOF) converters supplied by Primetals Technologies (Primetals) commenced operation at SSAB’s Raahe, Finland works.

The first converter was started up in October 2015, the second in May 2016.

With almost unchanged space requirements, the new converters have a larger reaction volume. The maintenance-free Vaicon Link 2.0, which will be used as the converter suspension, minimises stress caused by heat-induced deformation and has a longer useful life, says Primetals.

A blowing lance tip geometry adjusted to the new converter geometry, bottom stirring and a slag stopper improve the metallurgical properties of the steel produced. A new refractory concept will ensure a long converter lining campaign.

SSAB Europe Oy is part of the SSAB group, a leading global producer of Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) and Quenched and Tempered Steels (Q&T), strip, plate and tubular products, as well as construction solutions. The group has an annual steel production capacity of 8.8Mt (metric tons) of steel and operates production plants in Sweden, Finland and the USA. The integrated steel mill in Raahe is said to be the largest production facility of its kind in the Nordic countries.

Raahe’s existing converters each have a tapping weight of 125 metric tons. Primetals will replace them with three converters featuring a detachable bottom and a bottom stirring system.

According to Primetals, the converter has an optimised geometry, which enables a larger reaction volume as well as a new concept for the refractory lining which has a longer useful life. Primetals’ remit embraces the engineering of the converter vessels, trunnion rings and Vaicon Link 2.0 maintenance-free suspension systems.

The converters feature the Vaicon Stopper to minimise slag transfer on tapping. The tip of the blowing lance is adapted to the new converter geometry, which improves the blowing process and, therefore, the metallurgical properties of the steel produced. Primetals is also responsible for monitoring pre-assembly and installation work as well as commissioning.

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The IdeaHub, working on behalf of ABB, will help those who apply to secure ‘uniquely tailored support packages to maximise their venture’s commercial potential, including funding, research and development expertise, customers and markets’ or what is known as a ‘funded concept acceleration sprint’.

According to ABB, electric motors play an important role in our everyday lives and businesses.

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Don’t let health and safety of your face and head fall by the wayside because of complacency in the workplace, argues Rob Haines, sales director of workwear specialist, Dickies Safety is a major concern, yet some engineers in the steel industry may feel that protective equipment is too cumbersome for everyday tasks. Yet, when you take into account the sheer range of physical, chemical, mechanical and even electrical hazards, they could be working in one of the most challenging work environments there is.

Indeed, according to British government figures, 76,054 non-fatal injuries to employees happened in the workplace last year.

A report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) shows that eye injuries that occurred at work amounted to 69.9% of those reported, often caused by projectile perils, but other hazards, such as loud noises, can damage the ears, and dangerous air-borne substances, when inhaled, can cause respiratory problems and even death.

“That’s why Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) should be taken seriously” says Rob Haines, sales director of workwear specialist Dickies.

It is worth remembering that health and safety in the work place is so important that it has been clearly defined. Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 state that PPE covers “all equipment (including clothing affording protection against the weather) which is intended to be worn or held by a person at work which protects them against one or more risks to their health and safety”.

The stark fact is that engineers could regularly face a multitude of working conditions that could put their own health and safety at risk if they fail to wear the appropriate PPE. Protecting your vision Eye injuries are the most likely to occur in the workplace and these may easily have been prevented had the right eye protection been worn.

Most occur when grinding, sawing or joining.

In those instances, there is a risk of shards flying into the air and potentially into the eye.

Wearing a pair of safety glasses can prevent

those injuries and there are plenty of types and styles available on the market, all of which have CE marking approval. These range from those offering unrestricted vision, fogbuster goggles with a thermos lens system resistant to misting, lightweight and even

ergonomic goggles that are frameless and can be worn all day. New on the market are interchangeable safety goggles which have interchangeable temples and head band, are made with a scratch-resistant polycarbonate anti-fog lenses and offer a seal of protection against dust or airborne particles, as well as 99.9% UV ray protection.

You may think that because you are wearing glasses you are protected, but eyes can still be vulnerable if not fully covered. In this case over-spectacle safety glasses can be worn. These have been specifically designed to fit well over prescription glasses and still offer protection.

Protecting your hearing There’s a simple guideline as to whether or not ears need protecting and it’s this: if you need to raise your voice to be heard at arm’s length away, then protection should be worn.

After-all, a hand drill may be easy to handle but the noise it makes while drilling can reach 97 decibels. A large hammer drill used to bore a hole through an external wall for an overflow pipe reaches a staggering 119 decibels.

Alarmingly, if your ears are left unprotected these drills can cause hearing loss in as little as a few minutes.

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Respiratory protection Exposure to airborne particles can be a big health issue that can be countered by the use of a simple respirator or face mask, tested under the standard EN149:2001 and worn over the nose and mouth. Such a device could deflect the risk of poisoning, because it is designed to reduce the wearer’s exposure to the danger.

It is important to assess the risk and chose the right equipment for the environment. Some respirators are designed to protect against higher levels of toxicity than others.

Employers should ensure that their Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) is appropriate, taking the fit and protection levels into consideration.

Just because an item of PPE passes the relevant standard doesn’t mean that all PPE items with that standard meet the exact same levels of protection.

It probably goes without saying that a safety helmet is an essential part of PPE. But, when you need protection from noise, dust and projectiles you could choose one with ear defenders and a wire-mesh face shield and even an internal sweat band to the brow already attached. www.dickiesworkwear.com www.steeltimesint.com

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Plot No. F23 MIDC Area Gokulshirgaon Industrial Area, Kolhapur 416234 Maharashtra, India Mr Prakash Maladkar Ing. T: +91 982 205 6316 E: sales@afecoheating.com W: www.afecoheating.com AICHELIN Holding GmbH Fabriksgasse 3 2340 Moedling, Austria Harald Berger T: +43 2236 23646 0 E: marketing@aichelin.com W: www.aichelin.com AIF Engineering Private Limited B-18, Sector IX, Noida 110019 Uttar Pradesh, India Mr. Sandeep Mathur T: +91 120 420 8752 E: info@aif.co.in W: www.aif.co.in Air Control Industrial S.L. Paseo Sarroeta, 4 Donostia-San Sebastián 20014 Gipuzkoa, Spain Mr. Ben Parhan T: +34 943 445080 E: bparhan@aircontrol.es W: www.aircontrol.es/en Air Products and Chemicals, Inc 7201 Hamilton Boulevard Allentown, PA 18195, United States Ms Marie Kistler T: +1 800 654 4567 E: gigmrktg@airproducts.com W: www.airproducts.com/metals

Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC 218-B Mechanic Street, PO Box 256 Waterville, Ohio 43566, United States Mr. Rick Smith T: +1 419-878-4691 E: info@allstatesrefractory.com W: www.allstatesrefractory.com Almor Group Daleside Road Nottingham, NG2 3GJ,United Kingdom Miss Rachel Morrell-Swain E: sales@almor.co.uk W: www.almor.co.uk AMECO USA 4600 W. 160, St Cleveland OH 44135, United States Mr. David Kloss T: +1 440-899-9400 E: sales@ameco-usa.com W: www.ameco-usa.com AMETEK Land Stubley Lane, Dronfield, Derbyshire, S18 1DJ, United Kingdom Mrs Lucy Lambertsen T: +44 1246 417691 E: land.enquiry@ametek.com W: www.landinst.com ANT FURNACES 1500 Mariner Dr Oxnard CA 93033, United States Mr G Eric Gisonno T: +1 877 367 2025 E: egisonno@antfurnaces.com W: www.antfurnaces.com ARUN Technology 16 The Brunel Centre, Newton Road Crawley, RH10 9TU West Sussex United Kingdom Mr Lee Lythe T: +44 (0)1293 513123 E: sales@aruntechnology.com W: www.aruntechnology.com

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Ascon Tecnologic North America 1111 Brookpark Road Cleveland, OH 44321, United States Rick Pelton T: +1 216-485-8350 E: info@ascontec-na.com W: www.ascontecnologic.com AVS Inc. 60 Fitchburg Road Ayer, MA 1432, United States Mr Mark Sowerbutts T: +1 978-772-0710 E: sales@avsinc.com W: www.avsinc.com BDI Cooling Solutions Ramsden Court, Ramsden Road, Rotherwas Industrial Estate, Hereford, HR2 6LR Herefordshire United Kingdom Mr Paul Adcock T: +44 (0)1432 365000 E: info@bdicooling.com W: www.bdicooling.com Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Dieselstrasse 3, Plettenberg 58840 North Rhine-Westphalia Germany Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Holze T: +49 2391 817-0 E: info@BEKA-Feuerfest.de W: www.BEKA-Feuerfest.de Bekaert Solaronics Z.I n°3 rue du kemmel 59280 Armentières France Mr Charles Precheur T: +33 03 2010 5949 E: sales.ncdcoating@bekaert.com W: www.drying.bekaert.com BEST - Balikesir Elektromekanik Sanayi Tesisleri AS OSB -Organize Sanayi Bölgesi 7. Cad. No:1 10050 Balikesir, Turkey Osman Aydiner T: +90 266 281 10 70 E: best@besttransformer.com W: www.besttransformer.com BOREL Swiss Grandes-Vies 25 2900 Porrentruy, Switzerland Mr Arnaud Libis T: +41 32 465 96 00 E: mail@borel.swiss W: www.borel.swiss Brasco International 650 Dutord Bécancour G9H 2Z5, Canada Mr Peter Nobre T: +1 819 380 8498 E: p.nobre@brascolinings.com British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) The NMC 47 Birmingham Road B70 6PY West Bromwich United Kingdom Mr Phil McCarthy T: +44 (0)1216016715 E: enquiry@bifca.org.uk W: www.bifca.org.uk Busch (UK) Ltd Hortonwood 30 Telford, TF1 7YB Shropshire United Kingdom Mr Mark Sumnall T: +44 (0)1952 677432 E: sales@busch.co.uk W: www.busch.co.uk

BWG Bergwerk- und WalzwerkMaschinenbau GmbH Mercatorstr. 74-78 47051 Duisburg, Germany Dirk Schaefer T: +49 203 99290 E: bwg@bwg-online.de W: www.bwg-online.com BWG Machinery Corporation 111 Haven Ridge, Peachtree City Georgia 30269, United States Mr. Joseph Heiman T: +1 770-969-9199 E: joe.heiman@bwgmachinery.com W: www.bwgmachinery.com Calderys 17/19 place de la Résistance 92446 Issy Les Moulineaux Cedex France Mr Sébastien Duguet T: +33(0)1 41 08 11 00 E: info@calderys.com W: www.calderys.com Calderys Refractory Solutions 6th, Fidvi Towers, Mount Road, Nagpur 440001 MHR, India Mr Devendra Singh T: +91 962 345 2458 E: devendra.singh@calderys.com W: www.calderys.com Calderys Refractory Taiwan NO. 6-6, Hsing-Tien Road, Hsin-Nan Tsun-Kao-Shu Shiang 906 Ping Tung Hsien, Taiwan Mr Franklin Hung T: +886 8 796 5562 E: taiwan@calderys.com W: www.calderys.com CAN-ENG Furnaces International Ltd 6800 Montrose Road, Niagara Falls Ontario L2E 6V5, Canada Tim Donofrio T: +1 905-356-1327 E: furnaces@can-eng.com W: www.can-eng.com Carbolite Gero

Parsons Lane Hope S33 6RB, United Kingdom Mr Paul Birchmore T: +44 (0)1433 620011 E: info@carbolite-gero.com W: www.carbolite-gero.com Carbon International Ltd Brigg Road, Scunthorpe DN16 1AX North Lincolnshire United Kingdom Mr Tim Edwards T: +44 (0)1724 280801 E: sales@carboninternational.co.uk W: www.carboninternational.co.uk Cardinal Refractories Inc. 3385 Harvester Road, Suite #240 Burlington L7N 3N2, Canada Mr. Paul Thibodeau T: +1 419 307 2184 W: www.stellarcanadainc.com Castolin Eutectic Ch. de la Venoge 7 1025 St-Sulpice, Switzerland E: info@castolin.com W: www.castoliln.com Cellaris Refractories India Limited Unit of Carborundum Universal Limited Plot # 8, CUMISEZ, KD plot,

F1 Ernakulam Dt., Kochi 683109 Kerala, India Mr K N Rajan T: +91 999 449 1827 E: rajankn@cumi.murugappa.com W: www.cumi-murugappa.com/ CFT Carbon Furnaces Technologies B.V. Curieweg 7 Spijkenisse ZH 3218 KJ The Netherlands Ing Peter Van Varik T: +31 181 669050 E: vanvarik@carbonft.nl W: www.carbonft.nl Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Faith Works, Club Mill Road Sheffield S6 2FH United Kingdom Mr Paolo Perkins E: paolo@chapmanbrack.co.uk W: www.chapmanbrack.co.uk Charter Tech Limited Sandford Lane Wareham, BH20 4DY Dorset United Kingdom Mr Paul Burns T: +44 (0)1929 553000 E: paul.burns@charter-tech.com W: www.charter-tech.com Chemtool Incorporated 801 W Rockton Road Rockton, IL 61072, United States Ed Hrynyk T: +1 815-957-4140 E: sales@chemtool.com W: www.chemtool.com CIMSAMEX Carretera a laredo Km. 16.5 Col Moises Saenz, Apodaca 66602 Nuevo Leon, Mexico Jose Maldonado T: +52 (81)83852960 E: sales@chemtool.com W: www.cimsamex.com Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Summerton Road Oldbury, Birmingham, B69 2EL West Midlands, United Kingdom Mr Rob Kirk T: +44 (0)121 511 1203 E: rk@claytonholdings.com W: www.Claytonholdings.com CMI Greenline Europe 38 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 77201 Avon, France Mr Roland HEQUET T: +33 6 27 01 00 52 E: roland.hequet@cmigroupe.com W: www.cmigroupe.com Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenerie (CMI) Avenue Greiner 1 4100 Seraing, Belgium Mr Luc Malpas E: luc.malpas@cmigroupe.com W: www.cmigroupe.com COMBUSTOL Estrada Turística do Jaraguá, 358 05161-000 São Paulo, Brazil Mr. Argemiro Sieiro T: +55 11 3906-3000 E: faleconosco@combustol.com.br W: www.combustol.com.br CONDAT 104 avenue Frédéric Mistral 38670 Chasse-sur-Rhône, France Mrs Nathalie Vidal T: +33 4 78 07 38 38 E: info@condat.fr W: www.condat-lubricants.com November 2016

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Consarc Engineering Ltd 9 Woodside, Eurocentral Holytown, ML1 4XL North Lanarkshire United Kingdom Mrs S Robertson T: +44 (0)1698 730430 E: sales@consarceng.com W: www.consarceng.com

DEEPAK INDUSTRIES Harmesh Apt, E-10, B-Wing, Borivali (W) Poinsor, Bhatt Lane Maharashtra, Mumbai, India Mr Prakash Shah T: +91 983 340 7823 E: coalcoke@yahoo.com W: www.pcf.co.in

EGB Vacuum Ltd Unit 30, Earith Business Park Earith, PE28 3QF Cambridgeshire United Kingdom Mr Edward Barnes T: +44 (0)1487 840123 E: Sales@egb-vacuum.co.uk W: www.egb-vacuum.co.uk

Consolidated Engineering Company 1971 McCollum Pkwy NW Kennesaw GA 30144, United States Jose Medina T: +1 770-422-5100 E: jmedina@cec-intl.com W: www.cec-intl.com

Denco Lubrication Ltd Ramsden Court Rotherwas Industrial Estate Hereford, HR2 6LR Herefordshire United Kingdom Mr Stephen Hayward T: +44 (0)1432 365000 E: steve.hayward@bijurdelimon.co.uk W: www.bijurdelimon.co.uk

EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie 29 Rue Tehrane Quartier Industriel Agadir 80004 Souss Massa Daraa, Morocco Mr Mohamed Eljady T: +212 661 389986 E: egetrac@egetrac.com W: www.egetrac.com

Contego Safety Solutions Wearmaster House, Malthouse Lane Hurstpierpoint BN6 9LA West Sussex United Kingdom Mr Jim Lewis T: +44 (0)1273 831800 E: info@contegosafety.co.uk W: www.contegosafety.co.uk Contract Heat Treatment Association Federation House, 10 Vyse Street Birmingham, B18 6LT West Midlands United Kingdom Mr Alan J Hick T: +44 (0)121 329 2970 E: mail@chta.co.uk W: www.chta.co.uk Control Instruments Corp.

25 Law Drive, Fairfield New Jersey 7004, United States Chris Grieshaber T: +1 973 575 9114 E: sales@controlinstruments.com W: www.controlinstruments.com Couplings Company, Inc. 570 Bond St. Lincolnshire, IL 60069, United States Mark Hildenbrand T: +1 847-634-8990 E: sales@couplingscompany.com W: www.brassfittings.com Daniels Fans Ltd Dafen Industrial Park Llanelli, SA14 8QR South Wales United Kingdom Mr Stuart Lloyd T: +44 (0)1554 752148 E: slloyd@danielsfans.com W: www.danielsfans.com Datsun Engineering and Construction Company C-12, Sai Residency, Vijay Nagar, Kalewadi, Pimpri, Pune 411017 Maharashtra, India Mr Vinod Shinde Y T: +91 956 125 9309 E: datsunprojects@gmail.com W: www.facebook.com/datsunprojects De Winter Engineering BV Houweg 2 Elst (U) 3921DB, The Netherlands Mr. Ernst-Jan de Winter T: +31 318 471735 E: dewinter@dewinterengineering. com W: www.dewinterengineering.com DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. Corso Dante 203 14199 Asti, Italy Mr Dino Costa T: + 39 335 819 0132 E: dinocosta@dearsas.com W: www.dearsas.eu November 2016

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DiBenedetto Appraisal Services, member TDI Grp. PO Box 38591 700 Blaw Avenue, First Floor Pittsburgh PA 15238, United States Mr David DiBenedetto Sr. T: +1 412 826 4950 E: drd@tdigrp.com W: www.tdigrp.com DISMATEC Limited Omnia One, Queen Strret Sheffield, South Yorkshire United Kingdom Mr Michael Horsfield T: +44 (0)114 279 2618 E: info@dismatecglassplant.com W: www.dismatecglassplant.com DongYang A.K 47, Wonhapgang 1-gil, Yeondong-myeon 30067 Sejong, South Korea Mr. JongHoen Kim T: +82 10 3638 3727 E: jirungi903@naver.com W: www.dyakk.co.kr E2SL Energy House The Stonerow Way, Parkgate Rotherham S60 1SG United Kingdom Mr Robert Hall T: +44 (0)1709 521144 E: emma@e2sl.co.uk W: www.e2sl.co.uk EBNER Furnaces, Inc. 224 Quadral Drive Wadsworth Ohio 44281, United States Mr. Herbert Gabriel T:+1 330 335 1600 E: sales@ebnerfurnaces.com W: www.ebner.cc Eclipse, Inc 1665 Elmwood Road Rockford IL 61103, United States Mr Jim Roberts T: +1 815 877 3931 E: info@eclipsenet.com W: www.eclipsenet.com Eco Technical Ceramics Units 2 & 3 Waters Meeting Britannia Way Bolton, BL2 2HH Greater Manchester United Kingdom Mr Derek Sharp T: +44 (0)1204 533183 E: graham.bratley@ecotechnicalceramics.com W: www.ecotechnicalceramics.com Effmag Ltd. Tekniikantie 12 2150 Espoo, Finland Mr Jari Puhakka T: +358 407 000 482 E: sales@effmag.com W: www.effmag.com

ELBOY INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS Germany : Anhaltstr. 30 14943 Luckenwalde Turkey : Elbasan Way Harput Industrial Zone No : 75 B Mr. Berkin Ekiz T: +90 545 545 72 79 E: info@elboy.com.tr W: www.elboy.com.tr Electroglass 4 Brunel Road, Manor Trading Estate, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 4PS United Kingdon T:+44 (0)1268 565577 E: info@electroglass.co.uk W: www.electroglass.co.uk Elkem Ceramite PO Box 8126 Vaagsbygd 4675 Kristiansand, Norway Mr Robert Howard T: +47 22 45 0100 E: robert.howard@elkem.no W: www.elkem.com Elnik Systems, LLC 107 Commerce Road Cedar Grove NJ 7009, United States Mr. Claus Joens T: +1 973 239 6066 E: cjoens@elnik.com W: www.elnik.com Elster Thermal Solutions Unit 9 The Croft, Buntsford Drive Bromsgrove, Worcestershire United Kingdom Mr Lee Halley T: +44 (0)1527 888820 E: lee.halley@elster.com W: www.kromschroder.co.uk EMG Automation GmbH Industriestr. 1, Wenden 57482 Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany Karl-Heinz FrĂśhning E: info@emg-automation.com W: www.emg-automation.com Energy & Environmental Services Ltd Energy House, The Stonerow Way Parkgate, Rotherham S60 1SG United Kingdom Mr Robert Hall T: +44 (0)1709 529631 E: enquiries@e2sl.co.uk W: www.e2sl.co.uk ENG. ROSES INTERNATIONAL VIA Monferrato, 23 Cocconato, 14023 ASTI, Italy Mr. Carlos Roses T: +39 329 779 6779 E: carlos.roses@rosesandwayler.com W: www.rosesandwayler.com

Epcon Industrial Systems P.0. Box 7060, The Woodlands TX 77387, United States Angie Anderson T: +1 936 273 3300 E: epcon@epconlp.com W: www.epconlp.com Ernst B Westman Ltd 43, Lower Street Merriott, TA16 5NL Somerset United Kingdom Mr Peter Westman T: +44 (0)1823 321844 E: ebw@dircon.co.uk W: www.ebwestman.co.uk Esotermica Srl Via G. Marconi 39 Cazzago Brabbia 20120 Varese, Italy Mr. Stefano Frailis T: +39 033 228 3284 E: stefano.frailis@esotermica.it W: www.esotermica.it Eurobond Adhesives Ltd Bonham Drive, Eurolink Industrial Estate, Sittingbourne ME10 3RY Kent, United Kingdom Mr Simon Dearing T: +44 (0)1795 427888 E: sales@eurobond-adhesives.co.uk W: www.eurobond-adhesives.co.uk Fredericks Company, The | Televac 2400 Philmont Avenue Huntingdon Valley Pennsylvania 19006, United States Anna Maria Steriti T: +1 215 947 2500 E: sales@televac.com W: www.frederickscompany.com/ televac-vacuum-measurement FIC (UK) Ltd Long Rock Industrial Estate Penzance, Cornwall TR20 8HX, United Kingdon T: +44 (0) 1736 366 962 E: general@fic-uk.com W: www.fic-uk.com FIVES Heath Brook House - Heath Mill Road Wombourne Wolverhampton WV5 8AP United Kingdom Mr Lee Allen T: +44 (0)1902 324000 E: fivessolios-thermal@fivesgroup. com W: www.fivesgroup.com FlammaTec, spol. s r.o.

Rokytnice 60 75501 Vsetin, Czech Republic Mr Petr Vojtech E: sales@flammatec.com W: www.flammatec.com Fluke Process Instruments Raytek/Ircon/Datapaq Brands 1201Shaffer Road Santa Cruz CA 95060 United States Mr William Adaschik T: +1 831 458 3900 E: solutions@flukeprocessinstruments.com W: www.flukeprocessinstruments. com Fuel Applications Limited 104 Robert Street Hamilton, Ontario L8L2P5 Canada Frans Osterman T: +1 905 525-9700 E: info@fuelapplications.ca W: www.fuelapplications.ca

Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd 50 Howleys Road Notting Hill VIC 3169 Australia Mr Robert Crellin T: +61 3 9544 2922 E: info@furnace.com.au W: www.furnace.com.au G&G Steel Inc. PO Box 179 15825 Industrial Drive Russellville, Alabama, 35653 United States VP Bret Gist T: +1 256 332 6652 E: bgist@ggsteel.com W: www.ggsteel.com/contact_us.htm G&T Associates (Services) Ltd Unit 5 Tawe Business Village Phoenix Way, Swansea Enterprise Park, Swansea SA7 9LA United Kingdom Mr Ray Jones T: +44 (0)1792 321202 E: ray.jones@gtassociates.co.uk W: www.gtassociates.co.uk Garden City Fan Company, Div of Howden 1701 Terminal Road, Suite B Niles Michigan 49120, United States John Tiffany T: +1 269 687 1248 E: john.tiffany@howden.com W: www.howden.com Gaskets Inc 301 W. HWY. 16 Rio WI 53960, United States Dan Tomlinson T: +1 920 992 3137 E: info@gasketsinc.com W: www.gasketsinc.com GEA PROCESS ENGINEERING INC. 9165 Rumsey Road Columbia MD 21045, United States Mr Peter Tsai T: +1 410 997 8700 E: peter.tsai@gea.com W: www.GEA.COM Gefran Via Sebina 74 Provaglio d'Iseo (BS) Brescia, Italy Mrs Paola Frittoli T: +39 030 98881 E: info@gefran.com W: www.gefran.com General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. P.O. Box 711 Absecon NJ 8201, United States Mr Stephen Thomas T: +1 609 345 7500 E: genglass@generalglassequipment. com W: www.generalglassequipment.com GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Aperribay 4, Galdakao 48960 Bizkaia, Spain Mr. Ana I. Portilla T: +34 944 491600 E: aiportilla@ghihornos.com W: www.ghihornos.com

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Missouri 63132, United States Mr Ian Marsh T: +1 314 423 9460 E: imarsh@gillespiepowers.com W: www.gillespiepowers.com

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Rokytnice 60 75501 Vsetin, Czech Republic Mr Erik Muijsenberg E: info@gsl.cz W: www.gsl.cz Glass Strand INC. 17434 Mesa Street Hesperia CA 92345, United States Mr Charlie Coggin JR T: +1 760 949 3367 E: fiber1@glass-strand.com W: www.glass-strand.com Glaston Finland Oy Vehmaistenkatu 5 33730 Tampere, Finland Mr. Pekka Nieminen T: +358 1050 0500 E: info@glaston.net W: www.glaston.net Global Oven Systems BV Hooge Zijde 10 Eindhoven 5626 DC, The Netherlands Mr Pim Kuijten T: +31 40 2619831 E: info@gosystems.nl W: www.globalovensystems.nl GMC for Glass Industry 1 B Rue Eugene Marechal 69200 Venissieux France M Marmonier Guy E: gmc@gmcforglass.fr W: www.gmcforglass.fr GNA alutech inc.

9495 Trans Canada Hwy Saint-Laurent, Quebec H4S 1V3 Canada Mr. Ted Phenix T: +1 514 956 1776 E: tphenix@gna.ca W: www.gna.ca Granco Clark, Inc.

7298 N, Storey Road Belding, Michigan 48809 United States Michael Werner T: +1 800 918 2600 E: gcinfo@grancoclark.com W: www.grancoclark.com

Graphite Sales Inc. 16710 West Park Circle Drive Chagrin Falls OH 44023 United States Mr. William Apar T: +1 800 321 4147 E: bapar@graphitesales.com W: www.graphitesales.com

Helipebs Controls Limited Sisson Road Gloucester, GL2 0RE Gloucestershire United Kingdom Mr John Anderton T: +44 (0)1452 423201 E: sales@helipebs.co.uk W: www.helipebs-controls.co.uk

Grieve Corporation 500 Hart Road Round Lake, Illinois 60073 United States Frank Calabrese T: +1 847 546 8225 E: sales@grievecorp.com W: www.grievecorp.com

HEM Engineering & Consulting Manolya 3/17 Daire-6 Istanbul, 34758 Atasehir, Turkey Mr Huseyin Uzun T: + 90 532 366 6155 E: huzun@hemtr.com W: www.hemtr.com

GTG Cairo, Egypt Eng Mohy Elsaadany T: +96 653 004 9499 E: mohy_tech@yahoo.com W: www.wix.com/mohyeldeen/consultant-glass-industries Gund Company, The 2121 Walton Rd. St. Louis, Missouri 63114 United States Joeseph Bradlo T: +1 314 492 4800 E: jbradlo@thegundcompany.com W: www.thegundcompany.com Gulf Coast Environmental Systems 1689 Hawthorne Dr. Conroe, Texas 77301,United States Caitlin Parsley T: +1 832 476 9024 E: cparsley@gcesystems.com W: www.gcesystems.com/ GULF PLUS - KUWAIT PO box 26996 Safat 13130, Kuwait Mr. Eby Mathew T: +965 2228 5545 E: emathew@gulf-plus.com W: www.gulf-plus.com H F Furnaces Quartz House,20 Clarendon Road Redhill, RH1 1QX Surrey United Kingdom Mrs E Horn T: +44 (0)1737 855136 E: esmehorn@quartzltd.com Harper International 4455 Genesee St, Suite 123 Buffalo, New York 14225 United States Mr. John Imhoff T: +1 716 276 9900 E: info@harperintl.com W: www.harperintl.com Hatch Associates 5 Place Ville Marie Montreal, Quebec H3B 2G2 Canada Mr Joe Petrolito T: +1 514 833 6202 E: jpetrolito@hatch.ca W: www.hatch.com.ca Hays Cleveland 1111 Brookpark Road Cleveland, Ohio 44109 United States Mr. Steve Craig T: +1 216 398 4414 E: scraig@unicontrolinc.com W: www.hayscleveland.com

HENCON de Stenenmaat 15, PO Box 16 Ulft 7071 ED, The Netherlands Gerrit Hiddink T: +31 315 683941 E: ghiddink@hencon.com W: www.hencon.com Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. 3009 Washington Road McMurray PA 15323, United States Mr. Christopher Yoest T: +1 724 941 9550 E: customerinquiry@hft.com W: www.hft.com Hertwich Engineering GmbH Weinbergerstr. 6 5280 Braunau, Austria Ms. Elke Deubler T: +43 7722 806-0 E: info@hertwich.com W: www.hertwich.com High Tech Tubes Ltd Unit 15F Wintersells Business Park Byfleet, KT14 7LF Surrey United Kingdom Mr Jim Whiteley T: +44 (0)1932-355440 E: sales@hightechtubes.co.uk W: www.hightechtubes.co.uk High Temp Measurement LLC 228 Cedar Woods Way Canton GA 30114, United States Ken Costello T: +1 404 435 4343 E: kcostello@hightempmeasurement. com W: www.hightempmeasurement.com Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd 17, Phase-1 Peenya Industrial Area Bangalore, 560058 Karnataka India Mr Nagarjun Sakhamuri T: +91 80 419 31000 E: nagarjun@hhv.in W: www.hhv.in Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. 13179 West Star Drive Shelby Township MI 48315 United States Robert Kornfeld T: +1 586 566 0600 E: info@hi-techfurnace.com W: www.hi-techfurnace.com HOBRA - Skolnik s.r.o.

Smetanova street 55001 Broumov, Czech Republic Mr Vojtech Skolnik T: +420 491 580 111 E: hobra@hobra.cz W: www.hobra.cz Hormesa-Conticast Las Marineras 13 Ajalvir, 28864 Madrid, Spain Mr Joss Adam

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T: +34 918 874039 E: joss@hormesa.com W: www.hormesa-group.com Horn Glass Industries Bergstrasse 2, 95703 Ploeßberg, Germany T: +49 9636 9204 0 E: Info@hornglas.de W: www.hornglass.com/en Hotwork 223 Gold Rush Rd Lexington Kentucky 40503, United States Sanford Ralsten T: 1 859 276 1570 E: sandy.ralsten@hotwork.com W: www.hotwork.com Hotwork Australia Pty Ltd 12/77 Newton Rd Wetherill Pk NSW 2164, Australia Jason Tomkins T: +61 02 9756 1243 E: hotwork@bigpond.net.au W: www.hotwork.com Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Bretton Street, Savile Town Dewsbury, WF12 9DB West Yorkshire United Kingdom Mr Denis Hunzinger T: +44 (0)1924 506506 E: info@hotworkct.com W: www.hotworkct.com Hotwork International AG Romanshornerstrasse 123 9322 Egnach, Switzerland Benjamin Köster T: +41 71 649 20 90 E: benjamin.koester@hotwork.ag W: www.hotwork.ag Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

28. rijna1495 73941 Frydek Mistek, Czech Republic Ing Daniel Pustka T: +420 60 327 8673 E: dpustka@hpfm.cz W: www.hpfm.cz I.LE.S. Srl Via Vittorio Veneto 7 Pianengo CR I-2610, Italy Mr Arrigo Branchi T: +39 03 737 4937 E: info@iles.it W: www.iles.it IAS GmbH Am Großen Teich 27 Iserlohn 58640 NRW, Germany Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Kleinert E: sales@ias-induction.com W: www.ias-induction.com IML Labels & Systems Ltd 441 Brightside Lane Sheffield S9 2RS, United Kingdom Mr Neil Dunn T: +44 (0)1142 422111 E: sales@labels-for-metal.com W: www.labels-for-metal.com Industrial Gas Engineering P.O. Box 316 130 East Quincy Street Westmont IL 60559-0316 United States Mr. Dean Keal T: +1 630 968 4440 E: sales@igefans.com W: www.igefans.com

F3 Industrial Television Ltd 3 Evans Business Centre Nobel Way, Dinnington, S25 3QB South Yorkshire, United Kingdom Peter Downs T: +44 (0)1909 517100 E: enquiries@industrial-tv.com W: www.industrial-tv.com INFICON 2 Technology Place East Syracuse NY 13057, United States Steve Hillegas T: +1 315 434 1100 E: reachus@inficon.com W: www.inficon.com INISMa Avenue Gouverneur Cornez 4 7000 Mons, Belgium Dr Ir Christine Kermel T: +32 6540 3424 E: c.kermel@bcrc.be W: www.bcrc.be/en/ Innoval Technology Beaumont Close Banbury, OX1 1TQ Oxon United Kingdom Ms Helen Forrest T: +44 (0)1295 702800 E: enquiries@innovaltec.com W: www.innovaltec.com Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Sermin 8a 6000 Koper, Slovenia Mr Andrej Dezjot T: 386 5 6634600 E: andrej.dezjot@istrabenzplini.si W: www.istrabenzplini.si Izocam Company Tarsus Adana Karayolu 6.km PK69 Tarsus 33401 Mersin, Turkey Mr. Koray Temucin E: temucin@izocam.com.tr W: www.izocam.com.tr Jasper GmbH Boenninghauser Str. 10 Geseke 59590 NRW, Germany Peter Klatecki E: info@jasper-gmbh.de W: www.jasper-gmbh.de JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Unit 13 Credenda Road B70 7JE West Bromwich United Kingdom Mr Steve Smee T: +44 (0)121 552 2787 E: sales@jlsfurnacesuk.com W: www.jlsfurnacesuk.com Kahn Instruments, Inc. 885 Wells Road Wethersfield CT 06109, United States Mr. Bob Bailey T: +1 860 529 8643 E: hygros@kahn.com W: www.kahn.com Kandi Engineering PVT. LTD. F-301 Remi Bizcourt, Shah Industrial Estate, Off Veera Desai Road Andheri West, Maharashtra Mumbai, India Mr Sanjay Aggarwal T: +91 22 2673 1083 E: sanjay@kandi.co.in W: www.kandi.co.in Kennedy Eurotech 4 Oak Point Newnan GA 30263, United States Mr Al Kennedy T: +1 770 304 1000 E: alkennedy@usa.net W: www.alkennedy.com November 2016

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F4 Kilns and Furnaces LTD Cinderhill Trading Estate Weston Coyney Road Longton, ST3 5JU Stoke on Trent United Kingdom Mrs Paula Ellis Dainty T: +44 (0)1782 344270 E: sales@kilns.co.uk W: www.kilns.co.uk Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Alfredstr. 28 Essen, 45130 NRW, Germany Christian Hamers T: +49 201 729 3422 E: ch.hamers@kuettner.com W: www.kuettner.com L&L Special Furnace CO, INC 2O Kent Road Aston PA 19014, United States Nancy Kester T: +1 610 459 9216 E: sales@llfurnace.com W: www.llfurnace.com Lenox Inst. Co. 265 Andrews Rd. Trevose PA 19053, United States Mr. William Lang T: +1 215 322 9990 E: sales@lenoxinst.com W: www.lenoxinst.com Lewco, Inc. 706 Lane Street Sandusky, Ohio 44870, United States Lou Schaefer T: +1 419 625 4014 E: ovensales@lewcoinc.com W: www.lewcoinc.com LIAS Industrial Ltd Suite 8 Rockfield House 512 Darwen Road, Bromley Cross Bolton, BL7 9DX Lancashire United Kingdom Mr Gareth Cotton T: +44 (0)1204 594941 E: sales@liasindustrial.co.uk W: www.liasindustrial.co.uk Linn High Therm GmbH Heinrich-Hertz-Platz 1 92224 Eschenfelden, Germany Mr Horst Linn T: +49 966 59140 E: info@linn.de W: www.linn.de Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Av. Almirante Gago Coutinho 56 - 10th Dt/Ft 1749-041 Lisboa, Portugal Mr. Jorge Alves T: +351 218 429 270 E: jorge.alves@lizmon.com W: www.lizmontagens.com LOI Thermprocess GmbH Am Lichtbogen 29 45141 Essen, Germany Mrs Hildegard Engels T: +49 201 1891-1 E: loi@tenova.com W: www.tenova.com Lubitech Enterprises 233, Mastermind IV, Royal Palms Aarey Colony, Goregaon(E).

Mumbai, 400065 Maharastra India Mr Jayant Shroff T: +91 22 2879 0050 E: info@lubitechenterprises.com W: www.lubitechenterprises.com

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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF COMPANIES LumaSense Technologies GmbH Kleyerstr. 90 60326 Frankfurt/M., Germany Mr. Erhard Niessner T: +49 69 973 730 E: info@lumasenseinc.com W: www.lumasenseinc.com Lumetrics, Inc.

E: marketing@magneco-metrel.com W: www.magneco-metrel.com MAGUIN S.A.S. 2 rue Pierre Sémard 2800 Charmes, France Mr Raoul Garcia T: +33 03 23 56 63 10 E: raoul.garcia@maguin.com W: www.maguin.com

1565 Jefferson Rd, #420 Rochester NY 14623, United States Steven Kelly T: +1 585 214 2455 E: sales@lumetrics.com W: www.lumetrics.com

Major Engineering 92 Fairbank Road Clayton South Victoria 3169, Australia Mr Andrew North T: +61 3 8558 1800 E: major@majoreng.com.au W: www.majoreng.com.au

M H Detrick Company Ltd Unit 14 Gorsey Place East Gillibrands Skelmersdale,WN8 9UP Lancashire United Kingdom Mr Phil Clements T: +44 (0)1695 589540 E: sales@mhdetrick.co.uk W: www.mhdetrick.co.uk

MAM Thermal Ceramics Thermal Ceramics España S.L. c/ Juan Pablo II nº6 2º-A Castellon de la Plana 12003 Castellon, Spain Juan Pastor E: juan.pastor@morganplc.com W: www.morganthermalceramics. com

M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Neuhausstr. 4-10 Aachen 52078 North Rhine-Westphalia Germany Mr. Andrei Loscutov T: +49 241 93677-0 E: info@schupp-ceramics.com W: www.schupp-ceramics.com

Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp (Beijing) LTD. ~11 Shennan Road 501 Nong, 3rd Floor Minhang District 201108 Shanghai, China Mr. You Zhuo T: +86 21 3468 0719 E: sales@mmichina.cn W: www.group-upc.com

M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) E-15, A, Arya Samaj Road, Uttam Nager, Nr. Grover Sweet 110059 New Delhi, India Mr Ajay Sharma Prak T: +91 921 220 2084 E: aluminiumconsultant@yahoo.com W: www.aluminiumconsultant.com

Marina Textil Carrer Llobateres, 25-27 Pol. Industrial Santiga Barberà del Vallès 8210 Barcelona, Spain Mr César Andreo T: +34 937 195379 E: candreo@marinatextil.net W: www.marinatextil.net

Mach One (International) Limited Norfolk Bridge Business Park Foley Street Sheffield, United Kingdom Mr Martin Fitzgerald T: +44 (0)1142 700545 E: martin@mach-int.com W: www.mach-int.com Machinery International Corp 20 Commerce Dr North Branford Connecticut 06471, United States Steve McMillan T: +1 203 484 0400 E: steve@machyintl.com W: www.machyintl.com MachTools TechnoServe Private Limited B 207 Okhla Industrial Area, Phase I New Delhi 110020 Delhi, India Mr Praveen Goyal T: +91 981 0615 463 E: praveengoyal@machtools.in W: www.machtools.in Magma Ceramics & Catalysts Low Road, Earlsheaton Dewsbury, WF12 8BU West Yorkshire United Kingdom Mr Danny Stott T: +44 (0)1924 468201 E: enq@magmaceramics.com W: www.magmaceramics.com Magneco/Metrel, Inc. 223 W. Interstate Rd. Addison, Illinois 60101, United States Mr. Mark Taylor T: +1 630 543 6660

Mayflower Engineering Ltd Coleridge Road Sheffield, S9 5DA South Yorkshire United Kingdom Mr Roy Allen E: rallen@mayflower-engineering. co.uk W: www.mayflower-engineering. co.uk McGill AirClean LLC One Mission Park Groveport OH 43125, United States Mr Gerald Childress T: +1 614 829 1350 E: sales@mcgillairclean.com W: www.mcgillairclean.com McLellan & Partners Limited Sheer House, Station Approach West Byfleet, KT14 6NL Surrey United Kingdom Mr Ian Lamb T: +44 (0)1932 343271 E: claire.willis@mclellan.co.uk W: www.mclellan.co.uk Mecfor Inc. 1788, Mitis Chicoutimi, Quebec G7K 1H5 Canada Ms Isabelle Gaudreau T: +1 418 543.1632 E: mecfor@mecfor.com W: www.mecfor.com Meltech Bonsall Street, Mill Hill Blackburn, BB2 4DD Lancashire United Kingdom

Mr Peter Drever T: +44 (0)1254 691488 E: sales@meltech.co.uk W: www.meltech.co.uk Merkle International, Inc 9567 US Route 20 West Galena IL 61036, United States Tim Park T: +1 815 777 2100 E: sales@merkleintl.com W: www.merkleintl.com Mersen 41 avenue Jean Jaurès 02230 Gennevilliers, France Mr David Nimmo E: calcarb@mersen.com W: www.mersen.com Micropyretics Heaters International 750 Redna Terrace Cincinnati OH 45215, United States Mr. Kevin Foston T: +1 513 772 0404 E: sales@mhi-inc.com W: www.mhi-inc.com Mid-Mountain Materials, Inc. 2731 - 77th Ave SE Ste 100 Mercer Island Washington 98040, United States Tony Carroll T: 2+1 06-762-7600 E: gkr@mid-mountain.com W: www.mid-mountain.com Millennium technology Via das magnólias 1000, casa27 Jardim Colibri, Cotia 6713270 São Paulo, Brazil Mr Alan Hawkins E: hawkins@uol.com.br W: www.uol.com.br Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, Inc. 15510 Old State Road Middlefield OH 44062, United States Mr. Mark Andes T: +1 440 632 9119 E: info@mmei-inc.com W: www.mmei-inc.com Molyneux Industries - Rails & Rail Clips 621 Cliff Mine Road Coraopolis PA 15108, United States Mr Chip Miller T: +1 630 866 2992 E: cmiller@molyneuxindustries.com W: www.http://molyneuxindustries. com/ Monometer Holdings Limited Monometer House Rectory Grove Leigh On Sea, SS9 2HN Essex United Kingdom Dr Christopher Hall T: +44 (0)1702 472201 E: c.hall@monometer.com W: www.monometer.co.uk Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics Tebay Rd Bromborough CH62 3PH Wirral, United Kingdom Ms Paula Constantinou T: +44 (0)151 334 4030 E: paula.constantinou@morganplc. com W: www.morganthermalceramics. com

MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG Werkstrasse 4, CH-6201 Emmenbrücke, Switzerland Mr. Dragos Preda T: +41 412 596969 E: dragos.preda@mtag-technology. com W: www.mtag-technology.com MUGOYA Limited 3rd Floor, Prudential Building, Wabera Street P O Box 47011-00100, Nairobi 100 Kenya Mr James Isabirye T: +254 7335 18195 E: mugoyato@africaonline.co.ke W: www.mugoyagroup.com Munimula Technology P/L Unit 308, 215 Pacific Highway Charlestown, Australia Mr Peter Whiteley T: +61 412 080 526 E: munimula@bigpond.com N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Unit 24-25 Canal Bridge Enterprise Centre, Meadow Lane Ellesmere Port CH65 4EH United Kingdom Mr Gordon Wilkinson T: +44 (0)151 3565888 E: g.wilkinson@ngjnorthern.com W: www.ngjnorthern.com Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Av Nadir Dias de Figueiredo 496 Suzano 8613370 Sao Paulo, Brazil Mrs Melina Marquezano E: melina@nadir.com.br W: www.nadir.com.br National Basic Sensor 4921 Carver Ave Trevose PA 19053, United States Mr Robert Mazzei T: +1 215 322 4700 E: sales@nationalbasicsensor.com W: www.nationalbasicsensor.com Navin Corporation 303, Rupa Plaza, Opp. Ghatkopar Rly Stn ( East), Jawahar Road Mumbai, 400077 Maharashtra, India Mr Rajesh Shah T: +91 250 12101 E: navincorporation@vsnl.com W: www.navincorp.com NeoNickel Blackburn Walker Industrial Park Guide Blackburn, BB1 2QE Lancashire United Kingdom Mr Jason Marsh T: +44 (0)1254 582 999 E: SalesBlackburn@neonickel.com W: www.neonickel.com Nitrex Inc. - Chicago Operations 1900 Plain Avenue Aurora IL 60502, United States Mr. Tom Cooper T: +1 630 851 5880 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com Nitrex Inc. - Indiana Operations 350 Blue Chip Court Franklin IN 46131, United States Mr. Erik Bates T: +1 317 346 7700 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com

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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF COMPANIES Nitrex Inc. - Michigan Operations 822 Kim Drive Mason MI 48854, United States Mr. Raja Gumber T: +1 517 676 6370 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com

PCI 12201 Magnolia Ave. Riverside MO 63005, United States Mr. Frank Vonesh T: +1 951 640 8748 E: fvonesh@pcigases.com W: www.pcigases.com

Nitrex Inc. - Nevada Operations 201 E. Mayflower Ave. North Las Vegas NV 89030 United States Mr. Mike Sison T: +1 702 399 1554 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com

PCT Engineered Systems, LLC 8700 Hillandale Road Davenport, Iowa 52806, United States Mr Mark Bennett T: +1 563 285 7411 E: pct@teampct.com W: www.teampct.com

Nitrex Inc. - West Coast Operations 441 Perrymont Avenue San Jose CA 95125, United States Mr. John Barney T: +1 408 275 0330 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com Nitrex Metal 19 F, Hengxing Plaza, 89 Zhongguancun Dong Rd. Haidian District, 100190 Beijing, China Mr. Jimmy Liu T: +86 (0)10 6257 3050 E: sales@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com Nitrex Metal Inc. 3474 Poirier Boulevard Montreal QC H4R2J5, Canada Mr. Jack Kalucki T: +1 514 335 7191 E: nitrex@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com Nitrex Metal Sp. z o.o. ul. Jednosci 48 41-218 Sosnowiec, Poland Mr. Marcin Stoklosa T: +48 32 296 66 30 E: nitrex.europe@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com NK Technologies 3511 Charter Park Drive San Jose CA 95136, United States Will Delsman T: +1 408 871 7510 E: sales@nktechnologies.com W: www.nktechnologies.com North West Fire Protection Ltd 21 Glendale Rd, Worsley, M28 1AZ Manchester, United Kingdom Mr Dave Obrien T: +44 (0)7887 767741 E: david.obrien33@ntlworld.com W: www.northwestfireprotectionlimited.co.uk Obninsk termoelectric company, Ltd Russian Federation, Kaluga region, 4 Gorkogo, Obninsk 249033 Kaluga, Russia T: +7 484 39 442 90 E: otc-market@obninsk.com W: www.otc.obninsk.com Ohio Semitronics, Inc. 4242 Reynolds Drive Hilliard OH 43026, United States Mr. Cory Forler T: +1 614 777 1005 E: Sales@ohiosemi.com W: www.ohiosemitronics.com OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC 16045 Valley View Ave Santa Fe Springs CA 90670 United States Mr Ron Bruckel T: +1 562 404 1511 E: ronbruckel@aol.com W: www.omegavacinc.com

Permatech, Inc. 911 E. Elm St Graham NC 27253, United States Ms Kiersten FitzGerald T: +1 336 578 7757 E: sales@permatech.net W: www.permatech.net Plansee USA LLC 115 Constitution Blvd.

Franklin MA 2038, United States Mike Ferullo T: +1 508 918 1276 E: furnace.construction@plansee.com W: www.plansee.com Pony International Technologies, Ltd. Unit 52906, 29th Floor, Sultan Hotel Complex II, jL. Jend Gatot Subroto 12040 Jakarta, Indonesia Vinod Kumar Turki T: +62 215 705610 E: info@floatprojects.com W: www.ponyinternational-ltd.com Precimeter 2215 South 48th Street Suite C Tempe AZ 85282, United States Mr. Jerry Wilkins T: +1 480 829 1923 E: USA@precimeter.com W: www.precimeter.com Precimeter Control AB Östra hamnen 7 475 42 Hönö, Sweden Mr Jonatan Lindstrand T: +46 31 764 55 20 E: sales@precimeter.com W: www.precimeter.com Precision Metal Products 850 West Bradley El Cajon, California 92020 United States Tracy Moore T: +1 619 448 2711 E: tracym@pmp-elcajon.com W: www.pmp-elcajon.com Process-Electronic GMBH a member of United Process Controls Dürnauer Weg 30 D-73092 Heiningen, Germany Mr. Jens Baumann T: +49 7161 94888 0 E: peg.sales@process-electronic.com W: www.group-upc.com Process-Electronic Sp. z o.o. a member of United Process Controls ul. Jednosci 48 41-218 Sosnowiec, Poland Mr. Iwo Korwin T: +48 32 296 66 00 E: pep.upc@process-electronic.com W: www.group-upc.com Process-Electronic SRL a member of United Process Controls Rue Thomas Edison ZI des Tilleroyes, BP 1245 25004 Besancon, France Mr. Emmanuel Jeanguyot T: +33 3 8148 3737

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E: pef.office@process-electronic.com W: www.group-upc.com Proctor Biomass Systems Unit 16, Churchill Way Lomeshaye Ind Estate Nelson, BB9 6R Lancashire United Kingdom Mr Andrew Proctor T: +44 (0)1282 617212 E: info@proctorbiomass.co.uk W: www.jamesproctor.com Prolind Industrial LTDA Rod. Presidente Dutra, Km 138 Sao José dos Campos 12247004 SP Brazil Mr. Adalberto Morales T: +55 12 39085996 E: diretoria@prolind.com.br W: www.prolind.com.br Prosaw Limited Unit 15 Telford Way Telford Way Industrial Estate Kettering, NN16 8UN Northants United Kingdom Mr Angus Woolley T: +44 (0)1536 410999 E: sales@prosaw.co.uk W: www.prosaw.co.uk Pureflo Helmet Integrated Systems Ltd Unit 3, Focus 4, Fourth Avenue Letchworth, SG6 2TU Hertfordshire United Kingdom Mr Barry Vincent T: +44 (0)1462 478000 E: sales@helmets.co.uk W: www.helmets.co.uk Pyromation, Inc. 5211 Industial Road Fort Wayne IN 46710, United States Mr. Scott Farnham T: +1 260 484 2580 E: sales@pyromation.com W: www.pyromation.com Qatar Aluminium Ltd Industrial Area Doha, Measaieed, Qatar Mr Navin Indraj E: navin.indraj@qatalum.com W: www.qatalum.com Quaker Chemical B.V. Industrieweg 7 1422 AH Uithoorn, The Netherlands Mr Ermin Begovic T: +31 297 544 644 E: begovice@quakerchem.com W: www.quakerchem.com RAD-CON, Inc. 13001 Athens Ave., Ste. 300 Lakewood Ohio 44107, United States Mr. Christopher Messina T: +1 440 871 5720 E: sales@RAD-CON.com W: www.RAD-CON.com Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) Simpson Road Milton Keynes, MK1 1BA Bucks United Kingdom Mr Peter Clarke T: +44 (0)1908 370000 E: Furnace@radir.com W: www.radir.com Radquim Calzada de la viga no 2040 9810 DF Mexico Guillermo Vega jr E: info@radquim.com W: www.radquim.com

Radyne Corporation 211 W. Boden Street Milwaukee, WI 53207 United States Mr Justin Mortimer T: +1 414 481 8360 E: sales@radyne.com W: www.radyne.com

F5 SAFTI 325 Newhall St. San Francisco CA 94124 United States Mr William Okeeffe E: wfo@safti.com W: www.safti.com

Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Route 146 & Farm to Market Road P.O. Box 551, Mechanicville, New York 12118, United States Mr. Ronald Brownell T: +1 518 664 4261 E: rbrownell@raloidtool.com W: www.raloidtool.com

Sandvik Heating Technology UK Ruthvenfield Road Inveralmond Industrial Estate Perth, PH1 3ED Scotland United Kingdom Ms Karin Harpering T: +44 (0)1738 493 300 E: sales.ukperth@sandvik.com W: www.kanthal.com

Rath AG Walfischgasse 14 1010 Vienna, Austria Manfred Salinger T: +43 1 513 44 27-0 E: info@rath-group.com W: www.rath-group.com

Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

Via Roveredo 20/b 33170 Pordenone, Italy Eng. Riccardo Facca T: +39 0438 502721 E: info@sangallitechnologies.com W: www.sangallitechnologies.com

Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Hradni, 27/37 71000 Ostrava, Czech Republic Mr. Gianluca Bovio T: + 420 596 110179 E: lukas.bovio@refraconsulting.cz W: www.refraconsulting.cz

SANGRAF International S.A. Les Champs Blanc, 67 CH-1279 Chavannes de Bogis Switzerland Dr. Said Alameddine T: +41 22 776 0131 E: geneva@sangrafinternational.com W: www.sangrafintl.com

Refractory Specialties, Inc.A Unifrax Company 230 West California Avenue P. O. Box 189 Sebring, Ohio 44672, United States Mr Domenico Sciaretta T: +1 330 938 2101 E: dsciaretta@unifrax.com W: www.rsifibre.com

Sanshin Sanwa Group 5-11-1 Toranomon 505 Holland Hills Mori Tower Mintao ku, 105-0001 Tokyo, Japan Michie Rushlander T: +81 401 726 0013 E: m.rushlander@sanwacorporation. co.jp W: http://sanshinsanwa.com/

REINTECH Niels-Bohr-Strasse 5 6749 Bitterfeld, Germany Karsten Kleinert T: +49 349 360 40221 E: karsten.kleinert@reintech.de W: www.reintech.de

Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. 20 Monticello Place Pawtucket Rhode Island 02861, United States Michael Wilbur T: +1 401 726 0013 E: info@sargeantandwilbur.com W: www.sargeantandwilbue.com

RFTS LLC Box 295, Higganum CT 6441, United States Mr. Louis Nizet T: +1 203 927 6545 E: rftsii@aol.com W: www.linkedin.com/in/louisnizet Riedhammer GmbH

Industrial Kiln Plants Klingenhofstr. 72 90411 Nuremberg, Germany Thomas Janousch T: +49 911 5218 0 E: carbon@riedhammer.de W: www.riedhammer.de RJM Metal Consultancy Ltd Worksop S81 8DD, United Kingdom Mr Richard McAlister-Martin T: +44(0)7795 624712 E: richard@rjm-metalconsultancy.co.uk Rubig Engineering 2503 Latham Street Rockford IL 61103, United States Pat Sinnott T: +1 978 399-8326 E: at.office@rubig.com W: www.rubig.com

SBP Chemicals Suite 4, 571 Finchley Road.

London, NW3 7BN Greater London United Kingdom Mr Clarence Nelson T: +44 (0)207 692 0597 E: sbpchemicals@yahoo.com Schaefer Group, Inc., The 1500 Humphrey Ave Dayton Ohio 45410, United States Mr. David White T: +1 937 253 3342 E: david.white@theschaefergroup. com W: www.theschaefergroup.com SCHUPP Ceramics M.E. SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Neuhausstr. 4-10 Aachen 52078 North Rhine-Westphalia Germany Mr. Andrei Loscutov T: +49 (0)241 93677-0 E: info@schupp-ceramics.com W: www.schupp-ceramics.com SECO/WARWICK 180 Mercer St., PO Box 908 Meadville PA 16335 United States Mr Jaroslaw Talerzak T: +1 814 332 8400 E: j.talerzak@secowarwick.com.pl W: www.secowarwick.com November 2016

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F6 SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Swierczewskiego 76 66-200 Swiebodzin, Poland Mr. Tomasz Kaczmarczyk T: +48 68 3819 800 E: europe@secowarwick.com W: www.secowarwick.com SEGRIF Rue Neuvice 115 B-4420 Saint-Nicolas, Belgium Mr René Stassen E: segrif@ingrif.com W: www.segrif.com Set Linings Brasil Rua Jose Pietro Garcia, 51 Capuava, Maua 09380-450 São Paulo Brazil Nuno Martins T: +55 11 2254 0704 E: n.martins@setlinings.com W: www.setlinings.com Seven Refractories d.o.o.

Poslovna cona Risnik 40 6215 Divaca, Slovenia Mr Erik Zobec T: +386 5 739 57 60 E: info@sevenrefractories.com W: www.sevenrefractories.com Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries 483 Jalaram Estate, Opp Bluecorn Winding Works Narol - Vatva Road, Ahmedabad 382405 Gujarat, India Mr Dhiren Buch T: +91 932 701 3773 E: shivangfurnace@gmail.com W: www.shivangfurnace.co.in SIAD S.p.A. Via S. Bernardino, 92 24128 Bergamo, Italy Nevio Corna E: nevio_corna@siad.com W: www.siad.com Silicon Power Corporation 275 Great Valley Parkway Malvern PA 19355, United States Mr Robert Berta T: +1 610 407 4706 E: robert_berta@siliconpower.com W: www.siliconpower.com SK Environmental Ltd Unit 7, Greenhey Place Skelmersdale, WN8 9SB Lancashire United Kingdom Mr David Culshaw T: +44 (0)1695 714600 E: sales@skenvironmental.com W: www.skenvironmental.com SMS Meer S.p.A. Via Udine, 103 Tarcento, 33017 (UD) Italy Mr. Simone Zussino T: +39 0432 799253 E: sales@sms-meer.it W: www.sms-meer.com SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft Graf-Recke-Strasse 82 40239 Dusseldorf, Germany Mr Francis Liebens E: fritz.bruehl@sms-siemag.com W: www.sms-siemag.com

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Grandes-Vies 25 2900 Porrentruy, Switzerland M. Jean-Michel Bechir T: +41 32 465 96 00 E: mail@solo.swiss W: www.solo.swiss Nikolaus Sorg GmbH & Co KG Stoltestraße 23 97816 Lohr am Main, Germany T:+49 (0) 9352 507 0 E: nsorg@sorg.de W: www.sorg.de Spaco Technologies Ltd. PDC-GDC Castings

203, 2nd Floor, Shriram Centre Opp. Punit Nagar Soc off Old Padra Road, Vadodara 390 007 Gujarat, India Ing. K Pathak T: +91 982 400 8442 E: bus.innv@spaco.co.in W: www.spaco.co.in Specnow Ltd Unit 30, Earith Business Park Earith, PE28 3QF Cambs United Kingdom Mr Robert Brown T: +44 (0)1487 840123 E: sales@specnow.com W: www.specnow.com STAS Inc.

1846 des outardes Chicoutimi QC G7K 1H1, Canada Mr Florent Gougerot T: +1 418 696 0074 E: marketing@stas.com W: www.stas.com Sun systems Canceleria Y Domos SA de CV Canal De Miramontes #2362 Col. Avante 4460 D.F. Mexico Arq Manuel Mendiola T: +55 567 91428 E: ventas@sunsystems.com.mx W: www.sunsystems.com.mx Sunrock Ceramics Company 2625 S. 21st Avenue Broadview IL 60155, United States Mr. Doug Thurman T: +1 708 344 7600 E: dthurman@sunrockceramics.com W: www.sunrockceramics.com Surface Combustion, Inc. 1700 Indian Wood Circle P.O. Box 428 Maumee OH 43537, United States Mr. Ben Bernard T: +1 419 891 7150 E: bbernard@surfacecombustion.com W: www.surfacecombustion.com

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Tantek Furnaces Ltd 27 Selstone Crescent Sleights, Whitby YO22 5DJ North Yorkshire, United Kingdom Mr Gordon Rayment T: +44 (0)1947 810694 E: sales@tantekfurnaces.co.uk W: www.tantekfurnaces.co.uk TDI Group LLC PO Box 38657, 700 Blaw Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15238, United States Mr David DiBenedetto T: +1 412-826-4950 E: drd@tdigrp.com W: www.tdigrp.com Tecalex Ctra. de Banyoles, 31 Sant Julià de Ramis, 17481 Girona, Spain Mr Ramon Riera T: +34 972 172 090 E: tecalex@tecalex.net W: www.tecalex.com TECHGLASS Sp. z o.o. ul. Zygmunta Starego 124 30-198 Kraków, Poland T/F: + 48 12 637 58 62 T: +48 12 636 23 49 E: office@techglass.pl W: www.techglass.pl/en/ Technical Glass Products, Inc. 881 Callendar Blvd Painesville Ohio 44077, United States James Horvath T: +1 440 639 6399 E: tgp@tgpohio.com W: www.technicalglass.com TECO TOLEDO 3400 Executive Parkway, P.O. Box 2927, Toledo, Ohio 43606-2927, USA T: +1 419-537-9711 E: sales@teco.com W: www.teco.com Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd PO Box 1344, 42 Ceramic Curve Alton, Richards Bay, South Africa Mr Richard Harris T: +27 35 7511471 E: enquiry@alucouple.com W: www.alucouple.com Tenova Re Energy GmbH Graf-Adolf-Platz 6 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany Carsten Born T: +49 211 540927 E: reenergy@tenova.com W: www.tenova-reeneergy.com Termia Technology 1310 Park Central Blvd South E02 Pompano Beach FL 33064 United States Mr Claudio Goldbach T: +1 786 319.9935 E: termia@termia.net W: www.termia.net Testo Limited Newman Lane, Alton GU34 2UR Hampshire,United Kingdom Mr David Darton T: +44 (0)1420 544 433 E: info@testo.co.uk W: www.testolimited.com Thermal Detection Ltd. Unit 6 Ordewingate Way Primrose Hill Industrial Estate Stockton on Tees, Cleveland TS19 0GA, United Kingdom Mr Neville Mitchell T: +44 (0)1642 602878 E: tdl@thermal-detection.com W: www.thermal-detection.com

Thermal Engineering & Controls 48, First Floor, Cinewonder Mall Kapurbavadi, Ghodbunder Road Thane 400607 Maharashtra, India Mr Suresh Koulgi B. T: +91 982 007 2930 E: koulgi.thermalengineering@ gmail.com W: www.thermalfurnaces.com Thermal Transfer Corporation 50 North Linden Street Duquesne, Pennsylvania 15218 United States Mr. Timothy Ottie T: +1 412 460 4004 E: info.hcorp@hamonusa.com W: www.hamonusa.com Thermcraft, Inc.

TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios Av. Antonio Togni 2439, Pocos de Caldas, 37704-356 MG, Brazil Mr Livio Togni T: +55 352 101 2222 E: togni@togni.com.br W: www.togni.com.br Tokai Carbon Europe Roway Lane Oldbury, V69 3EJ West Midlands United Kingdom Mr Carll Daughters T: +44 (0)7793 650691 E: carl.daughters@tokaicarboneurope.com W: www.tokaicarboneurope.com Toledo Engineering Co., Inc 3400 Executive Parkway Toledo OH 43606-0927, United States Mr. Jim Davis T: +1 419 537 9711 E: jdavis@teco.com W: www.teco.com

3950 Overdale Road Winston Salem NC 27107 United States Jim Miller E: info@thermcraftinc.com W: www.thermcraftinc.com

Toyo Tanso France SA 9-10 rue Eugène Hénaff 78190 Trappes, France Mr Hubert Falque T: +33 130 66 3535 E: contact@toyotansofrance.com W: www.toyotansofrance.com

Thermetal Engineering Ltd C/O Sealy Shaw Ltd, Pride Park 11 Mallard Way Derby, DE24 8GX, United Kingdom Mr Clive Winters T: +44 (0)7766 104576 E: sales@thermetal.com W: www.thermetal.com

Tri-Mer Corporation 1400 Monroe Street Owosso Michigan 48867 United States Mr Kevin Moss T: +1 801 294 5422 E: kevin.moss@tri-mer.com W: www.tri-mer.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific En Vallaire Ouest C, Chemin de Verney 2, 1024 Ecublens, Switzerland Dr Jean-Marc Bohlen T: +41 21 694 71 11 E: info.spectrometry@thermofisher. com W: www.thermoscientific.com/ elemental

UNICOM Cerska 69 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Mr. Slobodan Manic T: 38 111 283 5635 E: slobodan.manic@unicom.rs W: www.unicom.rs

Thermofax ltd - Heat Treatment specialists Block 2, Grazebrook Industrial Park Peartree Lane Dudley, DY2 OXW West Midlands United Kingdom Mr Thomas Bullock T: +44 (0)1384 230214 E: sales@thermofax.co.uk W: www.thermofax.co.uk TMS Europe Ltd Unit 10 Stretfield Mill Bradwell, Hope Valley S33 9JT Derbyshire, United Kingdom Mr James Driver T: +44 (0)1433 620535 E: sales@tmseurope.co.uk W: www.tmseurope.co.uk TMS SA 42 Ceramic Curve Richards Bay, 3900 KZN, South Africa Mr Daniel Bothma T: +27 35 751 1471 E: danie.bothma@alucople.com W: www.alucouple.com TNI Spring Technologies, LLC 87 Amlajack Way Newnan GA 30265, United States Sherri Babb T: +1 770 502 0687 E: info@tnispring.com W: www.tnispring.com

Unifour B.V. Nijverheidsweg 3 Ulft 7071 CH, The Netherlands Ing Paul Overmans T: +31 315 641352 E: info@unifour.nl W: www.unifour.nl UNIFRAX Mill Lane, Rainford, St Helens Merseyside, United Kingdom Miss Caroline Hughes T: +44 (0)1744 887600 E: caroline.hughes@unifrax.co.uk W: www.unifrax.com United Process Controls 8904 Beckett Road West Chester OH 45069, United States Mr. Pat Torok T: +1 513 772 1000 E: upc.sales@group-upc.com W: www.group-upc.com Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Unit 13, Credenda Road West Bromwich, B70 7JE West Midlands, United Kingdom Mr Aaron Long T: +44 (0)121 544 4385 E: enquiries@vacat.co.uk W: www.vacat.co.uk Vacuum Research Corporation 100 Chapel Harbor Drive, #4 Pittsburgh PA 15238, United States Mr. Steve Barker T: +1 412 261 7630 E: vrc@vacuumresearch.com W: www.vacuumresearch.com

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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF COMPANIES Vail Rubber Works 521 Langley Avenue St. Joseph MI 49085, United States Matt Hanley T: +1 269 983 1595 E: matt.hanley@vailrubber.com W: www.vailrubber.com

Vibra-Pro Company Inc. 3629 Banner Street Boise Idaho 83709, United States President John Roisum Sr. T: +1 800 658 3812 E: joroisum@vibrapro.com W: www.vibrapro.com

VESUVIOUSUS 68 rue Paul Deudon 59750 Feignies, France T: +33 327 691019 Mr Thomas Schmidt E: Thomas.schmidt@vesuvius.com W: www.vesuvius.com Vesuvius

Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Alloy Industrial Estate Pontardawe, SA8 4HL Swansea United Kingdom Mr Steve Jenkins T: +44 (0)1792 860642 E: sales@wallcolmonoy.co.uk W: www.wallcolmonoy.co.uk

1 Midland Way Barlborough, S43 4XA Derbyshire United Kingdom Mr Andrew Queenan T: +44 (0)1246 571700 E: andrew.queenan@vesuvius.com

Wallwork Cambridge Ltd. Buckingway Business Park Swavesey Cambridge, CB24 4UG Cambridgeshire United Kingdom Mr. Simeon Collins T: +44 (0)1954 233700 E: Simeon.collins@wallworkht.com W: www.wallworkht.com

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Wallwork Cast Alloys Lord Street Bury, BL9 0RE Lancashire United Kingdom Mr. Alex Beck T: +44 (0)161 7979111 E: foundry@wallworkht.com W: www.wallworkcastalloys.com

Wellman Furnaces Units 9-11, Hale Industrial Estate Lower Church Lane Tipton DY4 7PQ, United Kingdom Mr Steve Price T: +44 (0)121 522 2522 E: ashley.m-swain@almor.co.uk W: www.wellman-furnaces.co.uk

WS Thermal Process Technology Inc. 8301 W. Erie Avenue Lorain OH 44053, United States Dr. Martin Schoenfelder T: +1 440 385 6829 E: wsinc@flox.com W: www.FLOX.com

Wallwork Heat Treatment Ltd Lord Street Bury, BLL9 0RE Lancashire United Kingdom Mr. Ian Griffin T: +44 (0)161 7979111 E: sales@wallworkht.com W: www.wallworkht.co.uk

Williamson Corporation 70 Domino Drive Concord Massachusetts 01742 United States Thomas Huff T: +1 978 369 9607 E: thuff@williamsonir.com W: www.williamsonir.com

York Linings International Ltd Millfield Industrial Estate Wheldrake York, YO19 6NA North Yorkshire United Kingdom Mrs Jill Wales T: +44 (0)1904 449777 E: YorkHQ@capeplc.com W: www.capeplc.com

Walters & Walters Ltd Unit 16, Orchard Road Royston, SG8 5HA Hertfordshire United Kingdom Mrs Lauren Murphy T: +44 (0)1763-245445 E: sales@waltersandwalters.co.uk W: www.WaltersandWalters.co.uk

Woltz GmbH Alfred-Zippe-Str. 1 Wertheim 97877 BW, Germany Dr Sebastian Woltz T: +49 9342 92960 E: info@woltz.de W: www.woltz.de

YS tech Co Ltd 40-11 Minamiseiwwaen - cho Suita, 5640038 Osaka, Japan Mr Taichi Okayama T: +81 06 4860 7711 E: tokayama@yushi.co.jp W: www.ys-tech.jp/

CLASSIFIED BUYERS’ GUIDE TO FURNACE PLANT EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS & SERVICES ANALYTICAL TESTING EQUIPMENT ARUN Technology Esotermica Srl FEVISA H F Furnaces INISMa Jasper GmbH Kahn Instruments, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH Lumetrics, Inc. M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Marina Textil TDI Group LLC Testo Limited Thermo Fisher Scientific TMS SA BASKETS & TRAYS, HEAT TREATMENT Almor Group AMECO USA Carbon International Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Ernst B Westman Ltd Graphite Sales Inc. Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. Mecfor Inc. NeoNickel Blackburn North West Fire Protection Ltd Plansee USA LLC Precision Metal Products Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Spaco Technologies Ltd, PDC-GDC Castings Tecalex Thermetal Engineering Ltd Tokai Carbon Europe Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd VESUVIUS Wallwork Cast Alloys Wellman Furnaces BILLET HEATERS Consolidated Engineering Company DongYang A.K Effmag Ltd. Epcon Industrial Systems Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Granco Clark, Inc.

GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Hormesa-Conticast IAS GmbH Meltech Merkle International, Inc Precision Metal Products Radyne Corporation SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

SMS Meer S.p.A. Surface Combustion, Inc. TDI Group LLC Tecalex Unifour B.V. BURNERS AICHELIN Holding GmbH AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Products and Chemicals, Inc Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Almor Group British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. DongYang A.K EBNER Furnaces, Inc. Eclipse, Inc Elster Thermal Solutions ENG. ROSES INTERNATIONAL Esotermica Srl FlammaTec, spol. s r.o.

Fuel Applications Limited Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd GLASS SERVICE, a.s.

GLASS STRAND INC. GULF PLUS - KUWAIT H F Furnaces Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Hotwork International AG Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Jasper GmbH M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Monometer Holdings Limited Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA NeoNickel Blackburn PCI Proctor Biomass Systems Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies

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Refractory Specialties, Inc. A Unifrax Company RIEDHAMMER GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants SAFTI SBP Chemicals SIAD S.p.A. SMS Meer S.p.A. Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermetal Engineering Ltd Wellman Furnaces WS Thermal Process Technology Inc. CALIBRATION & TEST EQUIPMENT AMETEK Land Fluke Process Instruments - Raytek/ Ircon/Datapaq Brands Fredericks Company, The | Televac GTG High Temp Measurement LLC INISMa JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kahn Instruments, Inc. Lumetrics, Inc. NATIONAL BASIC SENSOR PCT Engineered Systems, LLC Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) SAFTI SEGRIF Specnow Ltd Testo Limited Thermo Fisher Scientific TMS Europe Ltd Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces COATINGS (PVD, CVD, PA-CVD) AVS Inc. EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Marina Textil North West Fire Protection Ltd Qatar Aluminium Ltd

Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Rubig Engineering SBP Chemicals Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Cambridge Ltd.

Schaefer Group, Inc., The SIAD S.p.A. SMS Meer S.p.A. Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermal Transfer Corporation Thermetal Engineering Ltd Toledo Engineering Co., Inc

COMBUSTION SYSTEMS

CONTROL & INSTRUMENTATION

Adwest Technologies AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Products and Chemicals, Inc Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Machinery Corporation COMBUSTOL Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. E2SL EBNER Furnaces, Inc. Eclipse, Inc ELBOY INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS Elster Thermal Solutions Esotermica Srl FlammaTec, spol. s r.o.

Fuel Applications Limited Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gillespie & Powers Inc. GLASS SERVICE, a.s.

Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Hays Cleveland HEM Engineering & Consulting Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Hotwork International AG Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Izocam Jasper GmbH Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG LIAS INDUSTRIAL LTD M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Major Engineering Munimula Technology P/L PCI PCT Engineered Systems, LLC Proctor Biomass Systems SBP Chemicals

AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Control Industrial S.L. Almor Group Ascon Tecnologic North America AVS Inc. Charter Tech Limited Control Instruments Corp.

DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. E2SL Eclipse, Inc EMG Automation GmbH Esotermica Srl Fluke Process Instruments - Raytek/ Ircon/Datapaq Brands Fredericks Company, The | Televac Fuel Applications Limited Gefran General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. Gillespie & Powers Inc. Hays Cleveland High Temp Measurement LLC Hotwork International AG Industrial Television Ltd Izocam Jasper GmbH JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Lenox Inst. Co. LIAS INDUSTRIAL LTD M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) MARATHON MONITORS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS CORP (Beijing) LTD. MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG Munimula Technology P/L NATIONAL BASIC SENSOR NAVIN CORPORATION NK Technologies Ohio Semitronics, Inc. PCI Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Precimeter November 2016

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Precimeter Control AB PROCESS-ELECTRONIC GMBH, a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC Sp. z o.o., a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC SRL, a member of United Process Controls Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies RFTS LLC SAFTI Schaefer Group, Inc., The SEGRIF SK Environmental Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. Specnow Ltd Surface Combustion, Inc. Tecalex Testo Limited Thermetal Engineering Ltd Thermo Fisher Scientific TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA Toledo Engineering Co., Inc UNICOM UNITED PROCESS CONTROLS Vacuum Research Corporation YS tech Co Ltd

N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA REINTECH Sandvik Heating Technology UK Schaefer Group, Inc., The SET LININGS BRASIL Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC HEATING

AMECO USA Brasco International Carbon International Ltd Cardinal Refractories Inc. CIMSAMEX Eco Technical Ceramics Ernst B Westman Ltd FIVES Graphite Sales Inc. Hormesa-Conticast M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) MAGMA CERAMICS & CATALYSTS Magneco/Metrel, Inc. Millennium technology Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics Munimula Technology P/L Plansee USA LLC Qatar Aluminium Ltd Refractory Specialties, Inc.- A Unifrax Company Spaco Technologies Ltd, PDC-GDC Castings Sunrock Ceramics Company Technical Glass Products, Inc. Thermcraft, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA VESUVIUS

AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC AVS Inc. BEST - Balikesir Elektromekanik Sanayi Tesisleri AS Carbolite Gero Carbon International Ltd DongYang A.K Eco Technical Ceramics Ernst B Westman Ltd Esotermica Srl GMC FOR GLASS INDUSTRY Graphite Sales Inc. Hormesa-Conticast JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd KILNS AND FURNACES LTD M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Major Engineering Micropyretics Heaters International Millennium technology Plansee USA LLC Precision Metal Products RFTS LLC SAFTI Sandvik Heating Technology UK SBP Chemicals Schaefer Group, Inc., The SCHUPP Ceramics SHIVANG FURNACES AND OVENS INDUSTRIES Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces

ELECTRIC FURNACE REPAIRS

ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

CRUCIBLES

ABB Metallurgy Products AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AICHELIN Holding GmbH AIF Engineering Private Limited Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Almor Group BDI Cooling Solutions Brasco International Calderys Refractory Taiwan Carbolite Gero Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd CMI Greenline Europe Datsun Engineering and Construction Company DISMATEC Limited Esotermica Srl GLASS SERVICE, a.s.

Gund Company, The H F Furnaces Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. I.LE.S. Srl JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd KILNS AND FURNACES LTD Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Meltech Merkle International, Inc November 2016

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AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS Ascon Tecnologic North America BDI Cooling Solutions British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Machinery Corporation DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. E2SL Effmag Ltd. EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie GLASS STRAND INC. Hatch Associates Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Izocam Jasper GmbH KANDI ENGINEERING PVT. LTD. Kennedy Eurotech M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Millennium technology MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Ohio Semitronics, Inc. PCI

Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

Schaefer Group, Inc., The SIAD S.p.A. Silicon Power Corporation Tenova Re Energy GmbH Testo Limited Thermal Transfer Corporation Thermetal Engineering Ltd WS Thermal Process Technology Inc. ENGINEERING, SERVICES & CONSULTANCY ABB Metallurgy Products ACE - RFTS LLC AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS Air Control Industrial S.L. AJZ & Associates Consulting Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Almor Group AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH BWG Machinery Corporation CFT Carbon Furnaces Technologies B.V. COCKERILL MAINTENANCE & INGENERIE (CMI) COMBUSTOL Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. Denco Lubrication Ltd DiBenedetto Appraisal Services, memeber TDI Grp. DISMATEC Limited Eclipse, Inc Elster Thermal Solutions EMG Automation GmbH Esotermica Srl Fuel Applications Limited Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd G&T Associates (Services) Ltd GEA PROCESS ENGINEERING INC. General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. GLASS SERVICE, a.s.

GLASS STRAND INC. GMC FOR GLASS INDUSTRY Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Harper International Hatch Associates Helipebs Controls Limited HEM Engineering & Consulting Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

IML Labels & Systems Ltd INISMa Innoval Technology Jasper GmbH Kennedy Eurotech Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies M H Detrick Company Ltd MachTools TechnoServe Private Limited Major Engineering McLellan & Partners Limited Mecfor Inc. Millennium technology Molyneux Industries - Rails & Rail Clips MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG MUGOYA Limited Munimula Technology P/L PCT Engineered Systems, LLC Plansee USA LLC Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) Rath AG RFTS LLC RIEDHAMMER GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants SAFTI Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

SEGRIF SMS Meer S.p.A.

Spaco Technologies Ltd, PDC-GDC Castings STAS inc.

Tecalex TERMIA TECHNOLOGY Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermetal Engineering Ltd TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Toledo Engineering Co., Inc Tri-Mer Corporation Unifour B.V. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd VESUVIUS Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces Woltz GmbH ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY Adwest Technologies AJZ & Associates Consulting Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Ascon Tecnologic North America BDI Cooling Solutions DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. E2SL Epcon Industrial Systems GEA PROCESS ENGINEERING INC. General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Hatch Associates Jasper GmbH Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies MAGUIN S.A.S. Major Engineering McGill AirClean LLC Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Radquim Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Sanshin Sanwa Group SIAD S.p.A. SMS Meer S.p.A. Tenova Re Energy GmbH Testo Limited Thermetal Engineering Ltd Tri-Mer Corporation FANS, COMBUSTION AIR AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Control Industrial S.L. BDI Cooling Solutions Castolin Eutectic Daniels Fans Ltd Datsun Engineering and Construction Company Eclipse, Inc Garden City Fan Company, Div of Howden Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Industrial Gas Engineering Izocam Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SAFTI SBP Chemicals SMS Meer S.p.A. Surface Combustion, Inc. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd FASTENINGS Couplings Company, Inc. Mach One (International) Limited Molyneux Industries - Rails & Rail Clips Plansee USA LLC Raloid Tool Company Incorporated SPACO TECHNOLOGIES LTD. PDC-GDC CASTINGS. FLAME-FAILURE EQUIPMENT Charter Tech Limited Eclipse, Inc Elster Thermal Solutions GTG Hays Cleveland

Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Lenox Inst. Co. LIAS INDUSTRIAL LTD Marina Textil Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) SBP Chemicals FUEL & ENERGY SUPPLY Air Products and Chemicals, Inc DEEPAK INDUSTRIES EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

PCI Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies FUME EXTRACTION Adwest Technologies Castolin Eutectic De Winter Engineering BV H F Furnaces Major Engineering SBP Chemicals SMS Meer S.p.A. TMS SA FURNACE CHARGING MACHINES AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Control Industrial S.L. Almor Group British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Machinery Corporation Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV EBNER Furnaces, Inc. G&G Steel Inc. General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. GNA alutech inc.

HENCON Hertwich Engineering GmbH Hormesa-Conticast Jasper GmbH Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Major Engineering Mayflower Engineering Ltd Mecfor Inc. Meltech Millennium technology Munimula Technology P/L Qatar Aluminium Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. Stolzle Flaconnage Surface Combustion, Inc. TDI Group LLC Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd Vibra-Pro Company Inc. Wellman Furnaces Woltz GmbH FURNACE CONTROLLERS & INSTRUMENTATION AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Control Industrial S.L. Almor Group Ascon Tecnologic North America BOREL Swiss British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) CAN-ENG Furnaces International Limited Carbolite Gero COMBUSTOL DongYang A.K E2SL EMG Automation GmbH Energy & Environmental Services ltd Esotermica Srl FEVISA Fluke Process Instruments - Raytek/

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CLASSIFIED BUYERS’ GUIDE TO FURNACE PLANT EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS & SERVICES Ircon/Datapaq Brands Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gillespie & Powers Inc. GLASS SERVICE, a.s.

GNA alutech inc.

HEM Engineering & Consulting Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Industrial Television Ltd JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Lenox Inst. Co. M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) MARATHON MONITORS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS CORP (Beijing) LTD. Micropyretics Heaters International Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA PCI PCT Engineered Systems, LLC Pony International Technologies,Ltd. PROCESS-ELECTRONIC GMBH, a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC Sp. z o.o., a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC SRL, a member of United Process Controls Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) Raloid Tool Company Incorporated SAFTI Schaefer Group, Inc., The SK Environmental Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. SOLO Swiss SA TERMIA TECHNOLOGY Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermcraft, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA UNICOM UNITED PROCESS CONTROLS Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACE FURNITURE AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS Almor Group ANT FURNACES BOREL Swiss British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbon International Ltd Cellaris Refractories India Limited CMI Greenline Europe E2SL Ernst B Westman Ltd Gaskets Inc Graphite Sales Inc. JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd KILNS AND FURNACES LTD Meltech Millennium technology Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics NeoNickel Blackburn Plansee USA LLC Refractory Specialties, Inc.- A Unifrax Company RFTS LLC Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

SMS Meer S.p.A. SOLO Swiss SA SUN SYSTEMS CANCELERÍA Y DOMOS SA.DE C.V. Sunrock Ceramics Company Thermcraft, Inc. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd VESUVIUS Wallwork Cast Alloys Wellman Furnaces FURNACE LINING MACHINERY Air Control Industrial S.L. ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Almor Group BOREL Swiss British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Datsun Engineering and Construction Company Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Millennium technology

SBP Chemicals SET LININGS BRASIL SOLO Swiss SA SUN SYSTEMS CANCELERÍA Y DOMOS SA.DE C.V. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd VESUVIUS FURNACE THERMAL SURVEYS AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Almor Group British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) CMI Greenline Europe DISMATEC Limited DongYang A.K E2SL Energy & Environmental Services ltd Fluke Process Instruments - Raytek/ Ircon/Datapaq Brands Gillespie & Powers Inc. Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Industrial Television Ltd KANDI ENGINEERING PVT. LTD. Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Schaefer Group, Inc., The SMS Meer S.p.A. Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd Toledo Engineering Co., Inc Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd FURNACES, HEAT TREATMENT AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AICHELIN Holding GmbH AIF Engineering Private Limited ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Almor Group AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions Bekaert Solaronics BOREL Swiss British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH BWG Machinery Corporation CAN-ENG Furnaces International Limited Carbolite Gero Carbon International Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd CMI Greenline Europe COCKERILL MAINTENANCE & INGENERIE (CMI) COMBUSTOL Consarc Engineering Ltd Consolidated Engineering Company DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. DongYang A.K E2SL EBNER Furnaces, Inc. EGB Vacuum Ltd Elnik Systems, LLC Energy & Environmental Services ltd Epcon Industrial Systems Esotermica Srl FIVES Fluke Process Instruments - Raytek/ Ircon/Datapaq Brands Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gillespie & Powers Inc. Glaston Finland Oy Global Oven Systems BV GMC FOR GLASS INDUSTRY GNA alutech inc.

Grieve Corporation GTG Gulf Coast Environmental Systems GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Harper International Hertwich Engineering GmbH

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High Tech Tubes Ltd Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd I.LE.S. Srl Izocam Jasper GmbH JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd KILNS AND FURNACES LTD L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Lewco, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LOI Thermprocess GmbH M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Major Engineering Marina Textil Meltech Mersen Micropyretics Heaters International Millennium technology Monometer Holdings Limited Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd NITREX METAL Nitrex Metal Inc. Nitrex Metal Sp. z o.o.

Plansee USA LLC Precision Metal Products RAD-CON, Inc. Radyne Corporation Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies REINTECH Rubig Engineering Sandvik Heating Technology UK Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries SMS Meer S.p.A. SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft SOLO Swiss SA Specnow Ltd Surface Combustion, Inc. Tantek Furnaces Ltd TDI Group LLC Tecalex Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd THERMOFAX LTD - HEAT TREATMENT SPECIALISTS TMS Europe Ltd Toledo Engineering Co., Inc Toyo Tanso France SA Unifour B.V. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, REHEAT AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS Almor Group AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions BOREL Swiss British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH CAN-ENG Furnaces International Limited Carbolite Gero Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd CMI Greenline Europe COCKERILL MAINTENANCE & INGENERIE (CMI) COMBUSTOL Consarc Engineering Ltd Consolidated Engineering Company DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc.

E2SL Elnik Systems, LLC Energy & Environmental Services ltd Epcon Industrial Systems FIVES GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Gillespie & Powers Inc. Global Oven Systems BV Gulf Coast Environmental Systems GULF PLUS - KUWAIT H F Furnaces I.LE.S. Srl KILNS AND FURNACES LTD L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Lewco, Inc. Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Meltech Merkle International, Inc Millennium technology Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd PCI Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Precision Metal Products Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Schaefer Group, Inc., The SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries SMS Meer S.p.A. SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft SOLO Swiss SA Surface Combustion, Inc. Tantek Furnaces Ltd Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Toledo Engineering Co., Inc Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, BRAZING AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AICHELIN Holding GmbH Almor Group ANT FURNACES AVS Inc. BOREL Swiss British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Gero Consarc Engineering Ltd EGB Vacuum Ltd Elnik Systems, LLC Epcon Industrial Systems Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd I.LE.S. Srl L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Lewco, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH Meltech Micropyretics Heaters International Plansee USA LLC Radyne Corporation Sandvik Heating Technology UK Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries SOLO Swiss SA Specnow Ltd Surface Combustion, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, ELEVATOR AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS

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Almor Group AVS Inc. BOREL Swiss British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Gero Epcon Industrial Systems GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Linn High Therm GmbH Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Sandvik Heating Technology UK Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries SOLO Swiss SA Thermcraft, Inc. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, SURFACE TREATMENT AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AICHELIN Holding GmbH ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. ANT FURNACES AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions BOREL Swiss British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Gero Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Datsun Engineering and Construction Company ELBOY INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS Epcon Industrial Systems Eurobond Adhesives Ltd Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Global Oven Systems BV GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Harper International Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. I.LE.S. Srl JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Linn High Therm GmbH Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LOI Thermprocess GmbH M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Meltech Micropyretics Heaters International Millennium technology NITREX METAL Radyne Corporation Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Rubig Engineering SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries SOLO Swiss SA Surface Combustion, Inc. Tecalex Thermcraft, Inc. Unifour B.V. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Cambridge Ltd. Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, LABORATORY AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS ANT FURNACES AVS Inc. BOREL Swiss British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Gero Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd COMBUSTOL Consarc Engineering Ltd EGB Vacuum Ltd November 2016

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Global Oven Systems BV Harper International Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd Hormesa-Conticast I.LE.S. Srl JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd KILNS AND FURNACES LTD L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Linn High Therm GmbH M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Major Engineering Micropyretics Heaters International Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Qatar Aluminium Ltd Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) Radyne Corporation Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Sandvik Heating Technology UK SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries SOLO Swiss SA Specnow Ltd Technical Glass Products, Inc. Thermcraft, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, METAL TREATMENT ACE - RFTS LLC AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS BDI Cooling Solutions BOREL Swiss Carbolite Gero Consolidated Engineering Company DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. ELBOY INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS Epcon Industrial Systems Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gillespie & Powers Inc. Hormesa-Conticast M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Major Engineering Millennium technology Nitrex Metal Sp. z o.o.

SOLO Swiss SA STAS inc.

TERMIA TECHNOLOGY Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermetal Engineering Ltd THERMOFAX LTD - HEAT TREATMENT SPECIALISTS TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd FURNACES, MELTING & HOLDING AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AIF Engineering Private Limited ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. ANT FURNACES AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions BOREL Swiss Brasco International British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) COMBUSTOL De Winter Engineering BV DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. DongYang A.K Epcon Industrial Systems Esotermica Srl FIVES Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd G&G Steel Inc. GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. November 2016

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Gillespie & Powers Inc. GNA alutech inc.

Harper International HEM Engineering & Consulting Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. Hertwich Engineering GmbH Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd Hormesa-Conticast Jasper GmbH JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd KILNS AND FURNACES LTD Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Linn High Therm GmbH Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LOI Thermprocess GmbH LUBITECH ENTERPRISES M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Major Engineering Mecfor Inc. Meltech Merkle International, Inc Monometer Holdings Limited Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics Munimula Technology P/L N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd PCI Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Prolind Industrial LTDA Qatar Aluminium Ltd REINTECH RFTS LLC Sandvik Heating Technology UK Schaefer Group, Inc., The SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang furnaces and Ovens Industries SOLO Swiss SA Spaco Technologies Ltd, PDC-GDC Castings SUN SYSTEMS CANCELERÍA Y DOMOS SA.DE C.V. Tantek Furnaces Ltd TDI Group LLC TERMIA TECHNOLOGY Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS SA Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, SEALED-QUENCH AFC-Holcroft AICHELIN Holding GmbH ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Almor Group AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) CAN-ENG Furnaces International Limited Carbolite Gero COMBUSTOL Consarc Engineering Ltd Epcon Industrial Systems Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd I.LE.S. Srl JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Lewco, Inc. M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Qatar Aluminium Ltd Sandvik Heating Technology UK SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Surface Combustion, Inc. Tantek Furnaces Ltd Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, SINTERING ANT FURNACES AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS

Almor Group AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions BOREL Swiss Brasco International British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Gero Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd COCKERILL MAINTENANCE & INGENERIE (CMI) COMBUSTOL Consarc Engineering Ltd Elnik Systems, LLC Epcon Industrial Systems Esotermica Srl Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Global Oven Systems BV Grieve Corporation Harper International Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd I.LE.S. Srl JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd KILNS AND FURNACES LTD L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Lewco, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Meltech Micropyretics Heaters International Plansee USA LLC Qatar Aluminium Ltd Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Sandvik Heating Technology UK Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. SBP Chemicals SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries SOLO Swiss SA Thermcraft, Inc. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, SOAKING PITS AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS Almor Group BOREL Swiss E2SL Epcon Industrial Systems Gillespie & Powers Inc. SOLO Swiss SA Tantek Furnaces Ltd FURNACES, TILT ROTARY AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AIF Engineering Private Limited Almor Group AVS Inc. British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Gero CMI Greenline Europe DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. E2SL Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Gillespie & Powers Inc. Global Oven Systems BV GNA alutech inc.

GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Harper International Hormesa-Conticast Jasper GmbH KILNS AND FURNACES LTD Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Linn High Therm GmbH LUBITECH ENTERPRISES M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Major Engineering Meltech Merkle International, Inc Monometer Holdings Limited

Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics Munimula Technology P/L N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd PCI Schaefer Group, Inc., The SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

SMS Meer S.p.A. Tantek Furnaces Ltd TDI Group LLC Thermcraft, Inc. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, USED EQUIPMENT ACE - RFTS LLC AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Esotermica Srl GTG High Tech Tubes Ltd I.LE.S. Srl M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Machinery International Corp Precision Metal Products Raloid Tool Company Incorporated RFTS LLC SAFTI SBP Chemicals Schaefer Group, Inc., The Specnow Ltd SUN SYSTEMS CANCELERÍA Y DOMOS SA.DE C.V. TDI Group LLC Thermal Detection Ltd. Thermcraft, Inc. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, VACUUM AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS Almor Group ANT FURNACES AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Busch (UK) Ltd Carbolite Gero Carbon International Ltd COMBUSTOL Consarc Engineering Ltd DongYang A.K EGB Vacuum Ltd Elnik Systems, LLC Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gulf Coast Environmental Systems High Tech Tubes Ltd Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Linn High Therm GmbH Millennium technology MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC Plansee USA LLC Rubig Engineering SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Specnow Ltd Surface Combustion, Inc. Tokai Carbon Europe Toyo Tanso France SA Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, VACUUM COATING AVS Inc. BDI Cooling Solutions British Industrial Furnace

Constructors Association (BIFCA) Busch (UK) Ltd Consarc Engineering Ltd DongYang A.K Gulf Coast Environmental Systems GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd Linn High Therm GmbH Millennium technology Rubig Engineering SECO/WARWICK Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Cambridge Ltd. FURNACES, WATER-COOLING SYSTEMS AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS BDI Cooling Solutions British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH CAN-ENG Furnaces International Limited Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV Denco Lubrication Ltd DongYang A.K FIVES Meltech Millennium technology Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Nitrex Metal Inc. Nitrex Metal Sp. z o.o.

Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Qatar Aluminium Ltd Radyne Corporation SMS Meer S.p.A. Stolzle Flaconnage Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd GAS ANALYSERS AMETEK Land Control Instruments Corp.

GTG H F Furnaces Hotwork International AG INFICON Kahn Instruments, Inc. LumaSense Technologies GmbH MARATHON MONITORS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS CORP (Beijing) LTD. MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA PROCESS-ELECTRONIC GMBH, a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC Sp. z o.o., a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC SRL, a member of United Process Controls Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SK Environmental Ltd Testo Limited UNICOM UNITED PROCESS CONTROLS Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd GAS GENERATORS, ATMOSPHERE AFC-Holcroft AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AICHELIN Holding GmbH Air Products and Chemicals, Inc COMBUSTOL Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd KANDI ENGINEERING PVT. LTD. MARATHON MONITORS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS CORP (Beijing) LTD. PCI PROCESS-ELECTRONIC GMBH, a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC Sp. z o.o., a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC SRL, a member of United Process Controls

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SIAD S.p.A. Surface Combustion, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd UNITED PROCESS CONTROLS Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces GAS METERS Elster Thermal Solutions Fuel Applications Limited Gulf Coast Environmental Systems MARATHON MONITORS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS CORP (Beijing) LTD. PROCESS-ELECTRONIC GMBH, a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC Sp. z o.o., a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC SRL, a member of United Process Controls Schaefer Group, Inc., The Spaco Technologies Ltd, PDC-GDC Castings UNITED PROCESS CONTROLS Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd GAS REGULATORS & VALVES British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Elster Thermal Solutions FlammaTec, spol. s r.o.

Fuel Applications Limited Schaefer Group, Inc., The SMS Meer S.p.A. UNICOM Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd GASES, INDUSTRIAL Air Products and Chemicals, Inc Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Millennium technology Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA PCI SIAD S.p.A. GRAPHITE PRODUCTS ACE - RFTS LLC Carbon International Ltd CIMSAMEX Eurobond Adhesives Ltd Graphite Sales Inc. Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. Mersen Millennium technology Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, Inc. Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics Qatar Aluminium Ltd RFTS LLC SANGRAF International S.A. STAS inc.

Tokai Carbon Europe Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd HEAT & CORROSION-RESISTING ALLOYS AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie NeoNickel Blackburn Plansee USA LLC Thermal Transfer Corporation Thermetal Engineering Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Heat Treatment Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd HEAT EXCHANGERS Adwest Technologies AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS AIF Engineering Private Limited

Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC AMECO USA ANT FURNACES BDI Cooling Solutions CIMSAMEX Denco Lubrication Ltd Eclipse, Inc ELBOY INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS Elster Thermal Solutions Epcon Industrial Systems FIVES Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Jasper GmbH Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Major Engineering Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Schaefer Group, Inc., The SMS Meer S.p.A. Tenova Re Energy GmbH Thermal Transfer Corporation Thermetal Engineering Ltd Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces HEAT-TREATMENT, CONTRACT SERVICES Almor Group BDI Cooling Solutions Bekaert Solaronics BOREL Swiss COMBUSTOL Contract Heat Treatment Association Datsun Engineering and Construction Company DongYang A.K GTG GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Lewco, Inc. Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Millennium technology NITREX INC. - CHICAGO OPERATIONS NITREX INC. - INDIANA OPERATIONS NITREX INC. - MICHIGAN OPERATIONS NITREX INC. - Nevada Operations NITREX INC. - WEST COAST OPERATIONS NITREX METAL Nitrex Metal Inc. SMS Meer S.p.A. SOLO Swiss SA THERMOFAX LTD - HEAT TREATMENT SPECIALISTS Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Cambridge Ltd. Wallwork Heat Treatment Ltd Wellman Furnaces HIGH EMISSIVITY COATINGS Cardinal Refractories Inc. Eco Technical Ceramics Eurobond Adhesives Ltd GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Millennium technology Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SBP Chemicals UNIFRAX IGNITION ELECTRODES AIF Engineering Private Limited CIMSAMEX Elster Thermal Solutions Fuel Applications Limited GTG Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Jasper GmbH M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) REINTECH Schaefer Group, Inc., The Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd

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INDUCTION EQUIPMENT ABB Metallurgy Products AICHELIN Holding GmbH British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Effmag Ltd. EMG Automation GmbH Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Hormesa-Conticast IAS GmbH M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Precision Metal Products Radir (RAytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery Radyne Corporation Silicon Power Corporation TDI Group LLC Walters & Walters Ltd INDUCTION STIRRING DEVICES ABB Metallurgy Products Hertwich Engineering GmbH KANDI ENGINEERING PVT. LTD. Munimula Technology P/L INSULATION, HIGH TEMPERATURE Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Brasco International Eco Technical Ceramics Gaskets Inc Graphite Sales Inc. GTG GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Gund Company, The HOBRA - Skolnik s.r.o.

Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies M H Detrick Company Ltd M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG MAM Thermal Ceramics Marina Textil Mid-Mountain Materials, Inc. N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd North West Fire Protection Ltd Plansee USA LLC Refractory Specialties, Inc. A Unifrax Company SCHUPP Ceramics Thermetal Engineering Ltd Toyo Tanso France SA UNIFRAX Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd VESUVIUS Vesuvius Walters & Walters Ltd KILNS Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Ascon Tecnologic North America BOREL Swiss Datsun Engineering and Construction Company E2SL Gillespie & Powers Inc. GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Harper International Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. KILNS AND FURNACES LTD Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Linn High Therm GmbH M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Major Engineering Merkle International, Inc Micropyretics Heaters International Millennium technology Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd NeoNickel Blackburn PCI Proctor Biomass Systems RIEDHAMMER GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants Sandvik Heating Technology UK SBP Chemicals

SCHUPP Ceramics SOLO Swiss SA SPACO TECHNOLOGIES LTD. PDC-GDC CASTINGS. Thermcraft, Inc. TMS SA Wellman Furnaces LADLES AIF Engineering Private Limited Allied Mineral Products, Inc. Brasco International E2SL Esotermica Srl G&G Steel Inc. M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Magneco/Metrel, Inc. Millennium technology Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG Munimula Technology P/L N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Qatar Aluminium Ltd Refractory Specialties, Inc. A Unifrax Company Schaefer Group, Inc., The SPACO TECHNOLOGIES LTD. PDC-GDC CASTINGS. TDI Group LLC TMS SA UNICOM LADLES PREHEAT Cardinal Refractories Inc. E2SL H F Furnaces Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Hotwork International AG Mecfor Inc. Millennium technology N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd PCI Qatar Aluminium Ltd Sandvik Heating Technology UK Schaefer Group, Inc., The SHIVANG FURNACES AND OVENS INDUSTRIES SPACO TECHNOLOGIES LTD. PDC-GDC CASTINGS. STAS inc.

Thermal Transfer Corporation TMS SA LUBRICANTS Carbon International Ltd Chemtool Incorporated CIMSAMEX CONDAT EMG Automation GmbH Millennium technology Precision Metal Products Quaker Chemical B.V. LUBRICATION SYSTEMS BDI Cooling Solutions Denco Lubrication Ltd EMG Automation GmbH Major Engineering Millennium technology Precision Metal Products MAGNETIC HEATING SYSTEMS UNIFORM Effmag Ltd. MATERIALS TESTING EQUIPMENT ANT FURNACES ARUN Technology Carbolite Gero EMG Automation GmbH Hertwich Engineering GmbH Lumetrics, Inc. M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) MachTools TechnoServe Private Limited

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MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG Prosaw Limited Thermcraft, Inc. Thermo Fisher Scientific Walters & Walters Ltd METALLURGICAL & TECHNICAL LABORATORY SERVICES ABB Metallurgy Products Harper International High Temp Measurement LLC Innoval Technology M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG NeoNickel Blackburn NITREX METAL Seven Refractories d.o.o.

STAS inc.

Wallwork Cambridge Ltd. OVENS AIF Engineering Private Limited Almor Group Ascon Tecnologic North America BOREL Swiss BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH BWG Machinery Corporation Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Consolidated Engineering Company Datsun Engineering and Construction Company E2SL EBNER Furnaces, Inc. ELBOY INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS Epcon Industrial Systems Fuel Applications Limited Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Garden City Fan Company, Div of Howden Gaskets Inc GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Granco Clark, Inc. Grieve Corporation GTG Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Harper International Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

I.LE.S. Srl KILNS AND FURNACES LTD Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG L&L SPECIAL FURNACE CO., INC. Lewco, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Major Engineering Meltech Merkle International, Inc Micropyretics Heaters International Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) SAFTI SCHUPP Ceramics Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries SOLO Swiss SA Tantek Furnaces Ltd Tecalex Technical Glass Products, Inc. Thermcraft, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA Unifour B.V. Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces POWER SOURCES, INDUCTION MELTING/HEATING ABB Metallurgy Products BDI Cooling Solutions Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Radyne Corporation Silicon Power Corporation

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PRESSES, HIGH PRESSURE ISOSTATIC Helipebs Controls Limited MUGOYA Limited SPACO TECHNOLOGIES LTD. PDC-GDC CASTINGS. PYROMETERS & TEMPERATURE MONITORING AMETEK Land Esotermica Srl Fluke Process Instruments - Raytek/ Ircon/Datapaq Brands GMC FOR GLASS INDUSTRY GTG Industrial Television Ltd Lenox Inst. Co. LumaSense Technologies GmbH M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG MAM Thermal Ceramics MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG NATIONAL BASIC SENSOR Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) SAFTI Schaefer Group, Inc., The SCHUPP Ceramics STAS inc.

Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Testo Limited TMS Europe Ltd UNICOM Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Williamson Corporation QUARTZ Technical Glass Products, Inc. QUENCHING EQUIPMENT / MEDIA Almor Group BDI Cooling Solutions BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH Chemtool Incorporated GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Granco Clark, Inc. H F Furnaces Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

I.LE.S. Srl M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Mayflower Engineering Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft Surface Combustion, Inc. Tecalex Thermetal Engineering Ltd TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Toyo Tanso France SA Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces RECUPERATORS Adwest Technologies Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV Epcon Industrial Systems Esotermica Srl Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Izocam Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG LUBITECH ENTERPRISES M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) PCI SMS Meer S.p.A. Surface Combustion, Inc. Thermal Transfer Corporation Thermetal Engineering Ltd Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd

RECYCLING Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd De Winter Engineering BV Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gillespie & Powers Inc. GTG H F Furnaces Hormesa-Conticast KANDI ENGINEERING PVT. LTD. Linn High Therm GmbH LOI Thermprocess GmbH M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Mecfor Inc. Munimula Technology P/L Sanshin Sanwa Group REFRACTORIES AIF Engineering Private Limited Allied Mineral Products, Inc. ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Almor Group ANT FURNACES Ascon Tecnologic North America Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Calderys Refractory Taiwan Cardinal Refractories Inc. Cellaris Refractories India Limited Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd COMBUSTOL Eco Technical Ceramics Elkem Ceramite Esotermica Srl Gaskets Inc Gillespie & Powers Inc. GTG GULF PLUS - KUWAIT HOBRA - Skolnik s.r.o.

INISMa Izocam Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LUBITECH ENTERPRISES M H Detrick Company Ltd M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) MAGMA CERAMICS & CATALYSTS Magneco/Metrel, Inc. MAM Thermal Ceramics Merkle International, Inc Mersen Micropyretics Heaters International Millennium technology Munimula Technology P/L N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Permatech, Inc. Qatar Aluminium Ltd Rath AG Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Refractory Specialties, Inc. A Unifrax Company Schaefer Group, Inc., The SCHUPP Ceramics Seven Refractories d.o.o.

SMS Meer S.p.A. Sunrock Ceramics Company Surface Combustion, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios VESUVIUS Vesuvius Wellman Furnaces York Linings International Ltd REFRACTORY ANCHORS ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste

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Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Calderys Refractory Taiwan Cardinal Refractories Inc. Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Mach One (International) Limited Magneco/Metrel, Inc. Millennium technology Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd NeoNickel Blackburn Schaefer Group, Inc., The Seven Refractories d.o.o.

TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios VESUVIUS REFRACTORY APPLICATION EQUIPMENT Allied Mineral Products, Inc. ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Cardinal Refractories Inc. GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Hotwork International AG M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Millennium technology Schaefer Group, Inc., The SET LININGS BRASIL Seven Refractories d.o.o.

Toyo Tanso France SA VESUVIUS REFRACTORY BLANKETS ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International Calderys Refractory Solutions Cardinal Refractories Inc. Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Eco Technical Ceramics Izocam M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG MAM Thermal Ceramics Mid-Mountain Materials, Inc. Millennium technology Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Qatar Aluminium Ltd Refractory Specialties, Inc. A Unifrax Company SAFTI SBP Chemicals Schaefer Group, Inc., The SCHUPP Ceramics Seven Refractories d.o.o.

UNIFRAX VESUVIUS REFRACTORY – CUTTING MACHINES ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Brasco International Calderys Refractory Solutions KANDI ENGINEERING PVT. LTD. Millennium technology Prosaw Limited Seven Refractories d.o.o.

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REFRACTORY ENGINEERING – SUPPLY & INSTALLATIONS Allied Mineral Products, Inc. ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANT FURNACES AVS Inc. Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Calderys Refractory Taiwan Cardinal Refractories Inc. Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Eco Technical Ceramics Elkem Ceramite Gillespie & Powers Inc. GLASS STRAND INC. Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LUBITECH ENTERPRISES M H Detrick Company Ltd M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Magneco/Metrel, Inc. Major Engineering MAM Thermal Ceramics Merkle International, Inc Mersen Millennium technology Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Permatech, Inc. Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Prosaw Limited Rath AG RIEDHAMMER GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants Schaefer Group, Inc., The SET LININGS BRASIL Seven Refractories d.o.o.

SMS Meer S.p.A. TNI Spring Technologies, LLC TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios VESUVIUS Vesuvius Woltz GmbH York Linings International Ltd REFRACTORY, RAW MATERIALS ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. ANT FURNACES Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Cellaris Refractories India Limited Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd DongYang A.K Eco Technical Ceramics Elkem Ceramite Gillespie & Powers Inc. HEM Engineering & Consulting INISMa M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Millennium technology Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA NeoNickel Blackburn Qatar Aluminium Ltd Rath AG TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios Toyo Tanso France SA UNICOM VESUVIUS REFRACTORY METALS ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANT FURNACES AVS Inc. Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Cardinal Refractories Inc. EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de

tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Ernst B Westman Ltd M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Millennium technology Plansee USA LLC Qatar Aluminium Ltd SUN SYSTEMS CANCELERÍA Y DOMOS SA.DE C.V. Thermetal Engineering Ltd Wallwork Cast Alloys REFRACTORY – REMOVAL EQUIPMENT ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie KANDI ENGINEERING PVT. LTD. Millennium technology SET LININGS BRASIL Seven Refractories d.o.o.

REPAIRS – FURNACE MAINTENANCE, ENGINEERING Allied Mineral Products, Inc. ALLIED TRADING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANT FURNACES AVS Inc. Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Cardinal Refractories Inc. Castolin Eutectic Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd COCKERILL MAINTENANCE & INGENERIE (CMI) COMBUSTOL Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV DISMATEC Limited E2SL Eco Technical Ceramics EGB Vacuum Ltd EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Elkem Ceramite Esotermica Srl Fuel Applications Limited Gulf Coast Environmental Systems GULF PLUS - KUWAIT Hatch Associates Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. Hotwork Hotwork Australia Pty Ltd Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Hotwork International AG I.LE.S. Srl Izocam Jasper GmbH KANDI ENGINEERING PVT. LTD. Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LUBITECH ENTERPRISES M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Magneco/Metrel, Inc. Major Engineering Meltech Merkle International, Inc Mersen Millennium technology Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics Munimula Technology P/L N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA NeoNickel Blackburn

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CLASSIFIED BUYERS’ GUIDE TO FURNACE PLANT EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS & SERVICES Permatech, Inc. Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Rath AG Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies RFTS LLC RIEDHAMMER GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants Sandvik Heating Technology UK Schaefer Group, Inc., The SCHUPP Ceramics SET LININGS BRASIL Shivang Furnaces and ovens Industries SMS Meer S.p.A. Surface Combustion, Inc. Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Unifour B.V. UNIFRAX Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Vail Rubber Works VESUVIUS Wellman Furnaces Woltz GmbH RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Allied Mineral Products, Inc. ANT FURNACES AVS Inc. Hatch Associates INISMa Innoval Technology M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Marina Textil Mecfor Inc. Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA PCI Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Radquim Rath AG Refractory Specialties, Inc. A Unifrax Company RIEDHAMMER GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants RJM Metal Consultancy Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. Spaco Technologies Ltd, PDC-GDC Castings

STAS inc.

TMS SA TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Cambridge Ltd. SAFETY EQUIPMENT AJ Charnaud & Company (Pty) Ltd Contego Safety Solutions Fluke Process Instruments - Raytek/ Ircon/Datapaq Brands Gaskets Inc M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Marina Textil MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG Pureflo Quaker Chemical B.V. Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies RFTS LLC Spaco Technologies Ltd. PDC-GDC Castings Testo Limited SCRAP PREHEATERS DongYang A.K FIVES Hertwich Engineering GmbH M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) Major Engineering Munimula Technology P/L PCI STAS inc.

SIPHON SYSTEMS Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG FIVES HENCON Major Engineering Mecfor Inc. Munimula Technology P/L STAS inc.

Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd SUBCONTRACT SERVICES Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Brasco International

Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Datsun Engineering and Construction Company Innoval Technology North West Fire Protection Ltd THERMOFAX LTD - HEAT TREATMENT SPECIALISTS Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Vail Rubber Works Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies

(Pty) Ltd Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermcraft, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA UNICOM UNITED PROCESS CONTROLS Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd

TEMPERATURE CONTROLS

Millennium technology Radir (RAytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery SBP Chemicals Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd

TEMPERATURE INDICATING PAINTS / CRAYONS

Almor Group Ascon Tecnologic North America De Winter Engineering BV DongYang A.K Fluke Process Instruments - Raytek/ Ircon/Datapaq Brands Fuel Applications Limited Gefran GMC FOR GLASS INDUSTRY GTG H F Furnaces Hays Cleveland Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd LumaSense Technologies GmbH M.E.SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG MARATHON MONITORS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS CORP (Beijing) LTD. Millennium technology MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA NAVIN CORPORATION Obninsk termoelectric company, LTD Ohio Semitronics, Inc. PROCESS-ELECTRONIC GMBH, a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC Sp. z o.o., a member of United Process Controls PROCESS-ELECTRONIC SRL, a member of United Process Controls Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Schaefer Group, Inc., The SCHUPP Ceramics Specnow Ltd STAS inc.

Temperature Management Systems

THERMOCOUPLES Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Almor Group Ascon Tecnologic North America Carbolite Gero Cardinal Refractories Inc. De Winter Engineering BV DongYang A.K EGB Vacuum Ltd Esotermica Srl Fluke Process Instruments - Raytek/ Ircon/Datapaq Brands Fredericks Company, The | Televac Gefran GMC FOR GLASS INDUSTRY Hays Cleveland High Temp Measurement LLC Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. IAS GmbH Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics NATIONAL BASIC SENSOR NAVIN CORPORATION Obninsk termoelectric company, LTD Pyromation, Inc. Radir (Raytek Ircon Fluke Infra-Red Thermometery) Raloid Tool Company Incorporated SBP Chemicals SK Environmental Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. Spaco Technologies Ltd, PDC-GDC

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Castings Tecalex Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Thermal Detection Ltd. Thermcraft, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd TMS SA UNICOM Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces VACUUM COMPONENTS Busch (UK) Ltd Carbon International Ltd Fredericks Company, The | Televac GTG Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd INFICON MAM Thermal Ceramics MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC Toyo Tanso France SA Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Vacuum Research Corporation Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies VACUUM PUMPS Busch (UK) Ltd Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd M/S Ajay Foumdry Linkers (R) MTAG TECHNOLOGY AG OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SBP Chemicals Vacuum & Atmosphere Services Ltd Vacuum Research Corporation WEIGHING EQUIPMENT Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC GTG SEGRIF SMS Meer S.p.A.

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Insulating castable refractories Best practice for furnace and kiln applications, by Lance Caspersen*

Aluminium furnaces rely on high temperature insulation materials to optimise production yield and minimise energy costs, which can rise rapidly if excessive heat escapes from the point of operation.

Insulating castable refractory materials are key to this energy-saving process due to their inherent low heat conductivity as well as advantages derived from ease of placement and structural strength.

However, with so many local, national and global manufacturers delivering to market a myriad of material technologies and products, accurate specification is a highly challenging task.

This article examines the key considerations for specifying castable refractory insulation systems, offering advice on achieving the best value solutions which minimise energy consumption, optimise outputs and meet the needs of both the installer and end user.

This is particularly important for aluminium furnaces, which use large amounts of energy during the process heating required to melt, purify, alloy, and treat the metal during smelting.

Refractories are used to contain thermal processes and provide protection for personnel and furnace structures. Whereas refractories provide wear resistance and thermal conductivity, secondary layers of less dense, more thermally insulating materials are often used to reduce heat flux and better contain the energy source used in the application. By insulating these refractories, industry can also benefit from a reduction in greenhouse emissions that results from burning less fuel.

Customer requirements for higher performance products, and installer needs for easy to apply materials, drive the leading refractory manufacturers worldwide to continue to invest heavily in the research and development of next-generation industrial insulation materials. The aim is to bring to market castable products that

Fig 1. Insulating castables found as primary and back-up linings in many industrial and energy applications

combine optimum insulation performance with other important attributes, such as strength, operator safety and ease of installation.

Specifying insulating castable refractory systems has become a real challenge, with those containing alternative, highperformance core monolithic ingredients, such as crushed Insulating Firebricks (IFBs), now an increasingly popular specification staple for complex hightemperature applications. That said, the use of conventional raw materials such as perlite, an amorphous volcanic glass, and vermiculite, a hydrous phyllosilicate mineral, remains prevalent in many sectors. Despite crushed IFB containing insulating castable mixes outperforming conventional material choices in both application precision and product performance, habitual specification behaviour is preventing customers in certain industries from moving in favour of better alternatives. As with any change in specification, education is key to enable decision-makers to select a product which is best suited to each individual application in accordance with environmental factors, application considerations, desired outcome and, of course, cost.

With advances in materials technology set to continue, and product variety

expected to increase even further, specification best practice will become continually more challenging to apply.

With that in mind, it is vital for specifiers to obtain and uphold a detailed understanding of the key products, their technical capabilities, application processes and how each one can facilitate or hinder key drivers including installation, lifetime cost and energy efficiency.

Understanding the ingredients of each castable mix On the face of it all insulating castable refractories look the same, comprising a mixture of aggregates, cement and additives, such as clay and fillers. When mixed with water, they will form a slurry suitable for application via casting, gunning, ramming, pouring or plastering, and in some compositions, pumping and shot-creting. It is important to realise that all castable refractories can be different, and therefore should not be commoditised. By learning the difference between each castable type, specifiers, contractors and installers can select and install a product which is better matched to their application, delivering improved energy and output performance, increased lifespan and associated cost efficiencies as a result.

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Fig 2. Perlite, 0.5 lbs

Fig 3. Vermiulite, 0.5 lbs

Fig 3a Insulating Firebrick, crushed, 0.5 lbs

The best way to facilitate an ongoing learning curve is by partnering with an established and knowledgeable manufacturer that can not only encourage best practice throughout the specification process, but will also assist specifiers and procurement teams in making the right purchasing decision on a site-bysite basis, in accordance with customer requirements.

The difference between working closely with a manufacturer and seeking a commodity castable refractory solution is simple. A highly experienced and well-established manufacturer has refractory products to suit even the most complex insulation challenge, balancing properties such as density, strength and thermal conductivity; something that is particularly useful when specifying for an environment, which is particularly harsh or requires a specific method of application.

It is also important to understand that while raw materials in insulating castables vary, there are three main ‘core’ aggregate raw materials on the market, used to form a variety of insulating castable refractory products. Before we go any further, it is important to assess these key ingredients.

alteration product when certain types of rocks form next to each other. When heated to around 572°F, exfoliation occurs and vermiculite expands to approximately 30 times its original size. There are large commercial vermiculite mines in Russia, South Africa, China and Brazil, producing material for a variety of industries. For insulation purposes in certain mixes, vermiculite and perlite can withstand temperatures of up to 2,000°F and 2,100°F (1,093°C and 1,149°C), respectively before excessive shrinkage occurs.

application, the quality and cost of the product and the environment in which the product is expected to perform. Get these three elements right and the product specified, assuming it has been correctly installed, should deliver optimum furnace or kiln performance and improved energy efficiency over a longer lifespan. Here we look at the three variables in more detail.

Perlite Perlite is a completely natural siliceous volcanic mineral, formed by the sudden cooling and solidification of volcanic ash, which traps crystalline water into its masses. Used widely in construction, as well as agriculture for the aeration of soil, perlite is mined throughout the US, Greece, China and Italy.

World reserves of perlite are estimated at 700 million tonnes, with around 1.5 million tonnes being mined and processed each year. Characterised by its ability to expand to up to 20 times its original size when rapidly heated to 1,472°F and 1,742°F (800°C and 950°C), Perlite is essentially a mass of minuscule glass bubbles which give it the insulating properties for which it is known.

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Crushed insulating firebricks Used as an alternative core raw material for making insulating castable refractories, typical cast process crushed IFB offers superior heat-resistance capabilities of up to 2,800°F (1,538°C). Having already been fired to a high temperature during the brick manufacturing process, crushed IFB is a pre-shrunk aggregate which, when mixed to make a castable refractory, contracts very little during high temperature use.

With the inherent structural strength capacity of an insulating fire brick and a density of 34PCF (545kg/m³) compared to perlite’s 8PCF (128kg/m³), monolithic castable mixes which use crushed IFB as the core material will not only perform extremely well in high temperatures, but can also be formulated specifically to offer increased strength and thermal insulation performance in harsh furnace and kiln environments.

While there are a number of manufacturers worldwide that promote IFBs, there are very few which crush special cast produced IFBs for use in monolithic castable refractories, making Morgan Advanced Materials the leading innovator in this area of materials technology.

Key specification criteria With a clearer understanding of the three main core raw materials in aluminium castables, the next question is: Which base aggregate to choose? There are a number of key criteria which would be considered best practice in specifying insulating castable refractories. These include the method and complexity of

Application consistency Taking an industrial or commercial furnace or kiln out of operation is inconvenient and incredibly expensive, so specifying an insulating castable refractory which is quick and efficient to apply, while providing long reliable service, is of great benefit to the end user.

There are two main concerns when selecting a product that will facilitate a predictable and efficient application; ease of use generally by casting or gunning and product loss usually via rebound or material compaction.

Insulating castable products which are deemed easy to install are consistent in production and can be applied under a wide variety of conditions. Cast process crushed IFB based castables have a consistent density and particle size enabling tight control on water addition resulting in a smooth castable with good flow characteristics. They also lend themselves to installation by gunning and by pumping since a more porous aggregate will tend to clog the hoses.

It is this application downfall, which has seen many specifiers and contractors to move in favour of castable materials using raw material technologies such as crushed IFB, so that material costs can be more accurately controlled prior to application.

The other key consideration here is ‘rebound’, which is the name used during installation to describe the situation when gunned material falls off the walls or ceiling onto the floor. Waste caused by rebound is usually the aggregate, which is why leading manufactures like Morgan have engineered specific formulations to minimise rebound to as low as 10% while providing greater consistency of the installed product.

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Finally, material compaction is when the gunned castable mixture compacts when being installed on the wall due to the force of application, requiring additional material in order to deliver the desired thickness. Despite its beneficial lightweight characteristics, perlite-based castable products are known to compact up to 20% when gunned, which can make what is, at first glance a cost-effective material, a more expensive overall installation.

Meanwhile, IFB-based insulating castables suffer very little, if any, on the wall gunned compaction since the hard fired raw material does not easily break down during the application process.

Thanks to the uniform and reliable manufacturing methods used in creating crushed IFB insulating castable refractories, installers can also benefit from simplified and consistent application processes.

Monolithic refractories with a core of crushed IFB mix into a smooth, homogenous ‘ball in hand’ consistency, compared with other insulating castables which are typically grainy and less cohesive. The consistency of IFB mixes allow for more precise control during application, requiring less air or water adjustments and potential surging during the gunning process.

The quality vs cost argument The quality vs cost argument is an ageold specification problem, especially when working with large companies with an in-house procurement team tasked with identifying cost savings.

Tackling this issue in accordance with best practice means engaging with both the technical and purchasing teams to aid a process of understanding. Put simply, by encouraging an appreciation of the benefits which a better quality product can offer in the long run, when compared with a lesser quality material with a more attractive perceived initial cost, specifiers can guide other decisionmakers within the purchasing chain to opt for a refractory which not only delivers enhanced performance and product reliability, but a more sustainable whole life cost too.

It can even be said that an application which only requires a low to moderate level of thermal insulation could reap the benefits of ‘over-specifying’ on quality in order to enjoy better whole life costs and minimize the risk of costly kiln failure.

A good example of this would be the purchase of a $1,100/metric ton castable material rather than a $1,000/metric ton alternative, which might potentially deliver more reliable product service life, as well as added performance, insulation and speed of installation benefits which come with a better quality product. One November 2016

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has to look at the total cost: The price of the material, the installation production rate, the density on the wall, the installed material performance and service life.

Specifying on a project-by-project basis It is not uncommon for specifiers to have preferred manufacturers or suppliers for materials or building products whom they use on a regular basis. For some materials though, including insulating castable refractories, this approach is not always conducive to best practice.

Commercial and industrial furnaces and kilns can be subject to a variety of different application-specific factors and there may be a number of operational variables at play too, which will shape the specification requirement. The key here is to really get to know the environment you are specifying for, so that you can recommend a product that will provide

strength castable capable of performing in extremely high temperatures.

An established manufacturing partner will be able to assist in specifying the right mix for the job, providing guidance on best practice and how to accommodate the change in formation with appropriate application methods.

Other important considerations here are the presence of contaminants in the operator’s process, which will require a purer castable refractory, as well as the issue of ‘thermal cycling’, which describes the scenario where a furnace or kiln is heated then cooled frequently during operation. This constant change in temperature may cause cracking in a lower strength castable while an insulating castable mix formulated with a pre-shrunk core material, like IFB aggregate, would be more suitable.

Fig 4. Gunning application for a furnace roof

adequate insulation, performance and lifespan.

The simplest example of having to specify on a project-by-project basis is that of operating temperature. While all furnaces rely on intense heat, there can still be a significant difference in temperature between one environment and the next.

As not all monolithic refractories offer thermal resistance to the same level, a furnace or kiln which operates at 2,000°F, for example, could be insulated with a perlite, vermiculite or crushed IFB based refractory, but an alternative environment reaching much higher temperatures would rule out perlite and vermiculite mixes completely.

The formulation of the mix will change depending on the temperature requirements of each project, with more cement and a denser aggregate providing increased strength, and less cement but a better insulating aggregate being most suitable for higher temperature operations.

This is true for a number of environments within the ceramics sector, such as the manufacture of small ceramic spheres for LNG fracking, which requires a high-

Changing the specification habits of a lifetime Many areas of the supply chain can be resistant to change, especially in environments where planned downtime or furnace failure is extremely costly. It is this resistance as well as a focus on simple material price that is slowing the shift towards better materials technologies in some sectors, despite the obvious benefits.

When considering best practice, the unfortunate truth is that the very nature of specification can bring about habitual behaviours, which can eventually lead to sub-optimal product choices if decisionmakers do not keep up to speed with technological advances and market changes.

However, it is crucial to remember that improved castable refractory materials offer enhanced performance, better insulation and ultimately, energy and costs savings over the life of the product – so they should be embraced as early as possible. � Contact www.morganthermalceramics.com/F&KRefractories

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Movable HSH – High Speed Homogenising Furnace Homogenising of billets and slabs is necessary for achieving the required properties of semi-finished products for downstream sec processing after casting. The increasing demand on aluminium products results in increased heat treatment activities, especially because the demand on properties is rising with new applications of aluminium products.

By Hermann J. Meyer*

This leads to more heat treatment in existing narrow facilities and requires special, unique solutions. The development of a movable homogenising furnace, which fulfils today’s heat processing requirements and allows the installation and production in existing workshops and infrastructures, is therefore required.

Besides the numerous solutions for recycling, melting and casting, Tenova LOI Thermprocess developed the system for batch homogenising and that special movable furnace for restricted spaces. The system fulfils the increasing heat treatment requirements with less demand on space.

This furnace allows heat-treating billets and slabs on the restricted space inside existing casthouses. Handling of the goods is easily done by existing lifting equipment.

The movable homogenising furnace will not be loaded by moving the load into the furnace, but by moving the furnace to a prepared batch. This batch is arranged on one of two positions, which serve as preparation stand, heat treatment place, cooling place and disassembling stand.

Process requirements The homogenising process is applied for removing inhomogeneity of alloying elements in cast items. During homogenising, alloying elements are

dissolved for homogenous dispersion.

Agglomerations inside the castings, resulting from the casting process, are repaired.

The time for homogenising has to be adapted to the specific alloys. While some are dissolved within a shorter soaking time, others require a longer soaking time. The time has to be precisely controlled in order to achieve high quality. Furthermore, the temperature control should be accurate in order to be flexible regarding the possible set temperature range.

The homogenising furnace should achieve a range of properties of the treated goods so that the following is required for the homogenising of billets and slabs: � Adaption of heating and soaking time to geometry of parts � Adaption of soaking time to specific alloys � Implementing a homogenous temperature distribution in the furnace � Avoiding hot spots and overheating � Maintaining accurate temperature during soaking � Reduction of heating time � Reduction of energy consumption Preparation and post-processing of goods Typically, the goods are arranged to batches at a preparation stand. From here

Fig 1. Movable HSH homogenising furnace

the batch would be taken and placed into the furnace by a charging machine.

The charging machine is running in front of the furnace or the furnace line. Upon completion of the heat treatment, the charging machine will take the batch out of the furnace and place it either on a preparation stand for disassembling or on a cooling stand from where the batch will be transported to the preparation stand for disassembling.

The individual layers of goods in the batch are separated by spacers. That allows sufficient flow of recirculating air in between the layers and a most homogenous flow around the goods – a main requirement for even heating of the batch.

For fitting to this arrangement a uniform horizontal airflow is installed in the heat treatment area from one side to the other.

The homogenising furnace The homogenising furnace can typically heat-treat a set of about 30 to 50 tons of aluminium strands. The specific weight of the batch depends on the good’s size and shape. The heat treatment temperature typically is between 450 and 585°C. The HSH furnace concept is designed for a quick and homogenous heating of batches, which can be achieved by increased recirculation flow and higher heating

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temperature. Increased recirculation flow requires high-performance fans, while a higher temperature is applied only during the heating-up. Hot spots on the goods themselves are avoided, because the air temperature is increased only during the heating-up.

The recirculation inside the furnace is implemented as a horizontal crossflow around the goods. Spacers between the layers allow the recirculating air getting access to each surface inside the batch, which results in a uniform heating of the whole batch.

A uniform airflow across the heat treatment area is ensured by air guiding systems on both sides of the heating area.

The furnace comprises several recirculation sections; each is equipped with a recirculation fan, heating and a temperature control of its own. The fans are frequency-controlled and will be set according to recipe and calculation results.

Adaption of the furnace length to the heat treatment goods is possible by adjusting the number and length of the recirculation sections.

The also possible longitudinal flow would result in a temperature drop from one end of the goods to the other. Due to the resulting properties, which vary within the billets from one end to the other, a longitudinal flow pattern is mostly not acceptable under consideration of the intended quality requirements.

In addition to a uniform recirculating airflow, the heating of the flow should also be uniform to achieve minor temperature fluctuations during soaking. Layers of hot air in the recirculating flow can result in overheating of the goods in some areas, which is not allowed. Therefore the temperature of the recirculating flow is controlled on both, the inlet and the outlet channel. Electrical heaters with low power density or gas burners on the inlet side of the recirculation fan ensure a uniform heating of the airflow.

Reversing the flow direction is intended for a more uniform heating of the goods.

The temperature drop from one side to the other is mirrored; consequently the whole batch is heated more homogenously.

The arrangement of the fans allows an easy change of the flow direction. The fans are axial fans and can be reversed by only changing the rotation direction.

The fans are located on the furnace roof.

Thus the flow is installed with the same homogenous flow distribution in both directions.

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air. Continuous control allows a more homogenous and sensitive heating.

For higher productivity a higher temperature during the heating-up phase is chosen for the HSH furnace. This allows installing low-performance recirculation fans, which reduces the consumption of electrical energy.

Moreover, recuperative burners are installed for reducing the energy consumption. They use the flue gas temperature for preheating the combustion air. Recovering the heat from the flue gas reduces CO2 emission.

The characteristics of the HSH furnace ensure high productivity and optimum economic conditions: � Significant reduction of heating-up time � Reversing flow direction, depending on actual temperature � Reduced fan power requirements, resulting in a saving of electrical energy � Uniform heat application by the heating system for a homogenous temperature distribution with temperature fluctuations of less than +/-3K Furnace control An excess temperature of the recirculating flow is possible up to reaching the soaking temperature at the goods, which requires a predicting control strategy. Measuring the actual temperature of the recirculating flow by sensors and calculating the resulting part’s temperature by mathematical modelling (Heat Mod) allows a good forecast of the actual temperature and enables exact control.

Based on the batch characteristics and the trend of temperature changes on the recirculating flow, the actual temperature of the goods is calculated by mathematical modelling. Also the time sequence for reversing the flow direction is calculated by the control system. The required process safety can be ensured by redundant temperature sensors. Recipes, stored in the control system, can be chosen by the operator according to the intended heat treatment; they provide the pre-settings for processing the goods in accordance with alloy, size and expected properties.

The automatic control minimises changes of the flow direction and optimises related time sequences. It is aimed at achieving the set temperature on both sides of the batch at the same time.

The process data are recorded for every batch. As a batch number is given to every batch for identification purposes, the recorded data can be allocated to the individual batch.

Movable homogenising furnace The typical homogenising furnace

arrangement requires space for preparation stand, charging machine and furnace. Most of the existing narrow casthouses cannot fulfil the respective space requirements.

The movable HSH homogenising furnace implements the same furnace arrangement regarding recirculation, heating, control and characteristics, but it is movable between two heat treatment positions. For moving the furnace between these positions, it is equipped with a wheel set and one door at each end of the furnace (Fig.1).

This concept allows for a reduction in the space occupation because only two positions for batches are required. The batch will be stacked on one of the heat treatment positions. After the previous heat treatment process has been finished, the furnace is moved onto the newly arranged stack and can start heating immediately. In parallel, a cooling device can be put onto the hot batch for cooling.

This device consists of a frame structure with cooling air fans, which blow fresh air onto the batch. After the set temperature has been reached, the device is lifted by an overhead crane and placed onto the furnace roof.

Now the batch can be disassembled and a new batch can be arranged on that place. Due to the easy access to the heat treatment area, any kind of lifting equipment can be used for arranging and rearranging the batches. The movable homogenising furnace requires only two places for heat treatment, stacking, destacking and cooling. The control system is installed on the furnace sidewall and moving with the furnace. For sealing the furnace to the outside, a sealing system, which is installed under the furnace, is lifted, while the doors are closing.

As there is no need to handle the whole batch as one unit, the tray structure for arranging the stack can be very lightweight compared to typical homogenising furnaces with a charging machine.

Due to its flexibility and easy handling, the furnace concept can be used for small lots of one kind of material.

Due to the compact design and less foundation requirements the furnace can be installed in almost any workshop within a short time.

Summary As the movable version of the HSH furnace requires less space, it improves the productivity of homogenising strand castings. The HSH technology provides energy saving and economic processing besides optimum process control. Its smart control optimises heating up, soaking and treatment time and additionally cares for homogeneous processing. �

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Permeability control in sintering PLC feed-back control of water added to the balling mill using a predictive model to calculate maximum sinter bed permeability results in a 16% increase in line speed due to a 10% increase in air velocity through the sinter bed and a 3.8% decrease in fines returned for re-sintering and thereby increasing productivity and yield respectively. Aritra Mallick1, S. Dhara2, A.K. Sahu3, Ajay Arora4 & S.K. Pan5 IN a conventional sinter line, water is added to the balling drum to achieve agglomeration of the sinter mix into balls to maintain permeability in the sinter bed.

The optimum addition of moisture is an important factor in the sintering operation.

Permeability controls the resistance to gases passing through the sinter bed. Fluctuations in gas flow effect mass transfer, heat transfer and physicochemical reactions.

Therefore, permeability of the sinter bed plays a decisive role in the smooth operation of sintering, thus affecting yield and quality of sinter. Permeability is commonly referred to as permeability of the mix bed and permeability of the sintering process.

Sintering is an agglomeration process for fine grained iron ores to be charged to the blast furnace. Mixed with coke breeze and flux, the green mix passes onto a moving grate through which air is sucked from beneath and the bed ignited to fuse together the mix.

Use of sinter is so beneficial for productivity and from an economic view for large modern blast furnaces where up to 70% of iron bearing burden is charged as sinter, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.

In addition, it is a proven technique to consume fines generated during mining operations, common in Indian condition.

Bokaro Steel Plant is equipped with three sinter machines each with a 312 m² sintering area. The charging and mixing section has 23 storage bunkers, one primary mixing drum (PMD) and two balling drums (SMD) which supply agglomerated material to the individual sinter machines. After sintering, a straight line cooler and two

Storage bunkers

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Dry mix

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Roll crusher Cold sinter screen

Product sinter

Straight line cooler

Under size

Hot screen

Under size

Return sinter

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screens supply cold sinter of the desired size range (5mm to 40mm) to the blast furnaces. Fig 1 represents the logistics of the sinter plant at Bokaro Steel Plant.

Due to ageing of equipment there are multiple leaks along the air suction track below the sinter bed resulting in a lowering of productivity and a fall in the quality of sinter produced. In addition, a wide variation of raw material quality and size distribution (granulometry) pose a serious challenge to the stability of sinter production.

Considering such multi-dimensional challenges, a project was undertaken jointly between the Research & Development Centre for Iron & Steel (RDCIS) and the Sintering Plant of Bokaro Steel Plant to optimise the sintering operation to produce the highest quantity of quality sinter under any raw material feed conditions. A PLC-controlled method to optimise sinter mix permeability was developed and the

The authors are with the Research & Development Centre for Iron & Steel, Steel Authority of India Ltd, Ranchi, India email amallick@sail-rdcis.com Tel +91- 8986880125 www.steeltimesint.com

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relationship of sinter mix permeability with raw material granulometry and water addition in the balling drums studied. A linear relationship between permeability and balling water at any given raw material composition was established, based on which a predictive model was developed.

This measures and controls optimum permeability of sinter mix online. An increase in air velocity through the sinter bed was thus achieved and so an increase in sinter line speed was possible.

Permeability – moisture curve To facilitate a more detailed analysis, a typical permeability curve was viewed as having three regions (Fig 2). Region I extends from low to intermediate moisture levels and over this range bed permeability steadily increases owing to a tightening of granule size distribution and an increase in the mean granule size.

Region II extends across the centre of the curve, passing through a maximum (Pmax) then decreasing at higher moisture levels.

The transition between region I and II is determined by the point where the slope of the permeability – moisture curve begins to decrease owing to a reduction in voids in the bed caused by deformation of the green granules during handling. Region III is characterised by high moisture content and a steady decrease in bed permeability with increasing moisture in the mix.

Laboratory pot sintering studies were conducted with different raw mixes and the variation of sinter bed permeability measured as a function of balling water additions. Fig. 3 shows the variation of bed permeability for each set of raw mixes (B, N, M & Y). This shows sinter bed permeability increasing with increasing moisture to a critical point, after which it decreases at higher moisture levels. For each raw mix composition, there is particular percentage of water needed to attain peak permeability November/December 2016

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(Pmax), this value differing for different raw material mixes.

The initial increase in bed void space can be attributed to the onset of granulation, which results in a narrowing of the granule size distribution and increase in the mean granule size. After initial increase in granule size, more moisture leads to more granulation, but bed void space remains almost constant. After a critical moisture level, addition of more water deteriorates ball strength and forms a slurry of raw fines this blocking voids and causing a rapid loss in permeability.

Thus: - For each set of raw mix, there is an optimum percentage of balling water required to attain peak permeability (Pmax) and even a 1% deviation from that on either side decreases bed permeability by 10%.

- Variation in raw material size range can be negated by ensuring optimum addition of balling water.

- Productivity and sinter quality are best when sinter lines are operated at peak permeability (Pmax).

System design The sintering facilities at the Bokaro sinter plant are not equipped with a means of measuring bed permeability. Thus an online automated sinter mix permeability optimisation method to control granulation

and optimise voids in the bed feed has been developed and installed in all three sinter lines of Bokaro. The aim is to maximise the permeability of the sinter mix for the current operating conditions by controlling the amount of water added to ball the mix.

Higher permeability results in faster sinter output as a higher Burn Through Point (BTP) temperature is achieved enabling the bed to run faster providing greater productivity.

As a bonus, the working environment is less dusty due to the optimum amount of moisture in the green mix at all times.

The concept of controlling permeability is shown in Fig 4.

Prior to implementation, continuous manual control of moisture with sufficient accuracy was difficult. Thus, an automated method for achieving optimum water addition to achieve permeability near Pmax was developed. STEP 7 programming environment was used using Ladder Logic, Functional Block Diagram (FBD) and Structured Text Language (STL). The model is implemented on a Level-II PLC process controller which is less prone to be bypassed unlike when using a supervisory computer system where the model resides on a separate computer. The software is an integral part of the process control PLC and is programmed to start automatically by default whenever the PLC is switched on.

The hardware comprises two balling drums in which the required quantity of water is added to the sinter mix from where it is carried on a shuttle conveyor to drop into a shuttle hopper which feeds the green sinter mix onto the sinter line by means of a drum feeder. An air compressor blows air into the wet sinter mix contained in the shuttle hopper to determine the permeability of the green mix. The electrical signals correspond to the relevant parameters, such as a drop in air pressure, air flow rate, weight and moisture content of the wet sinter mix in www.steeltimesint.com

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Fig 4. Concept of permeability icontrol by water addition Optimum moisture addition in balling drum

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Increase in sinter bed voidage Air pressure, kg/cm2 Load cell, t

the shuttle hopper, balling drum rpm and sinter machine speed. These data are fed to a computer with software developed and installed for online monitoring and control of the moisture level of the sinter mix by controlling the addition of water in the balling drum to ensure maximum permeability of the sinter bed.

Fig 5 illustrates the system for measuring permeability and controlling the water flow for maximum sinter mix permeability. The various process parameters used to control the addition of water to the balling drum include sinter machine speed, balling drum speed, hopper weight, air pressure, air flow, feed rate, percentage moisture, actual balling drum water flow and balling drum water flow set point.

The amount of water to be added in the balling drum can be calculated based on the theoretical calculation of the model using these parameters. The feed forward model needs some of the raw material characteristics which include: • Source of raw material; • Granulometry of ore fines; • Loss on ignition of ore fines; • Sinter return percentage; • Granulometry of other raw materials; - Coke breeze - Lime stone - Dolomite • Burnt lime addition percentage; • Burnt lime chemistry etc.

The output of the model controls the water flow to the balling drum. The system can be used either in automatic or manual modes. Manual mode is used at startup to set the assumed water flow rate.

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part of the slope in the curve of moisture vs permeability the process is starting at.

Accordingly it adopts a gradual change in water addition by iteration to reach Pmax.

To reach Pmax as soon as possible the water is initially adjusted in large volumes which are reduced gradually as the Pmax point is approached. Figs 6 and 7 show the differential pressure transmitters and the PLC display respectively.

Extensive field studies were conducted to measure sinter quality and air velocity through the sinter bed in all three sinter machines before and after the sinter mix preheater. Plant operating data as well as production figures of each of the sinter machine were also observed for a period of 45 days.

Air velocity through sinter bed The improvement in bed permeability when using the optimisation system increased the air flow velocity through the sinter bed at the existing under-grate suction level of the sinter machine. The reduction in bed resistance to air flow also produced a reduction in power consumption of the pump creating the suction below the sinter grate. Using a vane type anemometer, a 10% improvement in air velocity was observed when using the permeability optimisation system.

Sinter bed speed The increase in sinter bed permeability giving rise to greater air velocity through the sinter bed resulted in a faster flame front velocity in the sinter bed. Hence the speed of the sinter line could be increased by 16% on all three of Bokaro’s sinter machines.

Strength of sinter The strength of the sinter is measured in terms of the ISO Drum Tumbler Index (DTI).

This is a relative measure of resistance of the blast furnace burden material (ie lump iron ore, sinter and pellet) to breakage or degradation by impact and abrasion which is expressed as a percentage of + 6.3mm fraction produced after tumbling.

The increase in permeability of the sinter bed enhances the burning efficiency of coke breeze in the green sinter mix which increases the diffusion bond strength of the sinter. A 3% improvement in the strength of sinter was observed after installation of the permeability optimisation system.

Generated sinter returns The amount of rejected sinter below -5mm in the blast furnace skip – this being too small for charging to the furnace as it reduces furnace permeability – is inversely proportional to sinter strength.

This fraction is returned to the sinter mix for reprocessing. A reduction in return sinter increases the yield of the sinter line significantly. A 3.8% decrease in the -5mm fraction was observed after installation of permeability optimisation.

System data Trials were conducted with the permeability optimisation system and the data collected during the trial are given in Table 1.

Table 1 shows that the set-point for www.steeltimesint.com

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water flow in the balling drum when manually fixed by the operator at the start was 6.491t/h. After that Auto mode was engaged and the permeability calculated as 0.259. During the first iteration of the calculation the set-point for water flow was reduced to 6.416t/h. The permeability showed an improvement to 0.277 with this new set-point for water-flow. The Correction column is taken from the position on the permeability curve. If the set-point of water flow is greater than what is required for attaining optimum permeability, the value of the direction will be -1 whereas it will show 1 if the water-flow is below the optimum. At iteration (2) the system is operating too high a water-flow rate so the system further decreases the set-point to 6.378 in its next iteration (3). The permeability shows a further improvement from 0.277 to 0.292.

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of 0.307. A further decrease in the water set-point to 6.238 results in a decrease in permeability from 0.307 to 0.301. The direction (1) shows that the water set-point is now less than optimum. The system immediately takes the corrective action and increases the set-point from 6.238 to 6.256 (8). An improvement in permeability is evident at the next iteration (9). But further increases in the water flow setpoint results in decreases in permeability and, as a result, the system automatically decreases the set-point to return to the optimum permeability. The fluctuation in the amount of water signifies that the system is very near to the optimum point in

the permeability curve and is working as is intended to achieve the correct set-point to achieve the desired optimum permeability.

This new innovative technology has a large effect on increasing air velocity through the sinter bed and in decreasing the return of sinter fines. It also has a large effect on increasing the speed of the sinter line so improving specific productivity of the sinter plant. The system ensures addition of just the right amount of balling water to optimise bed permeability and sinter production round the clock. In future, the authors will endeavour to expand this technology in other sinter plants within SAIL. ďż˝

Bibliography [1] Bender, J ; et al Resource efficiency in the steel industry in Germany IISI TechCo 40, Steel Institute VDEh; VDEh Institute for Applied Research (BFI), Shanghai, May 12 - 15, 2008 [2] Ellis, B G ; Loo, C E ; Witchard, D Effect of ore properties on sinter bed permeability and strength; Ironmaking and Steelmaking; 2007, No 34, P 99-108 [3] Ball, D F Agglomeration of iron ores; American Elsevier Publishing Co ; New York; 1973 [4] Loo, C E ; Hutchens, K Quantifying the resistance to airflow during iron ore sintering; ISIJ International; 2003, Vol 43, No 5, P 630-636 [5] Fan, X ; Chen, X ; Wang, Y Expert system for sintering process control; Central South University; China; P 78-81 [6] Raju, M T ; et al An automatic on-line sinter mix permeability control device for increasing the productivity of sinter machine in steel plants; July 2006, Patent No 199446 www.steeltimesint.com

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THE number of delegates, not including CRU personnel and invited speakers, was 132. Turkey, a major sponsor of this event, had sent 24 delegates, Mexico seven, Canada two, and Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Malaysia and Pakistan one each. Most of the presentations dealt with the demand and supply of steel in the USA, one discussed the situation in Mexico, little was said about Canada, the third country of North America (NA). A shortcoming common to several presentations was that they limited their analysis to the producers of steel and their markets, as if steel were a final consumer good. But steel products are a vital material for many downstream manufacturers. For example, when import restraints are imposed to allow for improved profitability of steelmakers, questions are in order concerning the impact this might have on the international competitiveness of their customer industries.

Chris Houlden of CRU, acting as chairman (renamed ‘facilitator’) for the first two sessions, opened with remarks about the US steel industry’s successful use of trade laws to protect its markets from rising import pressures. He also talked about the cost of capital for steel mills, which he estimated to be about 9% of total costs. He then handed the microphone to the first speaker, Joseph Alvarado of Commercial Metals Company, a firm that operates three minimills in several southern US states producing rebar, merchant bar, and light sections. He was ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the future because his company was highly rated by its customers and had managed to hold back troublesome imports from Japan, Taiwan, and Turkey with anti-dumping action. A second speaker at this session was Christopher A. Graham, a leading executive in two companies, New Millennium Building Systems and Manufacturing Group of Steel Dynamics.

With reference to the trade debate, Mr. Graham declared that his company was open to ‘fairly traded’ imports, using a somewhat fuzzy terminology to describe a complex commercial issue. He also praised his companies’ ‘culture’, a tradition of employees jointly solving a firm’s problems.

Matthew Nolan, of the Arent Fox law firm, talked about the ‘Challenges and Opportunities’ of the Turkish steel industry, his client in trade cases. He noted that Turkey was the world’s eighth largest consumer, ninth largest producer and 10th largest exporter of steel, that the Turkish steel industry was very low-cost and that it would fight back at US Commerce Department findings of Turkish subsidisation and dumping. In his words, “Turkish producers do not dump steel or receive meaningful subsidies” and he labelled the November/December 2016

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US attack on their exports as protectionism.

At the root of this, he acknowledged, was the enormous amount of excess steelmaking capacity that had developed at the global level, especially in China.

Lisa Morrison, a CRU economist, spoke on the theme of the “Macro-economic outlook: uncertainty constrains the upside”.

She noted that US income levels were rising, consumers showed increased optimism, sales of single-family homes – although not of multi-family residences – were still rising, and strong vehicle sales might continue for some time. However, investment in new equipment had declined and, regarding the oil and gas industry, almost collapsed. Ms. Morrison further noted that the outlook for the manufacturing sector was not very encouraging, the ongoing appreciation of the US dollar would continue, and uncertainty persisted concerning future interest rates.

Next on the agenda was a panel discussion on finished steel prices featuring Josh Spoores of CRU, Aldo Mazzaferro of Macquarie Securities Group, and Philip Gibbs of KeyBank Capital Markets. Mr. Spoores looked forward to industrial growth in 2017 to stimulate sales of flat-rolled steel that, together with cost pressures on the integrated sector (due to a sharp increase in metallurgical coal prices), would act to counteract the current market weakness and thus help stabilise US sheet prices, although at a level above European prices. Among the customer industries, he saw manufacturing and construction outpace the automotive sector in both 2017 and 2018. Mr. Mazzaferro expected US sheet prices to stop declining due to support from past trade action as well as increases in shipments, exports, and inventories in the New Year. Mr. Gibbs, not entirely in agreement with those views, put consumption growth at 1% in 2017, but estimated the average HRC price to drop from $518 to $510 year-on-year, thus moving closer to international levels. He

argued that US steel-using manufacturers who, for long periods, had been obliged to pay more for their steel than their international competitors, would appreciate a decline in prices.

Alan Price, of law firm Wiley Rein, argued that if China were declared a market economy it would be harder to put a stop to imports from China, as it would remove the ease with which the US Commerce Department could come up with prohibitive, three-digit dumping margins. The key was a single sentence in China’s protocol of accession to the WTO and the test date regarding a change in the

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country’s status would be on 11 December 2016. China firmly anticipates that it will be granted market-economy status.

Fearful of China’s enormous excess capacity in some products, industry groups in the USA and Europe are lobbying against such action. In reality, Chinese steel companies compete as hard as companies in a market economy and many are losing money. To avoid massive unemployment caused by mill closures, provincial governments, which control most Chinese steel producers, ordered their banks to keep them afloat with emergency loans.

Structural steel Elizabeth Johnson of CRU briefly talked about the outlook for long products. Like other US steel markets, this one had also experienced an import invasion. Trade cases drove them back, allowing US producers to recapture market share. Ms. Johnson’s take on the future: consumption would start climbing in 2016 and keep rising through the remainder of this decade while imports would gradually decline.

Industrial construction accounted for 38% and non-residential buildings for 34% of US structural steel consumption, said John Cross of the American Institute of Steel Construction. He expected no change in 2017 and a modest consumption decline in 2018 and added that rising urbanisation had shifted construction toward large metropolitan areas, that the US timber industry had been pushing hard to expand its market share of multi-story residential buildings, and that industrial construction spending varied greatly from region to region, being highest in the south central part of the USA. Automotive Four speakers took part in this session. Mark Thimons, of the Steel Market Development Institute, carried the torch for steel in a long-lasting debate with aluminium (AL) concerning the environmental impact of light vehicles. US steel producers hold that pollution measurement should not be limited to a vehicle’s lifetime tailpipe

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emissions, but cover its construction phase as well. The decisive factor is the amount and source of energy used during this phase. In the USA, part of the electric power comes from heavily polluting coalburning plants, which turns the outcome against AL. In Canada where all the AL is produced with hydro-power, experts have calculated that vehicles primarily made of AL produced fewer green-house gases than vehicles made of steel. It should also be noted that Canada is the largest AL exporter to the USA. Mukund Narasimhan and Tom Rohlwing, both of the Eaton Electrical & Vehicle Group, projected that from 2016 to 2021 China would produce almost twice as many medium and heavy trucks as all of NA. They suggested that steel suppliers work closely with customers during the design phase and continuously check whether other types of steel might surpass currently-used materials.

They proposed, moreover, that whenever steel producers start charging ‘premium’ prices, customers should look for alternative solutions. Jim Evangelista, of Shiloh Industries Advanced Engineering, the top NA producer of laser-welded blanks and leading AL and Mg die-caster, saw automotive companies ‘trending toward a mixed material solution,’ that would require extremely reliable joining methods. He estimated that by 2020 ‘next-generation materials will start to appear, with wide acceptance expected by 2025.’ Furthermore, he recommended that material suppliers develop a high degree of technical mastery in such areas as bonding, forming and lubrication, casting and grain structure, corrosion effects on all materials used by the automotive industry, as well as the effects of blanking and piercing on edge properties. The “facilitator” of this session, Dr. P K Rastogi, a materials expert from AK Steel, contributed to this discussion.

Production costs Cost analysis of steelmaking on a global scale is a CRU speciality. The speaker at this session, CRU consultant Matthew Poole, started his presentation talking about prices, more precisely, the ‘premium’ of US HRC prices over EU and Chinese HRC prices from 2013 to 2015. Premium peaks matched peaks in the arrival of imports on US shores. Anti-dumping cases caused a leap in premiums and a rise in US HRC EBITDA margins.

A comparison of global HRC cost curves for 2007, 2011, and 2016 revealed that US mills, integrated companies in particular, had moved toward the upper end of the global steel industry’s curve. Summing up November/December 2016

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his talk, Mr. Poole noted that US mills had lost their raw-material competitiveness and that lower global energy prices and a strong US dollar had further worsened their cost position. He also expected that by 2020 US minimills would move into the lowercost 3rd quartile of the global curve, that EAF-DRI producers would be positioned below the integrated segment and that the US industry would remain vulnerable to imports from lower-cost countries.

Insights Edward Lehner, chief of Ryerson, one of NA’s largest metal processors and distributors, and a talented public speaker, eased into his favourite talking point – his own company – only after discussing a number of other matters, some only remotely related to the main themes of this conference as, for example, ‘conflicts centred on the rise of terrorist organisations.’ Others, like ‘technological disruptions’ have greater relevance, although hardly the examples Mr. Lehner furnished, like Alibaba and AirBnb. He was on the right track when he listed problems with US industry, such as underinvestment, slow growth, deflation, and declining productivity. His solution? Establish a system of national priorities with emphasis on improvements in education, training, longterm investments, neural networks, robotics, and energy. He should realise, however, that his remedy for the US industry’s import problem, ‘Free but Fair Trade’ is merely an over-used slogan that throws little analytical light on a complex issue.

The steel industries of China and India Chris Houlden, who acted as chairman at several sessions, made a presentation bearing the title China versus India – threat versus opportunity. What the two countries have in common is the size of their population and a border along the Himalayas. Mr. Houlden explained that China was a net exporter, India a net importer of steel, some of China’s export November/December 2016

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destinations had been partially or fully closed, while India had imposed AD, CV, and safeguard duties to slow the flow of imports. In addition, both countries were making an effort to increase their rates of steel-capacity utilisation, China by reducing capacity and continuing to push exports, India by increasing domestic sales and slowing imports. Mr. Houlden estimated that over the next 20 years, steel demand in China would expand by about 10Mt and India’s demand in excess of 200 Mt. Mexico CRU’s Thais Terzian provided some detail concerning Mexico’s steel market. The country is the second-largest steel producer in Latin America and the 13th in the world, producing about 16 Mt of steel annually, over two thirds by the EAF method. By 2015, a sharp rise in imports reduced capacity utilisation to 60%, triggering trade cases against China, Japan, Ukraine, and Spain. Ms. Terzian restricted her discussion to Mexican long products, which in the 2013-15 period experienced a 21% consumption growth due to the expanding construction, automotive and energy sectors. Mexico was a net exporter of long products until 2015 when an import surge provoked a series of trade actions.

Ms. Terzian believes that over the longer term these defensive steps would restore the country’s role as a net exporter of long products.

Gas, dollars and raw materials Brian Habacivch, of Commodities Management Group, gave an excellent talk on the topic of 2016’s energy market outlook. His emphasis was on progress made by natural gas (NG) in the production of electric power, fertilisers and other chemicals, and in exports (by pipeline and, in liquified form or LNG, by ship).

In 2016, NG passed coal in generating electric power, turning it into a major determinant of electricity prices. However, rising NG prices would slow the rate of coal

substitution. The 2016 completion of a pipeline from Texas helped raise the level of NG exports to Mexico by 31%. However, as Mr. Habacivch pointed out, ‘the anticipated increase in petro-chemical demand has not yet materialised.’

Aldo Mazzaferro took the podium again, this time to look at the impact the changing value of the US dollar had on the US steel market, specifically pricing, demand, and imports. In normal situations, a strong dollar was associated with high imports and low domestic steel prices. But from 2002 to 2007, when US mills were working at full capacity, strong demand pushed aside any currency impact. As Mr. Mazzaferro pointed out, successful trade cases overwhelmed the effect of currency changes. Even in the presence of a strong dollar, trade action sharply cut imports, which in turn led to higher US steel prices. In short, trade action neutralised currency impact. Scrap prices were likewise susceptible to currency values, although scrap export tonnages seemed unaffected by them.

The final session, which was focused on alternatives at the basic production stages, began with a presentation about the scrap market by Peter Meyers of Metalico Inc. Contrasting the vast difference between overland and ocean shipping rates for scrap, Mr. Meyers noted that it costs more than twice as much to move scrap from New Jersey to inland US mills as from New Jersey to Turkey, the largest US scrap export market. Turkish mills can produce finished steel at a cost of $180 if they start from scrap, or at a cost of $60 if they start with billets imported from China or Russia. Recently they obviously found the second path more attractive, for in 2015 scrap imports dropped 15% whereas billet imports from China leaped more than tenfold and remained at a high level until the latter part of 2016.

According to Elizabeth Johnson, during the next several years the ironmaking costs of NA and Europe will remain considerably above those of Asian producers. Japanese scrap suppliers may improve their position in the global market, the price paid for scrap in the USA would move closely in line with South Korean and German scrap prices, and the scrap/billet price differential would remain an important determinant of the choices made by the Turkish steel industry. And, finally, Jessica Fung of BMO Capital Markets explained that in the past 10 years the Chinese obsolete scrap fund was consumed more rapidly than it was replenished. But growth would take off during the next 20 years: the fund would grow by close to 600 Mt during the first 15 years and by an almost equal amount during the following 5-year period. � www.steeltimesint.com

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The mighty minis Despite overall tepid US steel demand, domestic electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmakers have been making some gains this year. This is partly due to moves by integrated producers to idle or close some of their steelmaking capacity. By Myra Pinkham* BUT there are other factors as well, including investments enabling them to have increased participation in such stronger, traditionally integrated end-use markets as automotive and appliances at the same time that – at least for the time being – they are experiencing more favourable raw material costs.

“We are proud of being part of an industry which we think is transforming how steel is made and how ultimately America is going to compete on the global scene,” says Philip K. Bell, president of the Washington-based Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA), the trade association that represents the US EAF steelmakers.

While total US crude steel output is expected to decline 1% this year to about 86 million short tons, Christopher Plummer, managing director of Metal Strategies Inc., West Chester, Pa., estimates that domestic EAF crude steel production will actually see a 6.6% year-on-year increase to 58.1Mt, while the portion of raw steel produced by the basic oxygen furnaces (BOFs) used

by integrated steelmakers is expected to decline by 13.9% to 27.9% for the full year of 2016.

Also, according to Keval Dhokia, a metals analyst for Metal Bulletin Research (MBR), 2016 capacity utilisation for US EAF steelmakers is expected to be as high as 75% of rated capacity compared with 62% for steel produced in BOFs and overall capacity utilisation of about 70%.

This, Plummer says, is despite the fact that US production of reinforcing bar (rebar), merchant bars, special bar quality (SBQ) bar, structurals and wire rod has been relatively weak this year, and virtually all steel long products and only about a third of flat rolled products, are produced using EAFs. Imports decline Plummer notes that both EAF and integrated steel producers have been helped by a sharp decline in US imports, which was partially the result of several successful trade cases, particularly those for sheet and plate products. Total US finished

steel imports were down 23.3% year-todate through August versus the first eight months of 2015, according to preliminary US Census Bureau data.

Gains in US EAF steel market share isn’t a new phenomenon. “The proportion of US raw steel output produced using EAFs has increased consistently over the past few years,” observes MBR’s Dhokia.

As recently as 10-15 years ago about 60% of the steel produced in the United States was done so by integrated steelmakers, George Koenig, director of business and technology development for Hatch Management Consulting, points out.

“But now that has reversed.”

Plummer agrees noting that EAF steelmakers only accounted for 47% of the 112.3Mt of crude steel produced in the United States in 2000 compared with 67.6% in 2016.

The breakdown by steelmaking capacity is even more striking. While EAFs already account for between 75% and 80% of US steelmaking capacity, that percentage

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is going to continue to grow, SMA’s Bell says, noting that analysts from Bank of America Merrill Lynch are predicting that by 2025 almost 80% to 85% of all domestic steelmaking capacity will be EAF. There are several factors contributing to this gain, some of which are shorter term in nature while others could be indicative of a longer-term trend. “But over the long haul it appears that EAF steelmakers could have an advantage over integrated producers,” Koenig says.

One reason for recent EAF gain is a shifting of capacity, some of which has been a reaction to weaker domestic steel market dynamics, while others are connected with the desire to take advantage of expectations of future strength.

Voluntary idling “Over 92% of BOF production decline this year came from a voluntary idling of production capacity as opposed to integrated producers losing market share to the mini-mills,” Plummer maintains, observing that with US Steel Corp. permanently closing its Fairfield, Ala., operation in May 2015 and idling its Granite City, Ill., facility in the fourth quarter of last year; AK Steel Corp. indefinitely idling its Ashland, Ky., plant, also in the fourth November/December 2016

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quarter; and ArcelorMittal idling its No. 3 blast furnace at its Indiana Harbor West complex (which it reportedly is going to restart soon) early last year, US BOF output was down 5.5Mt in 2015 and is expected to be down another 6Mt in 2016, even as certain traditionally integrated end markets, such as automotive and appliances, remain strong.

Meanwhile EAF steelmakers, while in some cases temporarily reducing some of their shifts, have not idled any of their facilities, Plummer says, although ArcelorMittal did sell some of its EAF operations as part of its recent restructuring efforts. He estimates that they were able to pick up a quarter to a third of the volume ceded by the integrated mills despite the fact that overall domestic steel demand was down about 7%.

At the same time more EAF steelmaking capacity is coming online. Bell observes that this includes two greenfield facilities. The highest profile addition is Big River Steel in Osceola, Ark., which is expected to begin producing hot rolled steel in December and other more downstream steel products, including cold-rolled and galvanised steel, late in Q1 2017. Commercial Metals Co (CMC) is also looking to build upon the success of its existing micro-mill in Mesa, Ariz., by constructing a similar facility in

Durant, Okla, which is expected to be commissioned in the fall of 2017.

There have also been murmurs that the idled former RG Steel LLC mill at Mingo Junction, Ohio, could be restarted, possibly with foreign ownership, as early as in the first half of next year, although most industry observers are not very optimistic about its success, especially given current market conditions.

“I don’t see Mingo Junction being restarted. If it does it could possibly fail again, especially if it produces commodity grade steel. There is already plenty commodity grade steel in the marketplace,” says John Anton, director of steel analytics for the pricing and purchasing service of IHS Markit. He says it depends on what the new owners would change to make the facility successful now when it wasn’t successful previously.

Market demand As for as Big River, Koenig says its success will largely depend upon market demand and pricing. “While they plan to ramp up slowly and not be disruptive to the market, adding any new capacity when steelmakers are operating at 70% capacity utilisation is difficult.

Big River, however, sees itself as more of a niche player, ultimately making more specialised steels, says Mark Bula, its chief commercial officer, focusing on certain high growth markets, such as automotive. “We are working on conducting more research and development work to help automakers to have access to the kinds of steels they need in the future, including third generation advanced high strength steels.”

In general EAF steelmakers are looking to increase their presence in the automotive market. “Nucor Corp., for example, has been investing in more specialised equipment to do so,” observes John Tumazos, the principal and a metals analyst for Very Independent Research LLC. Plummer observes that already about 10% of Nucor’s sheet steel goes into the automotive market for non-exposed body panels. This includes some advanced high strength steel. Likewise, Steel Dynamics www.steeltimesint.com

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Inc. is converting 10% to 15% of the sheet capacity of its Columbus, Miss., facility, which was originally part of Severstal North America, from making more commodity grade steel to steel capable of being used in automotive applications.

Plummer says that other than Nucor’s Berkeley, S.C., mill, Steel Dynamics Columbus and Big River, EAF producers lack the width capabilities on their rolling mills to make auto sheet. Big River will also have a leg up over its other EAF brethren because of its RH degasser. The other EAF mills use tank degassers.

Currently EAF steelmakers are enjoying some improved pricing competitiveness versus their integrated counterparts, observes MBR’s Dhokia, especially given the recent jump in coking coal costs, which has increased the cost of hot metal relative to scrap prices.

Anton agrees that could be the case, at least for companies that have not yet locked in their 2017 coal prices, with Australian metallurgical coal jumping from $100 per ton cfr China in August to $230 per ton in mid-October. This comes at the same time as, according to Plummer, Midwest No. 1 AM6174A_STI 18/11/2016 11:36per Page 1 busheling scrap QP prices fell from $267

long ton in August to $205 per ton.

Tumazos, however, says he doesn’t believe that the cost of metallics will be that much of a factor, as trends related to both prices of iron ore (which is currently on par with scrap) and metallurgical coal tend to influence the price of scrap. Anyhow, Dhokia says he expects metallurgical coal prices to ease into next year.

While EAFs benefit, to a certain degree, from lower scrap costs, SMA’s Bell points out that low scrap prices also result in low prices for finished steel products.

Plummer notes that US steel prices have

already been weakening since June, with rebar prices falling from $555 per ton to $490 per ton in mid-October and hot-rolled sheet prices falling from $637 per ton to $480 per ton. But given that their fall hasn’t been as steep as that for scrap, Anton says that there is room for them to come down further before damaging profitability.

Healthier balance sheets Bell says that the EAFs also have certain other advantages versus integrated producers. “The EAFs seem to have healthier balance sheets overall and are the companies that are tending to lead the way in both merger and acquisition activity,” including the purchase of certain downstream operations, such as Nucor’s recent acquisition of Independence Tube Corp. and Steel Dynamics’ purchase of Vulcan Threaded Products Inc. Overall Anton says the EAF steelmakers could see slightly stronger demand next year, especially if construction activity continues to improve and the energy sector picks up. “It will not, however, be a boom as it is unlikely that any end market is likely to improve by a game-changing amount.” �

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PERSPECTIVES: KONECRANES LIFT TRUCKS

We are truly global While the global steel industry is facing some challenging times, what with the economic downturn in China and the resulting drop in prices, Konecranes Lift Trucks is being kept very busy, says Andreas Falk*

equipment to both the steel and the aluminium industry and recently successfully delivered seven machines with 10 tonnes capacity to aluminium manufacturer Grängnäs in Sweden, and have equally successful deliveries to steel manufacturers before this.

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How are things going at KONECRANES Lift Trucks? Is the steel industry keeping you busy?

Things are going well. The steel segment is one of our most important customer segments, it definitely keeps us busy.

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What is your view on the current state of the global steel industry?

The steel industry has had some challenging times with the downturn in China and low prices. I think, however, it has bottomed out and we will see improvement in the industry going forward.

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In which sector of the steel industry does KONECRANES Lift Trucks mostly conduct its business?

We supply lift trucks to all parts of the industry, from foundry operations to handling rolls and slabs at rolling mills and distribution centres.

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Where in the world are you busiest at present?

Europe being our home market is traditionally very strong, but we are a truly global company with business all over the world.

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Can you discuss any major steel contracts you are currently working on?

We do not disclose ongoing business.

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“Aluminium will always outperform steel on a weight basis; and on the stiffness issue alone it will carry the day,” said Alcoa’s chief technology officer Ray Kilmer speaking about aluminium usage within the global automotive industry. Where do you stand on the aluminium versus steel argument?

For us we have no preference. We supply

Jay Baron, president of the Centre for Automotive Research. Who is closer to the truth – Dick or Jay? I think Jay could very well have point.

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It is always claimed that aluminium is the ‘greener’ metal when compared to steel. What’s your view?

Aluminium is very energy-consuming to produce so I am not so sure on that argument. In usage in, for example, cars its lower weight will, of course, save energy.

So I think it depends in what application the material is being used for.

10. “…any hint of doubt when it comes to predictions of climate doom is evidence of greed, stupidity, moral turpitude or psychological derangement.” This is a quote from Bret Stephens writing in The Wall Street Journal. Do you sympathise with his view?

For anyone who takes the time to read behind the headlines I think they will find

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“While there will be increased aluminium penetration, vehicles will continue to be predominantly steel,” said Ducker Worldwide’s Dick Schultz. Is he right or wrong?

For our equipment we work with counterbalanced equipment so the weight argument is not so strong. In general I am not so sure, I think alternative material will increase in usage, if not aluminium then composites of various kinds.

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“Within the next 15 years or so there could be a nearly even split between steel, aluminium and carbon fibre content in the average North American produced light vehicle.” So said

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clear evidence that climate change is going on and that humans are at least partly the reason. This will definitely drive change to greener solutions and new innovations.

That is an opportunity for innovative companies.

11. In your dealings with steel producers, are you finding that they are looking to companies like KONECRANES Lift Trucks to offer them solutions in terms of energy efficiency and sustainability? If so, what can you offer them?

Yes, absolutely. Energy efficient solutions that are also financially viable are very much requested. We are meeting that need in various ways, from small things like LED lights on the machines to offering fully hybrid machines that save over 30% fuel.

12. Where does KONECRANES Lift Trucks lead the field in terms of steel production technology?

We offer a comprehensive range of solutions for heavy materials handling within the steel industry for the handling

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and moving of coils and slabs in the most efficient way.

13. How do you view KONECRANES Lift Trucks’ development over the short-tomedium term in relation to the global steel industry?

Our customers are our best R&D input. We see big potential to grow with the steel industry by continually listening carefully to its needs.

14. Where do you see most innovation in terms of production technologies – primary, secondary or more downstream?

I think innovation will come, and will be required, in all streams. It will not be limited to only one.

15. How optimistic are you for the global steel industry going forward and what challenges face global producers in the short-to-medium term?

I think the steel industry is improving.

Demand has probably stabilised after China’s downturn and prices seem to be on the rise. That should lead to

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investment. Also, if there is an investment in infrastructure in the United States, that could lead to a boom for the industry.

16. You’re based in the Sweden, but what’s happening steel-wise in the country?

The steel industry is important for the country. On a global scale it is small, but it has developed very much a niche with very high-quality, high-strength products used in demanding applications.

17. Apart from strong coffee, what keeps you awake at night?

Actually I usually sleep even after a strong coffee. But if Sweden loses any soccer or hockey game then that could puzzle me.

18. If you possessed a superpower, how would you use it to improve the global steel industry?

I would use that super power to reduce the energy requirement to produce steel.

That would lower cost at the same time as saving the climate. �

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The ‘mad’ iron master THE man behind this grand event was John ‘iron mad’ Wilkinson, the iron boat, named ‘The Trial’, was his latest innovation in the use of cast iron. The launch was signalled by the firing of two 32lb cannons cast and machined in his own works using techniques that had already put him at the forefront of arms manufacture. Many of the crowd was expecting the boat to sink and Wilkinson would be the subject of jeers. However, any thoughts of jeers turned to cheers when the boat hit the water and ‘floated like a cork’. Wilkinson was now a hero in the eyes of the crowd, especially as he had laid on several barrels of free beer for the event. The launching of “The Trial” was a milestone in history, but what became of it? And was it really an iron boat in the true sense? Even to the present day, quite a number of historians have been trying to shed more light on the iron boat with differing opinions of whether it was made of wrought or cast iron. The general consensus now is that it was made of cast iron – and the author believes this too. The iron boat was designed to replicate that of a typical Severn Trow, its measurements were 70 feet in length with a width of about 7 feet (2m). Its unladen weight was eight tons, and its draught was approximately 12in (1 foot), which increased to about 2 feet when fully laden to its carrying capacity of 35 tons. The author is of the opinion that its design was simplified to avoid any contours in its construction, thus making it very much like a river punt. This idea would dispel any thoughts of using wrought iron, which would have been more expensive and difficult to forge into the shape of a typical Severn Trow.

HISTORY

On 9 July 1787 a large crowd gathered on the banks of the River Severn at Willey Wharfe in Shropshire; they were there to witness the launching of the world’s first iron boat. By Harry Hodson* in the following manner. The greatest number of components was the cast iron plates that formed the hull of the boat.

Given that they were only a little over 1cm in thickness, an ideal size for these would be 92cm x 46 cm (3 feet x 1.5 feet). These plates are thought to have been cast at his Bersham (Wrexham) works and may well have had strengthening ribs on the inner side, with cored holes cast near to the edges to facilitate fixing. There were probably no more than four or five different types of foundry patterns required for the whole project. It is at this stage that the mathematics of the world’s first iron boat simply do not add up. Assuming the total depth of the boat was at least 1.5m, which would give it a considerable height above water level when fully laden, then it would take three rows of plates to cover both sides of the vessel. This would amount to a total of 144 plates, excluding the front, back and bottom of the boat. More to the point, what were the plates fastened to? If the Wilkinson boat plates were fastened to an iron framework, then it was indeed more likely that the boat weighed more than eight imperial tons. If the plates were fixed to a wooden framework it would accord

more to the boat’s given weight of eight tons. However, it then becomes an ironclad, the type that was used in the American Civil war. The plates were fastened to the framework and waterproofed with bitumen. Wilkinson launched three such boats and there are good records of them carrying iron goods, building and domestic products along the Severn and nearby canal systems. There are no traces of the iron boats, which were withdrawn from service after a few years, perhaps they needed further development which eventually came 60 years later in the mid 19th century.

The iron boat is one part of a legacy of innovation that the ironmaster bequeathed to the nation. John Wilkinson died on 14 July 1808 at the age of 80.

Where does John rest ?

In accordance with his wishes, he was buried in an iron coffin, which was to be sailed under the world’s first iron bridge before being interred at one of his midland residences. New owners of his estate requested that he should be exhumed and buried elsewhere, and it was decided to transport the deceased iron master to his native Cumbria. While attempting to cross Morecambe Bay the coffin bearers abandoned the coffin when they were engulfed with water and sand. The coffin was eventually recovered and re-interred in the churchyard at Lindale-in-Cartmel, Cumbria. The church and burial ground have since been demolished and nobody knows where the great iron master lies today. Maybe at sometime in the future he will re-surface and continue his journey into the history books. � Further Reading Wilkinson Studies Volume 2 1992 – Merton Priory Press London STI History Page July 1996 – John Wilkinson Iron Mad or Bad – Dr. Tim Smith

Economics and standardisation John Wilkinson was an astute businessman and a master of economics, and it is highly likely that he constructed the iron boat * The author is a former employee of John Grundy Ltd. November/December 2016

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