Every day, companies are faced with tough decisions about how to make their organizations more efficient and profitable. In today’s global economy, making the right decision is more critical than ever because the livelihood of our customers, suppliers, employees and their families hang in the balance. Allegheny Technologies and ATI Wah Chang continuously focus on bringing value and stability to the industries that we serve by making changes and offering services that will add value and aid our customers in improving the health and profitability of their organizations. This issue of Outlook highlights a few of the actions taken and the services offered that can help the long-term health and viability of the markets served by ATI Wah Chang.

— Outlook Editorial Staff

Every year Allegheny Technologies (ATI) develops and distributes multiple press releases that address topics interesting to our readers such as capital improvements, new alloy development, end use applications, and operational changes. In an effort to keep our readers fully informed about both Wah Chang and ATI, Outlook will post selected news releases in every issue. A full listing of ATI’s news releases can be found at www.alleghenytechnologies.com.

ATI announced several executive organizational changes in October 2008 that are designed to simplify and streamline the reporting relationships and leadership of ATI’s key manufacturing operations.

Lynn D. Davis, previously Business Unit President of ATI Wah Chang was given expanded responsibilities and named to the newly created position of Group President, ATI Primary Metals and Exotic Alloys. In his new capacity, the following operations will report to Mr. Davis:

John Sims, long time employee of ATI, brings with him a rich history of experience and a deep pool of knowledge that will be a valuable asset for ATI Wah Chang.

Sims joined ATI in 1996 as a Product Metallurgist at ATI Allvac’s Bar & Rod Mill in Richburg, South Carolina. He advanced through a variety of technical and operational assignments at Richburg becoming Plant Manager in 1998. In 1999, he became General Manager of the $200 million Bar, Rod & Coil Strategic Business Unit with commercial, technical and manufacturing responsibility of ATI Allvac’s U.S. product lines...

The last two issues of Outlook featured insights from Lynn Davis, Group President of ATI Primary Metals and Exotic Alloys, and Gary Micheau, ATI Wah Chang’s Vice President of Operations. This installment of Senior Management Insights features Ron Graham, ATI Wah Chang’s Vice President of Technology, who gives our readers a peek into what makes ATI Wah Chang unique; it’s ability to provide a high level of value-added technical services, support and innovation to our customers and partners.

As VP of Technology, Graham is the head of Process Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Research and Development (R&D). All three groups work hand in hand with the Operations group on the shop floor to ensure that the products coming out of ATI Wah Chang consistently meet environmental and customer requirements. Built in to each of these groups are functions that add value, customers and markets, the ATI Wah Chang product mix serves...

The Corrosion Lab at ATI Wah Chang has a long history of supporting the Chemical Processing Industry (CPI). Today the CPI industry is experiencing a surge of global growth; in support of this growth, ATI Wah Chang has upgraded the lab’s capabilities and increased its capacity.

The Corrosion Lab has many functions including: basic corrosion research, customer material selection and failure analysis support, metallurgical testing for outside customers, the development and maintenance of an extensive research database, and analysis of ATI Wah Chang products during the final certification process...

In 2008, ATI Wah Chang’s Technical Services Department had the pleasure of hosting Corrosion Solutions® Seminars and Titanium & Zirconium Welding Seminars at locations in Texas, Louisiana, China, India and our production facility in Albany, Oregon. Over 135 industry participants from ExxonMobil, LyondellBasell, Babcock & Wilcox, Freeport-McMoRan, and many others attended.

Seminars benefit a wide range of participants including: chemical, design, metallurgical and materials engineers, fabricators, maintenance personal and a wide variety of other professionals seeking detailed information about corrosion, welding and fabrication of specialty alloys like titanium, zirconium, niobium, and tantalum...

Allegheny Technologies recently formed ATI Nuclear Energy, a new market focused business unit designed to address the nuclear energy market sector. The new market sector team will represent the wide breadth of ATI products and services that support the nuclear energy power generation industry...

JOHN SIMS
President

PARRY WALBORN
Vice President — Commercial

GARY KNEISEL
Director of Sales

KIRK RICHARDSON
Managing Editor

STEPHANIE O'CONNOR
Editor

Copyright ©2009 ATI Wah Chang. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this newsletter by any means, in whole or in part, without written permission is prohibited by law. Outlook is published quarterly by Wah Chang. The newsletter contains information on reactive and refractory metals, including hafnium, niobium, titanium, vanadium and zirconium, as well as chemicals. The properties listed herein are average values based on laboratory and field test data from a number of sources. They are indicative only of the results obtained in such tests and should not be considered as guaranteed maximums or minimums. The starburst logo and Wah Chang are registered trademarks of ATI Properties, Inc.

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