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January 2010 Tube Products International

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business & market

HIGH PRESSURE FITTINGS

Forged-Carbon-Alloy-Stainless Steel, Threaded and Socket Weld

PRODUCTS:

90°/45° elbow, tee, union, coupling, bushing, plug, cap, insert, pipe nipple

& swage nipple . . .etc.

MATERIALS:

- Stainless Steel: ASTM A182, F304/304L, F316/316L, F304H/F316H, F317L

- Carbon Steel: ASTM A105, SF440A & A181, A350 LF2

- Alloy Steel: ASTM A182 F11, F22

PRESSURE RATINGS:

2000, 3000, 6000 & 9000 lbs

APPROVAL CERTIFICATES:

ISO-9001 Quality Assurance, L/R, C/R, N/K & ABS register of shipping, PED (CE)

Manufacturer & Exporter

BOTH-WELL STEEL FITTINGS CO., LTD.

No. 303, Jen-Hsin Rd., Jen-Wu Hslang, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan (814)

Tel: +886 7 3711536, 3710497, 3720260 Fax: +886 7 3713864, 3713882

E-mail:

box@mail.bothwell.com.tw

http://www.bothwell.com.tw

E-mail:

export@mail.bothwell.com.tw

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TenCate Advanced Composites USA

has announced that Alliant Techsystems

(ATK) has selected TenCate as a

composite pre-preg material supplier

for the manufacture of composite rotor

tubes used in USEC Inc’s American

Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio, USA.

The materials will be manufactured in

the TenCate Advanced Composites

facilities in Northern California. Sales

as a result of this supply agreement

will start from 2010, provided USEC Inc

receives Department of Energy (DoE)

debt funding for the project.

TenCate Advanced Composites is a

producer of advanced composite

materials primarily for the space and

aerospace markets and for the personal

and vehicle armour markets. There

is an increasing interest from other

industrial sectors, which will broaden the

application areas for these materials.

Scott Unger, president of TenCate

Advanced Composites USA stated, “We

are pleased to have been selected by

ATK to participate as co-supplier in this

programme. The experience of TenCate

with high modulus pre-preg systems

for satellite programmes has provided

the expertise needed to transition this

material from select aerospace usage

into an important industrial infrastructure

programme. The American Centrifuge

Plant is an important element in the US’s

goal to achieve energy independence.”

TenCate and its wholly owned

subsidiaries, YLA Inc and CCS

Composites Inc in Benicia, California,

have provided ATK with high modulus

pre-pregs and compression moulded

parts for many years for critical

aerospace and satellite programmes.

ATK is the manufacturer of composite

rotor tubes used in the centrifugemethod

enrichment process. ATK will fabricate

these tubes in its Rocket Center facility

in West Virginia, USA.

USEC Inc (United States Enrichment

Corporation) in Bethesda, Maryland,

currently operates the only enrichment

facility in the United States and supplies

more than a quarter of the world market.

USEC Inc is deploying the American

Centrifuge Plant, which will replace its

existing gaseous diffusion plant and

will be the only domestic US-owned

and operated enrichment facility. The

centrifuge method uses cascades of

large numbers of composite rotor tubes,

and is more cost effective than the gas

diffusion enrichment process.

USEC Inc has applied for and is

awaiting approval from the DoE Loan

Guarantee programme as the path for

obtaining debt funding to complete the

American Centrifuge Plant. According

to USEC Inc, the American Centrifuge

Plant will play an important role in

America’s energy security and national

security.

TenCate Advanced Composites USA

– USA

royal@tencate.com www.tencate.com

TenCate selected by ATK for

American Centrifuge programme