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Markets for our products and services in both of our business segments are highly competitive. We compete with many producers and distributors who, depending on the product involved, range from large diversified enterprises to smaller companies specializing in particular products. Factors that affect our competitive position are the quality of our products, service and delivery capabilities, our capabilities to produce a wide range of specialty materials in various alloys and product forms, our technological capabilities including our research and development efforts, our marketing strategies, the prices for our products and services, our manufacturing costs, and industry manufacturing capacity.

We face competition from both domestic and foreign companies. Some of our foreign competitors are either directly or indirectly subsidized by governments. In 1999, the United States imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties on dumped and subsidized imports of stainless steel sheet and strip in coils and stainless steel plate in coils from companies in ten foreign countries. The anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders were reviewed in 2011 by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission to determine whether the orders should remain in place for another five years. The agencies decided that eight such orders against five countries will continue in effect. We continue to monitor unfairly traded imports from foreign producers for appropriate action.

Major Competitors
Nickel-based alloys and superalloys and specialty steel alloys

Carpenter Technology Corporation:
Special Metals Corporation, a Precision Castparts Corp. company:
Haynes International, Inc.:
Outokumpu VDM GmbH, a company of ThyssenKrupp AG (Germany):

Titanium and titanium-based alloys
Titanium Metals Corporation, a Precision Castparts Corp. company:
RMI Titanium, an RTI International Metals company:
VSMPO—AVISMA (Russia):

Precision forgings and titanium investment castings
Precision Castparts Corp.:
Firth Rixson Limited (United Kingdom):
Aubert & Duval, a group member of Eramet (France):

Zirconium and related alloys
Cezus, a group member of AREVA (France):
H.C. Starck:
Western Zirconium Plant of Westinghouse Electric Company, owned by Toshiba Corporation:

Stainless steel
AK Steel Corporation:
North American Stainless (NAS), owned by Acerinox S.A. (Spain):
Outokumpu Stainless Coil Americas (Finland):
Imports from
Aperam (formerly part of Arcelor Mittal) (France, Belgium and Germany):
Outokumpu Oyj (Finland) including Mexinox S.A. de C.V., group member (Mexico):
Ta Chen International Corporation (Taiwan):
Various Chinese producers: