ATI Company Profile

Specialty materials play a significant role in our lives. Allegheny Technologies is a world leader in the manufacture of both high value and commodity specialty materials products.Specialty materials are produced in a variety of forms, including sheet, strip, foil, plate, slab, ingot, billet, bar, rod, wire, coil, tubing, and shapes, and are selected for use in environments that demand materials having exceptional hardness, toughness, strength, resistance to heat, corrosion or abrasion, or a combination of these characteristics. Common end uses of our products include jet engines, air frames, electrical energy generation and distribution, automotive, chemical processing, oil and gas, construction and mining, machine and cutting tools, appliances and food equipment, transportation, and medical equipment and implants.

COMPETITION

Markets for both our high value and commodity products and services in each of our principal business segments are highly competitive. We compete with many manufacturers 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 manufacturing costs, industry manufacturing capacity, the quality of our products, services and delivery capabilities, our capabilities to produce a wide range of specialty materials in various unique alloys and product forms, our technological capabilities including our research and development efforts, our marketing strategies and price.

Other major producers of products in each of the business segments are as follows:

FLAT-ROLLED PRODUCTS SEGMENT
Stainless steel
o AK Steel Corporation
o J&L Specialty Steel, LLC, owned by Arcelor S.A. (France)
o North American Stainless (NAS), owned by Acerinox S.A.
(Spain)
o Nucor Corporation
o Outokumpu Stainless Plate Products, owned by Outokumpu Oyj
(Finland)
o Imports from
- Acesita S.A. (Brazil)
- Arcelor S.A. (France)
- Columbus Stainless (Pty) Ltd (S. Africa)
- Mexinox S.A. de C.V., group member of ThyssenKrupp AG
- Slater Steel Inc., owns Atlas Stainless (Canada)
- ThyssenKrupp AG (Germany)
- Ta Chen International Corporation (Taiwan)

HIGH PERFORMANCE METALS SEGMENT
Nickel-based alloys and specialty steels
o Carpenter Technology Corporation
o Special Metals Corporation
o ThyssenKrupp VDM, a company of ThyssenKrupp Stainless
(Germany)
Titanium
o Titanium Metals Corporation
o RMI Titanium, an RTI International Metals Company
o VSMPO - AVISMA (Russia)
Exotic Alloys
o Cezus, a group member of AREVA (France)
o HC Stark, a division of the Bayer Group (Germany)
o Western Zirconium Plant of Westinghouse Electric Company,
part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British
Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)

ENGINEERED PRODUCTS SEGMENT
Tungsten and Tungsten Carbide Products
o Kennametal Inc.
o Iscar (Israel)
o Sandvik AB (Sweden)
o Seco Tools AB (Sweden), owned by Sandvik AB (Sweden)

RAW MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES

Substantially all parts and materials required in the manufacture of our products are available from more than one supplier and the sources and availability of raw materials essential to our businesses are adequate.

The principal raw materials we use in the production of our specialty materials are scrap (including iron-, nickel-, chromium-, titanium- and molybdenum-bearing scrap), nickel, titanium sponge, zirconium sand and sponge, ferrochromium, ferrosilicon, molybdenum and molybdenum alloys, ammonium paratungstate, manganese and manganese alloys, cobalt, niobium, vanadium and other alloying materials.