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Talley Plant History

• Greenfield startup 1984

• Stainless steel mini-mill – State-of-the-art rolling mill– Modern heat treating & finishing facilities

• Continuous growth– Investment in equipment– Expansion of product offering

• Acquired by Carpenter in 1998

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Hartsville Plant Details

• 220 employees

• 109 acres

• 400,000 square feet manufacturing space

• 30,000 tons/year finishing

• 70,000 tons/year hot rolling capacity

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Hartsville Manufacturing• Secure starting stock or “billet” from

• Reading melt shop – Caster• Other approved sources – Static Cast from USAP

• Hot rolling of coil & bar products

• Heat treating & aging – 9 furnaces

• Acid cleaning lines – Coil & bar

• Round bar finishing - 10 finishing cells– 5 Cold drawn coil to bar cells– 5 Cold finished coil to bar & bar to bar cells

• CD Shape bar – 2 coil to bar, 1 bar to bar cell

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Manufacturing Integration

Fully integrated manufacturing

(Reading, Shalmet and Hartsville)

• Reading caster

• Rolling mills

• Annealing

• Rod and bar acid cleaning

• Bar finishing

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% Value Added Talley Brand

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% Value Added of Talley Operational Value

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Products

• Bar products– Rounds, hexagons, squares & rebar

• Alloys– Stainless steels grades

• 303, 304L, 316L, 321, 347, 410, 416, 2205, 17-4, 15-5• Carpenter grades upon request

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Product Size Ranges

• Cold finished bar – .187” to 6.000” - Rounds– .250” to 2.000” - Hexagons– .250” to 1.500” - Squares

• Stainless rebar– #3 to #12– Ribbed and smooth

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Talley Customer Base

• All major independent service centers

• Our products reach all market segments– Aerospace, energy & defense– Medical, automotive, consumer, industrial

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Advantages Of Talley As A Supplier

• Domestic producer• Union free work environment • Offer broad range of grades and sizes• High reliability• Short lead times• Consistent product / quality• Technical assistance• Modern facilities• Transportation System- Ryder Logistics

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Quality Assurance• Technical support

• Complete material certifications

• Mechanical testing Tensile testing Hardness testing Grain size Charpy impact Micro and macro etch tests Carbon / sulfur analyzer XRF grade check Eddy current and laser micrometers

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Continuous Improvement

• Operational Excellence (OE) – Lean

• 5S: sort, set in order, shine, standardize, sustain

– Operational Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) – Kaizan Blitz– Value Stream Mapping (VSM)– Six Sigma

• Certifications– ISO 9002 – TUV– LCS – Rolls Royce

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