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N°12 – September 2013 Visits from Finland, Germany, USA and France at FerroPem :

We were delighted to receive people from Finland, Germany, USA and France at our plant of Château-Feuillet and to make them discover our wonderful region and the world of electrometallurgy. It was a true pleasure to have so many visits from worldwide customers in such a short period !

FoundryPlanet – FerroPem on the foundry reference website : Since beginning of 2013, you can find more details about FerroPem on the foundry reference website : www.foundry-planet.com . FerroPem has its own page on Foundry Planet where you can find our Company profile, contacts details, our worldwide list of distributors and all our last news, facts & figures or technical press releases. We will publish there some key information about our Company and on our products from time to time too. You can visit our page at the "Profiles/suppliers" section or directly by clicking on following URL :

http://www.foundry-planet.com/index.php?id=15&L=0&tx_browser_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=4922&cHash=75b20bbba16dfca905f44b4a67dd92af

Kenza Soulas & Nicolas Jasinski : new in FerroPem Sales Team Mrs Kenza Soulas has joined FerroPem Foundry Sales Team beginning of August. She has got an Engineering Degree from the University of Metallurgy of Grenoble (ENSEEG) and has worked many years as Sales Manager in a company linked to carbon products. Kenza is experienced in materials and all related matters linked to metallurgy. She will be mainly in charge of technical support and some sales activities in our Team. Her e-mail address is : kenza.soulas@pemsil.com . M. Nicolas Jasinski joined FerroPem mid of February to reinforce our Sales Team.

Nicolas will be mainly in charge of sales activities in Italy and Eastern Europe. He will soon collaborate on technical assistance too. Nicolas has a diploma from the French High School of Foundry and has worked in quite a lot of

French foundries during several years as Technical Manager, Production Manager and Foundry director. He is experienced either in grey iron and ductile iron. He has worked on automotive castings, heating systems, mechanical parts… and he knows or has used a lot of different kinds of foundry processes such as cupolas, induction furnaces, cored wires treatment, GF converter, DISA lines… You can reach him by mail at : nicolas.jasinski@pemsil.com .

We wish them welcome to our Team and all successes in business !

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IFEX 2013 at Kolkata (India), Metallurgical Conference in Bulgaria, Casting Clinic in Spain, Litmash Metallurgy (Russia) : the foundry places to be

After a successful first appearance in Bangalore at IFEX 2012 to show our great interest and involvement on India foundry market, FerroPem has attended to IFEX 2013 in Kolkata, last January. This exhibition was a great success to us and we were pleased to present our latest developments on inoculations and to meet our Indian prospects and customers. We look forward to IFEX 2014 in Ahmedabad next February !

Then FerroPem participated mid of April to a Metallurgy Conference in Bulgaria, in the city of Lovech. We had the opportunity to present ourselves and our products and our latest developments to foundrymen from Bulgaria and Macedonia. 63 foundries, representing by more than 90 individuals, were attending this exhibition

End of May FerroPem has organized, jointly with some partners and our local agent (Esfémétal), the Spanish Casting Clinic located this year at FerroAtlantica's plant of Boo. More than 40 people, representing 18 Spanish foundries, attended to this great event (2 above pictures left). Finally last June, with the support of our Finnish agent representing FerroPem in Russia, we took part to Metallurgy Litmash exhibition in Moscow (above picture right). It has been an amazing fair with a lot of prospects and new contacts for our representatives and we look forward getting very positive results and developments from this experience.

Castexpo : FerroPem and the US, a long common business story

FerroPem is making sales in the US since many years. USA is currently our fourth largest market and it is still fast growing ! We are selling around to numerous cast iron foundries and to ductile iron pipes manufacturers too. To reinforce our presence there, FerroPem has exhibited itself at Castexpo, located this year in St Louis – Missouri, beginning of April. Our US representatives, as well as some people of our Sales Team from France were present during this exhibition. Furthermore to Castexpo, FerroPem will take part to Keith Millis Symposium in Nashville, next October, with a

technical presentation presented by our Technical Manager.

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Shrinkage defect

FeSiLa10® : another new inoculant launched ! As already announced in the previous Newsletter, and jointly with the launching on the market of our new product "SpherixPlus®", FerroPem has developed an additional new inoculant. This new one is based on our existing product called FeSiLa® (Ferro-Silico Lanthanum). We enhance range of capabilities and possibilities of this product by developing a new version : FeSiLaPlus®. This new version of FeSiLa® is very powerful against shrinkage defects (by promoting multi-axial solidification) and gives furthermore a very strong inoculation. It can positively replace present products from the competition containing high Rare earth content. It is as much, or sometimes more, powerful than competitors' products but much cheaper. FeSilaPlus® can be used either with grey or ductile irons. Moreover we still preserve usual well-known effects of Lanthanum as strong de-oxidizing and de-sulphurising element, operative inoculant for reducing chill and to counteract the effect of undesirable elements in the iron. This product is available in grains or stream granulometry and can be delivered in big bags, drums or papers bags.

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Inobar® as cover of FeSiMg treatment: high improvement in Mg recovery Since many years, FerroPem is promoting Inobar® as a pre-conditioner for both grey and ductile iron. The concept of pre-conditioning the iron with high barium content inoculant, together with the usage of late stream inoculation was originally developed by FerroPem in the late 70s. Now, another practice with Inobar® is well-spread and very effective : to use Inobar® as part of the cover during nodularization treatment (FeSiMg treatment), for either Tundish Cover or Sandwich processes, in order to highly improve magnesium recovery.

In fact barium, which is the base of Inobar®, is addict of oxygen and will merge preferably with prevailing oxygen in the ladle. Thanks to this, instead of melting with oxygen for making magnesium oxides, magnesium will remain "free", more active and more dedicated to nodularization process. As magnesium is more operative, the magnesium recovery is highly improved : in many foundries, and with some favorable conditions, we have seen improvements up to 15% and sometimes even little bit more ! Thanks to this positive result, you can foresee a reduction in FeSiMg addition in the ladle. We recommend using Inobar® jointly with steel cover on the top of your FeSiMg. By using Inobar® such way, you still keep all advantages of Inobar® as pre-conditioning inoculant too (long fading, dry slags easy to remove, high nucleation, longer lifetime of refractories, better machinability of castings…). Feel free to contact FerroPem or your local distributor for more info.

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