SECAT PROVIDING ALUMINUM ANSWERS The scientists and engineers at Secat provide in-depth analysis using state-of-the-art metallurgical tools. Their advanced education combined with industrial experience provides a unique and valuable resource for aluminum companies. Secat is housed in a specially designed 10,000- square-foot research facility in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Secat has a wide variety of metallurgical R&D equipment, including SEM with EDS and EBSD, surface roughness tester, mechanical testing equipment for plate, sheet and foil, XRD for texture, hardness, earing, formability, and metal cleanliness (Alscan, Prefil, and Leco-Hydrogen). In addition, thermal treatment facilities with hot and cold rolling pilot capabilities enable Secat to develop new processes and alloys from casting to finished product.

Plate, Sheet & Foil Technology Secat offers the following services  Sheet product selection and development for specific applications:  Can and Can Lids  Common Alloys  Aerospace Applications  Automotive Applications  Foils for Packaging and Capacitor Applications  Sheet manufacturing process development and improvement  Microstructural evaluation and material testing of sheet products, including texture, fatigue, etc.  Formability evaluation and forming process modeling, including forming limit diagrams

Billet/Extrusion Technology  Extruded product selection and development for specific applications  Extrusion process development  Microstructural evaluation and material testing of extruded products, including texture, failure analysis, etc.  Pilot scale extrusion capabilities  Extrusion billet casthouse improvement and quality assessment:  Evaluation of Billet Microstructure  Metal Quality  Energy Audits

Casting Technology  Molten metal quality assessment and improvement, including Prefil and Alscan  Casthouse safety assessment  DC ingot casting modeling using ProCast  Ingot microstructural evaluation  Secat visited a customer facility with our mobile laboratory to help them identify existing inclusion and gas levels in metal using the Prefil Footprinter® and Alscan®, and help to determine how those levels correlate with the rejections received from field.

Materials Testing & Failure Analysis  Microstructural evaluation, including optical, SEM, TEM, etc.  Material testing and evaluation  Failure analysis  Metal quality assessment  Formability evaluation and forming process modeling, including forming limit diagrams  An aluminum producer needed assistance in determining the cause of fractures that occurred during fatigue testing

Product Applications  Market surveys prior to introduction of new products Substitution of aluminum for other metals Finite Element Analysis (FEA) studies  Alloy selection  Manufacturing mode such as casting, extrusion, fabrication, etc.  New alloy development Evaluation of new and competing process technologies Melting technologies  Molten metal stirring  Dross removal and fluxing  Reverse engineering of parts to determine alloy and temper or production method

Marketing & Business Analysis  Secat offers Marketing and Business Analysis Services to solve customer problems and/or identify new growth opportunities. These services are performed by experts to solve complex business problems and identify business opportunities for growth and improved profitability.