The industrialization of China and India, in addition to increasing energy consumption in developed nations, is placing incredible demands on existing energy and natural resource reserves. It is becoming increasingly clear that hard constraints on energy supplies and demand are being reached. There are also many political and personal-choice restraints being placed on different methods of producing energy. We are coming to the time when these self-defeating restraints will no longer be acceptable. Now is the time when we need to fully explore and embrace all viable forms of energy production and recognize the place each of these energy forms has in the overall solution to the world’s energy crisis...

The last Outlook feature of “ATI Wah Chang Today and Tomorrow” introduced Gary Micheau, Vice President of Operations and discussed his approach to safety, process reliability, lean implementation, equipment capability, and human resources. In this issue the feature examines the organization through the eyes of President, Lynn Davis...

Every year ATI develops and distributes multiple news releases that address topics interesting to our customers such as capital improvements, new alloy development, and end use applications. In an effort to keep our customers fully informed about both Wah Chang and ATI, we will be posting selected news releases in Outlook from time to time. A full listing of all ATI news releases can be found at www.alleghenytechnologies.com.

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT

Small-diameter Tube Cell

ATI Wah Chang recently activated a new, small-diameter tube production cell to shorten cycle times, provide superior quality, enhance property consistency and improve delivery performance for customers in the chemical processing market sector...

ALLOY DEVELOPMENT

ATI Unveils New Specialty Armor Steel

The first new, high-hard steel armor developed in America since the Vietnam conflict was introduced to the defense market by ATI at the Eurosatory show in Paris, France in June 2008. This next-generation armor steel, designated ATI 500-MIL™, offers a modern means of protection — backed by unsurpassed manufacturing capabilities — at a time of critical demand for land, sea and airborne systems...

The chemical process industry has always been innovative regarding the application of materials for its production plants. As indicated in Figure 1, it seems as if there has always been an inherent synergy between the realization of specific processes and the production of specific products in the chemical industry, and the development and market introduction of corrosion resistant alloys. In some instances in the past, the availability of alloys able to resist the corrosive, thermal and mechanical process conditions made it possible to bring production processes to an industrial scale. Especially in the sixties and the seventies of the last century highly corrosion resistant materials like the original alloy-B and alloy-C were developed and the Mo-content in steels was increased to 5-6% just to fulfill the market demands of the chemical process industry...

LYNN DAVIS
President

PARRY WALBORN
Vice President — Commercial

GARY KNEISEL
Director of Sales

KIRK RICHARDSON
Managing Editor

STEPHANIE O'CONNOR
Editor

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