Specialty Metals: Creating Value Through Relentless Innovation in a Dynamic, Global Industry
Specialty Metals: Creating Value Through Relentless Innovation in a Dynamic, Global Industry AISTech 2013 President’s Award Breakfast Keynote Address by Richard J. Harshman, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Allegheny Technologies, Inc. Good morning. I am honored Specialty metals, as we define to be the speaker at this year’s them, begin with stainless steel President’s Award Breakfast. I fol- alloys containing a minimum of low some very distinguished past 10% chromium, and move up the speakers, and I am proud to repre- alloy systems spectrum to include sent not only ATI, but the specialty titanium and titanium alloys, nickel- metals industry. based alloys and superalloys, spe- Before I begin, there are cialty steel alloys, zirconium, haf- some standard forward-look- nium and niobium alloys and ing statements that I need to tungsten heavy alloys (Figure 2). acknowledge. ATI’s specialty metals products Allegheny Technologies, that are made from these alloy Inc., or ATI, is one of systems include what we refer to as the largest and most long and flat rolled mill products. diversified specialty Our long mill products include metals producers in billet, bar, extrusions, rod and the world (Figure wire. Our flat rolled mill products 1). We have more include sheet, plate, coil and preci- than 11,000 full-time sion engineered strip (Figure 3). employees, 85% of It is no secret that a key chal- whom are located lenge facing all metal producers in the United States. is to move closer to near-net-shape At ATI, we use inno- and net-shape products (Figure 4).
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