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| 26.10.2009 | New releases of 3rd quarter of 2009 of WinSteel, WinAlloy and WinPlant. 
 WinSteel. Since the last quarter we have added more than 750 new grades in the database. For the most part 
these are stainless grades by ISO standard as well as Russian structural grades produced by TU. The total quantity of grades in 
WinSteel database is 80848 now.
 
 WinAlloy. Since the last quarter we have added more than 420 new grades in the database. In most they are 
Ti- and Zn- based alloys of different countries of the world as well as special alloys by ISO standard. The total quantity of grades 
in WinAlloy database is 38945 now.
 
 WinPlant. BLACK. Information on 13 new mills and 2 managing companies has been included in the database. 
New US asset Severstal Sparrows Point of Severstal as well as Russian, Kazakh and Ukrainian small producers of welded tubes, wire
and roll-formed profiles are among them.
 
 Now WinPlant. BLACK database contains information on products of 600 plants including 79 plants of non-CIS countries.
 
 We have added in the database information on new equipment installed at 8 plants including new 5000 plate mill of MMK 
as well as on new products developed by 14 plants. Information on 110 mills included in the database 
earlier and on their products and traders has been updated.
 
 WinPlant. RED. Information on 3 new plants has been included in the database. Russian producers of Ti tubes
PRECISIONTRUB-YUG and secondary Al SplavVtorMet as well as new managing company Weatherford of Aquatic plant are among them.
 
 Now WinPlant. RED database contains information on products of 335 plants including 15 plants of non-CIS countries.
 
 We have added information on equipment installed at Kirov Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant as well as new products
developed by 5 plants. Information on 39 plants included in the database earlier and on their products and traders has been updated.
 
 
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| 20.10.2009 | We invite you to visit our stand at 15th Metal-Expo Fair in Moscow on November 10-13th. 
 
 
|  |  | As last year Metal-Expo fair will be held in 
the new Crokus Expo venue at Pavillion 2. 
 In spite of world financial crisis more than 500 companies will take part in the event as exhibitors. The most of Russian and 
Ukrainian mills will be among them. More than 30,000 visitors from CIS and foreign countries are expected.
 
 
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Some pictures of our booth on previous Metal-Expo'2008 exhibition you'll find 
here.to see new releases of our programs WinSteel, WinAlloy, WinPlant. BLACK and WinPlant. RED;to purchase the software with discount of 20%;to see The Simdex Steel Tube Manufacturers Worlwide Guide and The Simdex Future Pipeline Projects Worldwide Guide CD-ROMs of 
our partner Simdex Publishing;to learn about new information and consulting services of our company.
 Before the exhibition on November 9th you have possibility to participate in 
Russian Ferrous Metals Market and 
Russian Non-Ferrous Metals Market conferences.
 
 For more details on the fair please contact Alexey Yakovenko yakovenko@metal-expo.ru,
phone/fax +7 495 901 9966.
 
 For hotel booking and visa support please contact Reisebuero WELT 
info@welt.ru, phone +7 495 933 7878, fax +7 495 933 7877.
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| 15.10.2009 | New offers for our users 
 
 
The both offers are valid to December 31th 2009.| Advise our software to your collegues and business partners and receive free annual support for 
the next year! 
 
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reference to you before purchasing of the software. 
 At that you'll receive 2 quarters of free support for each program, which will be purchased by your collegues or business 
partners.
 
 Please see details of the offer here.
 
 
 |  | Subscribe to Annual Support Service for next year and get opportunity to buy any our other product
with 50% discount! 
 
 |  |  | You are registered user of one (two or three) of our products. You have a good chance to purchase our rest software with 
50% discount. 
 To get this discount you should prolong your annual support subscription for the software you purchased earlier 
for next year..
 
 Please see details of the offer here.
 
 
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| 04.08.2009 | Last updates of Simdex Publishing products 
 Our partner Simdex Publishing has issued new July 2009 updates for The Simdex Steel Tube Manufacturers Worldwide Guide and
The Simdex Future Pipeline Projects Worldwide Guide.
 
 
 
| 1. | In comparison with previous November 2008 data update of The Simdex Steel Tube 
Manufacturers Worldwide Guide information on product ranges of more than 500 producers has been updated. Now 1348 steel 
tube manufacturers of 85 countries are listed. 
 
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Pipeline Projects Worldwide Guide information on 51 new projects of near 18,000 km length 
has been added. The most of the new pipelines will be built in Asia (17) and North America (15). In 6 new pipelines will be built in 
Europe and Middle East, 4 pipelines will be built in Latin America, 2 ones in Africa and 1 in Australasia. 
 Now the software database contains data on 710 future pipelines and on 1186 started or completed projects (since 2004). 
You can see more details on the current update  
here.
 
 
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| 20.07.2009 | New releases of 2nd quarter of 2009 of WinSteel, WinAlloy and WinPlant. 
 WinSteel. The total number of grades included in WinSteel database amounted to 80,000. Since the last quarter 
we have added more than 350 new grades. For the most part these are Chinese steels of different application and 
special alloys, Australian structure grades as well as Thai grades. The total quantity of grades in the WinSteel database is 
80085 now.
 
 WinAlloy. Since the last quarter we have added near 190 new grades in the database. In most they are Ti-based 
alloys of different countries of the world and Chinese special alloys. Besides some duplicated grades has been deleted. The total 
quantity of grades in the WinAlloy database is 38523 now.
 
 WinPlant. BLACK. Information on 10 new mills and 3 managing companies has been included in the database. 
New US asset Handy & HarmanTube Co. Centravis of Centravis Group, new mill Berozovsky Electrometallurgical Works of Maxi-Group 
as well as 6 Russian producers of roll-formed profiles and others are among them.
 
 Now WinPlant. BLACK database contains information on products of 590 plants including 78 plants of non-CIS countries.
 
 We have added in the database information on new equipment installed at Volzhskiy Pipe Plant, Centravis Production Ukraine 
and UralTrubProm plant as well as new products developed by 12 plants. Information on 59 mills included in the database 
earlier and on their products and traders has been updated.
 
 WinPlant. RED. Information on 4 new plants has been included in the database. 
New US asset Handy & HarmanTube Co. Centravis of Centravis Group as well as 3 producers of secondary Al alloys are among them.
 
 Now WinPlant. RED database contains information on products of 336 plants including 15 plants of non-CIS countries.
 
 We have added information on new product developed by Kirov Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant. Information on 27 plants 
included in the database earlier and on their products and traders has been updated.
 
 
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| 16.04.2009 | New releases of 1st quarter of 2009 of WinSteel, WinAlloy and WinPlant. 
 WinSteel. Since the last quarter we have added near 500 new grades in the database. For the most part these 
are Japanese structural and French tube grades as well as grades by new Russsian standard GOST R 52927-2008 (ship-building grades) 
and new Ukrainian standard DSTU 3760-2006 (rebars). Besides some duplicated grades has been deleted. The total quantity of grades 
in the WinSteel database is 79713 now.
 
 WinAlloy. Since the last quarter we have added near 150 new grades in the database. In most they are Pb-based 
alloys of different countries of the world and Russian solders. Besides some duplicated grades has been deleted. The total quantity 
of grades in the WinAlloy database is 38334 now.
 
 WinPlant. BLACK. Information on 5 new mills and managing companies has been included in the database. 
Ukrainian producer of concast billets Electrostal, Orel Metal Constructions Plant (welded I-beams), UkrBoruMetal (welded tubes), 
Khrombur and Arsigo-M (cold-deformed rebars) are among them.
 
 Now WinPlant. BLACK database contains information on products of 582 plants including 76 plants of non-CIS countries.
 
 We have added in the database information on new steel products developed by 11 plants. Information on 63 mills included 
in the database earlier and on their products and traders has been updated.
 
 WinPlant. RED. Information on 6 new plants and managing companies has been included in the database. 
New Nigerian asset ALSCON of RUSAL, new German asset MKM of Kazakhmys Corp., Serbian producer Copper Mill Sevojno, Ukrainian 
Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Combine as well as Marposadkabel and Siberian Metallurgical Company are among them.
 
 Now WinPlant. RED database contains information on products of 332 plants including 15 plants of non-CIS countries.
 
 We have reflected in the database owners change of Kranoyarsk Metallurgical Works and Energotekhmash  plant.
 
 We have added information on new mill installed at Kirov Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant as well as new products 
developed by Uzbek Steel Works and Dnepr-GL company. Information on 47 plants included in the database earlier and on their products 
and traders has been updated.
 
 
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| 30.03.2009 | New WinSteel Light and WinAlloy Light are available now 
 You can test our international translators of world steels and non-ferrous 
WinSteel and WinAlloy before your purchasing by operation with
their Light versions.
 
 WinSteel Light and WinAlloy Light are the base software versions with reduced databases. In the Lights the limited 
numbers of grades are available. So after operation with the Lights you'll have clear idea of the software, its features and
types of search for equivalents.
 
 Please notice that in addition to the Lights we have prepared pages of our web-site with lists of grades included in 
WinSteel and 
WinAlloy full databases. So you have possibility to check are grades you are interested in included in the software
databases now. At that if you don't find required grade in the lists you can ask us about it 
here.
 
 
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| 25.03.2009 | March 2009 update of The Simdex Future Pipeline Projects Worldwide Guide. 
 Simdex Publishing has issued March 2009 update of The Simdex Future Pipeline Projects Worldwide Guide CD-ROM.
 
 In comparison with previous January 2009 data update information on information on 64 new projects of more than 13,000 km length
has been added. The most of the new pipelines will be built in Australasia (24) and Europe (10). 9 new pipelines will be built in 
Africa, in 8 pipelines will be built in North America and Asia, 3 ones in Middle East and 2 in Latin America.
 
 Now the software database contains data on 629 future pipelines and on 1128 started or completed projects (since 2004). 
You can see more details on the current update  
here.
 
 
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| 25.02.2009 | Subscriptions for WinPlant. BLACK and WinPlant. RED 
 As for WinSteel and WinAlloy, subscriptions to our other products 
WinPlant. BLACK and WinPlant. RED are available now.
 
 Remind that the subscriptions do not require Security Device for illegal copy protection and can be downloaded 
from our web-site. Activation of the subscriptions is executed through Internet by activation code we'll e-mail you.
 
 So if you pay by card you'll be able to start to operate with the software in just 60 minutes after your payment. Besides
the initial payment for the subscription is less by half than the payment for the same CD version. At that for the 
subscriptions we keep the same discounts as for the CD versions for packages of programes you subscribe at once.
 
 More information on WinPlant. BLACK-Subscription and WinPlant. RED-Subscription and their difference from the CD 
versions you can find here.
 
 
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| 19.01.2009 | New releases of 4th quarter of 2008 of WinSteel, WinAlloy and WinPlant. 
 WinSteel. Since the last quarter we have added more than 1300 new grades in the database. For the most part 
these are US grades by ASTM, SAE, AWS, MIL, AMS standards as well as Russian grades by new tube standards GOST R ISO. The total 
quantity of grades in the WinSteel database is 79493 now.
 
 WinAlloy. Since the last quarter we have added 50 new grades in the database. In most they are Ni- and 
Sn-based alloys of different countries of the world. The total quantity of grades in the WinAlloy database is 38276 now.
 
 WinPlant. BLACK. Information on 8 new mills and 3 new managing companies has been included in the database. 
New asset of Severstal, Severstal SMC-Kolpino, Tajikistan Aluminium Company, Russian manufacturers AMITEG Profile (roll-formed sheets),
Akhtuba NPO (rotary cast tubes), Volzhsky Mechanical Works (welded tubes), Zavod Berit (rebars), Titan (strip) and others are
among them.
 
 Now WinPlant. BLACK database contains information on products of 576 plants including 75 plants of non-CIS countries.
 
 We have reflected in the database owners change of Interprokat, Severgal, ZiO-Podolsk - Machine Works, Ural Plant of Metal 
Profile. Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works and Istil (Ukraine) have been renamed.
 
 We have added in the database information on new equipment installed at Dneprovsky Iron & Steel Integrated Works named after 
F.Dzerzhinsky (concaster), ArcelorMittal Temirtau (350 mill) and DiPOS (Piemme line for producing of roll-formed galvanizing 
structural profiles). Besides we have added information on new steel products developed by 11 plants. Information on 
54 mills included in the database earlier and on their products and traders has been updated.
 
 WinPlant. RED. Information on 4 new plants and managing companies has been included in the database. 
Russian producer of secondary Al and Zn alloys Business Invest as well as En+ Group, Atomic Energy Power Corporation and
BalkhashTsvetMet are among them.
 
 Now WinPlant. RED database contains information on products of 333 plants.
 
 We have reflected in the database owners change of Balkhash Processing Factory of Non-Ferrous Metals, Kaluga Non-Ferrous 
Metals Procesing Plant and ZiO-Podolsk - Machine Works as well as reorganization of Uralelectromed Copper Refinery and
Kazakhmys company.
 
 We have added information on new equipment installed at Dmitrov Pilot Plant of Aluminium and Combined Sheet (length cutting 
machine) and Realit company (2800 ton extrusion press) as well as new products developed by SPLAV Guy Non-Ferrous Metal 
Working Plant, Mzenskprokat and Regeton. Information on 30 plants included in the database earlier and on their products and 
traders has been updated.
 
 
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| 05.01.2009 | WinSteel and WinAlloy subscriptions are available now 
 Our international translators of world steels and non-ferrous 
WinSteel and WinAlloy are available not only on CDs but 
in subscription form also.
 
 WinSteel Subscription and WinAlloy Subscription are based on trial versions of the above software. 
As distinct from the CD versions they don't require Security Device for illegal copy protection and can be downloaded 
from our web-site. Activation of the subscriptions is executed through Internet by activation code we'll e-mail you.
Subscriptions for 1 or 2 years are available.
 
 More information on WinSteel Subscription and WinAlloy Subscription and their difference from the CD 
versions you can find here.
 
 
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