SECO/WARWICK

News Release

For Immediate Release

January 11, 2011

SECO/WARWICK Group Announces Name and Leadership Changes for ELTERMA SA

Swiebodzin, Poland –

Elterma S. A. is now known as SECO/WARWICK ThermAL; The company provides pit furnace systems for wind energy gears along with a variety of standard & custom batch and continuous atmosphere furnaces & generators

Leszek Przybysz, President of SECO/WARWICK Group has announced the that ELTERMA S.A. will change its name to SECO/WARWICK ThermAL S.A. as of January 10, 2011. The organization name has been changed in order to reflect the company’s expansion into new markets with new technologies and the addition of Aluminum Group products for the European and Russian markets to SECO/WARWICK ThermAl’s portfolio of products.

Mr. Jaroslaw Talerzak has been appointed company President, and Mr. Bartosz Klinowski will serve as Vice President.

According to Mr. Talerzak, “We are pleased to announce this name change as we expand the technology offering and global market opportunities for the company. We will continue to supply and service the world-class quality atmosphere equipment manufactured by Elterma for the past 60+ years while adding aluminum products to the growing list of advanced technologies offered by SECO/WARWICK ThermAl.”

Mr. Talerzak has served SECO/WARWICK S.A. as Aluminum Team Leader for Europe and Russia since 2005. Between 2003 and 2005 he held the position of Aluminum Team Sales Director. Previously, he served as Thermal Process Team Leader. He began his career with SECO/WARWICK Ltd. in 1994.

Mr. Klinowski began his career at SECO/WARWICK S.A. in 2003. He has held the position of Electrical Department Director. He has a degree from the Technical University in Wroclaw and MBA studies in ALK Warsaw.

SECO/WARWICK ThermAL will be exhibiting as part of the SECO/WARWICK Group in booth C2 Hall 09 at ThermProcess 2011, June 28 through July 2 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

About SECO/WARWICK ThermAL S.A.

The Thermal Process Team designs and manufactures a wide variety of heat treating equipment configurations with and without the addition of protective atmosphere. Specialists in applications for automotive and aerospace components, tube and pipe manufacturing, electrical steel components and other unique and divergent applications, the Team can offer many types of quality furnace systems including roller hearth, rotary retort, rotary hearth, mesh belt, specialty box, bell and pit furnaces along with custom designed furnaces, all developed specifically to meet each user’s plant, process and energy requirements.

The Aluminum Group custom engineers aluminum heat treatment systems for solution heat treatment, age hardening, precipitation hardening, annealing, homogenizing, preheat and reheat to roll. The team provides reverb furnaces, a direct-fired, open hearth furnace used for melting or holding nonferrous metal. Applications for the reverb furnace include melting sows, solids and scrap, along with alloying the molten metal before casting into usable forms.

For more information, visit http://www.secowarwickthermal.pl

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SECO/WARWICK Group (SWG)
The SECO/WARWICK Group provides heat treating equipment and services worldwide for customers involved with steel manufacturing, primary aluminum, aluminum recycling, steel manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, commercial heat treating, HVAC, electronics, lighting, medical equipment and nuclear applications. SECO/WARWICK S.A. and Retech Systems LLC provide vacuum metallurgical equipment including induction (VIM), arc (VAR), electron beam (EB) and plasma (PAM) furnaces - dedicated for melting and refining processes of specialty metals. The globally integrated organization includes SECO/WARWICK Corp. (USA), Retech Systems LLC (USA), SECO/WARWICK S.A. (Poland), SECO/WARWICK ThermAL S.A. (Poland), SECO WARWICK Allied Pvt. Ltd. (India) and SECO/WARWICK Retech Thermal Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (China).

For more information, visit http://www.secowarwick.com.pl

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