CSI HISTORY AND CAPABILITIES

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1 PHONE: FAX: WEB: CSI HISTORY AND CAPABILITIES CONTENTS: History Key Personnel Facilities and Equipment Engineering and Technical Services Support Design and Contract Management Notable Contract Awards Business References Certificates Quality Control and Assurance ThermEx International NV is the International sales HQ for CSI USA : St. Antoniuslei, 45 B 2930 Brasschaat, Belgium Tel.: ; Fax.: Mail : info@thermex.be Sole Indian Representatives : Perrin Valves Pvt. Ltd., 506, World Trade Centre, Sayajigunj, Baroda Telefax : / / contact@perrinvalves.biz / perrinvalves@indiatimes.com

2 HISTORY: Controls Southeast, Incorporated was established in 1962 by our then parent company, Carolina Controls, Incorporated. Our mission at that time was to make flexible metal hoses and perform some valve repair. In the process of performing valve repair our company was asked about adding a heating medium jacket to fit some of the parts to allow application in processes with relatively high freeze points. The available technology at the time was to fabricate a jacket in segments and weld it to the process part. Although we still modify all types of process components today by designing and welding jackets onto them, this early exercise stimulated some creative thinking on the part of the original principles associated with CSI. From this came CSI s proprietary ControHeat and ControTrace complete thermal maintenance components and systems. The obvious follow-up to the aforementioned jacketing was the request to build fully jacketed piping systems to accompany the jacketed components. Initial jobs were relative small but the growth was steady and consistent. Today we are alliance suppliers for several worldwide companies. Although most of this work is for thermal maintenance applications, several of our customers depend on us to produce critical containment systems for such Class M service as Phosgene and high pressure, heavy-wall high alloy piping in the power industry. Materials of construction commonly found in fabrication at CSI include: Aluminum Carbon Steels Chrome Moly steels including P91, P22 and P11 All austenitic alloys Titanium Hastelloy Nickel Inconel Duplex alloy steels such as Sandvik 2205 AL6XN. In addition standard jacketed piping systems, we also manufacturer precision manifolds and header systems. Many of these components employ extremely precise fabrication with critical bore dimensions and finishes. Typical stack up tolerance over a 40 manifold system is +/- 1/16. Finishes may include requirements for down to 8 Ra.. The focus of CSI business today falls into the following arenas: Leverage our Engineering design expertise developed for high alloy, high pressure fabrication to provide superior project execution on more standard piping projects. Development and fabrication of precision high integrity fully jacketed components for thermal maintenance, heat exchange and containment applications. Development and application of our proprietary ControHeat and ControTrace Thermal Maintenance Systems.

3 FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT: CSI s fabrication facilities are located in Pineville, NC, USA just south of Charlotte, NC. The campus includes five buildings totaling over 110,000 square feet. These buildings are: Main Fabrication Facility (Building A) Building A is used for fabrication of piping systems, skid assembly, pressure vessel fabrication, valve repair, hose fabrication and ControTrace fabrication. Precision Fabrication Facility (Building C) Building C used for precision manifold, header and component fabrication. This is the facility which is primarily involved in high alloy piping fabrication. Pattern Shop and Foundry (Building D) Building D is used for casting jackets for valves, pumps, flowmeters and other process equipment. Specifically, the design and manufacturing of ControHeat Patterns, storage of those patterns, fabrication of ControHeat inserts and actual casting of ControHeat jackets themselves occur here. Offices (Building B) RT facility (Building E) Building E is used for radiographic testing of transportable components Our current fabrication configuration consists of 30 working fabrication cells employing over 60 welding machines. CSI employees approximately 160 trained and dedicated individuals who each take great pride in the design and fabrication of specialized piping and equipment.

4 ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES SUPPORT: Engineering and design capabilities to support product development and design are inhouse at CSI. Today we employee 15 Engineers, designers and support staff in this capacity. Further we have Engineers in critical Sales and Application positions who also support our application and fabrication of our products and systems. There are currently two Professional Engineers on staff. CSI owns and operates a wide variety of software analytical tools to provide full service Design Engineering support for our customers. These tools include: 1) Algor Pipeplus finite element pipe stress analysis software capable of static and dynamic analyses on almost any piping system configuration including jacketed pipe, standard unjacketed pipe and piping utilizing ControTrace thermal maintenance systems. This software interprets many industry codes including ASME B31.1 and ASME B31.3 2) Codeware Compress - Pressure Vessel Design Software used to design Code Stamped pressure vessels and analyze non-asme/ansi recognized flange designs. This software is also used in conjunction with Algor Pipeplus software to perform a complete pipe stress analysis including nozzle stresses resulting from loads placed by the piping systems. 3) NASTRAN for Windows this versatile finite element analysis software is used to analyze stresses and thermal profiles in components with non-uniform geometry that would be impossible otherwise. 4) Proprietary finite difference programs these programs were developed by CSI Engineers to analyze thermal profiles and heating media pressure loss in standard and custom CSI products. These programs include CTCIRC, CTEXCH, JPEXCH, and CTPRESSURELOSS. CSI uses these programs to provide the customer with stress analyses, thermal and fluid flow analyses, pump sizing, and thermal fluid heater sizing. All design is executed on AutoCad Translation from other design packages is available and common. PD3D is used for 3D Design Drawings. SolidWorks is used for solid modeling of components and systems Microsoft Office is used for Document creation and publication. All documents are transferable electronically if required.

5 DESIGN AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT: The Engineer for CSI will produce detailed fabrication drawings and details for all pipe spools, utilizing information provided by the client if requested. Any alternative design features that determines to be cost saving will be presented to the client for approval before implementation. All changes will be documented. A master set of drawings will be provided to the client immediately following shipment of units. Planning and Progression of work in the shop will be recorded in schedule form and reported monthly unless otherwise specified. A Project Engineer employed with CSI will be permanently assigned to the project at time of order placement. This individual will be the primary contact for all activities with this project until completion.

6 CERTIFICATES: ASME CSI holds the following ASME stamps: U PP R VR CRN (Canadian Registration Number) Both of CSI s proprietary heating products, ControTrace and ControHeat, are qualified for use in all provinces of Canada, carrying a product-line CRN for pressures up to 345 psig at 650 F. PED (European Pressure Equipment Directive) Both ControTrace and ControHeat meet the requirements of the European Pressure Equipment Directive. Appropriate certificates and tagging is provided for shipments going into the European Union.

7 QUALITY CONTROL AND ASSURANCE: Quality is second only to safety at our company. We have held an ASME Section VIII, Division 1 Certification for more than 30 years. Although we are not a Tank Shop we use the criteria set forth by this code as the core of our Quality Assurance and Quality Control Program. We also hold a Power Piping stamp for ASME B 31.1 fabrication. We specifically build our Weld Procedures for all the aforementioned materials for all appropriate positions based on ASME Section IX. Procedure Qualification Records for all fitters and welders are qualified against these Procedures. All fitters and welders have specific stamps. All welds on all components are stamped. Unless otherwise specified all components fabricated by CSI undergo minimum NDE dictated by ASME Section VIII, B31.1 or B31.3 as a minimum. Most (more than 95%) of CSI s NDE is performed in-house using in-house equipment. This includes: Radiographic Testing, RT Magnetic Particle Testing, MT Dye Penetrant Testing, PT Helium-Mass Spectrometer leak testing (available under vacuum) Boroscopic Examination Brinell Hardness Surface Roughness Testing Surface Roughness Testing Ferrite Content Testing Hydrostatic Testing Pneumatic Testing Recent results indicate a Radiographic acceptability rate of 99+%. All NDE and testing activities are fully documented and available for review at any time. Copies of all documents are provided upon request. Radiographic (Film), Reader Sheets, Liquid Penetrant Tests, Magnetic Particle Tests, Ultrasonic Tests, Brinell Hardness Tests, Positive Material Identification (PMI), Helium Mass Spectrometer Tests and Hydrostatic Tests will be fully documented as required by Controls Southeast and customer contract specifications. Third Party Inspection is assumed and welcome.