Dear Valued Customer:

We are continuously improving our SteelPartner product to better service your customers and enhance your business. We just modified our contract with AISI to allow SteelPartner customers to communicate with new sponsors other than the steel producers currently covered by the contract. You may now request other metal producers, service centers etc. to use the SteelPartner material tracking program. By enabling EDI and emailing communications with these customers you will be able to avoid costly paperwork, faxing, and manual intervention. All new sponsors will be charged a low subscription fee, for setup, data translation and transmission maintenance. However, this cost should be offset by substantial savings in reduced paperwork and clerical costs. There will be no additional charge to processors and warehouses using SteelParnter to communicate with new sponsors.

If you have a potential sponsor that can make use of this new SteelPartner feature please have them contact us (Tom Scala; tom.scala@ngc.com) and we will take care of all the details.

We greatly appreciate your continued support.

Best Regards

Gary Marzec