NanoSteel Announces New Premium Overlay Wear Plate Solution
for Use in Extreme Service Environments

SHS 9800, with hardness up to 71 HRc, provides exceptional resistance to severe wear and sliding abrasion

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Friday, September 19, 2008) - The NanoSteel® Company, a leader in nanostructured steel alloy surface technologies, announces the commercial availability of the newest addition to its patented portfolio of Super Hard Steel® (SHS) products, SHS 9800 weld overlay for use in extreme service environments. SHS 9800 is a premium alloy solution that features an ultra-refined crystalline nanoscale microstructure, up to a thousand times finer than existing solutions, resulting in very high hardness up to 71 HRc with exceptional resistance to severe sliding abrasion and impact.

“As an alternative to carbide overlay and Q&T wear plate products, SHS 9800 wear plate provides a superior performing wear solution that helps our customers lower maintenance costs and improve operational productivity,” says Dave Paratore, president and CEO.

SHS 9800 excels in high wear environments such as liners for mining and quarry off highway truck beds and bodies, loader buckets, drag line buckets and wheels, chutes, conveyors, crushers, troughs and hoppers. SHS 9800 is available exclusively through your NanoSteel representative.

The NanoSteel Company, Inc., headquartered in Providence, R.I., develops and markets a patented portfolio of Super Hard Steel nanostructured alloy coating, overlay and wear plate solutions that effectively solve or alleviate many operational challenges faced in critical industries today, including wear, erosion and corrosion in a wide range of complex service environments. For additional information, call toll free 1-877-293-NANO or visit www.nanosteelco.com.