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SPECTRA’S MISSION IS TO BE A WORLD CLASS SUPPLIER OF METAL CUTTING TOOLS,

ABRASIVES, MEASURING EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS TO

CONSISTENTLY MEET AND EXCEED CUSTOMERS EXPECTATIONS…

CORE VALUESSPECTRA BELIEVE IN:

• CUSTOMER SATISFACTION• EMPLOYEE OPPORTUNITY• COMPANY GROWTH & PROFITABILITY• INTEGRITY IN ALL WE DO

Mr. David GoodmanManaging Director & Shareholder

Spectra Carbide Tooling Technology (Pty) Ltd

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1999 Spectra formed by a local Valenite Management buy out as Murray & Robertsunbundled and sold off their engineering division. Spectra appointed as sole Valenitedistributors in Southern African. Marketing indexable inserts & tooling for all CNC &conventional machines, for the following applications: Drilling, Turning, Milling, Boring,etc. Spectra appointed as sole Widia Distributors in Southern Africa (this brings SouthAfrica inline with the rest of the world following the merger of previous competitorsWidia and Valenite into one company, giving a choice of two full competitive indexableinsert and tooling ranges from one supplier).

2000 Spectra appointed as sole Mapal Distributors in Southern Africa. High precisionreamers and specialized tooling; CBN PCD tipped tools. Tool presetting machines. Toolmanagement division formed to look after the growing tool management program andsole supplier partnerships being negotiated with several customers.

2001 Spectra negotiate contracts with various tooling manufacturers to supply direct intoSpectra Tool Management accounts and Spectra sole supplier accounts to benefit theircustomer base and avoid using 3rd parties. Tooling manufacturers and productsavailable for these customers, over and above our agency agreements with Valenite,Widia, Safety, Ceramtec, Mapal, Menlo, Miller, Delta and Botek.

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2002 Menlo exclusive distributorship agreement. Menlo specializes in micrograin carbide andand coated carbide Endmills, Drills, Reamers, Burrs for all types of materials: steels,hardened steels, Aluminum etc. Miller exclusive distributorship agreement. MillerCarbide Drills standard and all types of Special Drills made to customer specification.Full design and manufacture capability.

2003 Spectra appointed as sole Safety distributors in Southern Africa marketing micro-boringand indexable inserts and tooling specializing in die & mould and indexable insertbroaches. Spectra appointed as sole distributor for Delta tooling a full range ofadaptors, HSK, CNC & conventional consisting of side lock, collet chucks, shell/face mill,combi-mill, hydraulic chucks, modular systems etc. Officially opened new trainingfacility at Spectra head office.

2004 Spectra appointed as sole Ceramtec distributor in Southern Africa marketing full rangeof silicon nitride and ceramic indexable inserts. Ceramtec have developed pressing newchip forming geometries into the indexable insert, enabling vast improvements inproductivity on cast iron and steel, especially hardened steel.

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2005 Spectra open new offices in Jet Park Johannesburg 213m2 of floor space and appoint ainland divisional Manager to head up the team. Spectra open a new office in DurbanKwazulu-Natal and appoint a Technical Sales Engineer to represent Spectra direct: thiscompletes the 5 year plan to have direct representation in all the major centres:Johannesburg, Vereeniging, Pretoria, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town by the endof 2005. Spectra appointed as agents for full Botek Product range consisting of singleflute gundrills, twin-fluted gundrills, deep-hole ejector drill heads, indexable and solidcarbide, full range of specially designed deep-hole drilling tools available. SpectraMetal Cutting Fluids & Lubricants (Pty) Ltd. Launched, marketing the latest Cimcoolproduct range incorporating the latest environmentally friendly metal cutting fluids,cleaning liquids and lubricants for all types of metal removal. This company will runindependently of Spectra Carbide; however both companies have contracted priorityservice and pricing for Spectra Tool Management and national customer base. SpectraMapal Tool Manufacture & Service Centre (Pty) Ltd. launched; this 5 ½ million randjoint venture between Spectra Carbide and Mapal (high precision tooling) of Germanyincorporating the latest CNC type metal cutting tool machines, capable of regrindingthe latest solid carbide drill, taps, gundrills and endmills etc. to original manufacturersspecifications, plus capability to manufacture new cutting tools from high qualitycarbide blanks. This plant is to be ISO 9001 and 14000 accredited. Spectra purchaseoffice building and move Spectra Carbide Tooling Technology (Pty) Ltd. and SpectraCutting Fluids & Lubricants (Pty) Ltd. under one roof into their new head office.

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2006 Spectra purchase new Cape Town office building and move Spectra Carbide ToolingTechnology (Pty) Ltd. and Spectra Cutting Fluids & Lubricants (Pty) Ltd. underone roof into their new Cape Town branch office (374m2) situated in MontagueGardens, Cape Town.

2007 Spectra sign a Tool Management agreement with VWSA (level 4). This is a full oncustomer site operation; Spectra are responsible to purchase, store, issue and controlall tooling required in the VW Engine Plant. Spectra employ 10 persons on-site at VWincluding the responsibility to manage 4 staff members in the re-sharpening and reworkarea.

Spectra now have 3 level four tool managements in operation and numerous level 1-3operations:1. Atlantis Foundries Daimler Chrysler | engine plant 2002 – to date2. Atlantis Forge Daimler Chrysler | crank shaft plant 2004 – 20083. VWSA | engine block 2007 – to date

Spectra acquire access to Automated Vending machines through Toolboss, a market leader in the supply chain service program, improving efficiency and cost reduction through unmanned 24hr/7 day a week tool availability and distribution points, with the ability to record all tool usage by whoever for whatever, whenever, automated vending a tool for the future now available through Spectra.

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2008 Spectra sign a Tool Management agreement with Guestro Automotive, Uitenhage.Spectra undergoes a major IT infrastructure upgrade with the installation of 3 new HP servers and a brand new state of the art UPS System.

2009 Consolidated due to world recession.

2010 Spectra appointed sole Walter agent for Southern Africa, range includes Walter Titex, Walter Prototype and Walter Valenite.VW extends Tool Management contract with Spectra.Spectra setup small Tool Management systems with customers by providing a vending machine on customers site.

2011 Awarded sole supplier contract to Sarco and installed 5 frame vending machine.

2012 Spectra appointed as Poliangolar agent in South Africa.Launch of Walter new catalogue combining all brands for total cutting edge solutions.

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2013 Spectra installs a vending machine at SCAW metals in Johannesburg.

2014 Safety and Pramet/Dormer merge worldwide. Spectra is now the official Pramet & Dormer distributor for South Africa. Spectra was also appointed the Holdwell agent (angleheads and driven tools) for South Africa.

2015 Spectra is appointed the official distributor for all Gesac products in South Africa. Spectra appointed as the distributor for Gleason gear cutting range in South Africa.

2016 Spectra installs a vending machine at Macsteel. Spectra is appointed as the national distributor for Norton Abrasives.

2017 A new vending is installed at Macsteel. Spectra joined the Kennametal Channel partner program. Spectra renews contract with SCAW metals.

2018 Spectra is appointed as an authorised Dormer Pramet distributor for all Dormerand Pramet products. Spectra is appointed the official distributor for Swiss brand, TESA, measuring product range. Spectra installs a vending machine at AATComposites.

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SA Head Office located in Port Elizabeth:

- Administration.- Centrally operated Sales desk on Telkom.

- Share call number system: Phone 0860 23 23 23, Fax 041 451 3536- Central Inventory Controlled warehouse for the whole of Southern Africa.

Sales Network: Distributors:

- Johannesburg - East London

- Vereeniging - Mpumalanga

- Port Elizabeth - Remote Area

- Cape Town

- Atlantis

- Uitenhage

- Durban

- Pretoria

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TOTAL CARBIDE EMPLOYED 38

PORT ELIZABETH 15

CAPE TOWN 12

JOHANNESBURG 7

VEREENIGING 1

UITENHAGE 1

DURBAN & PIETERMARITZBURG 1

EAST LONDON 1

EXPORTS 1

TECHNICALLY QUALIFIED SALES

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TOOL MAKERS

PROCESS ENGINEERS (MACHINING)

CNC PROGRAMMERS

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IT SPECIALIST

QUALIFIED AND PROFESSIONAL STAFFTotal Spectra Group Personnel 51

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Provide numerous customers with basic knowledge of carbide tooling through the use of seminars and on the job training. Speeds, feeds, faultfinding, carbide capabilities and parameters, chip breakers and grades, failure modes etc. Adequate product inventory to support customer’s manufacturing requirements.

Consignment stock situated at 19 customer’s (tool management level 1), spread aroundSouth Africa, helping to reduce customers stores inventory while removing the risk ofcustomers generating dead or unwanted stock, thus freeing up their monies.

Spectra Mapal grind shop situated in Atlantis, Cape Town (45km from Cape Town centre) –ability to grind standard and special indexable inserts from rough moulds.

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CAD system to facilitate special steel and insert design around customers requirements.

Special Steel products manufactured locally and internationally to local and overseas designs.

Spectra have Tool Management systems running to various levels of involvement within South Africa. From a basic Spectra consignment stock system on customer site (level 1) to a full on site operation requiring Spectra staff permanently stationed on customer premises, responsible for purchasing, issuing, controlling, and storing all tooling including cleaning and presetting of all new and used tools, this system has the ability to issue cost per component, supported with suitably qualified technical personnel on site (level 4) focusing on producing CPU costs. Level 1 –no management fee, levels 2 – 4 involves a nominal Tool Management fee dependent on customer requirements; various packages to suit various customer needs.

Capabilities to quote turnkey type solutions on projects large and small.

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Dave GoodmanManaging Director

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Nicky DorflingOperations Director

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A 100% SOUTH AFRICAN OWNED COMPANYForming partnerships with customers to improve productivity and reduce overheads. Supply the latest cutting tool

technology to Southern African market. Help uplift and educate the previous disadvantaged groups within South Africa.

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Sakkie SachseHuman Resources

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Dalton Van NiekerkNational Sales

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Lisa AxcellFinancial Manager

Yasmeen VarmaPurchasing Manager

Fred Van NiekerkBusiness Developer & Project Manager

Pierre DorflingLogistics Manager

Gavin HornigoldITC Manager

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Dormer Pramet:With a combined history of more than 150 years, Dormer Pramet is the result of a merger between rotary toolingmanufacturer Dormer Tools and indexable specialist Pramet Tools. The strengths of both brands were broughttogether in 2014 under the Dormer Pramet name, creating a single platform that gives customers access to a widerange of high quality, fit-for-purpose tools combined with easily accessible services to help customers run theiroperations smoothly. Our core product program is built around a range of tools designed for the general machiningindustry and encompasses both indexable and rotary drilling, milling, threading and turning tools.

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Walter Tools:Delivering excellent tools at the right time and place once defined best practice. Now simple is everything. Worldwide,industries are letting go of multiple suppliers who do one thing well and opting for single suppliers with comprehensiveproduct portfolios. Today, adding value with the right solution for specific production requirements delivers competitiveedge.

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Established in 1941 and headquartered in Renens, Switzerland, TESA SA manufactures and markets precision measuringinstruments that stand for quality, reliability and longevity. For more than 75 years, TESA has distinguished itself in themarket through its excellent products, its unique expertise in micro-mechanics and precision machining as well as itsproven experience in dimensional metrology. The TESA brand is the global market leader in the field of height gauges anda pioneer thanks to its wide range of instruments, including calipers, micrometers, dial gauges, lever-type dial testindicators and inductive probes. TESA is a true benchmark for the inspection of incoming goods, as well as for productionworkshops and quality assurance laboratories. Through its worldwide distribution network, the company focuses on themechanical engineering, micro-mechanical, automotive, aerospace, watchmaking and medical industries. In 2001, TESAbecame part of Hexagon, a leading global provider of information technologies.

Mapal:MAPAL is today the major specialist worldwide for individual machining solutions with the highest precision and cost-effectiveness. We concentrate on the complete bore machining and on demanding milling and turning operationsusing PCD and PcBN tools. In close co-operation with our customers, perfect results are produced from innovative firstclass technology, comprehensive services and unique application know-how.

Norton:The only international manufacturer of abrasives that manufactures each of the 3 major types of abrasives; BondedAbrasives (resinoid and vitrified), Coated Abrasives, and Diamond products. This is supported by exceptionaltechnology, complete and innovative product lines, an irrefutable reputation for quality and safety, andexperienced, committed, passionate people.

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Botek:We have been producing and marketing innovative deep hole drilling tools and also carbide tipped cutting tools since1974. As an internationally oriented family business, we gear ourselves to the demands of a constantly changingworldwide market. We actively create market changes and offer our customers innovative solutions in order toconstantly further develop our company and to safeguard our long term success, whilst providing our employees withattractive working conditions.

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Xiamen Golden Egret Special Alloy Co.,Ltd (GESAC):Xiamen Golden Egret Special Alloy Co.,Ltd (GESAC) was found in 1989, is one Sino-foreign joint venture company of thecore subsidiary corporations of the listed state-own Xiamen Tungsten Group. GESAC is specialized in the manufactureand sale of various kinds of tungsten powder, cemented carbide and cutting tools. Today, as the world largest tungstenpowder and tungsten carbide powder supplier and exporter, GESAC is also a major manufacturer of premium cementedcarbide and cutting tools in the world. The company keeps pursing of excellence with its creative employees, advancedtechnologies, manufacturing equipment and testing facilities. Expanded by its quality products and supplier service, the“Golden Egret” has become one of the market leading brands and is doing business in more than 40 countries andregions.

Hold Well:Hold Well is one of the leading manufacturers in Taiwan for Accessories of Machine Center, Turning Center, MillingMachine, Grinding Machine with high technical productivity and more than 25 years experience in world market. Theirlatest main products include: Angle Head (Angular Head, Angle Adjustable Angle Head, Aluninum Angle Head, HeavyDuty Angle Head), VDI / BMT Driven Tool Holder (Axial, Radial, Offset, Tapping, Angle Adjustable, Radial Swivel GearHobber) with various system, Hydraulic Vise, MC Power Vise, and so on.

Karl Hermann GMBHIBH:Is a German manufacturer of precision toolholders and accessories. They have been manufacturing and supplyingthe market since 1946. The range consists of steep taper adaptors, BT & SK, HSK, Hydraulic adaptors, Collet chucks,VDI holders, Pull Studs, Hydraulic vices and accessories. All products are manufactured from a quantified alloyedcase hardening steel with a tensile strength of 800 N/mm². KFH's hardening quality management ensures thatheat treatment specifications are maintained, typically hardened to a minimum of 630 HV (Vickers) / 56 HRc .All"essential" features ( tapers, bores etc.) are precision ground. KFH manufactures the SK-tapers more precisely thanAT3 specification: Tool holders featured with standard grade of balance to G6,3 12.000 rpm (pre-balanced), Specialgrade balancing to ( higher speed or G2,5 ).

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Poliangolar:The poliangolar was developed by Mr. Paolo Bremi in a Milan machine shop in 1965. Mr. Bremi had been searching for a tool thatwould enable him to drill holes in a fast and innovative way for the customers of his machine shop. In fact until then, theproduction of square and hexagonal holes was a very difficult, expensive and imprecise process. The invention of the poliangolarwas immediately appreciated by those in precision engineering as it proved to be very efficient in its task. After being patented, itwas immediately sold to many tooling and turning shops, shipyards, goldsmiths and to many laboratories that needed to drillspecial shapes with high precision. By 1970 poliangolar attachments and tools were being used as far a field Japan. To this daythousands of attachments have been sold, used by both small and large companies. The poliangolar Srl, is an italian company thatmakes and sells poliangolar attachments and tools and polikey attachments (for slotting). It is situated near Milan and it is nowowned by Sergio Bremi.

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Posithread:Posithread was established in 1986 to manufacture and grind carbide inserts specifically for the threading market. They utilise the unique technology in the manufacture of formed Electro Plated Diamond Wheels, allowing them the flexibility to mass produce standard and bespoke threading inserts within fine tolerances. Over the last ten years Posithread has expanded, introducing new threading product lines and now incorporates the manufacture of Oilfield Premium Threads under License to: VAM, JFE, TENARIS,NIPPON STEEL. Their inserts are designed and manufactured on site by a staff of highly trained grinding technicians, utilising state-of-the-art 5 axis profile grinders as well as creep feed technology, and 25 years of amassed Profile Grinding techniques. Their threading knowledge pooled together over a quarter of a century of production is now second to none, moving Posithread into new areas of the Global Market. Their manufacturing expertise and the support given by our Global Sales Team has become a winning combination for our world wide customer base. Posithread are the “Specials Specialists” and are ready to take on the challenge of solving your threading application problems with optimal solutions

Akon Werkzeuge:As a manufacturer of holders for dies and taps Akon Werkzeuge provide a large range of high quality products.Their products include: Holders for dies and taps, DIN certified, mandrels with adjustable torque coupling, short workpiece holders with 1/2 inch square drive for male thread, Accessories and spare parts for all kind of holders.The advantages of their products are a time- and cost-saving production and an accelerated manufacturing process.

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Postal Address: P.O. Box 2631 NORTH END, 6056, SOUTH AFRICA

HEAD OFFICE Physical Address: 24 Desmond Street

KorstenPORT ELIZABETH6000SOUTH AFRICA

Telephone: +27 (0)41 403 1500

Fax: +27 (0)41 451 3536

Email: spectra@spectra-sa.co.za

Website: http://www.spectra-sa.co.za

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Postal Address: P.O. Box 2631 NORTH END, 6056, SOUTH AFRICA

Physical Address: E5 Dekema Park, 284aDekema Road, WadevilleJOHANNESBURG1422SOUTH AFRICA

Telephone: +27 (0)11 827 8957

Fax: +27 (0)11 827 8964

Email: spectra@spectra-sa.co.za

Website: http://www.spectra-sa.co.za

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Postal Address: P.O. Box 2631 NORTH END, 6056, SOUTH AFRICA

Physical Address: Unit 12, The SquarePrime ParkPrinter’s WayMontague GardensCAPE TOWN7441SOUTH AFRICA

Telephone: +27 (0)21 555 4144

Fax: +27 (0)21 555 4154

Email: spectra@spectra-sa.co.za

Website: http://www.spectra-sa.co.za

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Spectra-Mapal was founded in June 2005 as a joint venture with German based company Mapal Präzisionswerkzeuge. Since its inception Spectra-Mapal has been operating from premises located in Atlantis, Western Cape.Spectra-Mapal specialises in the design and manufacture of Tungsten Carbidecutting tools including drills, milling cutters, reamers as well as non-standardindexable carbide inserts. Spectra-Mapal also offers the services of regrinding,modification and re coating of HSS and Tungsten Carbide cutting tools. All work iscarried out according to high dimensional and strict quality standards.The above is made possible by continuously investing in state of the art manufacturing equipment as well as on-going training of personnel.

A complete range of metal working fluids including everything from neat oils to fully synthetic lubricants.

Significant total cost reduction as a result of enhanced fluid performance and reduced tool wear.

The highest health safety standards and a strong focus on the environment.Continued service and advice by our technically qualified sales team.

Spectra Metal Cutting Fluids & Lubricants stock a range of lubricants from Oest,

Spanjaard and Cimcool.

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• THE EXPERTS IN METAL REMOVAL• Supplying the latest cutting tool technology to the South African

market