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Alfa Laval is a Swedish technology company that provides industrial equipment for the energy, chemical, metal, food, and beverage industries. It has a strong US presence and had over $3.3 billion in revenue in 2009 (Company Annual Report). 

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Alfa Laval sells its products in Iran through an Iranian website, in addition to maintaing an office in Tehran (Iranian Website). Through this site, Alfa Laval makes available many products that have a known application in the nuclear energy industry. For example, Alfa Laval advertises the benefits of installing its plate heat exchangers in nuclear power plants.

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The company discloses in its annual report that it has paid at least $632,911 in salary to employees in Iran since 2007 (Company Annual Report)

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Alfa Laval's has deep commercial ties with the U.S. government. Since 2000, Alfa Laval has received over $40.4 million in US government contracts. $35.8 million of these contracts were awarded by the Department of Defense (USA Spending). 

According to its website, “KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. The company has been committed to understanding the needs of its customers for the past century, providing industry-leading elevators, escalators and automatic building doors as well as innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance…In 2009, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 4.7 billion and approximately 34,000 employees” (Company website).
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Kone lists Saba as its authorized distributor in Iran. (Company website)

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“Saba Engineering Co. is the exclusive representative of all the production of KONE Co. in Iran and supplies all type of Elevator, Escalators, Auto walks and ramps.” (Iranian Distributor website)

Roctest is an industrial instrument company that describes itself as "a world lead[ing] manufacturer of high precision measuring and monitoring instrumentation for the civil engineering market and applications in the energy, healthcare and process control industries (Company Website). 

Roctest also notes its "products are sold in more than 75 countries by direct sales and through an international distributor network" (Company Website). This distributor network includes Iran, where Roctest sells its products through the civil engineering equipment supplier Abzar-e-Khak (Company Website). 

Abzar-e-Khak performs services for five Iranian government ministries, including the Ministry of Energy, in addition to private Iranian oil companies (Abzar-e-Khak Website). 

Parker Instrumentation Division is a division of parent company Parker Hannifin Corporation, who, according to its website, has annual sales of more than $10 billion and is “the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial and aerospace markets” (Company Website).

On its page, Parker Instrumentation Division states that it “provides highly engineered flow control components and systems. These components range from basic compression fittings, pipe fittings, needle valves, ball valves, compact stream switching valves to modular fitting and valve packages" (Company Website).

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Parker Instrumentation is listed as an exhibitor in the 12th Oil Show in Iran, which took place in 2007 (Iran Oil Show Website).

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In 2003, Parker's Instrumentation Products Division-Europe announced that their products, including tube fittings, valves, regulators and hoses, had been contracted to make gas dispensers for Iran’s “national compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered public transport project.” "According to Parker Instrumentation, Hans Brochier is currently providing fuel dispensing systems for more than 40 filling stations at "key" high-traffic sites throughout the country, which will be used initially by a fleet of CNG-fueled buses. Following the initial phase of the project, Parker Instrumentation noted that Iran's Fuel Conservation Organization, which is spearheading the effort, "expects to extend CNG fueling availability more widely throughout the country via a further 100-plus filling stations...." "The breadth of Parker's product portfolio allowed us to provide a complete fluid flow solution for this CNG-dispensing product," said Parker Instrumentation territory manager Heiner Klinkmann. "Natural gas vehicles are a very fast-growing market, and Iran's groundbreaking application is a global showpiece for the performance of Parker's tube fitting and fluid flow components in this emerging high-pressure application sector" ("Parker Provides Fluid Flow Components for Iranian CNG Scheme." Alternative Transportation Fuels Today. Ein Publishing, December 9 2003).

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Iran is listed in a catalog of international distributors in a Parker Hannifin product manual (Parker Hannifin Brochure).

Invensys is a multinational corporation which consists of Invensys Operations Management, Invensys Rail, and Invensys Controls. Invensys Operations Management, the largest division, is “a global technology, software and consulting organization” with over $2 billion in sales (Company Brochure).

Invensys Operations Management houses the Eurotherm brand of products, which are used in “life sciences, glass manufacturing, plastics, renewable energy and the heat treatment of metals” (Company Brochure). Eurotherm is represented in Iran (Eurotherm Brochure) and is listed as a past exhibitor for the 2009 Iran Oil Show (Iran Oil Show Website).

In its Code of Conduct, Invensys says, “We are committed to upholding human rights such as those enshrined in the UN Global Compact and the European Convention on Human Rights”, and instructs employees not to “seek to benefit from human rights abuses committed by someone else” (Invensys Code of Conduct).

Kobold manufactures instruments to "measure and control flow, level, pressure, and temperature" for industrial applications, providing "patentable technology, high quality products and superior service" (Company Website). Based in Germany, Kobold also has manufacturing plants and offices in Pennsylvania, Michigan, South Carolina, Washington, and Ohio (Company Website).

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Kobold also maintains a "Kobold Iran" website, in which it advertises its sponsorship of the "Iran Oil Show." The Kobold Iran site makes all of its industrial instruments available for sale (Iranian Website).

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A subsidiary, Heinrichs-MT, lists that Kobold maintains a sales office in Iran (Subsidiary Website).

AMETEK, according to its website, is a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, with 11,000 colleagues working at more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 80 sales and service centers in the US and across the world.

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Lloyd Instruments, an AMETEK subsidiary based in the United Kingdom, manufactures material testing machines, texture analyzers, and davenport polymer test equipment, and lists a regional contact in Iran.  (Company Website)

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Another subsidiary, Denmark-based AMETEK Calibration Instruments, also has an office in Iran. The company is a manufacturer of instruments that calibrate temperature, pressure and process signals as well as temperature sensors. (Company Website)

The devices of AMETEK Calibration Instruments are used in the oil & gas industry, among others. (Company Website)

Ascotec is a wholly owned subsidiary of the IMIDRO (Irainian Mines and Mining Industries Developmentand Renovation Organization.  "Supply OF: Raw Materials, Spare Parts , Machinaries, spcially for IMIDRO Group."(Company Website)

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"Mohaddessin said that maraging steel, which has twice the strength of stainless steel and is 85 percent harder than pure titanium, was needed to be used as very strong casing to allow an initial explosion inside the bomb to take place in a closed area for maximum power. That, he said, could cause a chain reaction and ultimately trigger a nuclear detonation.Tehran has also been using a number of front companies to illegally purchase maraging steel and other banned materials in other countries, he said. “These front companies are ostensibly non-Iranian, but their personnel are completely affiliated with the regime”. Mohaddessin said ASCOTEC, a subsidiary of the Organisation for the Development and Rebuilding of Iran's Mines and Industries, was one such front company." (Iran Focus, "Iran Secretly acquiring super-strong steel for nuclear bomb", 7/28/2005)

IRASCO's client list is primarily Iranian, including the NIOC (Company Website)

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"Irasco's shareholders are the German trade and consulting company Ascotec Gmbh (51% of the shares) and the Iranian engineering and general contracting company IRITEC Iran International Engineering Company (49% of the shares).  Supply of Industrial plants and machineries to Iran is the activity  of the company.  Skilled Iranian and Italian personnel are working together in different departments such as projects, commercial, shipping and expediting, marketing, quality, project financing and administration." (Company Website)

Pishro Sanat Farayand, an Iranian manufacturer and distributor of vacuum pumps and air blowers, claims to be "the exclusive agent" of Thomas products (Pishro Sanat Farayand Website).  Thomas is a Gardner Denver company, and it explicitly says so on its logo (which PSF features on its website).  The website also lists the Thomas Standard European Product Catalogue (Pishro Sanat Farayand Website).

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Power Technologies Pyramid, an Iranian equipment supplier lists Gardner Denver equipment on its website (Power Technology Pyramids)

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One of Gardner-Denver's brand's, Wittig, a German manufacturer of industrial tools, lists on their company website, their Iranian distributor of industrial use stationary applications, Patent Co. Ltd. (Wittig)

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In 2008, Gardner Denver acquired Compair.  A leading subsidiary of Compair, Reavell (air compressor manufacturer), lists that operates 3 offices in Iran (Reavell Iran Offices). 

• Fars Rig Company
• Hava San (listed as the exclusive agent of Compair)
• Havay Madar E Iran Co.