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"The Persian Gulf country will buy two Ukrainian-made Antonov-158s, after a test flight of the aircraft earlier this month, Mohammad-Ali Sirati, managing director of the Iranian aircraft company, was cited as saying by the official Islamic Republic News Agency. The countries then will start to jointly build the aircraft next year, Sirati, whose company will be in charge of the project, said in Tehran yesterday. Some 30 percent of each plane will be made in Iran, state-run media reported." (Business Week, "Iran Says Antonov-158 Built With Ukraine May Fly in 2013," 10/6/2011)

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Antonov lists on its website that their AN-24 turboprop aircraft is serially produced at HESA plant in Isfahan, Iran. (Antonov website)

Hitachi Zosen is a Japanese manufacturing and engineering corporation with product divisions including environmental systems and industrial plants, precision machinery, machinery and process equipment, steel structures and construction machinery, marine and disaster prevention systems. (Company website)

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Hitachi Zosen produces shield tunneling machines in its steel structures and construction machinery division: "We have delivered a number of shield tunneling machines to the United States, China, Korea, Republic of China, Singapore and Thailand including 4 machines for undersea tunnel across the Bosporus straits in Istanbul, Turkey" (Company website).

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A Hitachi Zosen subsidiary lists Iran as a main exporting country for spare parts. (Hitachi-Zosen Plant Techno-Service Corp)

Kawasaki Precision Machinery, a division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, lists Hydraulik Karan as their Iranian distributor.

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“Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of transportation equipment and industrial goods primarily in Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia” (Bloomberg Business Week, “Kawasaki Heavy Industries (7012:JP),” 2010).

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“The Kawasaki Heavy Industries Group manufactures a vast array of products that demonstrate technological mastery of the land, sea, air and outer space. Its aerospace business offers various products ranging from aircraft to satellites, while the shipbuilding business provides LNG and LPG carriers, submarines and other vessels. Japan's Shinkansen trains and New York City's subway cars are just two examples of its rolling stock business' famed global offerings, just as gas turbines and biomass power plants headline the energy plant and facilities business. The Group also supplies many products that demonstrate its expertise in engineering, such as industrial plants, environmental protection facilities, industrial equipment, construction machinery and steel structures” (Company website).

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Kawasaki lists contact information for Iran distributor Pars Loaders Co. on its website (Company contacts page)

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Kawasaki lists an Iranian distibutor for its motorcycle division, Jaranho Industrial Co. (Company contacts page)

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Website of Kawasaki distributor Jaranho Industrial Co. (Iranian distributor website)

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Kawasaki has collaboration agreements arranged with two other TBM producers, SELI of Italy and Lovat of Canada, both of which sell TBMs in Iran.
•    Alliance with Lovat, Inc. (Lovat Inc. News Release, "BREAKTHOUGH ALLIANCE: LOVAT & KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES," April 12, 2006.)

•    Collaboration with SELI (Tunnel Talk, "Collaboration for new TBM supplier," April 2010.)

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 Kawasaki has received $182,558,912 in federal funds from the U.S. government between 2000 and July 2010. (USASpending.gov)

According to the company website, "[Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd.] was the first heavy machinery manufacturer of the new born People’s Republic of China and extolled as the ‘cradle’ of the machinery industry of China. It is one of the large scale key enterprises of Chinese machinery industry. In 1996, it was reorganized as Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (SHMG). SHMG is made up of 11 enterprises: Shenyang Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd.; Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd., Import and Export Company; Shenyang Heavy Machinery of Metallurgy and Mining Manufacturing Company; Fuyang Man-made Board Co., Ltd; Shendor Wooden Co., Ltd.; Permanent Stainless Steel Tube Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; etc.. After a few years of system change and assets reorganization, it is changing from a production operation type company to a capital operation type company" (Company Website).

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     Shenyang Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd. is a joint venture of Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd., China Huarong Asset Management Corporation, Xinda Asset Management Corporation and China Great Wall Asset Management Corporation. It is a legal entity which has autonomy in management and assumes sole responsibility for its profits or losses. It is a subsidiary owned by SHMG. It is a heavy machinery manufacturing enterprise which mainly produces large technological equipment for power plants, metallurgy, steel rolling, forging, mining, cement, man-made board, war industry and environment protection. It has the capability of producing 100,000 tons of steel, 40,000 tons of steel casting, 20,000 tons of forged pieces, 20,000 tons of structural members and 60,000 tons of machinery products" (Company Website).

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“[Northern Heavy Industries Group Co., Ltd.] is a large-scale and state-owned company which is incorporated by Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co, Ltd. and Shenyang Mining Machinery Group Co., Ltd" (Company Profile).

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"NHI is a transnational, large-scale backbone enterprise in the field of equipment manufacturing industry of our country. In 2008, NHI becomes one of the top 500 enterprises in both Chinese machinery industry and international machinery industry. NHI is located in Shenyang Economic and Technology Development Zone with total asset value of 12.7 billion yuan, covering an area of 1.3 million m², more than 10800 employees."

"Its main products are tunnel engineering equipment, power equipment, building material equipment, metallurgy equipment, mining equipment, coal machinery, bulk material handling and conveying equipment, environmental protection equipment, forging equipment, construction machinery and transmission machinery, total about 500 types and 7000 models. Some products are exported to more than 80 countries and regions in the world" (Company Profile).

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NHI tunneling projects in Iran, Mashad and Ahvaz metros (Iran Project website).

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In 2007, Northern Heavy Industries Group Co., Ltd. (NHI), a Chinese state-owned corporation, “acquired a controlling stake of 70 percent of France's NFM, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany's Wirth Group” (Sina English, “China's Northern Heavy Industries acquires controlling stake of France's NFM,”  August 28, 2007).

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NHI-owned NFM Technologies, a mechanical engineering company and leading tunnel-boring machine manufacturer, does business in Iran and has been involved in a number of tunneling projects. NFM is also listed on the IBR.
•    NFM representative in Iran (NFM Company Website)
•    NFM project in Iran, Shiraz Metro Project (Iran Project Website)

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With the acquisition of NFM technologies, NHI specializes in the manufacture of tunnel-boring machines. ("NHI-Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Tunnel Boring Machine Company," Chinese business 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)

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

The Iranian branch of WEG (Company Website)

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"Since years, Patent Power Dept. is working as the exclusive representative of WEG," The Iranian Agent of WEG (Patent Co. Ltd.)

Fuji Heavy Industries' subsidiaries Subaru and Subaru Robin reportedly do business with Iran.

Italy's Fiat Group is the parent company of CNH.

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In a correspondance with the SEC in December of 2009, CNH disclosed details of its sales in Iran.

"CNH’s foreign subsidiaries’ total sales into Iran: $27.8 million in 2006, $42.9 million in 2007, $36.8 million in 2008, and $6.2 million in 2009.  In Iran, CNH’s foreign subsidiaries sell equipment to independent distributors or with the assistance of a commission agent."

(CORRESP for CNH GLOBAL N V, 12/7/2009)

"Aker has exported products produced in Asia to the oil and gas sector in Iran, and a German subsidiary - Wirth - has exported drilling equipment to Iran. A spokesman, Jannick Lindbaek, said the company has no current business in Iran due to commercial and contractual reasons, but stressed that the company doesn't feel precluded from selling products again to Iran's oil and gas sector: "We don't have a bilateral boycott of Iran. We're following all Norwegian foreign policy," he said. The company has received $6.3 million in revenue and benefits from the US government.  Their activities in Iran are currently active.  (The New York Times, "Profiting from Iran, and the US", 3/6/2010)

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“Two European concerns—Wirth, from Germany, and Seli, from Italy—sold tunnel-boring equipment to Iran for its Ghomroud water project. Wirth’s contract was concluded after Germany’s export-control agency, BAFA, determined that the machines involved in this project, being intended only for civilian use, were not subject to embargo.

Overseeing the tunnel project, however, was Sahel Consulting Engineers, a company owned by the IRGC. Nor is this connection a secret. The website of Wirth’s subsidiary in Iran features images of the Ghomroud construction site. The sign welcoming visitors to the project bears the logo of the IRGC, and the same logo is visible above the tunnel entrance…

Once the digging is finished, though, the equipment belongs to the subsidiary businesses of the IRGC, which can do with them what they wish. Intelligence photographs have regularly indicated that much of Iran’s clandestine nuclear program is being built deep underground, in bunkers accessible by means of tunnels. The machinery and technology for constructing such tunnels can only have been provided by Wirth and Seli.” (Commentary Magazine, "The Iranian Shell Game," July-August 2008)

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“Wirth and Seli – German and Italian companies producing sophisticated tunnel-boring machinery – have supplied their machines and technical assistance to IRGC companies, for instance. Their business was not subject to any restrictions or embargoes, yet intelligence reports have repeatedly suggested that much of Iran’s clandestine nuclear program is being built deep underground, in bunkers that are accessible through tunnels – tunnels which only such technology could build.” (Transatlantic Institute, "Iran's Deceptive Ways," May 2008) 

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“German producer of tunnel boring machinery – proudly boasts on its website that ‘… a new water supply system is created in the Iranian mountains of Isfahan, Wirth machines are used.’ Indeed they are. The problem is that one of Wirth’s project clients in Iran is Sahel Consulting Engineers – a company owned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Wirth has so far declined to comment on the matter.” (BESA Center for Strategic Studies, “Iran's Deceptive Commercial Practices,” 4/15/08)

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“The project management contract for South Pars phases 9 and 10 offshore Iran, was awarded Aker Kvaerner from Pars Oil and Gas Company in April. This contract, worth approximately USD 25 million, represents a breakthrough in Iran, which holds the world’s second largest oil and gas reserves.” (Aker Kvaerner O&G Group AS, Board of Directors Memo, January-June 2005)

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“Aker Kvaerner will assist the national operator Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) in managing the USD 1.8 billion total contract (EPC) for the development project comprising phases 9 and 10 of the South Pars gas field located offshore Iran in the Persian Gulf. Aker Kvaerner has partnered up with the Teheran based, private engineering company Hirbodan for the contract

Aker Kvaerner has a history as a product and technology supplier in Iran, providing processing equipment, drilling equipment and wellheads. The new project management contract represents the first field development engagement for Aker Kvaerner in Iran. ‘This is a good project for Aker Kvaerner. Our track record on executing large projects and the teaming up with a competitive Iranian partner were important winning factors for the contract’, says Aker Kvaerner's Executive Vice President Mr. Simen Lieungh.” (EuroInvestor.com, “Breakthrough Contract in Iran: South Pars phases 9 & 10,” 4/27/05)

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“Be it…a water-supply system in Iran – as an employee of Aker Wirth, you will be there as progressive technology is created and put to use in the field. And the fields of activity open to you at Aker Wirth are as diverse as our technologies and work sites.” (Aker-Wirth website)

Bombardier is a “global transportation company,” which “leads the world’s rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry.” (Company Website)

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“The Tehran Urban and Suburban Railway Company, (TUSRC), through the Chinese company CITIC, awarded Bombardier Transportation a contract for the in-house design, installation support and commissioning of a CITYFLO 350 solution for Lines 1 and 2.” (Company Press Release, 10/2/09)

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“BCP [Bombardier CPC Propulsion System Co. Ltd.] is dedicated to the production, marketing, and maintenance of propulsion equipment for rail vehicles. In November 2003, BCP was awarded a Propulsion and Control System contract from CITIC for 105 metro cars for Extension Line of Tehran Metro Line 1 in Iran.” (Company Press Release, 10/15/07)