Global support for your business

Harsco is committed to serving its customers around the world by providing the vital expertise, support and value they need to excel. Harscos core purpose is to build teams that win with integrity anywhere in the world.

Harsco Corporation 2008 performance profile Over 400 locations 50 countries Approximately 20,000 employees Total revenue $4 billion

Global revenue sources

2008 revenues

Western europe 45% north america 35% latin america 6% Middle east and africa 6% eastern europe 5% asia/pacific 3%

infrastructure 39% Metals 40% Minerals & rail 21%

Harsco Infrastructure
the worlds largest access services, rental scaffolding, shoring and forming group operating in over 36 countries.

Harsco Metals
the worlds largest provider of on site, outsourced services to the steel and metals industries, operating at more than 163 mills in 33 countries.

Harsco Minerals & Rail

Minerals & rail is a group of specialist businesses supplying track technologies, metal recovery processes, industrial abrasives and granules, air-cooled heat exchangers, grating and commercial boilers.

Harsco infrastructure is a division of one of the worlds leading industrial service companies, the Harsco Corporation. With over 150 years of experience, including pioneering roles serving the worlds metals, infrastructure and railway industries, Harsco today holds first or second market-leadership positions in all its key services and products. its activities at over 400 locations in 50 countries bring Harsco annual revenues in excess of $3 billion and the corporation is quoted on the new york stock exchange (nyse HsC). Harsco is committed to continuing to support its customers around the world by providing the vital expertise and support they need to grow their business.

Harsco Infrastructure

Harsco Infrastructure is a newly created combination of three longestablished Harsco companies: sGb and Hnnebeck in europe, the Middle and far east, and patent in the americas. We specialize in access, formwork, shoring and site support products and services for construction and industrial maintenance applications. With a staff of 8,000 professionals and operating subsidiaries in 36 countries, we are one of the biggest organisations in our sector. What makes us different however, goes beyond the scale of our activity. SGB, Hnnebeck and Patent together offer more than three hundred years of experience in our fields. We have acquired vast reservoirs of expertise on construction sites and industrial facilities around the world. Harscos strategy in bringing the three companies together as Harsco infrastructure is designed to pool all these reservoirs of knowledge. by enhancing the way we share expertise internally, we are exceptionally well placed to cross-transfer ideas and information, to engineer innovative solutions and to successfully meet the safety, programming and budgetary criteria on any project. This is how, in the tough environment of today, we are working harder than ever to give our customers a real competitive edge; by taking our insight, expertise and talent and turning them into effective on site solutions. We call this Insight onsiteTM. Its a hands-on, can-do technical approach to even the most intricate problem that is enabling us to generate revenue in excess of $1.5 billion a year and to support our customers around the world.

Rouchain Dam, France

Insight onsiteTM: Working together to build success At Harsco Infrastructure, we believe that our shared knowledge is our greatest asset. It offers in-built advantages to clients around the world in terms of safety, productivity and innovation, all of which can make a critical difference to the success of your project. Your success is our success, so our support for your business will be as focused as it is global.

Supporting the construction industry with access solutions

Our customers in the construction industry today face unprecedented challenges. Developments in architecture, changing
building trends, increased demands for environmental protection and the ever-present responsibility for safe working at height, now combine with extraordinary pressures on timetables and budgets.

Every project imposes a different set of specific access demands.

We are able to provide optimal solutions because of the uniqueness of our range, and our expertise in devising the most appropriate combination of access methods, from traditional scaffolding to the most advanced powered access and mast climbing work platforms.

Our approach to solving new challenges has kept us at the forefront of our industry for 100 years, constantly evolving better ways
of doing things and better products for doing them with. our experience has helped thousands of clients succeed in new build, restoration or maintenance projects for commercial and retail developments, historic buildings, airports and rail networks. from st pauls Cathedral in london to the metro station in Moscow, via the nasa center in the usa, we offer the expertise to meet the contrasting demands of history and the avant-garde.

Brahmsquartier, Germany

Nottingham University, UK

We are able to provide optimal solutions because of the uniqueness of our range, and our expertise in devising the most appropriate combination of access methods.

Supporting the construction industry with formwork and shoring solutions

We apply the same judgement and experience, accumulated over a century, in developing the most effective products and solutions for concrete forming and shoring on construction and civil engineering projects. We understand the pressures for faster work cycles and the
need for constantly improving material quality. We have developed an extensive range of solutions for wall and slab formwork and support, climbing formwork, bridge parapet, protective screens and edge protection systems, adaptable to the specific needs of each project.

Delivering the best solutions on site is the result of co-ordinated teamwork between designers, applications specialists, safety specialists and
site support engineers. our shared knowledge in Harsco infrastructure enables us to tackle the widest range of projects from the latest high-rise residential and commercial projects in Dubai, to dam construction projects in uganda, and bridges for new road networks in eastern europe.
Zpevnena viaduct, Czech Republic

Boxberg Power Plant, Germany

Dulles International Airport, USA

We understand the pressures for faster work cycles and the need for constantly improving material finishes, whether working on residential, commercial or civil engineering projects.

Supporting the construction and maintenance of industrial process plants

Process plants around the world share a common requirement in the need for safe and efficient access to facilitate construction and ongoing maintenance. each plant and facility has its own specialist
requirements. We have built up exceptional insight into the servicing requirements of the oil and gas industry, and of major process plants; from oil refining at the shell pernis refinery in Holland, and sabics refining and processing plants in saudi arabia, to power generation plants in the usa and tatas steel mills in india. Whether working on the construction of a new plant, routine maintenance or emergency shutdowns, we develop a custom plan for each facility. Drawing on the widest range of scaffolding and access solutions, we are able to provide work platforms for construction and maintenance crews that enable maximum productivity without compromise to safety. our belief in the value of planning-based maintenance has also led us to specialize in a complete range of insulation services such as thermal, acoustic, heat control and fireproofing. insulation, access and additional services like corrosion protection are often part of a multidisciplinary approach. Harsco infrastructure teams are often attached to each facility, many of them working on site on a long term basis.

Corus Redcar Steel Works, UK

BASF Plant, Holland

Forties Field, North Sea, UK

We work in close partnership with operating management to provide market leading safety and support to scheduled maintenance programmes in some of the worlds most challenging situations.

Supporting a safer environment

The safety of our colleagues, customers and that of the public, is our highest priority. Harsco infrastructures record currently sets the
standard for the industry. Maintaining this record requires unrelenting efforts in all aspects of risk management, process control, safety training and safety communication. We are dedicated to making such efforts part of our culture. our responsibility is to exercise safety leadership and maintain a 100% safetyconscious working environment for all involved. Working safely is the best way of keeping to budgets and deadlines. We work closely with you to ensure that clear standards for safety competence, co-operation and communication are strictly observed throughout the project. We conduct regular safety reviews, checks and inspections and work proactively with you on new initiatives, to ensure that, together, we are creating a safe working environment for all the trades working from or around our equipment. Harsco infrastructure runs the industrys most detailed programme of safety training for staff and operatives. training is ongoing at all levels, from toolbox talks on site, through safety workshops to advanced safety management and leadership courses. our safety communication plans include a comprehensive safety Manual for managers and supervisors, backed up with product user Guides and safety notes, a regular in-house safety magazine, and a range of award-winning safety training and safety behavior films.
Canary Wharf, UK

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A1(M) Bridge, UK

Harsco Infrastructures safety record currently sets the standard for the industry. Our responsibility is to exercise safety leadership and maintain a 100% safety-conscious working environment for all.

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Supporting improved productivity

Productivity is something that can always be improved. Innovative solutions, experienced project management and impeccable logistic back-up all make a significant difference. We believe that our kind of focused support will give you the competitive edge todays industry demands.

Innovation
our specialist engineers and designers cover a range of disciplines and are chosen for their ability to innovate solutions that both solve / pre-empt problems and save money for you. innovations can be formwork or access products, new ways of using old methods, new applications for existing products, or something completely radical. Harsco infrastructure has the global breadth and depth to apply a solution developed in prague to a project in penang, with immediate cost savings and no reinvention of the wheel. With 300 years of pooled experience and expertise between us, acquired over a century representing the most intense technological advances in human history, we have already found a lot of answers, but more importantly, we have the ingenuity to come up with new ones. the flexibility of our product range increases our versatility, and we are adept at finding practical, intelligent solutions from the simplest to the most complex projects.

Electricity Pylon, West Thurrock, UK

Project support
from your first call to Harsco infrastructure, your dedicated local contact will be working closely with you to establish an accurate and comprehensive understanding of your short and long term project requirements and priorities. the team assigned to your project will use sophisticated cost modelling techniques to give you realistic total cost forecasts and keep potential variations to the plan and contingencies under firm control.

Logistics
by devoting meticulous attention to planning, scheduling and logistics, we ensure the smooth implementation of solutions that are thoroughly safe, demonstrably cost effective and will make a positive impact on your lead time.

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CardioCliniC, Hamburg, Germany

The key to optimizing productivity on any project is partnering. We believe that our focused support will give you the competitive edge todays industry demands.

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The Forth Rail Bridge, Scotland

Project challenges
on 21st January 1890, two trains first crossed the forth rail bridge, traveling across two and a half thousand metres of track suspended nearly fifty metres above the firth of forth. this feat of engineering remains an iconic structure and today requires equal feats of ingenuity to maintain. the exposed location, the extraordinary structure, 190 train movements per day and the busy shipping lane below, make this famous bridge one of the ultimate access challenges.

Insight onsite

TM

scaffolding the bridge starts by reversing the conventional ground-up approach. the evident complexity of the bridge, built with more curves than angles, means that every scaffolding member has to be individually designed, fabricated and suspended in position high above the forth. access platforms then have to be encapsulated in plastic sheeting, to prevent old lead paint being shot-blasted into the environment, and to protect the new, glass flake epoxy paint from the weather while it dries. the bridge is well over a hundred years old, but it takes 21st century technology and expertise to keep it in safe use, making our experience on live industrial maintenance invaluable. We have already supplied two and a half thousand tonnes of bespoke steel scaffolding and at least another thousand are anticipated before the project is complete.

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La Tour Granite, France

Project challenges
Designed by architect Christan de portzamparc to represent the prow of a triangular site in Valmy quarter in the parisian business district and to link with the existing twin towers of la socit Gnrale, la tour Granite is 184m tall. the key challenge in building this icon in the latest generation of skyscrapers was the faade slope of eight degrees, designed to minimize interference with the light and views from the existing towers.

Insight onsite

TM

our sCf (self-climbing formwork) platforms were used to build the outer structure of the 45-storey highrise, with its tapering, broadening and angled slopes. the sCf platforms were always safely connected to adjoining vertically climbing platforms by telescopic and sliding elements. With a width of 3.25m, our platforms provided an unusually deep and extrasafe work platform, designed for a dynamic load of 5.0kn/m2 (without formwork). every individual element was designed to withstand a maximum wind speed of 208km/h. the largest

single element used was a platform 14.5m long, supported by only two brackets, enabling as many as eight brackets (platform lengths of 55m) to ascend simultaneously with retracted formwork. Combining leading-edge technical expertise with world class equipment and project support, resulted in la tour Granite growing at a rate of one storey a week. la socit Gnrale is now doing business in 70,000m2 of additional premium space.

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The BMW World Experience and Delivery Centre, Germany

Project challenges
275 architecture firms submitted tenders for the bMW Welt, and the jurys decision was unanimous. the winning design was by professor Wolf D. prix and the Viennese architecture firm Coop Himmelb (l) au. planning and construction preparations began in 2003, for a unique star-shaped corset bearing the load of a 26m tall double-cone steel structure.

Insight onsite

TM

the traditional approach to a building of this size and complexity would have been to use large steel construction columns and girders, but this would also have applied extreme individual loads to foundation slabs, and unacceptable costs to the client. the solution developed by Harsco infrastructure used the bosta 100 frame scaffold, stabilizing each of the MoDeX props and, with the aid of integrated lattice girders, ensured that the total discharged load of 450 tonnes was evenly distributed over the surface of the foundation slabs.

in 2008, this multi award-winning building, completed to budget and on time, welcomed its one millionth visitor.

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Shell Pernis Refinery, The Netherlands

Project challenges
the shell pernis refinery is the largest in europe and one of the largest in the world. More than sixty different plants with different refining capabilities process products through pipelines that would run about four times round the world. the industrial complex covers a surface the equivalent of 1300 football fields, making maintenance a massive and ongoing operation.

Insight onsite

TM

Harsco infrastructures on site team averages 500 operatives, a figure that rises to about 750 at peak times. planning-based maintenance includes regular inspections and upgrades of thermal and acoustic insulation, fireproofing and heat control for the miles of pipeline. between 30 and 50 powered access machines are in use at any one time, plus 20 telescopic forklifts and 15 special aviation tow trucks for transporting materials around this vast industrial complex.

We have supplied 18,000 tonnes of scaffolding on site, 97% of which is constructed using CuploK. this makes a more effective replacement to most of the traditional tube and fitting, being faster to both erect and dismantle.

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Port Arthur Refinery, USA

Project challenges
a joint venture between shell and saudi aramco, the Motiva enterprises refinery in port arthur, texas, is currently expanding to become the largest in america and one of the top ten in the world. as part of this project, approximately 53 new refinery modules are being assembled at Cianbros Modular Manufacturing facility in brewer, Maine, each requiring a vast amount of scaffolding to set all the various pipes and structural beams in place. With very little continuity in design, as each module is different from the next, there is only one-eighth of an inch margin for error as all structural, piping and functional elements have to fit precisely. the harsh winters in Maine add to the challenges of working outside at this scale. finally, after each module is completed, they travel by barge from Maine, around the florida coast and then west to texas. once arriving in port arthur, the modules are assembled together to form the refinery.

Insight onsite

TM

Harsco infrastructures own Qes scaffold system was chosen for its high levels of adaptability, which means different lengths and heights can be accommodated without interruption, and projected levels of productivity can be maintained. scaffolding specifications for this vast and complex project have, to date, drawn on 90% of the component range. During winter assembly, some modules were wrapped in more scaffolding and plastic sheeting to provide shelter from the weather. the first four modules were shipped to texas on 26th March 2009. this mega-project will increase the refinerys current capacity of 275,000 barrels per day to more than 600,000 barrels per day.

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Hollywood and Vine, USA

Project challenges
the Hollywood and Vine project is a 4.5 acre mixed-use development in the City of los angeles, located at the world-famous intersection of Hollywood boulevard and Vine street. the $600 million development includes luxury apartments, upscale retail space and the W hotel. Harsco infrastructure was awarded the complete horizontal formwork package which included over two million square feet of elevated deck ranging from 8 to 40 high.

Insight onsite

TM

Challenges on this project included fast track work by both our design and operations teams, involving 135 deck pours, designed, stamped, formed and poured in less than 12 months. because of the fast track requirement, the contractor chose to use our pro-sHore system along with our aluminum frame and beam system for the high areas. the complete package was delivered on budget and on time. over 166 truck loads of shoring equipment were delivered, including 11,000 pro-DeCK panels and 12,000 pro-sHore posts. three Harsco infrastructure

engineers worked full time for 11 months, and our stamping engineer oversaw the production of 150 sheets of equipment layouts and shoring design work.

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Dubai International Airport, UAE

Project challenges
terminal 3 at Dubai international airport, united arab emirates is one of the worlds largest airport terminals, built as part of a $4.1 billion expansion programme to increase the airports capacity to 70 million passengers per year. the 1km long terminal building has a curved steel roof over a complex concrete frame and a substructure which accommodates arrival and departure halls, lounges, restaurants and parking. the huge basement area was constructed in an excavation 800m long, 700m wide and 20m deep. the arrangement of floors includes varying ceiling heights and open voids making the construction of the concrete structure complex to design, plan and programme. the upper slab also forms part of the aircraft apron and therefore has to support the weight of waiting planes.

Insight onsite

TM

Harsco infrastructure worked with main contractor al-naboodah JV to design and develop a forming and shoring solution to meet the unusually tight project deadline. the scale of the job was considerable, involving the construction of over 1,000,000m2 of floor slab with thicknesses of up to 2.2m and ceiling heights of up to 16m. our Gass aluminium shoring system was selected as the most appropriate, cost-effective solution. Gass is one of the most sophisticated systems of its type, used on many of the worlds largest and most complex projects. over a 30 month period, Harsco supplied over 5,000 tonnes of Gass and ancillary products to the site. using the companys experience on similar major international airport projects, a specialist team of falsework designers were based with the main contractor on site supported by close management involvement from the uK. at the peak of the project, our designers were producing over 300 drawings per month.

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for further information on Harsco infrastructure, please contact: info@harsco-i.com or visit us at: www.harsco-i.com

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