Fenner Conveyor Belting Pvt Ltd,being a system oriented, eco-friendly organisation opted forInternational Accreditation for itsQuality Management System (ISO9001: 2000) and EnvironmentalManagement System (ISO14001: 2004).

M/s TUV South Asia Pvt Ltdverified the systems and M/s TUVSUD Management Service GmbH,

Germany certified Fenner ConveyorBelting Pvt Ltd for ISO 9001:2000 andISO 14001: 2004 for the manufacturingplant in Madurai, South India.Thecertificates are valid for three years.

The ultimate credit of course goes tothe employees for their dedication, spiritand team work which made this possiblewithin a short span of time and hasincreased morale and commitment toreach new heights of excellence.

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I N T H I S I S S U E

Fenner Dunlop Americas have entered asupply agreement with Cemex for their U.S.operations.This marks a new partnershipbetween two leading global companies.

The partnership is worth $8m, that splits$6m in the USA and $2m in Mexico, in atypical year.

“This is a tremendous opportunity for ourcompany and our distributors,” explains JimPanter, Vice President National Account Salesand Central Services for Fenner DunlopAmericas “We are excited about partneringwith a world leader and the largest cementand ready-mix company in the United States.”

Increased rubber belting productioncapacity through the Port Clinton plantexpansion and the new double deck pressin the Toledo plant will position FennerDunlop for the additional belting salesobtained through the Cemex contract.

“The timing could not be better for thisagreement,” stated David Hurd, FennerDunlop Americas President. “The seamlessflow of belting to the Cemex facilities will be adirect result of our tremendous investments instate-of-the-art production equipment that willgreatly improve delivery times and increasebelting capacity.”

Cemex US has 12 cement plants, 49distribution terminals, 49 aggregate quarriesand 283 ready-mix concrete plantsthroughout the United States.

Fenner Dunlop Americas manufactures inexcess of 11 million feet per year in five ISOcertified factories.

FENNERFOCUSI n t e r n a l n e w s l e t t e r o f t h e F e n n e r G r o u p

CEMENTING A PARTNERSHIPWELCOME TO OUR NEW LOOK FENNER FOCUS

Wear it pink dayF.A.S.T at Hampton supported “Wear it Pink” to raise money for the BreastCancer Awareness Campaign. Page 7

Raised to new heightsDelegates from the Global TechnicalConference complete the SydneyHarbour Bridge Climb. Page 6

Management ConferenceAwardsAwards presented for 2006.Page 2

Blizzard batters Port ClintonPort Clinton employees brave the elements.Page 8

FEATHER IN THE CAP FOR INDIA

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MANAGEMENTCONFERENCEAWARDSEvery year at the Fenner Management Conference, awards arepresented to various sections within the Fenner Group for their achievements throughout the year and 2006 was no exception.

All received a framed cartoon of their achievements,personalised and illustrated by our very own Allan Betts,Studio Manager of Fenner Publicity.

And finally, Richard Morello,Director of Corporate Development,for his work on the EGC acquisition.

Simon Davies, Managing Director, F.A.S.T.Hampton, for the commissioning of the newHampton facility.

Fenner DunlopAmericas LightweightBelting for theirproduct developmentand winning the UPScontract.

John Pratt, ManagingDirector, and his team atFenner Dunlop Europe,Marfleet, for their Polishcontract.

Edwin Have,Managing Director,and his team atFenner DunlopEurope, Drachten,for their profitimprovement.

Expansion Award given toFenner Precision USA, forsuccessfully remodelling andexpanding the existing building by30% and increasing the numberof belts shipped by 23%.

Hank Miser, Chairman,CDI Houston for sustainedprofitability.

IRON MANINTRODUCINGDOUG SIMMONS

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C O N V E Y O R B E L T I N G A M E R I C A S

Emily Phillips reports that Kelly Brown,Corporate Financial Analyst in the Atlantaoffice is a classic example of someone who,out of a desire to lose weight and improveher overall health and well being, canbecome an inspiration to us all.

In November 2006, Kelly completed theFull Iron Man Triathlon competition inPanama City, Florida.This consists of a 2.4mile swim in the ocean, 112 miles on abike and finally 26.2 mile run.This isaccomplished without breaks betweenevents as any breaks count towards therecorded time.

Kelly had enlisted a certified USA triathloncoach to help prepare her for the event,which kept her toned and injury free.Kelly’s build up to this event was aninterest in running, leading to participatingin her first 10k run in 2001. Building up toher first of several Triathlon ‘Sprints” (a 600metre swim, an 11 mile bike ride and a 5krun), this was followed by two Half IronMan Triathlons, a 1.2 mile swim, a 56 milebike ride and a 13.1 mile run.

Kelly, when asked what she had learnedfrom her accomplishment said, “Aside fromgetting physically fit – you learn to eat theright things, set yourself goals, what a greatstress reliever regular exercise can be, andyou get to meet some interesting andawesome people participating in theseevents.”

Kelly’s advice about exercise is “Just dosomething - walk, bike, swim, walk the dog.Find something that suits your lifestyle andstart gradually.”

Doug’s team will consist of the following:-

Chuck Felix, promoted to Vice President ofMining Sales. Chuck continues to lead histeam toward increasing our market share.

Robert Primeau is appointed to theposition of Director of Industrial Sales. InBob’s new position he will lead theindustrial sales team and continue hissupport of the marketing goals for Canada.

Jim Panter’s role will concentrate onnational accounts. Jim’s new position will beVice President National Account Sales andCentral Services.

Paulo Pereira is Regional Business Managerfor our export sales. Paulo will beconcentrating his team to increase ourpresence in Mexico and South Americanmarkets.

Don Sublett is Marketing Manager. Doncontinues to lead his team in promotingFDA belting to North and South Americaas well as assisting the sales team inidentifying new markets.

Mike Cremeens is the Business UnitManager for Splicing/Scanning.

Bob said, “I had never expected anyrecognition for the experiences I had becausefrankly I enjoyed what I was doing, but at thesame time I felt emotional when I receivedthem.The last two years of my service is stillclassified and I doubt if I’ll be alive when thesecurity veil is lifted from them.”

The medal on the topleft is the NavyExpeditionary Medalfor being under fire inforeign territory.Casualties weresuffered in thisoperation and at thispoint the details arestill classified.

The top right with thered ribbon is for goodconduct.The next onedown on the left is aNavy Service pin.

To the right are Bob’sDolphins. After

Submarine School, you are assigned to asubmarine.They give you a year to qualify,where you learn enough to fill in for anystation in order to save the boat in case ofdisaster or injury.

Underneath theNaval Servicepin is a smallpin signifying anHonourableDischarge.

The bottom left is the National Defencepin. It is understood that anyone whoreceived an Expeditionary Medal, servedduring the Vietnam era, or in either Iraqconflict is eligible for this recognition.

The bottom right is an Armed ForcesExpeditionary Service Medal. This isawarded to people who participated in theCuban Blockade. At the time, Bob didn’treally realise how serious this was.

The last two years Bob served was themost exciting time of his life, with somereally hair raising experiences, but whenyou’re young you look at things differently.Bob hopes that someday, he can sharethese experiences with his Grandchildren.

Bob said, “I take great pride in havingserved my country, knowing the othermen and women who have done so,and in realising we are still providingdedicated service people.”

David Hurd, President of Fenner Dunlop Americas, recentlyannounced the appointment of Doug Simmons to FDA VicePresident of Sales and Marketing. Doug will lead the sales andmarketing team in broadening the customer base in bothdomestic and international markets.

SURPRISE PACKAGE FROM THE US NAVYBob St. Clair who works for Fenner Dunlop Americas wassurprised to receive a package from the Department of theNavy. It contained some medals for his service that hadpreviously been classified.

15 YEARS LONG SERVICERichard Morello, Director of CorporateDevelopment, celebrates 15 years longservice with the company. Pictured herereceiving his certificate from MarkAbrahams (right).

Richard started with Fenner in October1991 as Finance Director for PowerTransmission and Manufacturing, workingfor Henry Nelson.

Six months later he was working forDudley Mallet in the re-shaping of the

Marfleet site, becoming General Managerof PT Engineering by September 1992.

In 1995 he became the Finance Directorof the Power Transmission Division,working for Mike Cunnell, initially in Hullbut later moving to Leeds.When thisDivision was sold in 1998, he remainedwith Fenner as the CorporateDevelopment Director, based atHesslewood, the position he holds today.

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Group Publicity, based at Hesslewood,has been producing a wide range ofpromotional material for Fenner forover 60 years.

Allan Betts has taken overresponsibility for FennerGroup Publicity in his role asStudio manager followingGerald Oxley’s retirement.

Allan has been with Fennerfor 26 years and has over40 years experience as agraphic designer. He isjoined in the department bygraphic designers MichelleMadden and Rebecca Lord.

Michelle joined Fenner inAugust last year with over15 years graphic designexperience in a leadingManchester design studio.

Rebecca joined us in 1994and has worked on a widerange of the department’soutput. Rebecca has nowtaken on the task as editorof Fenner Focus on a part-time basis.

The Fenner Group Publicityartwork and design services areavailable to all the Fennercompanies worldwide and staff are always there toassist and advise on the creation of sales literature,press advertisements, technical brochures,exhibitions, displays and promotional material.

THE FENNERGROUPPUBLICITYDEPARTMENT

Gerald Oxley celebrated his retirementwith friends and colleagues at a dinner, heldat Brantingham Park, home of the HullIonians Rugby Club and reportedly his‘second home’.

Mark Abrahams spoke of not the end ofGerald’s career, but of the 43 years ofservice to Fenner, of how the Publicitydepartment has changed over the years, yetremained consistent in its quality of work.

Gerald and his wife Sheila, were presentedwith a flat screen TV, DVD recorder and forSheila, a large bouquet of flowers.

Gerald gave a thank you speech, but beingGerald, it was one to remember! Hepresented some amusing gifts of his own, toclose colleagues and friends, but best of allwas a calligraphy set given to Richard Perry

for the Group Finance department, in thehope that they might learn to write morelegibly when doing the report and accountsproof reading.

He paid tribute to the Group Publicity stafffor the support that he had received overthe years and re-assured everyone that thedepartment has been left in good hands.

Gerald joined Fenner in March 1964 fromthe Hull Daily Mail where he served as aapprentice. He was promoted to FennerGroup Publicity Manager in 1969.

We wish him all the best for a long andhappy retirement.

GERALD SAYS FAREWELLAFTER 43 YEARS!Gerald Oxley retired from the company on 9 February after serving nearly 43 years with theGroup Publicity department.

Left: Mark Abrahams presented Gerald and Sheila with cardsand gifts to mark his retirement.Right: Richard Perry receives a caligraphy set on behalf ofGroup Finance from Gerald. Michelle Madden

Allan Betts

Rebecca Lord

This local landmark that can be seen fromthe Fenner headquarters in Hessle wasofficially opened in 1981 by H.M. theQueen. It spans the North and Southbanks of the River Humber and is overone mile long, with it’s two towers standingover 500ft high.

Celebrations to mark the occasion beganat the beginning of the year whenapplications were taken to abseil from thevery top of the two towers (north bank)with the Royal Marines.This had neverbefore been open to the general public.

Knowing that I had wanted to do“something” to raise money for charity, myhusband sent in my application as abirthday gift and after a 60 foot trainingassessment, I was accepted for thechallenge, along with almost 200 others.

On a very misty and wet Sunday morning,my time arrived. To my own surprise Iwasn’t nervous, I just wanted to do it.

After climbing over the barrier, settling intothe harness and a smile for the camera, itwas time to go.The view, even in the mistwas magnificent, I began to shake about 50feet down.This was the adrenaline kicking

in. But once I relaxed and got on with it,the rest of the way was just great fun andon reaching the bottom I was on anamazing high.

The team of Marines from the North EastRegiment were fantastic.They were veryprofessional, putting you at easeand making the wholeexperience one that I will neverforget, especially discovering thatColin ‘Milky’ Milkens, the Marinethat had looked after me so wellon the way down, had done theabseil with a broken finger!

I must say a big thank you toeveryone who supported andsponsored me for this event. Iraised £1,300 for TheInternational Rescue Corps,which is a British voluntaryorganisation, who’s patron is SirRichard Branson. Members giveup their time and training torescue people all over the worldfrom natural disasters such asfloods and earthquakes and at home areclosely linked with the Humber RescueTeam.

NEW CHINA FACILITIES

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TOWERING ACHIEVEMENTTOWERING ACHIEVEMENTRebecca Lord reports that 2006 saw the Humber Bridge celebrate it’s silver jubilee.

Cassandra Pan, Managing Director ofShanghai Fenner, reports on the recentrelocation of Fenner China’s corporateoffice in Shanghai, together with Fenner’swholly owned subsidiaries in China, DawsonPolymer Products (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. andFenner Sealing Technologies (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd, who have established two state-of-the-art manufacturing operations at this newsite in the Jiading Industrial Park, providingbetter sales and services for both local andAsian customers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Fenner China’s corporate office:785 Xing Rong Road, Jiading District,Shanghai 201807, China.Tel: 86-21-59546363, Fax: 86-21-59546663

Dawson Polymer Products (Shanghai) Co., Ltd:Tel: 86-21-59546161, Fax: 86-21-59546378

Fenner Sealing Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd:Tel: 86-21-59546262, Fax: 86-21-59546085

Operations in China, Shanghai FennerConveyor Belting Co., Ltd. and Dunlop MiningEquipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.,445 Waiqian Gong Lu, Jiading,Shanghai 201823, China.Tel: 86-21-59936989, Fax: 86-21-59936734

Exterior of the new facility in China

View of part of Fenner Sealing Technologies facility

One section of thenew Dawson Polymer

Products facility

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The Adelaide team recently completed the installation oftwo off 210mx1200mm wide three ply belts to a newlyconstructed snake sandwich high angled shipload conveyorat the Port Adelaide docking facility.

Conveyors of this nature utilise two conventionalsmooth surface belts that sandwich material betweenthem. By exploiting the conveyors natural belt tensionthrough a profile of successive alternative convexcurves, hugging pressure is applied to the conveyedmaterial.This pressure develops internal friction withinthe material, in this case sand, and prevents materialslide-back at any angle up to a vertical (90 degrees).

As the 22 Metre high structure was still under construction, the three day installationpresented a number of safety implications and mechanical challenges.The Adelaidetechnicians along with Project Manager Rob Joyner were able to draw upon experiencegained in 2006 on board a vessel in Singapore, having a similar application and completedthe project on time and without incident.

NEW M.D. FORSOUTH AFRICA

QUALITYACHIEVEMENT

Doug Rome has beenappointed ManagingDirector of FennerConveyor Belting (SouthAfrica) (Pty) Limited, toreplace Frank Ledger.

Frank will remain involvedas a Director andManager of ProjectSteelbok, which will runfor approximately twelve months and sees asignificant expansion of the company’scapabilities and future growth.

Doug’s career began with the National CoalBoard in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he heldpositions as a junior draughtsman and asenior design engineer, after which heaccepted the position of Chief DesignEngineer with Dowty Mining in their SouthAfrican Company. Over the years Dougbecame Projects Manager,Technical Directorand eventually Manufacturing Director.

The Company was sold to Joy Mining andDoug became Managing Director of theConveyor Division.When ContinentalConveyor and Equipment of the U.S.A.purchased the company, Doug was appointedManaging Director of Continental Meco. Aposition he held until he joined Fenner.

Married to wife Liz, Doug has a son of 34and a daughter of 35 and enjoys listening tomusic, going to the gym and confesses tobeing addicted to playing squash.

Recertification audits to ISO9001.2000 have beenundertaken on the Fenner Dunlop Australia QualityManagement System by SAI Global, in order toverify compliance with the internationallyrecognised standard.

We are pleased to announce that after findingno conformance issues SAI GlobalCertification Authority has re-certified thetwo Australian manufacturing facilities and 12service branches for a further four years.This was possible due to the work by the wholeteam, headed by Cliff Vanstone, Diane Knowles and all of the Branch Managers.

Fenner Dunlop Australia recentlyhosted the Global TechnicalConference with delegates from theUS, Marfleet and Drachten. A widevariety of technical issues wascovered with useful insights gained byall parties.

All delegates toured both WestFootscray and Revesby manufacturingplants with the conferenceculminating in the team reaching newheights when they visited Sydney andcompleted the Sydney HarbourBridge Climb. The team was guidedalong the climb which takes approx.3.5 hours to complete, and it gavethem the opportunity to get a 360o

view of Sydney Harbour.

SNAKE SANDWICH

RAISED TO NEW HEIGHTSRAISED TO NEW HEIGHTS

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RETIREMENT DEWBarbara Dew (Fenner Drives Wilmington), pictured centre, retiredafter more than 17 years service. Barbara started working withEfson, now known as Fenner Drives, in July of 1989. She mostlyworked in the Assembly Department. She set the bar very highfor others to follow. Even though she was the lead person in herdepartment, she’d never ask anyone to do anything that shewouldn’t do herself. Barbara plans to spend her time travelling andspending time with her eight grandchildren. She’s off to Germanyto spend a few weeks with her daughter and family.Then, whoknows where.

We wish her well in her retirement.

Eric Smith pictured right, is smiling at the “parking space” sign presentedby Mike Thompson, Managing Director of Fenner Precision, for 20years service with the company. Even though Eric works for FennerPrecision, Manheim, he works from home in Chicago, so the only"Parking Space" he has, is on his own driveway. Congratulations Eric!

As Fenner Drives pushed for market sharein the ceramic and roofing tile manufacturingsector, early successes were quicklytempered by apparent gaps in its Eagleurethane and polyester belting product linevs. key European market competitors.

Rapid new product development programsover the last quarter have led to theFebruary 2007 market launch of four newPVC and urethane grip top beltingderivatives under the Eagle and PowerTwistbrand names.

Whilst all three PVC topped derivativeswere based on pre-existing Leeds orManheim manufacturing technology, thedevelopment of the Eagle Ivory 85 SGTrequired starting from scratch as neitherplant had ever bonded successfully twodissimilar urethane polymers and thenthermo-formed the required grip topsurface.

Twenty-two different ideas about how thiscould be achieved came out from a “thinktank” session, these were quickly distilled

down to four potentially viable options.TheFenner Drives’ New Product DevelopmentTeam “rolled the dice”, picked their favourite– which fortunately turned out to be aquick time winner!

PowerTwist SGT – PVC topEagle Ivory 85 SGT – Urethane topEagle White 40 SGT – PVC topEagle Red 89 SGT – PVC top

NEW MARKETS NEW PRODUCTS

WEAR IT PINK DAYFenner Advanced Sealing Technologies at Hampton supported“Wear it Pink” to raise money for the Breast Cancer AwarenessCampaign. The event was a huge success, everyone in the companytook part, some even suffering humiliation for the cause!

Employees either came to work wearing something pink or choseto wear a pink ribbon to support the charity. Fundraising eventsincluded a “guess the baby competition”, a car wash-athon, andseveral members of management opting to have long pink falsenails applied for the day. Although there were initially protests onthe day it has been noted how quickly and how well they wereable to adapt to them!

The factory fashion parade drew the most excitement, thecompany’s newest recruits, Pauline and Wynifred (alias PaulAnthony, Commercial Manager and Wyn Jenkins, Group QualityManager) made a huge impression, one that will certainly not beforgotten for quite a while!

Hampton raised a total of £2,036.00 for the charity which waspresented to Breast Cancer Campaign’s Jackie Barrett when shevisited the factory. Breast Cancer Campaign is dedicated toresearching the cure for breast cancer and has helped to fund 14new projects in this last year alone, any one of them could take usone step closer to better treatments for this disease.

Fenner Group headquarters at Hessle and Fenner Dunlop at Marfleetalso joined in the “Wear it Pink” day and raised £200 between them for this great cause.

ERIC'S 20 YEAR SERVICE

Snow, sleet and rain slammed into Canadaand the north–eastern United States in theworst storms this winter.

Despite the chaos it was hats off to somededicated employees at Port Clinton. As thesnow hit, the weather was set to a level 3emergency, when no-one is to be on theroads unless they are a medical team.Thissent many employees home by 1pm.

At work, the Rotocure Crew knew that abelt needed to be finished and sent out.

Headed by Jeff Bier, who stayed until the jobwas done, a team of dedicated staff made it

happen. Some third shift employees bravedthe weather and came in early. Joe Maresand Ted Wilkens came in three hours beforetheir shift was due to begin. Carl Taylorstruggled in for his shift on Wednesdaymorning.

The level was still at 3 when Maintenancejoined the team. Rick Roach put in a twelvehour shift instead of eight, as did RogerMattox who came in four hours early to shiftsnow. Rick Eaton and John Vascik teamedtogether and between them the plant nevershut down.That’s the kind of team workFenner is about.Well done guys.

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The James Dawson Ryder Cup golfcompetition was held at Canwick Park GolfClub, Lincoln and was won by the works team.

Canwick Park is a hilly course on the outskirtsof Lincoln with fantastic views of LincolnCathedral; it is rumoured that all greens slopetowards the Cathedral.

‘RYDER CUP’

Richard Turner captain of the staff team presenting the‘Ryder Cup’ to Mick Smith the captain of the works teamwith the sun shining on the 16th hole in the background.

In the 1930’s the Fenner factory at Marfleet in Hull was situated adjacent to the largest docks on the east coast of Britain outside of theThames and was therefore very vulnerable to enemy bombing.With this in mind, the total Marfleet operations were transferred to factories inthe West Yorkshire and Lancashire. Fortunately, the move was completed before 1941 when the Marfleet site suffered massive bomb damage.

We believe the above photograph is of the wartime employees at the Colne factory in Lancashire which housed the V-belt and flat belt weavingdepartments. In all, Fenner had five factories scattered about West Yorkshire and Lancashire with each one making a significant contribution tothe country’s war effort.

BLIZZARDS BATTERPORT CLINTONTom Chapman reports that on Valentine’s Day, massive snow storms battered North America,closing schools, stopping hundreds of flights and causing traffic chaos on dangerous icy roads.

C O N V E Y O R B E L T I N G A M E R I C A S

While on his annual, surffishing trip on BrigantineBeach, New Jersey,Frank Fatato caughta 16lb, 35 inchstriped bass. It wasthe largest fish ofthe trip and arecord he hopes to beat next year.

WHAT A BIG ONE!

MEMORY LANE