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"ROHM COMPANY LIMITED is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of electronic components. The Company operates in four segments. The Integrated Circuit (IC) segment offers monolithic ICs, power modules and photo link modules. The Semiconductor Element segment offers transistors, diodes, light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers. The Passive Component segment provides resistors and condensers. The Display segment offers thermal heads, image sensor heads, light-emitting diode (LED) displays and others" (Company Profile).

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Rohm ranks among the top semiconductor sales leaders worldwide in 2009. (iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2009)

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Rohm USA lists an Iranian distributor on its contact page. (Company website)

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Sakht Abzar Pars Co. Ltd. (SAP), the authorized distributor of Rohm products in Tehran, describes itself as an "engineering and commercial company in the fields of tools, steel material and machinery," and features Rohm on its Tooling Products page. (Iranian distributor website)

"As one of the companies having the most patent applications worldwide, NEC provides solutions in key areas: computers, networks and electronic equipment" (Company website).

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NEC Semiconductors ranks among the top semiconductor sales leaders worldwide in 2009. iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2009 

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NEC lists a Tehran branch on its website. (Company website)
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VAFA International Trading, an international trading company based in Tehran, features a variety of NEC products on its website, including LCD monitors, plasma displays, medical displays, and projectors. (Iranian company website)

According to Business Standard, “The Company has three manufacturing facilities globally. It has its own sales offices in UAE, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, India, UK, USA and Singapore…Simmtronics supplies to the leading computer manufacturers and has a base of over 20 OEMs which include the top names in the IT industry like HP, IBM, LG, Samsung, Acer, PCS, Zenith, etc“ (About Simmtronics, Business Standard). 

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The company website lists a sales office in Iran. (Company website)

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Simmtronics has a global agreement with IBM, another semiconductor company that does business in Iran. (“Simmtronics Semiconductors enters into Global Agreement with IBM Corp,” Corporate Announcement, Business Standard, January 18, 2010.)

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In June 2009, an article in India's Business Standard on Simmtronics detailed its involvement in Iran: “Simmtronics Semiconductors, one of the leading brands in memory module, motherboards and VGA cards business; ranked amidst Top 5 memory companies in the world and also ranked as No. 1 memory module company in Asia-Pacific besides a few other countries announced that it has recently conducted a mega channel activation program in Iran. Simmtronics has been successfully selling memory products in Iran for the past three years.

The channel activation program organized by Simmtronics in the capital city Tehran was well attended as over 200 channel partners from various cities of the country participated enthusiastically in it...

 “According to Mr. Indrajit Sabharwal, Managing Director, Simmtronics Semiconductors Limited, “This is in accordance with our strategy to expand and enhance our business presence globally. Iran is an important and promising market for us. We wish to increase our channel partner network in the country as there’s an immense potential for our products. Our strategy is to appoint channel partners in the unrepresented markets of Iran such that we leverage on the burgeoning demand that they have exhibited in the recent past. This initiative shall further boost our market share in the country.

Lately, as per the international trend, the demand for laptop memory has shown a decent traction in Iran in comparison to that for desktops. Simmtronics recognizes this as an important opportunity and is striving to tap the same through its dedicated channel network. Besides this, the replacement and upgrade market in Iran has also grown tremendously. Increase in adoption of heavier applications by businesses calls for higher memory which has fuelled replacement and upgrades to a new high. This business is as big as that of new purchase for Simmtronics in Iran.

Digital ME is Simmtronics’ Exclusive Partner in Iran for motherboards, VGA cards and memory modules. Simmtronics memory modules sales is Iran is being headed by Ms. Samira Keshmiri.  According to her, “This was for the very first time that a memory company in Iran conducted a channel activity. Therefore, the response was overwhelming. Channel partners in Iran look forward to such informative and business enhancing sessions. Simmtronics played the role of a responsible vendor who genuinely cares about its channel community and is not just another box-pusher with an eye on numbers only” (“Simmtronics headed to become No. 1 memory products company in Iran,” Corporate Announcement, Business Standard, July 8, 2009).

"Iran’s Oil Ministry said the country had signed a €1 billion ($1.3 billion) pipeline deal to take gas to Turkey and a Turkish firm called Som Petrol said it was the partner in 
the project.

“The one billion euro deal to build 660km gas pipeline was signed on Thursday during the Iranian Oil Minister’s trip to Turkey,” the Iranian ministry said in a statement on Friday...

“The pipeline will enable Iran to export 50 to 60 million metres of gas per day ... It will be constructed within three years,” Javad Oji, head of the National Iranian Gas Export Co. (NIGC), told the Iranian Oil Ministry’s official ebsite (sic) SHANA.

Oji was quoted by the Mehr news agency as also saying that 23 per cent of the project would be handled by the Iranian side and 77 per cent by the Turkish side. One of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers, Iran has been hit by US and UN sanctions that have hindered access to foreign investment and slowed its development as a major exporter.

The website identified NIGC’s Turkish partner as ASB Co., but Som Petrol said it had signed the deal.

“We signed the agreement on the Iran-Turkey pipeline yesterday,” Som Petrol’s Chairman Sitki Ayan told Reuters.

This agreement can be seen as continuation of a project that began in 2008.

Iran and Turkey first agreed on a pipeline project in 2008 with the aim of carrying Iranian gas to Europe.

Ayan said the pipeline would carry 110 million cubic metres of gas per day and is planned to be completed in 2014...

Som Petrol already has operations in Turkmenistan and has been looking to expand business with Iran. A unit of Som Petrol had applied to the energy regulator EPDK for permission to purchase electricity from Iran, according to officials from the regulator.

Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said neither the Turkish government nor state pipeline concern Botas were involved in the deal with Iran, though several private firms had hown (sic) interest.

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 Heavy Industries, Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of transportation equipment and industrial goods primarily in Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia” (“Kawasaki Heavy Industries (7012:JP),” Bloomberg Business Week, 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. ("BREAKTHOUGH ALLIANCE: LOVAT & KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES," Lovat Inc. News Release, April 12, 2006.)
•    Collaboration with SELI ("Collaboration for new TBM supplier," TunnelTalk, 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).

     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” (“China's Northern Heavy Industries acquires controlling stake of France's NFM,” Sina English, 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) 

“NFM Technologies SA, a mechanical engineering company, designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies mechanical equipment and systems.”

“The company’s products are used in various applications in defense/aeronautics, nuclear, oil/gas, underground work, heavy industry, and major structures markets in the United States and internationally."

“It operates manufacturing plants in Shenyang and Guangzhou, China; and Le Creusot, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, and Lyon, France. As of May 28, 2007, NFM Technologies SA is a subsidiary of Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd." (“NFM Technologies SA – Private Company Information,” Bloomberg Business Week, 2010).
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“Ranked amongst the most important tunnel-boring machine manufacturers on the world market, NFM Technologies provides its customers with tunneling machines of 4 to more than 15 metres in diameter, suited to all types of geology, acknowledged for their reliability and robustness” (Company website).

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“In September 2007 state-corporation NHI, Northern Heavy Industry Group, purchased a 70% share of French TBM and nuclear equipment manufacturer NFM. Niko Kleuters, previously with NFM's prior owner, WIRTH of Germany, left WIRTH to retain the remaining 30% share in NFM” (“China adds CIFA to its European acquisitions,” TunnelTalk, September 2008).

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NFM’s website features a technologies representative in Iran. (Company website)

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An article on Iranian tunneling projects lists NFM’s involvement in the Shiraz and Tabriz subway projects, not completed as of 2009 (“Iranian TBMs continue steady march,” World Tunnelling, December 23, 2009). 
   
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NFM project in Iran, Shiraz Metro Project (Iran Project website)

Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd is a Japanese construction company involved in infrastructure and tunnel construction. (Company website)

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Kumagai machines were involved in the completed Koohrang and Cheshmeh Langan tunneling projects. (“Iranian TBMs continue steady march,” World Tunnelling, December 23, 2009)

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Kumagai has a history in Iran. Kumagai incorporated an Iranian subsidiary in the 1977, and around that time was contracted to build a water supply tunnel in Isfahan, Iran. (KUMAGAI GUMI COMPANY, LTD. Company History)

“Aker Wirth GmbH develops, manufactures, and sells drilling equipment and machinery in Germany and internationally. It offers tunnel and foundation boring machines for infrastructure projects; core components and solutions for the oil and natural gas industry; and pumping systems for mining and processing industries. The company’s products include draw works, mud pumps, and rotary tables and swivels; full-face tunnel boring, partial excavation, and slurry transport and processing equipment; onshore and offshore foundation, wind energy, and drill string and cutter equipment; and spare parts. It also offers second hand machinery, as well as provides service contacts. The company was formerly known as WIRTH Maschinen- und Bohrgeräte-Fabrik GmbH and changed its name to Aker Wirth GmbH on June 30, 2009. The company was founded in 1895 and is based in Erkelenz, Germany. As of September 4, 2007, Aker Wirth GmbH is a subsidiary of Aker Solutions ASA” (“Aker Wirth GmbH – Private Company Information,” Bloomberg Business Week, 2010.)

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In the business of TBMs, “Aker Wirth manufactures and supplies tunnel boring machines for mechanized tunnel driving for all geological conditions and all environmental requirements. Aker Wirth machines are in use in tunnel boring projects all over the world and for the excavation of a wide variety of tunnels” ("Aker Wirth - Tunnel Boring Machines, Raise Boring and Full-Face Shaft Boring Machines," Mining Technology, Net Resources International, 2010).

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Wirth has an Iran office, WPS Group Ltd. (Iranian Wirth Subsidiary

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An Iranian website features Wirth tunneling projects in Iran, including the Tabriz Metro Project.  (Iran Project website)
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Wirth has been involved in completed tunneling projects in Alborz and Ghomrud (“Iranian TBMs continue steady march,” World Tunnelling, December 23, 2009).