Category 2 - Materials Processing

c. Active magnetic bearing systems using any of the following, and specially designed components therefor: 1. Materials with flux densities of 2.0 T or greater and yield strengths greater than 414 MPa; 2. All-electromagnetic 3D homopolar bias designs for actuators; or 3. High temperature (450 K (177°C) and above) position sensors.

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Radial ball bearings, other than those specified in 2A001, having all tolerances specified in accordance with ISO 492 Tolerance Class 2 (or ANSI/ABMA Std 20 Tolerance Class ABEC-9 or other national equivalents), or better and having all of the following characteristics: a. An inner ring bore diameter between 12 mm and 50 mm; b. An outer ring outside diameter between 25 mm and 100 mm; and c. A width between 10 mm and 20 mm.

Crucibles made of materials resistant to liquid actinide metals, as follows:

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Valves having all of the following characteristics: a. A ‘nominal size’ of 5 mm or greater; b. Having a bellows seal; and c. Wholly made of or lined with aluminium, aluminium alloy, nickel, or nickel alloy containing more than 60 % nickel by weight.

Machine tools and any combination thereof, for removing (or cutting) metals, ceramics or 'composites', which, according to the manufacturer's technical specification, can be equipped with electronic devices for simultaneous 'contouring control' in two or more axes.

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Numerically controlled optical finishing machine tools equipped for selective material removal to produce non-spherical optical surfaces having all of the following characteristics:

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"Numerically controlled" machine tools, specially designed for the shaving, finishing, grinding or honing of hardened (Rc = 40 or more) spur, helical and double-helical gears having all of the following:

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Hot 'isostatic presses' having all of the following, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:

Equipment specially designed for the deposition, processing and in-process control of inorganic overlays, coatings and surface modifications, as follows, for substrates specified in column 2, by processes shown in column 1 in the Table following 2.E.3.f., and specially designed automated handling, positioning, manipulation and control components therefor:

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b. 2. Linear position feedback units specially designed for machine tools and having an overall "accuracy" less (better) than (800 + (600 x L/1,000)) nm (L equals effective length in mm); 3. Measuring systems having all of the following:

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"Robots" having any of the following characteristics and specially designed controllers and "end-effectors" therefor:

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'Compound rotary tables' and "tilting spindles", specially designed for machine tools, as follows:

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Spin-forming machines and flow-forming machines, which, according to the manufacturer's technical specification, can be equipped with "numerical control" units or a computer control and having all of the following:

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"Isostatic presses", other than those specified in 2B004, having all of the following: a. Maximum working pressure of 69 MPa or greater; b. Designed to achieve and maintain a controlled thermal environment of 873 K (600 °C) or greater; and c. Possessing a chamber cavity with an inside diameter of 254 mm or greater.

Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) furnaces, other than those specified in 2B005.a., designed or modified for the densification of carbon-carbon composites.

Flow-forming machines, other than those specified in 2B009, usable in the "production" of propulsion components and equipment (e.g. motor cases and interstages) for "missiles", and specially designed components as follows:

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Vibration test systems, equipment and components therefor, as follows:

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Equipment and process controls, other than those specified in 2B004, 2B005.a., 2B104 or 2B105, designed or modified for densification and pyrolysis of structural composite rocket nozzles and reentry vehicle nose tips.

Balancing machines and related equipment, as follows:

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Motion simulators or rate tables having all of the following characteristics: a. Two or more axes; b. Designed or modified to incorporate slip rings or integrated non-contact devices capable of transferring electrical power, signal information, or both; and c. Having any of the following characteristics: 1. For any single axis having all of the following: a. Capable of rates of 400 degrees/s or more, or 30 degrees/s or less; and b. A rate resolution equal to or less than 6 degrees/s and an accuracy equal to or less than 0,6 degrees/s; 2. Having a worst-case rate stability equal to or better (less) than plus or minus 0,05 % averaged over 10 degrees or more; or 3. A positioning "accuracy" equal to or less (better) than 5 arc second.

Positioning tables (equipment capable of precise rotary positioning in any axes), other than those specified in 2B120, having all of the following characteristics: a. Two or more axes; and b. A positioning "accuracy" equal to or less (better) than 5 arc second.

Centrifuges capable of imparting accelerations greater than 100 g and designed or modified to incorporate slip rings or integrated non-contact devices capable of transferring electrical power, signal information, or both.

Machine tools and any combination thereof, other than those specified in 2B001, as follows, for removing or cutting metals, ceramics or "composites", which, according to the manufacturer’s technical specification, can be equipped with electronic devices for simultaneous "contouring control" in two or more axes:

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"Isostatic presses", other than those specified in 2B004 or 2B104, and related equipment, as follows:

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Dimensional inspection machines, instruments or systems, other than those specified in 2B006, as follows:

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"Robots", "end-effectors" and control units, other than those specified in 2B007, as follows:

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Flow forming machines, spin forming machines capable of flow forming functions, other than those specified in 2B009 or 2B109, and mandrels, as follows:

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Centrifugal multiplane balancing machines, fixed or portable, horizontal or vertical, as follows:

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Remote manipulators that can be used to provide remote actions in radiochemical separation operations or hot cells, having either of the following characteristics:

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Controlled atmosphere (vacuum or inert gas) induction furnaces, other than those specified in 9B001 and 3B001, and power supplies therefor, as follows:

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Vacuum or other controlled atmosphere metallurgical melting and casting furnaces and related equipment as follows:

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Rotor fabrication or assembly equipment, rotor straightening equipment, bellows-forming mandrels and dies, as follows:

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All types of ‘pressure transducers’ capable of measuring absolute pressures and having all of the following: a. Pressure sensing elements made of or protected by aluminium, aluminium alloy, aluminium oxide (alumina or sapphire), nickel, nickel alloy with more than 60 % nickel by weight, or fully fluorinated hydrocarbon polymers; b. Seals, if any, essential for sealing the pressure sensing element, and in direct contact with the process medium, made of or protected by aluminium, aluminium alloy, aluminium oxide (alumina or sapphire), nickel, nickel alloy with more than 60 % nickel by weight, or fully fluorinated hydrocarbon polymers; and c. Having either of the following characteristics: 1. A full scale of less than 13 kPa and an ‘accuracy’ of better than 1 % of full-scale; or 2. A full scale of 13 kPa or greater and an ‘accuracy’ of better than 130 Pa when measured at 13 kPa.

Vacuum pumps having all of the following characteristics: a. Input throat size equal to or greater than 380 mm; b. Pumping speed equal to or greater than 15 m^3/s; and c. Capable of producing an ultimate vacuum better than 13 mPa.

High-velocity gun systems (propellant, gas, coil, electromagnetic, and electrothermal types, and other advanced systems) capable of accelerating projectiles to 1,5 km/s or greater.

Bellows-sealed scroll-type compressors and bellows-sealed scroll-type vacuum pumps having all of the following: a. Capable of an inlet volume flow rate of 50 m^3/h or greater; b. Capable of a pressure ratio of 2:1 or greater; and c. Having all surfaces that come in contact with the process gas made from any of the following materials: 1. Aluminium or aluminium alloy; 2. Aluminium oxide; 3. Stainless steel; 4. Nickel or nickel alloy; 5. Phosphor bronze; or 6. Fluoropolymers.

Chemical manufacturing facilities, equipment and components, as follows:

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Toxic gas monitors and monitoring systems and their dedicated detecting components, other than those specified in 1A004, as follows; and detectors; sensor devices; and replaceable sensor cartridges therefor:

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Biological manufacturing and handling equipment, as follows:

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"Software", other than that specified in 2D002, as follows:

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"Software" for electronic devices, even when residing in an electronic device or system, enabling such devices or systems to function as a "numerical control" unit, capable of co-ordinating simultaneously more than 4 axes for "contouring control".

"Software", designed or modified for the operation of equipment specified in 2.B.2., that converts optical design, workpiece measurements and material removal functions into "numerical control" commands to achieve the desired workpiece form.

"Software" specially designed or modified for the "use" of equipment specified in 2B104, 2B105, 2B109, 2B116, 2B117 or 2B119 to 2B122.

"Software" specially designed for the "use" of equipment specified in 2B204, 2B206, 2B207, 2B209, 2B219 or 2B227.

"Software" specially designed or modified for the "development", "production" or "use" of equipment specified in 2B201.

"Software", other than that specified in 1D003, specially designed for "use" of equipment specified in 2B351.

"Software" specially designed for nucleic acid assemblers and synthesisers specified in 2B352.i., that is capable of designing and building functional genetic elements from digital sequence data.

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "development" of equipment or "software" specified in 2.A., 2.B. or 2.D.

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "production" of equipment specified in 2.A. or 2.B.

f. "Technology" for the application of inorganic overlay coatings or inorganic surface modification coatings (specified in column 3 of the following table) to non-electronic substrates (specified in column 2 of the following table), by processes specified in column 1 of the following table and defined in the Technical Note. Deposition (CVD) passages Ceramics (19) and Low- Silicides expansion glasses (14) Carbides Dielectric layers (15) Diamond Diamond-like carbon (17) Carbon-carbon, Silicides Ceramic and Carbides Metal "matrix" Refractory metals "composites" Mixtures thereof (4) Dielectric layers (15) Aluminides Alloyed aluminides (2) Boron nitride Cemented tungsten Carbides carbide (16), Tungsten Silicon carbide (18) Mixtures thereof (4) Dielectric layers (15) Molybdenum and Dielectric layers (15) Molybdenum alloys Beryllium and Dielectric layers (15) Beryllium alloys Diamond Diamond-like carbon (17) Sensor window Dielectric layers (15) materials (9) Diamond Diamond-like carbon (17) Physical Vapour Deposition (TE-PVD) Deposition (PVD): Alloyed aluminides (2) Electron-Beam MCrAlX (5) (EB-PVD) Modified zirconia (12) Silicides Aluminides Mixtures thereof (4) Ceramics (19) and Low- Dielectric layers (15) expansion glasses (14) Corrosion resistant MCrAlX (5) steel (7) Modified zirconia (12) Mixtures thereof (4) Carbon-carbon, Silicides Ceramic and Carbides Metal "matrix" Refractory metals "composites" Mixtures thereof (4) Dielectric layers (15) Boron nitride Cemented tungsten Carbides carbide (16), Tungsten Silicon carbide (18) Mixtures thereof (4) Dielectric layers (15) Molybdenum and Dielectric layers (15) Molybdenum alloys Beryllium and Dielectric layers (15) Beryllium alloys Borides Beryllium Sensor window Dielectric layers (15) materials (9) Titanium alloys (13) Borides Nitrides heating Physical Vapour expansion glasses (14) Diamond-like carbon (17) Deposition (PVD) (Ion Plating) Carbon-carbon, Dielectric layers (15) Ceramic and Metal "matrix" "composites" Cemented tungsten Dielectric layers (15) carbide (16), Silicon carbide Molybdenum and Molybdenum alloys Dielectric layers (15) Beryllium and Beryllium alloys Dielectric layers (15) Sensor window Dielectric layers (15) materials (9) Diamond-like carbon (17) Deposition (PVD): expansion glasses (14) Dielectric layers (15) "Laser" Vaporization Diamond-like carbon (17) Carbon-carbon, Dielectric layers (15) Ceramic and Metal "matrix" "composites" Cemented tungsten Dielectric layers (15) carbide (16), Silicon carbide Molybdenum and Dielectric layers (15) Molybdenum alloys Beryllium and Dielectric layers (15) Beryllium alloys Sensor window Dielectric layers (15) materials (9) Diamond-like carbon (17) Deposition (PVD): Alloyed aluminides (2) Cathodic Arc Discharge MCrAlX (5) Polymers (11) and Borides Organic "matrix" Carbides "composites" Nitrides Diamond-like carbon (17) (see A above for Ceramic and Carbides out-of-pack Metal "matrix" Mixtures thereof (4) cementation) (10) "composites" Titanium alloys (13) Silicides Aluminides Alloyed aluminides (2) Refractory metals Silicides and alloys (8) Oxides Modified zirconia (12) Mixtures thereof (4) Abradable Nickel-Graphite Abradable materials containing Ni-Cr-Al Abradable Al-Si-Polyester Alloyed aluminides (2) Aluminium alloys (6) MCrAlX (5) Modified zirconia (12) Silicides Mixtures thereof (4) Refractory metals Aluminides and alloys (8) Silicides Carbides steel (7) Modified zirconia (12) Mixtures thereof (4) Titanium alloys (13) Carbides Aluminides Silicides Alloyed aluminides (2) Abradable Nickel-Graphite Abradable materials containing Ni-Cr-Al Abradable Al-Si-Polyester and alloys (8) Fused aluminides except for resistance heating elements Carbon-carbon, Silicides Ceramic and Carbides Metal "matrix" Mixtures thereof (4) "composites" Alloyed aluminides (2) Noble metal modified aluminides (3) MCrAlX (5) Modified zirconia (12) Platinum Mixtures thereof (4) Ceramics and Low- Silicides expansion glasses (14) Platinum Mixtures thereof (4) Dielectic layers (15) Diamond-like carbon (17) Nitrides Oxides Silicides Aluminides Alloyed aluminides (2) Carbides Carbon-carbon, Silicides Ceramic and Metal Carbides "matrix" "composites" Refractory metals Mixtures thereof (4) Dielectric layers (15) Boron nitride Cemented tungsten Carbides carbide (16), Tungsten Silicon carbide (18) Mixtures thereof (4) Dielectric layers (15) Boron nitride Molybdenum and Molybdenum alloys Dielectric layers (15) Beryllium and Borides Beryllium alloys Dielectric layers (15) Beryllium Sensor window Dielectric layers (15) materials (9) Diamond-like carbon (17) Refractory metals Aluminides and alloys (8) Silicides Oxides Carbides bearing steels Chromium Tantalum or Niobium (Columbium) Titanium alloys (13) Borides Nitrides Beryllium and Borides Beryllium alloys Cemented tungsten Carbides carbide (16) Nitrides magnetic disk drives and heads, equipment for the manufacture of disposables, valves for faucets, acoustic diaphragms for speakers, engine parts for automobiles, cutting tools, punching-pressing dies, office automation equipment, microphones, medical devices or moulds, for casting or moulding of plastics, manufactured from alloys containing less than 5% beryllium. Processes specified in Column 1 of the Table are defined as follows: The addition of gases to the vacuum chamber during the coating process to synthesize compound coatings is an ordinary modification of the process. The use of ion or electron beams, or plasma, to activate or assist the coating's deposition is also a common modification in this technique. The use of monitors to provide in-process measurement of optical characteristics and thickness of coatings can be a feature of these processes. Specific TE-PVD processes are as follows: The substrate and powder mixture is contained within a retort which is heated to between 1,030 K (757°C) and 1,375 K (1,102°C) for sufficient time to deposit the coating.

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"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of equipment or "software" specified in 2B004, 2B009, 2B104, 2B109, 2B116, 2B119 to 2B122 or 2D101.

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of equipment or "software" specified in 2A225, 2A226, 2B001, 2B006, 2B007.b., 2B007.c., 2B008, 2B009, 2B201, 2B204, 2B206, 2B207, 2B209, 2B225 to 2B233, 2D201 or 2D202.

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of goods specified in 2B350 to 2B352.