Carbon Brush Grade promotes turbine uptime.

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Suitable for wind turbine applications, LL587 improves uptime in demanding conditions through extended life and minimized wear. Construction properties result in optimal brush film and minimal friction while maintaining conductivity. Having demonstrated projected service life of 4+ years at test sites, product is suited for steel slip rings, where it reduces required maintenance and associated operating expenditure.



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Morgan Advanced Materials Announces New Carbon Brush Grade for Drastically Improved Turbine Uptime



Morgan’s Electrical Carbon business has developed a new carbon brush grade, suitable for wind turbine applications, that drastically improves uptime in some of the most demanding conditions. The LL587 carbon brush grade maximizes uptime through extended brush life combined with minimal wear to slip rings.



Extensive field testing by Morgan Advanced Materials and several wind farms in multiple geographic locations has proved that the LL587 carbon brushes create the optimum brush film and minimize friction whilst maintaining excellent conductivity, resulting in exceptionally long brush life. This brush grade demonstrated a projected service life of over four years at test sites in Texas, Iowa, and other locations, longer than any other tested. In addition, the LL587 carbon brush grade is ideally suited for steel slip rings, where it results in the reduction of maintenance required, and therefore reduces operating costs. Morgan’s application engineers work closely with customers to ensure that the optimal brush grade is used for each application to maximize effectiveness and minimize downtime.



The LL587 grade carbon brushes are available for purchase from Morgan Advanced Materials and its distribution partners. For more information on Morgan’s carbon brushes, please visit: http://www.morganelectricalmaterials.com/carbonbrushes



For further information, please contact:

Kristin Nugent, McNeil, Gray & Rice Inc. 617 367 0100 ext. 148

kristin.nugent@mgr1.com



Scott Bentley, Morgan Advanced Materials

scott.bentley@morganplc.com

Tel +44 (0)1299 827000



About our Electrical Carbon business

The Electrical Carbon business of Morgan Advanced Materials produces carbon and metalized-carbon current collector strips and assemblies for linear electrical transfer.



Our electrical carbon products are produced from an extensive portfolio of materials including carbon, graphite, silicon carbide and other ceramics. The range includes pantograph strips, third rail shoes, trolley bus inserts and industrial linear collectors for applications from 60V to 25kV.



The Electrical Carbon business is able to draw on longstanding applications engineering experience and materials expertise to engineer products that meet demanding customer challenges and deliver long term high-performance.



About Morgan Advanced Materials

Morgan Advanced Materials is a global materials engineering company which designs and manufactures a wide range of high specification products with extraordinary properties, across multiple sectors and geographies.



From an extensive range of advanced materials we produce components, assemblies and systems that deliver significantly enhanced performance for our customers’ products and processes. Our engineered solutions are produced to very high tolerances and many are designed for use in extreme environments.



The Company thrives on breakthrough innovation. Our materials scientists and applications engineers work in close collaboration with customers to create outstanding, highly differentiated products that perform more efficiently, more reliably and for longer.



Electrical Transfer is a business of Morgan Advanced Materials, which has more than 9,000 employees across 50 countries serving specialist markets in the energy, transport, healthcare, electronics, security and defence, petrochemical and industrial sectors. Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM) is listed on the London Stock Exchange in the engineering sector.



For more information on Morgan Advanced Materials visit www.morganadvancedmaterials.com.

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