Germany Company/Individual: Inwako - Nuclear Also Known As: Program: Nuclear Date Occurred: 1989 Activity Memo: Supplied U.K.-made ring magnets that stabilize rotors used in centrifuge uranium enrichment, including 125 aluminium nickel cobalt magnets made by several U.K. firms, and 20-50 samarium cobalt magnets procured via U.K. firm Endshire Export Marketing and Iraqi firm TDG; found by German Economics ministry to have arranged circuitous delivery.
United Kingdom Company/Individual: Matrix Churchill Ltd. - Nuclear & Military Also Known As: Formerly known as TI Machine Tools Program: Nuclear, military Date Occurred: 1987 to 1990 Activity Memo: Greatest single supplier of sensitive computer-controlled machine tools found by U.N. inspectors at nuclear weapon sites; supplied three percent of British exports to Iraq during 1980s, including £8.5 million of machinery in 1988 alone; supplied $36 million worth of high-tech lathes, useful for cutting high-quality steel used in centrifuges, manufactured and supplied at least 34 centrifuge components to Badr General Establishment (joint venture with SEHEE to establish the Al Furat centrifuge factory) for Project K-1000; exports allegedly approved to gather intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs, even though the British government knew the exports were for military purposes, including possible use to produce components of a nuclear weapon; supplied on-site training for Iraqi technicians to use and program the machine tools; manufactured 52 turning machines found in Iraq, of which 33 were capable of being used to produce nuclear weapons; manufactured 94 machine tools found at Hatteen, (the high-explosive test facility at the Al Atheer complex, Iraq's main nuclear weapon development site) of which 50 appear to be capable of being used to produce nuclear weapons; received orders for 141 lathes worth £19 million; received letters of credit from Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) in Atlanta, Georgia, including two for £8,950,000 worth of precision machines and lathes, and £3,430,480 worth of product machine kits, for the State Establishment for Heavy Engineering Equipment (SEHEE, established the Al Furat centrifuge factory a joint venture with Badr; produced magnets, vacuum chambers, ion sources and collector components for calutrons to enrich uranium; part of MIMI); main Iraqi client was Nassr State Establishment (procured equipment for the SCUD enhancement program and for Taji [a chemical weapon and industrial arms complex which also produced components for uranium enrichment]; ran artillery plants, and linked to the Condor II intermediate-range missile project); identified by U.S. Treasury Department as an Iraqi front company; 89% Iraqi-owned in 1990.
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