Allegheny Technologies Incorporate 11-K
 

 
 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 11-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934

     
þ   ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 [NO FEE REQUIRED]

FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2006

     
o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 [NO FEE REQUIRED]

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM                      TO                    

COMMISSION FILE NUMBER 1-12001

401(K) SAVINGS ACCOUNT PLAN FOR EMPLOYEES
OF THE EXTON FACILITY
 
(Title of Plan)

ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED

(Name of Issuer of securities held pursuant to the Plan)

1000 Six PPG Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-5479
(Address of Plan and principal executive offices of Issuer)

 
 

 


 

Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedule
401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Year Ended December 31, 2006

 


 

Financial Statements
And Supplemental Schedule
401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Year Ended December 31, 2006
(Unaudited)

 


 

401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Financial Statements
and Supplemental Schedule
Year Ended December 31, 2006
(Unaudited)
Contents
         
Financial Statements (Unaudited)
       
 
       
    1  
    2  
    3  
 
       
Supplemental Schedule
       
 
       
    10  

 


 

401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits
(Unaudited)
                 
    December 31
    2006   2005
     
Investments at fair value:
               
Interest in Allegheny Master Trust
  $ 814,378     $ 758,708  
Interest in registered investment companies
    178,256       152,975  
Interest in common collective trusts
    3,146        
Corporate common stocks
    272        
Participant loans
    130,396       129,042  
     
Total investments at fair value
    1,126,448       1,040,725  
 
               
Cash
    4        
Contributions and other receivables
    14       134  
     
Net assets available for benefits at fair value
    1,126,466       1,040,859  
Adjustment from fair value to contract value for fully benefit responsive investment contracts
    6,097       5,170  
     
Net assets available for benefits
  $ 1,132,563     $ 1,046,029  
     
See accompanying notes.

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401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits
(Unaudited)
Year Ended December 31, 2006
         
Employee contributions
  $ 11,312  
 
       
Investment income:
       
Net gain from interest in Allegheny Master Trust
    68,628  
Net gain from interest in registered investment companies
    10,343  
Interest income
    10,124  
Net gain from interest in common collective trusts
    55  
Net realized/unrealized loss on corporate common stock
    (13 )
Dividend income
    1  
 
     
Total investment income
    89,138  
 
     
 
    100,450  
 
       
Distributions to participants
    (13,916 )
 
     
 
       
Net increase in net assets available for benefits
    86,534  
Net assets available for benefits at beginning of year
    1,046,029  
 
     
Net assets available for benefits at end of year
  $ 1,132,563  
 
     
See accompanying notes.

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401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Notes to Financial Statements
December 31, 2006
1. Significant Accounting Policies
Use of Estimates and Basis of Accounting
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
The financial statements are prepared under the accrual basis of accounting.
New Accounting Pronouncement
In December 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued FASB Staff Position AAG INV-1 and SOP 94-4-1, Reporting of Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts Held by Certain Investment Companies Subject to the AICPA Investment Company Guide and Defined-Contribution Health and Welfare and Pension Plans (the FSP). The FSP defines the circumstances in which an investment contract is considered fully benefit responsive and provides certain reporting and disclosure requirements for fully benefit responsive investment contracts in defined contribution health and welfare and pension plans. The financial statement presentation and disclosure provisions of the FSP are effective for financial statements issued for annual periods ending after December 15, 2006 and are required to be applied retroactively to all prior periods presented for comparative purposes. The Plan has adopted the provisions of the FSP at December 31, 2006.
As required by the FSP, investments in the accompanying Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits include fully benefit responsive investment contracts recognized at fair value. AICPA Statement of Position 94-4-1, Reporting of Investment Contracts Held by Health and Welfare Benefit Plans and Defined Contribution Pension Plans, as amended, requires fully benefit responsive investment contracts to be reported at fair value in the Plan’s Statement of Net Assets Available for Benefits with a corresponding adjustment to reflect these investments at contract value. The requirements of the FSP have been applied retroactively to the Statement of Net Assets Available for Benefits as of December 31, 2005 presented for comparative purposes. Adoption of the FSP had no effect on the Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits or the total of net assets available for benefits for any period presented.
Investment Valuation and Income recognition
The Plan’s investments are stated at fair value except for its benefit-responsive investment contracts, which are valued at contract value (see Note 3). Quoted market prices are used to value investments. Share of mutual funds are valued at the net asset value of shares held by the Plan at year end. Participant loans are valued at their outstanding balances, which approximate fair value.

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401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
1. Significant Accounting Policies (continued)
Investments in bank and insurance company guaranteed investment contracts (“GICs”) and in synthetic investment contracts (“SICs”) are stated at contract value which is equal to principal balance plus accrued interest, because they are fully benefit-responsive. As provided in the FSP, an investment contract is generally permitted to be valued at contract value, rather than fair value, to the extent it is fully benefit-responsive. Fair value of the GICs was estimated by discounting the weighted average cash flows at the then-current interest crediting rate for a comparable maturity investment contract. Fair value of the SICs was estimated based on the fair value of each contract’s supporting assets at December 31, 2006 and 2005. Participants may ordinarily direct the withdrawal or transfer of all or a portion of their investment at contract value. There are no reserves against contract value for credit risk of the contract issuer or otherwise.
Although it is management’s intention to hold the investment contracts in the Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund until maturity, certain investment contracts provide for adjustments to contract value for withdrawals made prior to maturity.
2. Description of the Plan
The 401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility, formerly known as the Allegheny Rodney (ALstrip) Profit Sharing Plan (the Plan) is a defined contribution plan and is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
The purpose of the Plan is to encourage employee thrift by permitting eligible employees of the Exton facility of Allegheny Ludlum Corporation (the Company) to defer a part of their compensation and contribute such deferral to the Plan. The Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI, the Plan Sponsor). The Plan allows employees to contribute a portion of eligible wages each pay period through payroll deductions subject to Internal Revenue Code limitations. The Plan allows participants to direct their contributions to any of the investment alternatives. Unless otherwise specified by the participant, contributions are made to the Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund.
Separate accounts are maintained by the Plan Sponsor for each participating employee. Trustee fees and asset management fees charged by the Plan’s trustee, Mellon Bank, N.A., for the administration of all funds are charged against net assets available for benefits of the respective fund. Certain other expenses of administering the Plan are paid by the Plan Sponsor.

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401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
2. Description of the Plan (continued)
Participants may make “in-service” and hardship withdrawals as outlined in the plan document. Active employees can borrow up to 50% of their vested account balances minus any outstanding loans. The loan amounts are further limited to a minimum of $500 and a maximum of $50,000, and an employee can obtain no more than three loans at one time. Interest rates are determined based on commercially accepted criteria, and payment schedules vary based on the type of the loan. General-purpose loans are repaid over 6 to 60 months, and primary residence loans are repaid over periods from 6 months up to 180 months. Payments are made by payroll deductions.
Further information about the Plan, including eligibility, vesting, contributions, and withdrawals, is contained in the plan documents. Copies of these documents are available from the Plan Sponsor.
3. Investments
The following presents investments that represent 5% or more of the Plan’s net assets as of December 31, 2006.
         
    2006
    (Unaudited)
Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund (contract value)
  $ 434,421  
T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund (contract value)
    374,602  
Dreyfus Bond Market Index
    119,102  
Certain of the Plan’s investments are in the Allegheny Master Trust, which has three separately managed institutional investment accounts; the T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund (formerly the ATI Disciplined Stock Fund), the Alliance Capital Growth Pool, and the Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund, which were valued on a unitized basis (collectively, the “Allegheny Master Trust”).
The Allegheny Master Trust was established for the investment of assets of the Plan, and several other ATI sponsored retirement plans. Each participating retirement plan has an undivided interest in the Allegheny Master Trust. At December 31, 2006, the Plan’s interest in the net assets of the Alliance Capital Growth Pool, the Standish Fixed Income Fund, and the T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund was as follows:
         
    2006
    (Unaudited)
T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund
    0.52 %
Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund
    0.18  
Alliance Capital Growth Pool
    0.03  

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401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
3. Investments (continued)
Investment income and expenses are allocated to the Plan based upon its pro rata share in the net assets of the Allegheny Master Trust.
The composition of the net assets of the Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund at December 31, 2006 was as follows:
         
    2006  
Guaranteed investment contracts:
       
New York Life Insurance Company
  $ 895,330  
Principal Life
    1,368,618  
 
     
 
    2,263,948  
 
       
Synthetic guaranteed investment contracts:
       
Bank of America
    28,662,260  
IXIS Financial Products, Inc.
    4,030,074  
Monumental Life
    60,286,128  
Rabobank
    53,011,207  
State Street Bank
    21,292,911  
Union Bank of Switzerland
    39,206,620  
 
     
 
    206,489,200  
 
       
Interest in common collective trusts
    24,622,702  
 
     
Total net assets at fair value
    233,375,850  
Wrap contracts at fair value
    (49,959 )
Adjustment from fair value to contract value for fully benefit responsive investment contracts
    3,381,661  
 
     
Total net assets
  $ 236,707,552  
 
     
The Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund (the Fund) invests in guaranteed investment contracts (GICs) and actively managed structured or synthetic investment contracts (SICs). The GICs are promises by a bank or insurance company to repay principal plus a fixed rate of return through contract maturity. SICs differ from GICs in that there are specific assets supporting the SICs, and these assets are owned by the Allegheny Master Trust. The bank or insurance company issues a wrapper contract that allows participant-directed transactions to be made at contract value. The assets supporting the SICs are comprised of government agency bonds, corporate bonds, asset-backed securities (ABOs), and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs).
Interest crediting rates on the GICs in the Fund are determined at the time of purchase. Interest crediting rates on the SICs are either: (1) set at the time of purchase for a fixed term and crediting rate, (2) set at the time of purchase for a fixed term and variable crediting rate or (3) set at the time of purchase and reset monthly within a “constant duration.” A constant duration contract may specify a duration of 2.5 years and the crediting rate is adjusted monthly based upon quarterly rebalancing of eligible 2.5 year duration investment instruments at the time of each resetting; in effect the contract never matures. At December 31, 2006 the interest crediting rates for GICs and Fixed Maturity SICs ranged from 4.30% to 5.34%.

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401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
3. Investments (continued)
Average yields for all fully-benefit responsive investment contracts for the year ended December 31, 2006 was as follows:
         
    2006
Average yields:
       
Based on actual earnings
    4.75 %
Based on interest rate credited to participants
    4.64 %
The composition of net assets of the Alliance Capital Growth Pool at December 31, 2006 was as follows:
         
    2006  
Investment in pooled separate accounts:
       
Alliance Equity Fund S.A. #4
  $ 34,335,972  
Operating payables
    (10,572 )
 
     
Total net assets
  $ 34,325,400  
 
     
The composition of net assets of the T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund at December 31, 2006 was as follows:
         
    2006  
Investment in common collective trusts
  $ 72,210,981  
Operating payables
    (34,228 )
 
     
Total net assets
  $ 72,176,753  
 
     

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401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
3. Investments (continued)
The composition of the changes in net assets of the Allegheny Master Trust is as follows:
                         
                    T. Rowe Price
                    Structured
    Standish   Alliance   Research
    Mellon Fixed   Capital   Common Trust
    Income Fund   Growth Pool   Fund
    Year Ended December 31, 2006
            (Unaudited)        
Investment income:
                       
Interest income
  $ 9,196,721     $     $  
Net realized/unrealized gain on corporate common stocks
    6,246             11,900  
Net loss, pooled separate accounts
          (283,791 )      
Net gain, common collective trusts
    851,445             10,226,870  
Administrative expenses
    (242,636 )     (98,140 )     (403,225 )
Transfers
    14,124,671       (5,060,685 )     (3,924,321 )
     
Net increase (decrease)
    23,936,447       (5,442,616 )     5,911,224  
Total net assets at beginning of year
    212,771,105       39,768,016       66,265,529  
     
Total net assets at end of year
  $ 236,707,552     $ 34,325,400     $ 72,176,753  
     
Interest, realized and unrealized gains and losses, and management fees from the Allegheny Master Trust are included in the net gain from interest in Allegheny Master Trust on the statement of changes in net assets available for benefits.
4. Income Tax Status
The Plan has received a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service dated August 4, 2003, stating that the Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) and, therefore, the related trust is exempt from taxation. Subsequent to this issuance of the determination letter, the Plan was amended. Once qualified, the Plan is required to operate in conformity with the Code to maintain its qualification. The plan administrator believes the Plan is being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Code and, therefore, believes that the Plan, as amended, is qualified and the related trust is tax-exempt.

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401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
5. Parties-in-Interest
Dreyfus Corporation is the manager of the Dreyfus Mutual Funds that are offered as investment options under this Plan. Dreyfus Service Corporation is the funds’ distributor. The Boston Company is the manager of the Short Term Investment Fund. Dreyfus Corporation, Dreyfus Service Corporation and the Boston Company are wholly owned subsidiaries of Mellon Financial Corporation. Mellon Financial Corporation also owns Mellon Bank, N.A., the trustee for this Plan. T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. is the manager of the T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund. Therefore, transactions with these entities qualify as party-in-interest transactions.
6. Plan Termination
Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, the Company has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA. However, no such action may deprive any participant or beneficiary under the Plan of any vested right.
7. Risks and Uncertainties
The Plan invests in various investment securities. Investment securities are exposed to various risk such as interest rate, market, and credit risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the statements of net assets available for benefits.
8. Reconciliation of Financial Statements to Form 5500
The following is a reconciliation of net assets available for benefits per the financial statements to the Form 5500 for the year ended December 31, 2006:
         
Net assets available for benefits per the financial statements
  $ 1,132,563  
Deemed distribution of benefits to participants
    (7,190 )
 
     
Net assets available for benefits per the Form 5500
  $ 1,125,373  
 
     

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401(k) Savings Account Plan for Employees of the Exton Facility
EIN 25-1792394 Plan 002
Schedule H, Line 4(I)—Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)
December 31, 2006
                 
            Current  
                              Investment Description   Units/Shares     Value  
 
Registered investment companies:
               
Dreyfus Bond Market Index Fund*
    11,922.1630     $ 119,102  
Oakmark Balanced Fund
    1,606.8980       41,587  
Dreyfus Emerging Leaders Fund*
    160.3560       5,569  
Artisan Funds
    24.9780       761  
Morgan Stanley Small Growth Fund
    58.4560       778  
Dreyfus Premier International Value Fund*
    173.5770       3,395  
 
               
Prudential Jennison Growth Fund, Class A Shares
    429.7000       7,064  
 
             
 
          $ 178,256  
 
             
 
               
Common Collective Trusts:
               
The Boston Company Short Term Investment Fund*
    3,145.9300     $ 3,146  
 
             
 
               
Corporate Common Stocks:
               
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated common stock*
    3.0000     $ 272  
 
             
 
               
Participant loans (8.25% to 9.25%)*
          $ 130,396  
 
             
 
*   Party-in-interest

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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the administrators of the Plan have duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
             
    ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED 401(K) SAVINGS ACCOUNT PLAN FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE EXTON FACILITY
 
           
Date: June 22, 2007
  By:   /s/ Richard J. Harshman
 
Richard J. Harshman
   
 
      Executive Vice President-Finance and    
 
      Chief Financial Officer    
 
      (Principal Financial Officer and Duly    
 
      Authorized Officer)