TAM has a history of strategic investments and working with innovators in the inflatable and swellable packer business. Our company can provide a vehicle for product or market innovation and a window into a segment of the downhole tool businesses that competes with or enhances our product segments

TAM can/will invest in new or existing businesses with the objective of strengthening our existing business portfolio. We seek to build value by working with and investing in outside companies that are developing complementary or new segments which we aren't pursuing directly. Our criteria for investing include:

• Access to technologies, content, markets or capabilities that enhance our core offerings
• Entry point into a new or related market
• Financial return, both through our ownership stake and through enhancement of our business
• Opportunity for TAM to contribute to a company's success factors or reduce their risk factor
• A clear path to learning, and an identifiable process to communicate that learning within TAM
• Provides a placeholder in segments of the inflatable or swellable packer business which are in a developmental stage, and for which the timing is not appropriate for TAM to pursue it directly

Identifying Investment opportunities
Investment opportunities arise from many different sources, often emerging through relationships and contacts that develop in the operation of our businesses. We encourage references from our employees, customers, vendors and partners. Unsolicited proposals will be perused, but will be held to the same high standard of alignment with our businesses that we apply to opportunities that are generated within the company or from our existing external network of contacts.

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