BUSINESS LOAN EXTENSION AGREEMENT

You have requested an extension of the maturity data of your Loan from Bank One,
NA with its main office in  Columbus,  Ohio which is further  identified  below.
Pursuant to that  request,  provided you are not  otherwise in default under the
terms of the loan,  the maturity date of the Loan is extended  three months from
the currant  maturity  date.  All other terms and  conditions  of your Loan will
remain the same, including but not limited to payments.  All rights described in
the  documentation  for the Loan are and remain  binding in all  respects.  This
extension  agreement shall net release or affect the liability of any guarantor,
surety or endorser or the Loan, or release any security  interest granted by any
owner of any  collateral  gar-wring the Loan.  This  agreement is a modification
only, and not a novation.

Each Borrower  continues to authorize any attorney at law to appear in an action
an the Loan,  as Modified,  et any time after the same  becomes due,  whether by
acceleration  or otherwise,  in any court of record In or of the State where the
Loan was  executed,  or of  elsewhere,  and to waive the  issuing and service of
process against any or all Borrower, enter an appearance and to confess judgment
in favor of Bank One, NA with its main off Ice In Columbus, Ohio, against any or
all  Borrowers  for the  amount  that may be due under the  Loan,  as  modified,
together  with costs or suit,  and to release all errors and waive all rights of
appeal and stay of execution from the judgment  rendered.  After the judgment is
entered  against any one or more Borrowers,  the powers herein  conferred may be
exercised  as to any one or more  of the  airier  Borrowers,  The  death  of any
Borrower  shall not Impair the  authority  herein  granted as to the survivor or
survivors of such Borrower.

Failure  to comply  with any of the  requirements  as  stated in this  extension
agreement  will  nullify  this  request.  Bank One,  NA with its main  office in
Columbus,  Ohio shall not be bound by this Agreement until Bank One, NA with its
main office In Columbus,  Ohio has executed the  Acknowledgement  and  Agreement
below.

Customer/Loan Number:               2626031526/F67 L 75 C 117

Borrower Name:                      Engineered Wire Products Inc.

Address:                            1200 N Warpole

City, State, Zip                    Upper Sandusky OH 43351


WARNING  - BY  SIGNING  THIS  PAPER YOU GIVE UP YOUR  RIGHT TO NOTICE  AND COURT
TRAIL.  IF YOU DO NOT PAY ON TIME A COURT  JUDGEMENT  MAY BE TAKEN  AGAINST  YOU
WITHOUT  YOUR PRIOR  KNOWLEDGE  AND THE POWERS OF A COURT CAN BE USED TO COLLECT
FROM YOU REGARDLESS OF ANY CLAIMS YOU MAY HAVE AGAINST THE CREDITOR  WHETHER FOR
RETURNED GOODS, FAULTY GOODS,  FAILURE ON HIS PART TO COMPLY WITH THE AGREEMENT,
OR ANY OTHER CAUSE.

Company Signature:  Bert E. Downing, Jr.      Title:  VP     Date:  9/30/04
  (authorized signature)

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  (authorized signature)

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  (authorized signature)

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  (authorized signature)



ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGREEMENT:

The  foregoing  Business Loan  Extension  Agreement is hereby  acknowledged  and
agreed to this 30th day of September, 2004.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

By:  Timothy P. Turnwald                                      Title:  V.P.