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Exhibit 4.3

EXECUTION COPY

$225,000,000

NEENAH FOUNDRY COMPANY

91/2% Senior Secured Notes due 2017

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

December 29, 2006

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
 Eleven
Madison Avenue
 New
York, New York 10010-3629

Dear Sirs:

     Neenah Foundry Company, a Wisconsin corporation (the “Issuer”), proposes to issue and sell to
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (the “Initial Purchaser”), upon the terms set forth in a
purchase agreement dated December 15, 2006 (the “Purchase Agreement”), U.S.$225,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of its 91/2% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 (the “Initial Securities”) to be fully
and unconditionally guaranteed (the “Guaranties”) by all of the Company’s existing direct and
indirect Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries (as defined in the Indenture referred to
below) (the “Guarantors” and together with the Issuer, the “Company”). The Initial Securities will
be issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of December 29, 2006, (the “Indenture”) among the
Issuer, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (the “Trustee”).
As an inducement to the Initial Purchaser, the Company agrees with the Initial Purchaser, for the
benefit of the holders of the Initial Securities (including, without limitation, the Initial
Purchaser), and the holders of the Exchange Securities (as defined below) and any Private Exchange
Securities (as defined below) (collectively the “Holders”), as follows:

     1. Registered Exchange Offer. The Company shall, at its own cost, prepare and, not later
than 90 days after (or if the 90th day is not a business day, the first business day thereafter)
the date of original issue of the Initial Securities (the “Issue Date”), file with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement (the “Exchange Offer
Registration Statement”) on an appropriate form under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities Act”), with respect to a proposed offer (the “Registered Exchange Offer”) to the
Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined in Section 6 hereof), who are not prohibited
by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in the Registered Exchange Offer, to
issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for the Initial Securities, a like aggregate
principal amount of debt securities (the “Exchange Securities”) of the Company issued under the
Indenture and identical in all material respects to the Initial Securities (except for the transfer
restrictions relating to the Initial Securities and the provisions relating to the matters
described in Section 6 hereof) that would be registered under the Securities Act. The Company
shall use its best efforts to cause such Exchange Offer Registration Statement to become effective
under the Securities Act within 210 days (or if the 210th day is not a business day, the first
business day thereafter) after the Issue Date of the Initial
Securities and shall keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement effective for not less than 30 days (or

 

 

longer, if required by
applicable law) after the date notice of the Registered Exchange Offer is mailed to the Holders
(such period being called the “Exchange Offer Registration Period”).

     If the Company effects the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company will be entitled to close
the Registered Exchange Offer 30 days after the commencement thereof provided that the Company has
accepted all the Initial Securities theretofore validly tendered in accordance with the terms of
the Registered Exchange Offer.

     Following the declaration of the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement,
the Company shall promptly commence the Registered Exchange Offer, it being the objective of such
Registered Exchange Offer to enable each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined in
Section 6 hereof) electing to exchange the Initial Securities for Exchange Securities (assuming
that such Holder is not an affiliate of the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act,
acquires the Exchange Securities in the ordinary course of such Holder’s business and has no
arrangements with any person to participate in the distribution of the Exchange Securities and is
not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in the Registered Exchange
Offer) to trade such Exchange Securities from and after their receipt without any limitations or
restrictions under the Securities Act and without material restrictions under the securities laws
of the several states of the United States.

     The Company acknowledges that, pursuant to current interpretations by the Commission’s staff
of Section 5 of the Securities Act, in the absence of an applicable exemption therefrom, (i) each
Holder which is a broker-dealer electing to exchange Securities, acquired for its own account as a
result of market making activities or other trading activities, for Exchange Securities (an
“Exchanging Dealer”), is required to deliver a prospectus containing the information set forth in
(a) Annex A hereto on the cover, (b) Annex B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and
the “Purpose of the Exchange Offer” section, and (c) Annex C hereto in the “Plan of Distribution”
section of such prospectus in connection with a sale of any such Exchange Securities received by
such Exchanging Dealer pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and (ii) the Initial Purchaser
when electing to sell Exchange Securities acquired in exchange for Securities constituting any
portion of an unsold allotment, is required to deliver a prospectus containing the information
required by Items 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as applicable, in
connection with such sale.

     The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement
effective and to amend and supplement the prospectus contained therein, in order to permit such
prospectus to be lawfully delivered by all persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements
of the Securities Act for such period of time as such persons must comply with such requirements in
order to resell the Exchange Securities; provided, however, that (i) in the case where such
prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto must be delivered by an Exchanging Dealer or the
Initial Purchaser, such period shall be the lesser of 180 days and the date on which all Exchanging
Dealers and the Initial Purchaser have sold all Exchange Securities held by them (unless such
period is extended pursuant to Section 3(j) below) and (ii) the Company shall make such prospectus
and any amendment or supplement thereto available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with
any resale of any Exchange Securities for a period of not less than 90 days after the consummation
of the Registered Exchange Offer.

     If, upon consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer, the Initial Purchaser holds Initial
Securities acquired by it as part of its initial distribution, the Company, simultaneously with the
delivery of the Exchange Securities pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer, shall issue and
deliver to the Initial Purchaser upon the written request of the Initial Purchaser, in exchange
(the “Private Exchange”) for the Initial Securities held by the Initial Purchaser, a like principal
amount of debt securities of the Company

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issued under the Indenture and identical in all material
respects (including the existence of restrictions on
transfer under the Securities Act and the securities laws of the several states of the United
States, but excluding provisions relating to the matters described in Section 6 hereof) to the
Initial Securities (the “Private Exchange Securities”). The Initial Securities, the Exchange
Securities and the Private Exchange Securities are herein collectively called the “Securities”.

     In connection with the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company shall:

     (a) mail to each Holder a copy of the prospectus forming part of the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement, together with an appropriate letter of transmittal and related
documents;

     (b) keep the Registered Exchange Offer open for not less than 30 days (or longer, if
required by applicable law) after the date notice thereof is mailed to the Holders;

     (c) utilize the services of a depositary for the Registered Exchange Offer with an
address in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, which may be the Trustee or an
affiliate of the Trustee;

     (d) permit Holders to withdraw tendered Securities at any time prior to the close of
business, New York time, on the last business day on which the Registered Exchange Offer
shall remain open; and

     (e) otherwise comply with all applicable laws.

     As soon as practicable after the close of the Registered Exchange Offer or the Private
Exchange, as the case may be, the Company shall:

     (x) accept for exchange all the Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn
pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and the Private Exchange;

     (y) deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all the Initial Securities so accepted
for exchange; and

     (z) cause the Trustee to authenticate and deliver promptly to each Holder of the
Initial Securities, Exchange Securities or Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be,
equal in principal amount to the Initial Securities of such Holder so accepted for
exchange.

     The Indenture will provide that the Exchange Securities will not be subject to the transfer
restrictions set forth in the Indenture and that all the Securities will vote and consent together
on all matters as one class and that none of the Securities will have the right to vote or consent
as a class separate from one another on any matter.

     Interest on each Exchange Security and Private Exchange Security issued pursuant to the
Registered Exchange Offer and in the Private Exchange will accrue from the last interest payment
date on which interest was paid on the Initial Securities surrendered in exchange therefor or, if
no interest has been paid on the Initial Securities, from the date of original issue of the Initial
Securities.

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     Each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer shall be required to represent to
the Company that at the time of the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer (i) any Exchange
Securities received by such Holder will be acquired in the ordinary course of business, (ii) such
Holder will
have no arrangements or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the
Securities or the Exchange Securities within the meaning of the Securities Act, (iii) such Holder
is not an “affiliate,” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act, of the Company or if it is an
affiliate, such Holder will comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of
the Securities Act to the extent applicable, (iv) if such Holder is not a broker-dealer, that it is
not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, the distribution of the Exchange Securities and
(v) if such Holder is a broker-dealer, that it will receive Exchange Securities for its own account
in exchange for Initial Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or
other trading activities and that it will be required to acknowledge that it will deliver a
prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.

     Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, the Company will ensure that (i) any Exchange
Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any prospectus forming part thereof and
any supplement thereto complies in all material respects with the Securities Act and the rules and
regulations thereunder, (ii) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto
does not, when it becomes effective, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading and (iii) any prospectus forming part of any Exchange Offer Registration Statement, and
any supplement to such prospectus, does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

     2. Shelf Registration. If, (i) because of any change in law or in applicable interpretations
thereof by the staff of the Commission, the Company determines that it is not permitted to effect a
Registered Exchange Offer, as contemplated by Section 1 hereof, (ii) the Registered Exchange Offer
is not consummated within 250 days of the Issue Date, (iii) the Initial Purchaser so requests with
respect to the Initial Securities (or the Private Exchange Securities) not eligible to be exchanged
for Exchange Securities in the Registered Exchange Offer and held by it following consummation of
the Registered Exchange Offer or (iv) any Holder (other than an Exchanging Dealer) so requests
because it is not eligible to participate in the Registered Exchange Offer or, in the case of any
Holder (other than an Exchanging Dealer) that participates in the Registered Exchange Offer, such
Holder does not receive freely tradeable Exchange Securities on the date of the exchange, the
Company shall take the following actions:

     (a) The Company shall, at its cost, as promptly as practicable (but in no event more
than 90 days after so required or requested pursuant to this Section 2) file with the
Commission and thereafter shall use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective
(unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing), but in no event more than 210 days
after such requirement or request pursuant to this Section 2, a registration statement (the
“Shelf Registration Statement” and, together with the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement, a “Registration Statement”) on an appropriate form under the Securities Act
relating to the offer and sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined in Section
6 hereof) by the Holders thereof from time to time in accordance with the methods of
distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415 under the
Securities Act (hereinafter, the “Shelf Registration”); provided, however, that no Holder
(other than the Initial Purchaser) shall be entitled to have the Securities held by it
covered by such Shelf Registration Statement unless such Holder agrees in writing to be
bound by all the provisions of this Agreement applicable to such Holder.

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     (b) The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement
continuously effective in order to permit the prospectus included therein to be lawfully
delivered by the Holders of the relevant Securities, for a period of two years (or for such
longer period if
extended pursuant to Section 3(j) below) from the Issue Date or such shorter period that
will terminate when all the Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement (i) have
been sold pursuant thereto or (ii) are no longer restricted securities (as defined in Rule
144 under the Securities Act, or any successor rule thereof). The Company shall be deemed
not to have used its best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement effective during
the requisite period if it voluntarily takes any action that would result in Holders of
Securities covered thereby not being able to offer and sell such Securities during that
period, unless such action is required by applicable law.

     (c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, the
Company shall cause the Shelf Registration Statement and the related prospectus and any
amendment or supplement thereto, as of the effective date of the Shelf Registration
Statement, amendment or supplement, (i) to comply in all material respects with the
applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the
Commission and (ii) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

     3. Registration Procedures. In connection with any Shelf Registration contemplated by
Section 2 hereof and, to the extent applicable, any Registered Exchange Offer contemplated by
Section 1 hereof, the following provisions shall apply:

     (a) The Company shall (i) furnish to the Initial Purchaser, prior to the filing
thereof with the Commission, a copy of the Registration Statement and each amendment
thereof and each supplement, if any, to the prospectus included therein and, in the event
that the Initial Purchaser (with respect to any portion of an unsold allotment from the
original offering) is participating in the Registered Exchange Offer or the Shelf
Registration Statement, the Company shall use its best efforts to reflect in each such
document, when so filed with the Commission, such comments as the Initial Purchaser
reasonably may propose; (ii) include the information set forth in Annex A hereto on the
cover, in Annex B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and the “Purpose of the
Exchange Offer” section and in Annex C hereto in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the
prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and include the
information set forth in Annex D hereto in the Letter of Transmittal delivered pursuant to
the Registered Exchange Offer; (iii) if requested by the Initial Purchaser, include the
information required by Items 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as
applicable, in the prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement;
(iv) include within the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement a
section entitled “Plan of Distribution,” reasonably acceptable to the Initial Purchaser,
which shall contain a summary statement of the positions taken or policies made by the
staff of the Commission with respect to the potential “underwriter” status of any
broker-dealer that is the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) of Exchange Securities received by
such broker-dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer (a “Participating Broker-Dealer”),
whether such positions or policies have been publicly disseminated by the staff of the
Commission or such positions or policies, in the reasonable

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judgment of the Initial
Purchaser based upon advice of counsel (which may be in-house counsel), represent the
prevailing views of the staff of the Commission; and (v) in the case of a Shelf
Registration Statement, include in the prospectus included in the Shelf Registration
Statement (or, if permitted by Commission Rule 430B(b), in a prospectus supplement that
becomes a part thereof pursuant to Commission Rule 430B(f)) that is delivered to any Holder
pursuant to Section 3(d) and (f), the names of the
Holders, who propose to sell Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, as
selling securityholders.

     (b) The Company shall give written notice to the Initial Purchaser, the Holders of
the Securities and any Participating Broker-Dealer from whom the Company has received prior
written notice that it will be a Participating Broker-Dealer in the Registered Exchange
Offer (which notice pursuant to clauses (ii)-(v) hereof shall be accompanied, if
appropriate, by an instruction to suspend the use of the prospectus until the requisite
changes have been made):

     (i) when the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto has been filed
with the Commission and when the Registration Statement or any post-effective
amendment thereto has become effective;

     (ii) of any request by the Commission for amendments or supplements to the
Registration Statement or the prospectus included therein or for additional
information;

     (iii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings
for that purpose, of the issuance by the Commission of a notification of objection
to the use of the form on which the Registration Statement has been filed, and of
the happening of any event that causes the Company to become an “ineligible
issuer,” as defined in Commission Rule 405.

     (iv) of the receipt by the Company or its legal counsel of any notification
with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in
any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such
purpose; and

     (v) of the happening of any event that requires the Company to make changes
in the Registration Statement or the prospectus in order that the Registration
Statement or the prospectus do not contain an untrue statement of a material fact
nor omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein (in the case of the prospectus, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

     (c) The Company shall make every reasonable effort to obtain the withdrawal at the
earliest possible time, of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement.

     (d) The Company shall furnish to each Holder of Securities included within the
coverage of the Shelf Registration, without charge, at least one copy of the Shelf
Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment or supplement thereto, including
financial statements and schedules, and, if the Holder so requests in writing, all exhibits
thereto (including those, if any, incorporated by reference). The Company shall not,
without the prior consent of the Initial

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Purchaser, make any offer relating to the
Securities that would constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Commission Rule
405.

     (e) The Company shall deliver to each Exchanging Dealer and the Initial Purchaser,
and to any other Holder who so requests, without charge, at least one copy of the Exchange
Offer Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, including financial
statements
and schedules, and, if the Initial Purchaser or any such Holder requests, all exhibits
thereto (including those incorporated by reference).

     (f) The Company shall, during the Shelf Registration Period, deliver to each Holder
of Securities included within the coverage of the Shelf Registration, without charge, as
many copies of the prospectus (including each preliminary prospectus) included in the Shelf
Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as such person may
reasonably request. The Company consents, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to
the use of the prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling
Holders of the Securities in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities
covered by the prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in the Shelf
Registration Statement.

     (g) The Company shall deliver to the Initial Purchaser, any Exchanging Dealer, any
Participating Broker-Dealer and such other persons required to deliver a prospectus
following the Registered Exchange Offer, without charge, as many copies of the final
prospectus included in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment or
supplement thereto as such persons may reasonably request. The Company consents, subject
to the provisions of this Agreement, to the use of the prospectus or any amendment or
supplement thereto by the Initial Purchaser, if necessary, any Participating Broker-Dealer
and such other persons required to deliver a prospectus following the Registered Exchange
Offer in connection with the offering and sale of the Exchange Securities covered by the
prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in such Exchange Offer
Registration Statement.

     (h) Prior to any public offering of the Securities, pursuant to any Registration
Statement, the Company shall register or qualify or cooperate with the Holders of the
Securities included therein and their respective counsel in connection with the
registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or
“blue sky” laws of such states of the United States as any Holder of the Securities
reasonably requests in writing and do any and all other acts or things necessary or
advisable to enable the offer and sale in such jurisdictions of the Securities covered by
such Registration Statement; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to
(i) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified
or (ii) take any action which would subject it to general service of process or to taxation
in any jurisdiction where it is not then so subject.

     (i) The Company shall cooperate with the Holders of the Securities to facilitate the
timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing the Securities to be sold
pursuant to any Registration Statement free of any restrictive legends and in such
denominations and registered in such names as the Holders may request a reasonable period
of time prior to sales of the Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement.

     (j) Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by paragraphs (ii) through (v) of
Section 3(b) above during the period for which the Company is required to maintain an
effective

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Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly take appropriate actions which
may include preparation and filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration
Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus and any other required document so
that, as thereafter delivered to Holders of the Securities or purchasers of Securities, the
prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. If the Company
notifies the Initial Purchaser, the Holders of the Securities
and any known Participating Broker-Dealer in accordance with paragraphs (ii) through (v) of
Section 3(b) above to suspend the use of the prospectus until the requisite changes to the
prospectus have been made, then the Initial Purchaser, the Holders of the Securities and
any such Participating Broker-Dealers shall suspend use of such prospectus, and the period
of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement provided for in Section 2(b) above and
the Exchange Offer Registration Statement provided for in Section 1 above shall each be
extended by the number of days from and including the date of the giving of such notice to
and including the date when the Initial Purchaser, the Holders of the Securities and any
known Participating Broker-Dealer shall have received such amended or supplemented
prospectus pursuant to this Section 3(j). During the period during which the Company is
required to maintain an effective Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Agreement,
the Company will prior to the three-year expiration of that Shelf Registration Statement
file, and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective (unless it becomes
effective automatically upon filing) within a period that avoids any interruption in the
ability of Holders of Securities covered by the expiring Shelf Registration Statement to
make registered dispositions, a new registration statement relating to the Securities,
which shall be deemed the “Shelf Registration Statement” for purposes of this Agreement.

     (k) Not later than the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement, the
Company will provide a CUSIP number for the Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities or
the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, and provide the applicable trustee
with printed certificates for the Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities or the
Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, in a form eligible for deposit with The
Depository Trust Company.

     (l) The Company will comply with all rules and regulations of the Commission to the
extent and so long as they are applicable to the Registered Exchange Offer or the Shelf
Registration and will make generally available to its security holders (or otherwise
provide in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act) an earnings statement
satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act, no later than 45 days
after the end of a 12-month period (or 90 days, if such period is a fiscal year) beginning
with the first month of the Company’s first fiscal quarter commencing after the effective
date of the Registration Statement, which statement shall cover such 12-month period.

     (m) The Company shall cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended, in a timely manner and containing such changes, if any, as shall
be necessary for such qualification. In the event that such qualification would require
the appointment of a new trustee under the Indenture, the Company shall appoint a new
trustee thereunder pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture.

     (n) The Company may require each Holder of Securities to be sold pursuant to the
Shelf Registration Statement to furnish to the Company such information regarding the
Holder and the distribution of the Securities as the Company may from time to time
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inclusion in the Shelf Registration Statement, and the Company may
exclude from such registration the Securities of any Holder that unreasonably fails to
furnish such information within a reasonable time after receiving such request.

     (o) The Company shall enter into such customary agreements (including, if requested,
an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take all such other action, if any, as any
Holder of the Securities shall reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of
the Securities pursuant to any Shelf Registration.

     (p) In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company shall (i) make reasonably
available for inspection by the Holders of the Securities, any underwriter participating in
any disposition pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and any attorney, accountant
or other agent retained by the Holders of the Securities or any such underwriter all
relevant financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the
Company and (ii) cause the Company’s officers, directors, employees, accountants and
auditors to supply all relevant information reasonably requested by the Holders of the
Securities or any such underwriter, attorney, accountant or agent in connection with the
Shelf Registration Statement, in each case, as shall be reasonably necessary to enable such
persons, to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of Section 11 of the
Securities Act (subject to execution of a customary confidentiality agreement); provided,
however, that the foregoing inspection and information gathering shall be coordinated on
behalf of the Initial Purchaser by you and on behalf of the other parties, by one counsel
designated by and on behalf of such other parties as described in Section 4 hereof.

     (q) In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company, if requested by any Holder of
Securities covered thereby, shall cause (i) its counsel to deliver an opinion and updates
thereof relating to the Securities in customary form (and subject to limitations consistent
with those set out in the opinion delivered on the Closing Date (as defined in the Purchase
Agreement)) addressed to such Holders and the managing underwriters, if any, thereof and
dated, in the case of the initial opinion, the effective date of such Shelf Registration
Statement (it being agreed that the matters to be covered by such opinion shall include,
without limitation, the due incorporation and good standing of the Company and its
subsidiaries; the qualification of the Company and its subsidiaries to transact business as
foreign corporations; the due authorization, execution and delivery of the relevant
agreement of the type referred to in Section 3(o) hereof; the due authorization, execution,
authentication and issuance, and the validity and enforceability, of the applicable
Securities; the absence of material legal or governmental proceedings involving the Company
and its subsidiaries; the absence of governmental approvals required to be obtained in
connection with the Shelf Registration Statement, the offering and sale of the applicable
Securities, or any agreement of the type referred to in Section 3(o) hereof; the compliance
as to form of such Shelf Registration Statement and any documents incorporated by reference
therein and of the Indenture with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Trust
Indenture Act, respectively; and (A) as of the date of the opinion and as of the effective
date of the Shelf Registration Statement or most recent post-effective amendment thereto,
as the case may be, the absence from such Shelf Registration Statement and the prospectus
included therein, as then amended or supplemented, and from any documents incorporated by
reference therein and (B) as of an applicable time identified by such Holders or managing
underwriters, the absence from such prospectus taken together with any other documents
identified by such Holders or managing underwriters, in the case of (A) and (B), of an
untrue statement of a material fact or the omission

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to state therein a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading
(in the case of any such incorporated documents, in the light of the circumstances existing
at the time that such documents were filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act);
(ii) its officers to execute and deliver all customary documents and certificates and
updates thereof requested by any underwriters of the applicable Securities and (iii) its
independent public accountants to provide to the selling Holders of the applicable
Securities and any underwriter therefor a comfort letter in customary form and covering
matters of the type customarily covered in comfort letters in connection with primary
underwritten offerings, subject to receipt of appropriate documentation as contemplated,
and only if permitted, by Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72.

     (r) In the case of the Registered Exchange Offer, if requested by the Initial
Purchaser or any known Participating Broker-Dealer, the Company shall cause (i) its counsel
to deliver to the Initial Purchaser or such Participating Broker-Dealer a signed opinion in
the form set forth in Section 6(c) of the Purchase Agreement with such changes as are
customary in connection with the preparation of a Registration Statement and (ii) its
independent public accountants to deliver to the Initial Purchaser or such Participating
Broker-Dealer a comfort letter, in customary form, meeting the requirements as to the
substance thereof as set forth in Section 7(a) of the Purchase Agreement, with appropriate
date changes.

     (s) If a Registered Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange is to be consummated, upon
delivery of the Initial Securities by Holders to the Company (or to such other Person as
directed by the Company) in exchange for the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange
Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall mark, or caused to be marked, on the
Initial Securities so exchanged that such Initial Securities are being canceled in exchange
for the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be; in no
event shall the Initial Securities be marked as paid or otherwise satisfied.

     (t) The Company will use its best efforts to (a) if the Initial Securities have been
rated prior to the initial sale of such Initial Securities, confirm such ratings will apply
to the Securities covered by a Registration Statement, or (b) if the Initial Securities
were not previously rated, cause the Securities covered by a Registration Statement to be
rated with the appropriate rating agencies, if so requested by Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of Securities covered by such Registration Statement, or by the
managing underwriters, if any.

     (u) In the event that any broker-dealer registered under the Exchange Act shall
underwrite any Securities or participate as a member of an underwriting syndicate or
selling group or “assist in the distribution” (within the meaning of the Conduct Rules (the
“Rules”) of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”)) thereof, whether
as a Holder of such Securities or as an underwriter, a placement or sales agent or a broker
or dealer in respect thereof, or otherwise, the Company will assist such broker-dealer in
complying with the requirements of such Rules, including, without limitation, by (i) if
such Rules, including Rule 2720, shall so require, engaging a “qualified independent
underwriter” (as defined in Rule 2720) to participate in the preparation of the
Registration Statement relating to such Securities, to exercise usual standards of due
diligence in respect thereto and, if any portion of the offering contemplated by such
Registration Statement is an underwritten offering or is made through a placement or sales
agent, to recommend the yield of such Securities, (ii) indemnifying any such qualified
independent underwriter to the extent of the indemnification of underwriters provided in
Section 5

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hereof and (iii) providing such information to such broker-dealer as may be
required in order for such broker-dealer to comply with the requirements of the Rules.

     (v) The Company shall use its best efforts to take all other steps necessary to
effect the registration of the Securities covered by a Registration Statement contemplated
hereby.

     4. Registration Expenses. The Company shall bear all fees and expenses incurred in
connection with the performance of its obligations under Sections 1 through 3 hereof (including the
reasonable fees and expenses, if any, of Davis Polk & Wardwell, counsel for the Initial Purchaser,
incurred in connection with the Registered Exchange Offer), whether or not the Registered Exchange
Offer or a Shelf Registration is filed or becomes effective, and, in the event of a Shelf
Registration, shall bear or reimburse the Holders of the Securities covered thereby for the
reasonable fees and disbursements of one firm of counsel designated
by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Initial Securities covered thereby to act
as counsel for the Holders of the Initial Securities in connection therewith.

     5. Indemnification. (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Holder of
the Securities, any Participating Broker-Dealer and each person, if any, who controls such Holder
or such Participating Broker-Dealer within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act
(each Holder, any Participating Broker-Dealer and such controlling persons are referred to
collectively as the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities, joint or several, or any actions in respect thereof (including, but not limited to,
any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions relating to purchases and sales of the
Securities) to which each Indemnified Party may become subject under the Securities Act, the
Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions arise
out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in
any preliminary prospectus or “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Commission Rule 433
(“Issuer FWP”), relating to a Shelf Registration, or arise out of, or are based upon, the omission
or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading, and shall reimburse, as incurred, the Indemnified
Parties for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with
investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action in respect thereof;
provided, however, that (i) the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that
such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in a Registration Statement or
prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus or Issuer FWP
relating to a Shelf Registration in reliance upon and in conformity with written information
pertaining to such Holder and furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically
for inclusion therein and (ii) with respect to any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue
statement or omission made in any preliminary prospectus relating to a Shelf Registration
Statement, the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection (a) shall not inure to the benefit
of any Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer from whom the person asserting any such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities purchased the Securities concerned, to the extent that a prospectus
relating to such Securities was required to be delivered (including through satisfaction of the
conditions of Commission Rule 172) by such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer under the
Securities Act in connection with such purchase and any such loss, claim, damage or liability of
such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer results from the fact that there was not conveyed to
such person, at or prior to the time of the sale of such Securities to such person, an amended or
supplemented prospectus or, if permitted by Section 3(d), an Issuer FWP correcting such untrue
statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission if the Company had previously
furnished copies thereof to such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer; provided further, however,
that this indemnity agreement will be in

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addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise
have to such Indemnified Party. The Company shall also indemnify underwriters, their officers and
directors and each person who controls such underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act
or the Exchange Act to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of the
Holders of the Securities if requested by such Holders.

     (b) Each Holder of the Securities, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold
harmless the Company and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act from and against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities or
any actions in respect thereof, to which the Company or any such controlling person may become
subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims,
damages, liabilities or actions arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact contained in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any
amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus or Issuer FWP relating to a Shelf
Registration, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or
alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, but in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or omission or alleged
untrue statement or omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information
pertaining to such Holder and furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically
for inclusion therein; and, subject to the limitation set forth immediately preceding this clause,
shall reimburse, as incurred, the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by
the Company or any such controlling person in connection with investigating or defending any loss,
claim, damage, liability or action in respect thereof. This indemnity agreement will be in
addition to any liability which such Holder may otherwise have to the Company or any of its
controlling persons.

     (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 5 of notice of the
commencement of any action or proceeding (including a governmental investigation), such indemnified
party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this
Section 5, notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof; but the failure to notify the
indemnifying party shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any liability that it may have
under subsection (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced
(through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided further
that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it
may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection (a) or (b) above. In case any
such action is brought against any indemnified party, and it notifies the indemnifying party of the
commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the
extent that it may wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume
the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not,
except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and after
notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the
defense thereof the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this
Section 5 for any legal or other expenses, other than reasonable costs of investigation,
subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof. No
indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any
settlement of any pending or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is or
could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party
unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all
liability on any claims that are the subject matter of such action, and (ii) does not include a
statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any
indemnified party.

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     (d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 5 is unavailable or insufficient to
hold harmless an indemnified party under subsections (a) or (b) above, then each indemnifying party
shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses,
claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to in subsection (a) or (b)
above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the
indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the indemnified party on the other from the
exchange of the Securities, pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer, or (ii) if the allocation
provided by the foregoing clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the
relative fault of the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the indemnified party on
the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims,
damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative fault of the parties shall be determined by reference to, among other
things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or
alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one
hand or such Holder or such other indemnified party, as the case may be, on the other, and the
parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to
information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The amount paid by
an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the
first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any
action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d). Notwithstanding any other provision
of this Section 5(d), the Holders of the Securities shall not be required to contribute any amount
in excess of the amount by which the net proceeds received by such Holders from the sale of the
Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement exceeds the amount of damages which such Holders
have otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or
omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning
of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was
not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this paragraph (d), each person,
if any, who controls such indemnified party within the meaning of the Securities Act or the
Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such indemnified party and each person,
if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall
have the same rights to contribution as the Company.

     (e) The agreements contained in this Section 5 shall survive the sale of the Securities
pursuant to a Registration Statement and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any
termination or cancellation of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any
indemnified party.

     6. Additional Interest Under Certain Circumstances. (a) Additional interest (the
“Additional Interest”) with respect to the Initial Securities shall be assessed as follows if any
of the following events occur (each such event in clauses (i) through (iii) below a “Registration
Default”:

     (i) the Company fails to file any Registration Statement required by this Agreement
on or prior to the applicable deadline;

     (ii) any Registration Statement is not declared effective on or prior to the
applicable effectiveness deadline;

     (iii) the Exchange Offer is not consummated on or prior to the date that is 40 days
after the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective; or

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     (iv) If after either the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or the Shelf
Registration Statement is declared (or becomes automatically) effective (A) such
Registration Statement thereafter ceases to be effective; or (B) such Registration
Statement or the related prospectus ceases to be usable (except as permitted in paragraph
(b)) in connection with resales of Transfer Restricted Securities during the periods
specified herein because either (1) any event occurs as a result of which the related
prospectus forming part of such Registration Statement would include any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements
therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, (2) it
shall be necessary to amend such Registration Statement or supplement the related
prospectus, to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules
thereunder, or (3) such Registration Statement is a Shelf Registration Statement that has
expired before a replacement Shelf Registration Statement has become effective.

Additional Interest shall accrue on the Initial Securities over and above the interest set forth in
the title of the Securities from and including the date on which any such Registration Default
shall occur to but excluding the date on which all such Registration Defaults have been cured, at a
rate of 0.25% per annum
for the first 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of a Registration Default, to be
increased by an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period until all
Registration Defaults have been cured, up to a maximum additional interest rate of 1.00% per annum.

     (b) A Registration Default referred to in Section 6(a)(iii)(B) hereof shall be deemed not to
have occurred and be continuing in relation to a Shelf Registration Statement or the related
prospectus if (i) such Registration Default has occurred solely as a result of (x) the filing of a
post-effective amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement to incorporate annual audited
financial information with respect to the Company where such post-effective amendment is not yet
effective and needs to be declared effective to permit Holders to use the related prospectus or (y)
other material events, with respect to the Company that would need to be described in such Shelf
Registration Statement or the related prospectus and (ii) in the case of clause (y), the Company is
proceeding promptly and in good faith to amend or supplement such Shelf Registration Statement and
related prospectus to describe such events; provided, however, that in any case if such
Registration Default occurs for a continuous period in excess of 30 days, Additional Interest shall
be payable in accordance with the above paragraph from the day such Registration Default occurs
until such Registration Default is cured.

     (c) Any amounts of Additional Interest due pursuant to clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of Section
6(a) above will be payable in cash on the regular interest payment dates with respect to the
Initial Securities. The amount of Additional Interest applicable to the Securities will be
determined by multiplying the Additional Interest rate by the principal amount of the Securities,
multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days such Additional Interest
rate was applicable during such period (determined on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of
twelve 30-day months), and the denominator of which is 360.

     (d) “Transfer Restricted Securities” means each Security until (i) the date on which such
Transfer Restricted Security has been exchanged by a person other than a broker-dealer for a freely
transferable Exchange Security in the Registered Exchange Offer, (ii) following the exchange by a
broker-dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer of a Initial Security for an Exchange Note, the date
on which such Exchange Note is sold to a purchaser who receives from such broker-dealer on or prior
to the date of such sale a copy of the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement, (iii) the date on which such Initial Security has been effectively registered under the
Securities Act and disposed of in accordance with the Shelf Registration Statement or (iv) the date
on which such Initial Security is distributed to the public

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pursuant to Rule 144 under the
Securities Act or is saleable pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act.

     7. Rules 144 and 144A. The Company shall use its best efforts to file the reports required
to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act in a timely manner and, if at any
time the Company is not required to file such reports, it will, upon the request of any Holder of
Initial Securities, make publicly available other information so long as necessary to permit sales
of their securities pursuant to Rules 144 and 144A. The Company covenants that it will take such
further action as any Holder of Initial Securities may reasonably request, all to the extent
required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell Initial Securities without registration
under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rules 144 and 144A
(including the requirements of Rule 144A(d)(4)). The Company will provide a copy of this Agreement
to prospective purchasers of Initial Securities identified to the Company by the Initial Purchaser
upon request. Upon the request of any Holder of Initial Securities, the Company shall deliver to
such Holder a written statement as to whether it has complied with such requirements.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 7 shall be deemed to require the Company to
register any of its securities pursuant to the Exchange Act.

     8. Underwritten Registrations. If any of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by any
Shelf Registration are to be sold in an underwritten offering, the investment banker or investment
bankers and manager or managers that will administer the offering (“Managing Underwriters”) will be
selected by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of such Transfer Restricted
Securities to be included in such offering but shall be subject to approval of the Company, not to
be unreasonably withheld.

     No person may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such person (i)
agrees to sell such person’s Transfer Restricted Securities on the basis reasonably provided in any
underwriting arrangements approved by the persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements
and (ii) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting
agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting
arrangements.

     9. Miscellaneous.

     (a) Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not be amended, modified or
supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given,
except by the Company and the written consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Securities affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consents.

     (b) Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall
be made in writing by hand delivery, first-class mail, facsimile transmission, or air courier which
guarantees overnight delivery:

          (1) if to a Holder of the Securities, at the most current address given by such Holder to the
Company.

          (2) if to the Initial Purchaser;

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

Eleven Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10010-3629

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Fax No.: (212) 325-4296

Attention: Transactions Advisory Group

          with a copy to:

Davis Polk & Wardwell

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Fax No.: (212) 450-3111

Attention: Michael Kaplan

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          (3) if to the Company, at its address as follows:

Neenah Foundry Company

2121 Brooks Avenue

Neenah, WI 54957

Fax No.: (920) 729-3633

Attention: William Barrett

          with a copy to:

Quarles & Brady LLP

411 East Wisconsin Avenue

Suite 2040

Milwaukee, WI 53202

Fax No.: (414) 978-8915

Attention: Bruce Davidson

     All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time
delivered by hand, if personally delivered; three business days after being deposited in the mail,
postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is acknowledged by recipient’s facsimile machine operator,
if sent by facsimile transmission; and on the day delivered, if sent by overnight air courier
guaranteeing next day delivery.

     (c) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company has not, as of the date hereof, entered into,
nor shall it, on or after the date hereof, enter into, any agreement with respect to its securities
that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders herein or otherwise conflicts with the
provisions hereof.

     (d) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company and its
successors and assigns.

     (e) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the
parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an
original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

     (f) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall
not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

     (g) Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH,
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.

     (h) Severability. If any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or the application
thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions
contained herein shall not be affected or impaired thereby.

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     (i) Securities Held by the Company. Whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a
specified percentage of principal amount of Securities is required hereunder, Securities held by
the Company or its
affiliates (other than subsequent Holders of Securities if such subsequent Holders are deemed to be
affiliates solely by reason of their holdings of such Securities) shall not be counted in
determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage.

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     If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and
return to the Issuer a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts,
will become a binding agreement among the Initial Purchaser, the Issuer and the Guarantors in
accordance with its terms.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	Very truly yours,

NEENAH FOUNDRY COMPANY

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Gary W. LaChey
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Gary W. LaChey 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Corporate Vice
President - Finance and Chief
Financial Officer 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	ADVANCED CAST PRODUCTS, INC.

DALTON CORPORATION

DALTON CORPORATION, WARSAW 
        MANUFACTURING FACILITY

DALTON CORPORATION, STRYKER MACHINING 
        FACILITY CO.

DALTON CORPORATION, ASHLAND 
        MANUFACTURING FACILITY

DALTON CORPORATION, KENDALLVILLE 
        MANUFACTURING FACILITY

DEETER FOUNDRY, INC.

GREGG INDUSTRIES, INC.

MERCER FORGE CORPORATION

A&M SPECIALTIES, INC.

NEENAH TRANSPORT, INC.

CAST ALLOYS, INC.

BELCHER CORPORATION

PEERLESS CORPORATION

        Acting on behalf of each of the Guarantors

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Gary W. LaChey
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Gary W. LaChey 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Corporate Vice President - Finance
and Chief Financial Officer 	 

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The foregoing Registration

Rights Agreement is hereby confirmed

and accepted as of the date first

above written.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

	 	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Paul Scherzer
 

Name: Paul Scherzer 

Title: Director
	 	 

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ANNEX A

     Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account pursuant to the
Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of
such Exchange Securities. The Letter of Transmittal states that by so acknowledging and by
delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter”
within the meaning of the Securities Act. This Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented
from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of Exchange Securities
received in exchange for Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were acquired by such
broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. The Company has
agreed that, for a period of 180 days after the Expiration Date (as defined herein), it will make
this Prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. See
“Plan of Distribution.”

 

 

ANNEX B

     Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for
Securities, where such Initial Securities were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of
market-making activities or other trading activities, must acknowledge that it will deliver a
prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities. See “Plan of Distribution.”

 

 

ANNEX C

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

     Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account pursuant to the
Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of
such Exchange Securities. This Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time,
may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of Exchange Securities received in
exchange for Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were acquired as a result of
market-making activities or other trading activities. The Company has agreed that, for a period of
180 days after the Expiration Date, it will make this prospectus, as amended or supplemented,
available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. In addition, until
        , 20 , all dealers effecting transactions in the Exchange Securities may be required
to deliver a prospectus.(1)

     The Company will not receive any proceeds from any sale of Exchange Securities by
broker-dealers. Exchange Securities received by broker-dealers for their own account pursuant to
the Exchange Offer may be sold from time to time in one or more transactions in the
over-the-counter market, in negotiated transactions, through the writing of options on the Exchange
Securities or a combination of such methods of resale, at market prices prevailing at the time of
resale, at prices related to such prevailing market prices or negotiated prices. Any such resale
may be made directly to purchasers or to or through brokers or dealers who may receive compensation
in the form of commissions or concessions from any such broker-dealer or the purchasers of any such
Exchange Securities. Any broker-dealer that resells Exchange Securities that were received by it
for its own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer and any broker or dealer that participates in a
distribution of such Exchange Securities may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of
the Securities Act and any profit on any such resale of Exchange Securities and any commission or
concessions received by any such persons may be deemed to be underwriting compensation under the
Securities Act. The Letter of Transmittal states that, by acknowledging that it will deliver and
by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter”
within the meaning of the Securities Act.

     For a period of 180 days after the Expiration Date the Company will promptly send additional
copies of this Prospectus and any amendment or supplement to this Prospectus to any broker-dealer
that requests such documents in the Letter of Transmittal. The Company has agreed to pay all
expenses incident to the Exchange Offer (including the expenses of one counsel for the Holders of
the Securities) other than commissions or concessions of any brokers or dealers and will indemnify
the Holders of the Securities (including any broker-dealers) against certain liabilities, including
liabilities under the Securities Act.

 

			
	(1)	 	In addition, the legend required by Item
502(e) of Regulation S-K will appear on the back cover page of the Exchange
Offer prospectus.

 

 

ANNEX D

o CHECK HERE IF YOU ARE A BROKER-DEALER AND WISH TO RECEIVE 10 ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE PROSPECTUS
AND 10 COPIES OF ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Address:
	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

	 	 

If the undersigned is not a broker-dealer, the undersigned represents that it is not engaged in,
and does not intend to engage in, a distribution of Exchange Securities. If the undersigned is a
broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial
Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities,
it acknowledges that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange
Securities; however, by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, the undersigned will not
be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.exv4w4

 

Exhibit 4.4

$75,000,000

NEENAH FOUNDRY COMPANY

121/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

December 29, 2006

	 	 	 
	Tontine Capital Partners, L.P.
	 

	 	55 Railroad Avenue, 1st Floor
	 

	 	Greenwich, CT 06830

Dear Sirs:

     Neenah Foundry Company, a Wisconsin corporation (the “Issuer”), proposes to issue to Tontine
Capital Partners, L.P. (“Tontine”), upon the terms set forth in an exchange agreement dated
December 29, 2006 (the “Exchange Agreement”), U.S.$75,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its
121/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013 (the “Initial Securities”) to be fully and unconditionally
guaranteed (the “Guaranties”) by all of the Company’s existing direct and indirect Wholly Owned
Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries (as defined in the form of Indenture referred to below) (the
“Guarantors” and together with the Issuer, the “Company”). The Initial Securities include a form
of Indenture as Exhibit A thereto (the “Indenture”) among the Issuer, the Guarantors named therein
and the trustee to be designated in such Indenture (the “Trustee”). As an inducement to Tontine,
the Company agrees with Tontine, for the benefit of the holders of the Initial Securities
(including, without limitation, Tontine), and the holders of the Exchange Securities (as defined
below) and any Private Exchange Securities (as defined below) (collectively the “Holders”), as
follows:

     1. Registered Exchange Offer. The Company shall, at its own cost, prepare and, not later
than 90 days after (or if the 90th day is not a business day, the first business day thereafter)
the date it receives a written registration demand from Tontine or the holders of a majority of the
Initial Securities (the “Demand Date”), file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) a registration statement (the “Exchange Offer Registration Statement”) on an
appropriate form under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), with respect
to a proposed offer (the “Registered Exchange Offer”) to the Holders of Transfer Restricted
Securities (as defined in Section 6 hereof), who are not prohibited by any law or policy of the
Commission from participating in the Registered Exchange Offer, to issue and deliver to such
Holders, in exchange for the Initial Securities, a like aggregate principal amount of debt
securities (the “Exchange Securities”) of the Company issued under the Indenture and identical in
all material respects to the Initial Securities (except for the transfer restrictions relating to
the Initial Securities and the provisions relating to the matters described in Section 6 hereof)
that would be registered under the Securities Act. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause
such Exchange Offer Registration Statement to become effective under the Securities Act within 210
days (or if the 210th day is not a business day, the first business day thereafter) after the
Demand Date of the Initial Securities and shall keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement
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applicable law) after the date
notice of the Registered Exchange Offer is mailed to the Holders (such period being called the
“Exchange Offer Registration Period”).

     If the Company effects the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company will be entitled to close
the Registered Exchange Offer 30 days after the commencement thereof provided that the Company has
accepted all the Initial Securities theretofore validly tendered in accordance with the terms of
the Registered Exchange Offer.

     Following the declaration of the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement,
the Company shall promptly commence the Registered Exchange Offer, it being the objective of such
Registered Exchange Offer to enable each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined in
Section 6 hereof) electing to exchange the Initial Securities for Exchange Securities (assuming
that such Holder is not an affiliate of the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act,
acquires the Exchange Securities in the ordinary course of such Holder’s business and has no
arrangements with any person to participate in the distribution of the Exchange Securities and is
not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in the Registered Exchange
Offer) to trade such Exchange Securities from and after their receipt without any limitations or
restrictions under the Securities Act and without material restrictions under the securities laws
of the several states of the United States.

     The Company acknowledges that, pursuant to current interpretations by the Commission’s staff
of Section 5 of the Securities Act, in the absence of an applicable exemption therefrom, (i) each
Holder which is a broker-dealer electing to exchange Securities, acquired for its own account as a
result of market making activities or other trading activities, for Exchange Securities (an
“Exchanging Dealer”), is required to deliver a prospectus containing the information set forth in
(a) Annex A hereto on the cover, (b) Annex B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and
the “Purpose of the Exchange Offer” section, and (c) Annex C hereto in the “Plan of Distribution”
section of such prospectus in connection with a sale of any such Exchange Securities received by
such Exchanging Dealer pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and (ii) Tontine when electing to
sell Exchange Securities acquired in exchange for Securities constituting any portion of an unsold
allotment, is required to deliver a prospectus containing the information required by Items 507 or
508 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as applicable, in connection with such sale.

     The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement
effective and to amend and supplement the prospectus contained therein, in order to permit such
prospectus to be lawfully delivered by all persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements
of the Securities Act for such period of time as such persons must comply with such requirements in
order to resell the Exchange Securities; provided, however, that (i) in the case where such
prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto must be delivered by an Exchanging Dealer or
Tontine, such period shall be the lesser of 180 days and the date on which all Exchanging Dealers
and Tontine have sold all Exchange Securities held by them (unless such period is extended pursuant
to Section 3(j) below) and (ii) the Company shall make such prospectus and any amendment or
supplement thereto available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any resale of any
Exchange Securities for a period of not less than 90 days after the consummation of the Registered
Exchange Offer.

     If, upon consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer, Tontine holds Initial Securities, the
Company, simultaneously with the delivery of the Exchange Securities pursuant to the Registered
Exchange Offer, shall issue and deliver to Tontine upon the written request of Tontine, in exchange
(the “Private Exchange”) for the Initial Securities held by Tontine, a like principal amount of
debt securities of the Company issued under the Indenture and identical in all material respects
(including the existence of restrictions on transfer under the Securities Act and the securities
laws of the several states of the United

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States, but excluding provisions relating to the matters
described in Section 6 hereof) to the Initial Securities (the “Private Exchange Securities”). The
Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities and the Private Exchange Securities are herein
collectively called the “Securities”.

     In connection with the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company shall:

     (a) mail to each Holder a copy of the prospectus forming part of the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement, together with an appropriate letter of transmittal and related
documents;

     (b) keep the Registered Exchange Offer open for not less than 30 days (or longer, if
required by applicable law) after the date notice thereof is mailed to the Holders;

     (c) utilize the services of a depositary for the Registered Exchange Offer with an
address in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, which may be the Trustee or an
affiliate of the Trustee;

     (d) permit Holders to withdraw tendered Securities at any time prior to the close of
business, New York time, on the last business day on which the Registered Exchange Offer
shall remain open; and

     (e) otherwise comply with all applicable laws.

     As soon as practicable after the close of the Registered Exchange Offer or the Private
Exchange, as the case may be, the Company shall:

     (x) accept for exchange all the Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn
pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and the Private Exchange;

     (y) deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all the Initial Securities so accepted
for exchange; and

     (z) cause the Trustee to authenticate and deliver promptly to each Holder of the
Initial Securities, Exchange Securities or Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be,
equal in principal amount to the Initial Securities of such Holder so accepted for
exchange.

     The Indenture will provide that the Exchange Securities will not be subject to the transfer
restrictions set forth in the Indenture and that all the Securities will vote and consent together
on all matters as one class and that none of the Securities will have the right to vote or consent
as a class separate from one another on any matter.

     Interest on each Exchange Security and Private Exchange Security issued pursuant to the
Registered Exchange Offer and in the Private Exchange will accrue from the last interest payment
date on which interest was paid on the Initial Securities surrendered in exchange therefor or, if
no interest has been paid on the Initial Securities, from the date of original issue of the Initial
Securities.

     Each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer shall be required to represent to
the Company that at the time of the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer (i) any Exchange
Securities received by such Holder will be acquired in the ordinary course of business, (ii) such
Holder will have no arrangements or understanding with any person to participate in the
distribution of the Securities or the Exchange Securities within the meaning of the Securities Act,
(iii) such Holder is not an “affiliate,” as

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defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act, of the
Company or if it is an affiliate, such Holder will comply with the registration and prospectus
delivery requirements of the Securities Act to the extent applicable, (iv) if such Holder is not a
broker-dealer, that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, the distribution of the
Exchange Securities and (v) if such Holder is a broker-dealer, that it will receive
Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial Securities that were acquired as a
result of market-making activities or other trading activities and that it will be required to
acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange
Securities.

     Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, the Company will ensure that (i) any Exchange
Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any prospectus forming part thereof and
any supplement thereto complies in all material respects with the Securities Act and the rules and
regulations thereunder, (ii) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto
does not, when it becomes effective, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading and (iii) any prospectus forming part of any Exchange Offer Registration Statement, and
any supplement to such prospectus, does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

     2. Shelf Registration. If, (i) the Company determines that it is not permitted to effect a
Registered Exchange Offer, as contemplated by Section 1 hereof, (ii) the Registered Exchange Offer
is not consummated within 250 days of the Demand Date, (iii) Tontine so requests with respect to
the Initial Securities (or the Private Exchange Securities) not eligible to be exchanged for
Exchange Securities in the Registered Exchange Offer and held by it following consummation of the
Registered Exchange Offer or (iv) any Holder (other than an Exchanging Dealer) so requests because
it is not eligible to participate in the Registered Exchange Offer or, in the case of any Holder
(other than an Exchanging Dealer) that participates in the Registered Exchange Offer, such Holder
does not receive freely tradeable Exchange Securities on the date of the exchange, the Company
shall take the following actions:

     (a) The Company shall, at its cost, on a single occasion as promptly as practicable
(but in no event more than 90 days after so required or requested pursuant to this Section
2) file with the Commission and thereafter shall use its best efforts to cause to be
declared effective (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing), but in no event
more than 210 days after such requirement or request pursuant to this Section 2, a
registration statement (the “Shelf Registration Statement” and, together with the Exchange
Offer Registration Statement, a “Registration Statement”) on an appropriate form under the
Securities Act relating to the offer and sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities (as
defined in Section 6 hereof) by the Holders thereof from time to time in accordance with
the methods of distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415
under the Securities Act (hereinafter, the “Shelf Registration”); provided, however, that
no Holder (other than Tontine) shall be entitled to have the Securities held by it covered
by such Shelf Registration Statement unless such Holder agrees in writing to be bound by
all the provisions of this Agreement applicable to such Holder.

     (b) The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement
continuously effective in order to permit the prospectus included therein to be lawfully
delivered by the Holders of the relevant Securities, for a period of two years (or for such
longer period if extended pursuant to Section 3(j) below) from the Demand Date or such
shorter period that will terminate when all the Securities covered by the Shelf
Registration Statement (i) have been sold pursuant thereto or (ii) are no longer restricted
securities (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or any successor rule
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best efforts to keep the Shelf
Registration Statement effective during the requisite period if it voluntarily takes any
action that would result in Holders of Securities covered thereby not being able to offer
and sell such Securities during that period, unless such action is required by applicable
law.

     (c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, the
Company shall cause the Shelf Registration Statement and the related prospectus and any
amendment or supplement thereto, as of the effective date of the Shelf Registration
Statement, amendment or supplement, (i) to comply in all material respects with the
applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the
Commission and (ii) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

     3. Registration Procedures. In connection with any Shelf Registration contemplated by
Section 2 hereof and, to the extent applicable, any Registered Exchange Offer contemplated by
Section 1 hereof, the following provisions shall apply:

     (a) The Company shall (i) furnish to Tontine, prior to the filing thereof with the
Commission, a copy of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereof and each
supplement, if any, to the prospectus included therein and, in the event that Tontine (with
respect to any portion of an unsold allotment from the original offering) is participating
in the Registered Exchange Offer or the Shelf Registration Statement, the Company shall use
its best efforts to reflect in each such document, when so filed with the Commission, such
comments as Tontine reasonably may propose; (ii) include the information set forth in Annex
A hereto on the cover, in Annex B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and the
“Purpose of the Exchange Offer” section and in Annex C hereto in the “Plan of Distribution”
section of the prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and
include the information set forth in Annex D hereto in the Letter of Transmittal delivered
pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer; (iii) if requested by Tontine, include the
information required by Items 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as
applicable, in the prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement;
(iv) include within the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement a
section entitled “Plan of Distribution,” reasonably acceptable to Tontine, which shall
contain a summary statement of the positions taken or policies made by the staff of the
Commission with respect to the potential “underwriter” status of any broker-dealer that is
the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) of Exchange Securities received by such broker-dealer in
the Registered Exchange Offer (a “Participating Broker-Dealer”), whether such positions or
policies have been publicly disseminated by the staff of the Commission or such positions
or policies, in the reasonable judgment of Tontine based upon advice of counsel (which may
be in-house counsel), represent the prevailing views of the staff of the Commission; and
(v) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, include in the prospectus included in
the Shelf Registration Statement (or, if permitted by Commission Rule 430B(b), in a
prospectus supplement that becomes a part thereof pursuant to Commission Rule 430B(f)) that
is delivered to any Holder pursuant to Section 3(d) and (f), the names of the Holders, who
have given the Company reasonable advance written notice that such Holders propose to sell
Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, as selling securityholders.

     (b) The Company shall give written notice to Tontine, the Holders of the Securities
and any Participating Broker-Dealer from whom the Company has received prior written notice
that it

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will be a Participating Broker-Dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer (which
notice pursuant to clauses (ii)-(v) hereof shall be accompanied, if appropriate, by an
instruction to suspend the use of the prospectus until the requisite changes have been
made):

     (i) when the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto has been filed
with the Commission and when the Registration Statement or any post-effective
amendment thereto has become effective;

     (ii) of any request by the Commission for amendments or supplements to the
Registration Statement or the prospectus included therein or for additional
information;

     (iii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings
for that purpose, of the issuance by the Commission of a notification of objection
to the use of the form on which the Registration Statement has been filed, and of
the happening of any event that causes the Company to become an “ineligible
issuer,” as defined in Commission Rule 405;

     (iv) of the receipt by the Company or its legal counsel of any notification
with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in
any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such
purpose; and

     (v) of the happening of any event that requires the Company to make changes
in the Registration Statement or the prospectus in order that the Registration
Statement or the prospectus do not contain an untrue statement of a material fact
nor omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein (in the case of the prospectus, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

     (c) The Company shall make every reasonable effort to obtain the withdrawal at the
earliest possible time, of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement.

     (d) The Company shall furnish to each Holder of Securities included within the
coverage of the Shelf Registration, without charge, at least one copy of the Shelf
Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment or supplement thereto, including
financial statements and schedules, and, if the Holder so requests in writing, all exhibits
thereto (including those, if any, incorporated by reference). The Company shall not,
without the prior consent of Tontine, make any offer relating to the Securities that would
constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Commission Rule 405.

     (e) The Company shall deliver to each Exchanging Dealer and Tontine, and to any other
Holder who so requests, without charge, at least one copy of the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, including financial
statements and schedules, and, if Tontine or any such Holder requests, all exhibits thereto
(including those incorporated by reference).

     (f) The Company shall, during the Shelf Registration Period, deliver to each Holder
of Securities included within the coverage of the Shelf Registration, without charge, as
many copies of the prospectus (including each preliminary prospectus) included in the Shelf
Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as such person may
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Company consents, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to
the use of the prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling
Holders of the Securities in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities
covered by the prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in the Shelf
Registration Statement.

     (g) The Company shall deliver to Tontine, any Exchanging Dealer, any Participating
Broker-Dealer and such other persons required to deliver a prospectus following the
Registered Exchange Offer, without charge, as many copies of the final prospectus included
in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as
such persons may reasonably request. The Company consents, subject to the provisions of
this Agreement, to the use of the prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by
Tontine, if necessary, any Participating Broker-Dealer and such other persons required to
deliver a prospectus following the Registered Exchange Offer in connection with the
offering and sale of the Exchange Securities covered by the prospectus, or any amendment or
supplement thereto, included in such Exchange Offer Registration Statement.

     (h) Prior to any public offering of the Securities, pursuant to any Registration
Statement, the Company shall register or qualify or cooperate with the Holders of the
Securities included therein and their respective counsel in connection with the
registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or
“blue sky” laws of such states of the United States as any Holder of the Securities
reasonably requests in writing and do any and all other acts or things necessary or
advisable to enable the offer and sale in such jurisdictions of the Securities covered by
such Registration Statement; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to
(i) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified
or (ii) take any action which would subject it to general service of process or to taxation
in any jurisdiction where it is not then so subject.

     (i) The Company shall cooperate with the Holders of the Securities to facilitate the
timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing the Securities to be sold
pursuant to any Registration Statement free of any restrictive legends and in such
denominations and registered in such names as the Holders may request a reasonable period
of time prior to sales of the Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement.

     (j) Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by paragraphs (ii) through (v) of
Section 3(b) above during the period for which the Company is required to maintain an
effective Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly take appropriate actions which
may include preparation and filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration
Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus and any other required document so
that, as thereafter delivered to Holders of the Securities or purchasers of Securities, the
prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. If the Company
notifies Tontine, the Holders of the Securities and any known Participating Broker-Dealer
in accordance with paragraphs (ii) through (v) of Section 3(b) above to suspend the use of
the prospectus until the requisite changes to the prospectus have been made, then Tontine,
the Holders of the Securities and any such Participating Broker-Dealers shall suspend use
of such prospectus, and the period of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement
provided for in Section 2(b) above and the Exchange Offer Registration Statement provided
for in Section 1 above shall each be extended by the number of days from and including the
date of the giving of such notice to and including the date when Tontine, the Holders of
the Securities and any known Participating Broker-Dealer shall have received such amended
or supplemented

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prospectus pursuant to this Section 3(j). During the period during which
the Company is required to maintain an effective Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to
this Agreement, the Company will prior to the three-year expiration of that Shelf
Registration Statement file, and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective
(unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing) within a period that avoids any
interruption in the ability of Holders of Securities covered by the expiring Shelf
Registration Statement to make registered dispositions, a new registration statement
relating to the Securities, which shall be deemed the “Shelf Registration Statement” for
purposes of this Agreement.

     (k) Not later than the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement, the
Company will provide a CUSIP number for the Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities or
the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, and provide the applicable trustee
with printed certificates for the Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities or the
Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, in a form eligible for deposit with The
Depository Trust Company.

     (l) The Company will comply with all rules and regulations of the Commission to the
extent and so long as they are applicable to the Registered Exchange Offer or the Shelf
Registration and will make generally available to its security holders (or otherwise
provide in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act) an earnings statement
satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act, no later than 45 days
after the end of a 12-month period (or 90 days, if such period is a fiscal year) beginning
with the first month of the Company’s first fiscal quarter commencing after the effective
date of the Registration Statement, which statement shall cover such 12-month period.

     (m) The Company shall cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended, in a timely manner and containing such changes, if any, as shall
be necessary for such qualification. In the event that such qualification would require
the appointment of a new trustee under the Indenture, the Company shall appoint a new
trustee thereunder pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture.

     (n) The Company may require each Holder of Securities to be sold pursuant to the
Shelf Registration Statement to furnish to the Company such information regarding the
Holder and the distribution of the Securities as the Company may from time to time
reasonably require for inclusion in the Shelf Registration Statement, and the Company may
exclude from such registration the Securities of any Holder that unreasonably fails to
furnish such information within a reasonable time after receiving such request.

     (o) The Company shall enter into such customary agreements (including, if requested,
an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take all such other action, if any, as any
Holder of the Securities shall reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of
the Securities pursuant to any Shelf Registration.

     (p) In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company shall (i) make reasonably
available for inspection by the Holders of the Securities, any underwriter participating in
any disposition pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and any attorney, accountant
or other agent retained by the Holders of the Securities or any such underwriter all
relevant financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the
Company and (ii) cause the Company’s officers, directors, employees, accountants and
auditors to supply all relevant information reasonably requested by the Holders of the
Securities or any such underwriter, attorney, accountant or agent in connection with the
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shall be reasonably necessary to enable such
persons, to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of Section 11 of the
Securities Act (subject to execution of a customary confidentiality agreement); provided,
however, that the foregoing inspection and information gathering shall be coordinated on
behalf of Tontine by you and on behalf of the other parties, by one counsel designated by
and on behalf of such other parties as described in Section 4 hereof.

     (q) In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company, if requested by any Holder of
Securities covered thereby, shall cause (i) its counsel to deliver an opinion and updates
thereof relating to the Securities in customary form (and subject to limitations consistent
with those set out in the opinion delivered on the Closing Date (as defined in the Exchange
Agreement)) addressed to such Holders and the managing underwriters, if any, thereof and
dated, in the case of the initial opinion, the effective date of such Shelf Registration
Statement (it being agreed that the matters to be covered by such opinion shall include,
without limitation, the due incorporation and good standing of the Company and its
subsidiaries; the qualification of the Company and its subsidiaries to transact business as
foreign corporations; the due authorization, execution and delivery of the relevant
agreement of the type referred to in Section 3(o) hereof; the due authorization, execution,
authentication and issuance, and the validity and enforceability, of the applicable
Securities; the absence of material legal or governmental proceedings involving the Company
and its subsidiaries; the absence of governmental approvals required to be obtained in
connection with the Shelf Registration Statement, the offering and sale of the applicable
Securities, or any agreement of the type referred to in Section 3(o) hereof; the compliance
as to form of such Shelf Registration Statement and any documents incorporated by reference
therein and of the Indenture with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Trust
Indenture Act, respectively; and (A) as of the date of the opinion and as of the effective
date of the Shelf Registration Statement or most recent post-effective amendment thereto,
as the case may be, the absence from such Shelf Registration Statement and the prospectus
included therein, as then amended or supplemented, and from any documents incorporated by
reference therein and (B) as of an applicable time identified by such Holders or managing
underwriters, the absence from such prospectus taken together with any other documents
identified by such Holders or managing underwriters, in the case of (A) and (B), of an
untrue statement of a material fact or the omission to state therein a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading
(in the case of any such incorporated documents, in the light of the circumstances existing
at the time that such documents were filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act);
(ii) its officers to execute and deliver all customary documents and certificates and
updates thereof requested by any underwriters of the applicable Securities and (iii) its
independent public accountants to provide to the selling Holders of the applicable
Securities and any underwriter therefor a comfort letter in customary form and covering
matters of the type customarily covered in comfort letters in connection with primary
underwritten offerings, subject to receipt of appropriate documentation as contemplated,
and only if permitted, by Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72.

     (r) In the case of the Registered Exchange Offer, if requested by Tontine or any
known Participating Broker-Dealer, the Company shall cause its counsel to deliver to
Tontine or such Participating Broker-Dealer a signed opinion in the form set forth in
Section 5(f) of the Exchange Agreement with such changes as are customary in connection
with the preparation of a Registration Statement.

     (s) If a Registered Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange is to be consummated, upon
delivery of the Initial Securities by Holders to the Company (or to such other Person as
directed by the Company) in exchange for the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange
Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall mark, or caused to be marked, on the
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exchanged that such Initial Securities are being canceled in exchange
for the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be; in no
event shall the Initial Securities be marked as paid or otherwise satisfied.

     (t) The Company will use its best efforts to (a) if the Initial Securities have been
rated prior to the initial sale of such Initial Securities, confirm such ratings will apply
to the Securities covered by a Registration Statement, or (b) if the Initial Securities
were not previously rated, cause
the Securities covered by a Registration Statement to be rated with the appropriate rating
agencies, if so requested by Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
Securities covered by such Registration Statement, or by the managing underwriters, if any.

     (u) In the event that any broker-dealer registered under the Exchange Act shall
underwrite any Securities or participate as a member of an underwriting syndicate or
selling group or “assist in the distribution” (within the meaning of the Conduct Rules (the
“Rules”) of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”)) thereof, whether
as a Holder of such Securities or as an underwriter, a placement or sales agent or a broker
or dealer in respect thereof, or otherwise, the Company will assist such broker-dealer in
complying with the requirements of such Rules, including, without limitation, by (i) if
such Rules, including Rule 2720, shall so require, engaging a “qualified independent
underwriter” (as defined in Rule 2720) to participate in the preparation of the
Registration Statement relating to such Securities, to exercise usual standards of due
diligence in respect thereto and, if any portion of the offering contemplated by such
Registration Statement is an underwritten offering or is made through a placement or sales
agent, to recommend the yield of such Securities, (ii) indemnifying any such qualified
independent underwriter to the extent of the indemnification of underwriters provided in
Section 5 hereof and (iii) providing such information to such broker-dealer as may be
required in order for such broker-dealer to comply with the requirements of the Rules.

     (v) The Company shall use its best efforts to take all other steps necessary to
effect the registration of the Securities covered by a Registration Statement contemplated
hereby.

     4. Registration Expenses. The Company shall bear all fees and expenses incurred in
connection with the performance of its obligations under Sections 1 through 3 hereof (including the
reasonable fees and expenses, if any, of Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg LLP,
counsel for Tontine, incurred in connection with the Registered Exchange Offer), whether or not the
Registered Exchange Offer or a Shelf Registration is filed or becomes effective, and, in the event
of a Shelf Registration, shall bear or reimburse the Holders of the Securities covered thereby for
the reasonable fees and disbursements of one firm of counsel designated by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Initial Securities covered thereby to act as counsel for the
Holders of the Initial Securities in connection therewith.

     5. Indemnification. (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Holder of
the Securities, any Participating Broker-Dealer and each person, if any, who controls such Holder
or such Participating Broker-Dealer within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act
(each Holder, any Participating Broker-Dealer and such controlling persons are referred to
collectively as the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities, joint or several, or any actions in respect thereof (including, but not limited to,
any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions relating to purchases and sales of the
Securities) to which each Indemnified Party may become subject under the Securities Act, the
Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions arise
out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in
any preliminary prospectus or “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Commission Rule 433
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FWP”), relating to a Shelf Registration, or arise out of, or are based upon, the omission
or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading, and shall reimburse, as incurred, the Indemnified
Parties for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with
investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action in respect thereof;
provided, however, that (i) the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that
such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in a Registration Statement or
prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus or Issuer FWP
relating to a Shelf Registration in reliance upon and in conformity with written information
pertaining to such Holder and furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically
for inclusion therein and (ii) with respect to any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue
statement or omission made in any preliminary prospectus relating to a Shelf Registration
Statement, the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection (a) shall not inure to the benefit
of any Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer from whom the person asserting any such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities purchased the Securities concerned, to the extent that a prospectus
relating to such Securities was required to be delivered (including through satisfaction of the
conditions of Commission Rule 172) by such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer under the
Securities Act in connection with such purchase and any such loss, claim, damage or liability of
such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer results from the fact that there was not conveyed to
such person, at or prior to the time of the sale of such Securities to such person, an amended or
supplemented prospectus or, if permitted by Section 3(d), an Issuer FWP correcting such untrue
statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission if the Company had previously
furnished copies thereof to such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer; provided further, however,
that this indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise
have to such Indemnified Party. The Company shall also indemnify underwriters, their officers and
directors and each person who controls such underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act
or the Exchange Act to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of the
Holders of the Securities if requested by such Holders.

     (b) Each Holder of the Securities, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold
harmless the Company and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act from and against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities or
any actions in respect thereof, to which the Company or any such controlling person may become
subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims,
damages, liabilities or actions arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact contained in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any
amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus or Issuer FWP relating to a Shelf
Registration, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in each case only to the
extent that the untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission was made in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information pertaining to such Holder and furnished to
the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically for inclusion therein; and, subject to the
limitation set forth immediately preceding this clause, shall reimburse, as incurred, the Company
for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or any such controlling person
in connection with investigating or defending any loss, claim, damage, liability or action in
respect thereof. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which such Holder
may otherwise have to the Company or any of its controlling persons.

     (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 5 of notice of the
commencement of any action or proceeding (including a governmental investigation), such indemnified
party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this
Section 5, notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof; but the failure to notify the
indemnifying party shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any liability that it may have
under subsection (a) or (b)

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above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced
(through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided further
that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it
may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection (a) or (b) above. In case any
such action is brought against any indemnified party, and it notifies the indemnifying party of the
commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the
extent that it may wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume
the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not,
except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and after
notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the
defense thereof the
indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 5 for any legal
or other expenses, other than reasonable costs of investigation, subsequently incurred by such
indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof. No indemnifying party shall, without the
prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened
action in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could
have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement (i) includes an
unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on any claims that are the
subject matter of such action, and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of
fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

     (d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 5 is unavailable or insufficient to
hold harmless an indemnified party under subsections (a) or (b) above, then each indemnifying party
shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses,
claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to in subsection (a) or (b)
above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the
indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the indemnified party on the other from the
exchange of the Securities, pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer, or (ii) if the allocation
provided by the foregoing clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the
relative fault of the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the indemnified party on
the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims,
damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative fault of the parties shall be determined by reference to, among other
things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or
alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one
hand or such Holder or such other indemnified party, as the case may be, on the other, and the
parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent
such statement or omission. The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses,
claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be
deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in
connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this
subsection (d). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 5(d), the Holders of the
Securities shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the net
proceeds received by such Holders from the sale of the Securities pursuant to a Registration
Statement exceeds the amount of damages which such Holders have otherwise been required to pay by
reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person
guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act)
shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent
misrepresentation. For purposes of this paragraph (d), each person, if any, who controls such
indemnified party within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall have the same
rights to contribution as such indemnified party and each person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to
contribution as the Company.

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     (e) The agreements contained in this Section 5 shall survive the sale of the Securities
pursuant to a Registration Statement and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any
termination or cancellation of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any
indemnified party.

     6. Additional Interest Under Certain Circumstances. (a) Additional interest (the
“Additional Interest”) with respect to the Initial Securities shall be assessed as follows if any
of the following events occur (each such event in clauses (i) through (iii) below a “Registration
Default”:

     (i) the Company fails to file any Registration Statement required by this Agreement
on or prior to the applicable deadline;

     (ii) any Registration Statement is not declared effective on or prior to the
applicable effectiveness deadline;

     (iii) the Exchange Offer is not consummated on or prior to the date that is 40 days
after the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective; or

     (iv) if after either the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or the Shelf
Registration Statement is declared (or becomes automatically) effective (A) such
Registration Statement thereafter ceases to be effective; or (B) such Registration
Statement or the related prospectus ceases to be usable (except as permitted in paragraph
(b)) in connection with resales of Transfer Restricted Securities during the periods
specified herein because either (1) any event occurs as a result of which the related
prospectus forming part of such Registration Statement would include any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements
therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, (2) it
shall be necessary to amend such Registration Statement or supplement the related
prospectus, to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules
thereunder, or (3) such Registration Statement is a Shelf Registration Statement that has
expired before a replacement Shelf Registration Statement has become effective.

Additional Interest shall accrue on the Initial Securities over and above the interest set forth in
the title of the Securities from and including the date on which any such Registration Default
shall occur to but excluding the date on which all such Registration Defaults have been cured, at a
rate of 0.25% per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of a
Registration Default, to be increased by an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each
subsequent 90-day period until all Registration Defaults have been cured, up to a maximum
additional interest rate of 1.00% per annum.

     (b) A Registration Default referred to in Section 6(a)(iii)(B) hereof shall be deemed not to
have occurred and be continuing in relation to a Shelf Registration Statement or the related
prospectus if (i) such Registration Default has occurred solely as a result of (x) the filing of a
post-effective amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement to incorporate annual audited
financial information with respect to the Company where such post-effective amendment is not yet
effective and needs to be declared effective to permit Holders to use the related prospectus or (y)
other material events, with respect to the Company that would need to be described in such Shelf
Registration Statement or the related prospectus and (ii) in the case of clause (y), the Company is
proceeding promptly and in good faith to amend or supplement such Shelf Registration Statement and
related prospectus to describe such events; provided, however, that in any case if such
Registration Default occurs for a continuous period in excess of 30 days, Additional Interest shall
be payable in accordance with the above paragraph from the day such Registration Default occurs
until such Registration Default is cured.

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     (c) Any amounts of Additional Interest due pursuant to clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of Section
6(a) above will be payable in cash on the regular interest payment dates with respect to the
Initial Securities. The amount of Additional Interest applicable to the Securities will be
determined by multiplying the Additional Interest rate by the principal amount of the Securities,
multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days such Additional Interest
rate was applicable during such period (determined on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of
twelve 30-day months), and the denominator of which is 360.

     (d) “Transfer Restricted Securities” means each Security until (i) the date on which such
Transfer Restricted Security has been exchanged by a person other than a broker-dealer for a freely
transferable Exchange Security in the Registered Exchange Offer, (ii) following the exchange by a
broker-dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer of an Initial Security for an Exchange Note, the
date on which such Exchange
Note is sold to a purchaser who receives from such broker-dealer on or prior to the date of such
sale a copy of the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, (iii) the
date on which such Initial Security has been effectively registered under the Securities Act and
disposed of in accordance with the Shelf Registration Statement or (iv) the date on which such
Initial Security is distributed to the public pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or is
saleable pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act.

     7. Rules 144 and 144A. The Company shall use its best efforts to file the reports required
to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act in a timely manner and, if at any
time the Company is not required to file such reports, it will, upon the request of any Holder of
Initial Securities, make publicly available other information so long as necessary to permit sales
of their securities pursuant to Rules 144 and 144A. The Company covenants that it will take such
further action as any Holder of Initial Securities may reasonably request, all to the extent
required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell Initial Securities without registration
under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rules 144 and 144A
(including the requirements of Rule 144A(d)(4)). The Company will provide a copy of this Agreement
to prospective purchasers of Initial Securities identified to the Company by Tontine upon request.
Upon the request of any Holder of Initial Securities, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a
written statement as to whether it has complied with such requirements. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, nothing in this Section 7 shall be deemed to require the Company to register any of its
securities pursuant to the Exchange Act.

     8. Underwritten Registrations. If any of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by any
Shelf Registration are to be sold in an underwritten offering, the investment banker or investment
bankers and manager or managers that will administer the offering (“Managing Underwriters”) will be
selected by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of such Transfer Restricted
Securities to be included in such offering but shall be subject to approval of the Company, not to
be unreasonably withheld.

     No person may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such person (i)
agrees to sell such person’s Transfer Restricted Securities on the basis reasonably provided in any
underwriting arrangements approved by the persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements
and (ii) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting
agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting
arrangements.

     9. Miscellaneous.

     (a) Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not be amended, modified or
supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given,
except by the Company and the written consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Securities affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consents.
Notwithstanding

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the foregoing or anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, so long as
Tontine holds at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities, no request,
demand, registration demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action,
including any consent to any amendment, modification or supplement to this Agreement, including
this Section 9(a), may be given, taken or made by any Holder or Holders without the consent of
Tontine.

     (b) Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall
be made in writing by hand delivery, first-class mail, facsimile transmission, or air courier which
guarantees overnight delivery:

          (1) if to a Holder of the Securities, at the most current address given by such Holder to the
Company.

          (2) if to Tontine;

Tontine Capital Partners, L.P.

55 Railroad Avenue, 1st Floor

Greenwich, CT 06830

Fax no.: 203-769-2010

Attention: Jeffrey L. Gendell

     with a copy to:

Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg LLP

333 West Wacker Drive, Suite 2700

Chicago, IL 60606

Fax no.: 312-984-3150

Attention: John E. Freechack

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          (3) if to the Company, at its address as follows:

Neenah Foundry Company

2121 Brooks Avenue

Neenah, WI 54957

Fax No.: (920) 729-3633

Attention: William Barrett

     with a copy to:

Quarles & Brady LLP

411 East Wisconsin Avenue

Suite 2040

Milwaukee, WI 53202

Fax No.: (414) 978-8915

Attention: Bruce Davidson

     All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time
delivered by hand, if personally delivered; three business days after being deposited in the mail,
postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is acknowledged by recipient’s facsimile machine operator,
if sent by facsimile transmission; and on the day delivered, if sent by overnight air courier
guaranteeing next day delivery.

     (c) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company has not, as of the date hereof, entered into,
nor shall it, on or after the date hereof, enter into, any agreement with respect to its securities
that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders herein or otherwise conflicts with the
provisions hereof.

     (d) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company and its
successors and assigns.

     (e) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the
parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an
original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

     (f) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall
not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

     (g) Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH,
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.

     (h) Severability. If any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or the application
thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions
contained herein shall not be affected or impaired thereby.

     (i) Securities Held by the Company. Whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a
specified percentage of principal amount of Securities is required hereunder, Securities held by
the Company or its affiliates (other than Tontine and any investment funds under common management
with Tontine and

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subsequent Holders of Securities if such subsequent Holders are deemed to be
affiliates solely by reason of
their holdings of such Securities) shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or
approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage.

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     If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and
return to the Issuer a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts,
will become a binding agreement among Tontine, the Issuer and the Guarantors in accordance with its
terms.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Very truly yours,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	NEENAH FOUNDRY COMPANY	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Gary W. LaChey	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Name: Gary W. LaChey	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Corporate Vice President — Finance	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	and Chief Financial Officer	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	ADVANCED CAST PRODUCTS, INC.	 	 
	 	 	DALTON CORPORATION	 	 
	 	 	DALTON CORPORATION, WARSAW	 	 
	 	 	     MANUFACTURING FACILITY	 	 
	 	 	DALTON CORPORATION, STRYKER	 	 
	 	 	     MACHINING FACILITY CO.	 	 
	 	 	DALTON CORPORATION, ASHLAND	 	 
	 	 	     MANUFACTURING FACILITY	 	 
	 	 	DALTON CORPORATION, KENDALLVILLE	 	 
	 	 	     MANUFACTURING FACILITY	 	 
	 	 	DEETER FOUNDRY, INC.	 	 
	 	 	GREGG INDUSTRIES, INC.	 	 
	 	 	MERCER FORGE CORPORATION	 	 
	 	 	A&M SPECIALTIES, INC.	 	 
	 	 	NEENAH TRANSPORT, INC.	 	 
	 	 	CAST ALLOYS, INC.	 	 
	 	 	BELCHER CORPORATION	 	 
	 	 	PEERLESS CORPORATION	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Acting on behalf of each of the Guarantors	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Gary W. LaChey	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Name: Gary W. LaChey	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Corporate Vice President — Finance	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	          and Chief Financial Officer	 	 

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The foregoing Registration

Rights Agreement is hereby confirmed

and accepted as of the date first

above written.

Tontine Capital Partners, L.P.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell
 

Name: Jeffrey L. Gendell
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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ANNEX A

     Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account pursuant to the
Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of
such Exchange Securities. The Letter of Transmittal states that by so acknowledging and by
delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter”
within the meaning of the Securities Act. This Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented
from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of Exchange Securities
received in exchange for Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were acquired by such
broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. The Company has
agreed that, for a period of 180 days after the Expiration Date (as defined herein), it will make
this Prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. See
“Plan of Distribution.”

 

 

ANNEX B

     Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for
Securities, where such Initial Securities were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of
market-making activities or other trading activities, must acknowledge that it will deliver a
prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities. See “Plan of Distribution.”

 

 

ANNEX C

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

     Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account pursuant to the
Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of
such Exchange Securities. This Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time,
may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of Exchange Securities received in
exchange for Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were acquired as a result of
market-making activities or other trading activities. The Company has agreed that, for a period of
180 days after the Expiration Date, it will make this prospectus, as amended or supplemented,
available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. In addition, until      
        , 20 , all dealers effecting transactions in the Exchange Securities may be required
to deliver a prospectus.(1)

     The Company will not receive any proceeds from any sale of Exchange Securities by
broker-dealers. Exchange Securities received by broker-dealers for their own account pursuant to
the Exchange Offer may be sold from time to time in one or more transactions in the
over-the-counter market, in negotiated transactions, through the writing of options on the Exchange
Securities or a combination of such methods of resale, at market prices prevailing at the time of
resale, at prices related to such prevailing market prices or negotiated prices. Any such resale
may be made directly to purchasers or to or through brokers or dealers who may receive compensation
in the form of commissions or concessions from any such broker-dealer or the purchasers of any such
Exchange Securities. Any broker-dealer that resells Exchange Securities that were received by it
for its own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer and any broker or dealer that participates in a
distribution of such Exchange Securities may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of
the Securities Act and any profit on any such resale of Exchange Securities and any commission or
concessions received by any such persons may be deemed to be underwriting compensation under the
Securities Act. The Letter of Transmittal states that, by acknowledging that it will deliver and
by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter”
within the meaning of the Securities Act.

     For a period of 180 days after the Expiration Date the Company will promptly send additional
copies of this Prospectus and any amendment or supplement to this Prospectus to any broker-dealer
that requests such documents in the Letter of Transmittal. The Company has agreed to pay all
expenses incident to the Exchange Offer (including the expenses of one counsel for the Holders of
the Securities) other than commissions or concessions of any brokers or dealers and will indemnify
the Holders of the Securities (including any broker-dealers) against certain liabilities, including
liabilities under the Securities Act.

 

			
	(1)	 	In addition, the legend required
by Item 502(e) of Regulation S-K will appear on the back cover page of the
Exchange Offer prospectus.

 

 

ANNEX D

o CHECK HERE IF YOU ARE A BROKER-DEALER AND WISH TO RECEIVE 10 ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE PROSPECTUS
AND 10 COPIES OF ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Address:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

If the undersigned is not a broker-dealer, the undersigned represents that it is not engaged in,
and does not intend to engage in, a distribution of Exchange Securities. If the undersigned is a
broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial
Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities,
it acknowledges that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange
Securities; however, by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, the undersigned will not
be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.

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