EXHIBIT 99.7F
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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
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     KNOW BY ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned in his capacity
as a Director of Carpenter Technology Corporation does hereby appoint Terrence
E. Geremski and John R. Welty or either of them as his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in his capacity as
Director of said Company, to sign any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to the Form S-4 Registration Statement and sign any
registration statement for the same offering covered by the Form S-4
Registration Statement that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462
promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said.
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this
4/th/ day of October 2001.


                                                     /s/ Robert J. Lawless
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                                                     Robert J. Lawless
                                                     Director