AMG announces purchase of over 10% of Graphit Kropfmuehl AG - AMG Corporate

AMG announces purchase of over 10% of Graphit Kropfmuehl AG

Amsterdam, 28 March 2008 — AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. (“AMG”, EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: “AMG”) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary AMG Invest GmbH has purchased 10.8% of the outstanding shares of Graphit Kropfmuehl Aktiengesellschaft, Hauzenberg.  
 
On 18 March 2008 AMG Invest GmbH announced that it had entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement with Quantum Unternehmensbeteiligung GmbH & Co., Hamburg, (“Quantum”) by which Quantum has sold 62,3% of the shares in Graphit Kropfmuehl AG to AMG Invest GmbH for EUR 18.25 per non-par value share in Graphit Kropfmuehl AG.  Concurrently on that day AMG announced the decision to launch a voluntary public tender offer to acquire all non-par value bearer shares in Graphit Kropfmuehl AG.  After approval of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) the Offer Document will be published.  The voluntary tender offer will be, as is the Sale and Purchase Agreement with Quantum, contingent upon the fulfillment of certain customary terms and conditions, including the approval by the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt). 
 
 
About AMG
AMG, incorporated in the Netherlands, is a global leader in the production of highly engineered specialty metal products and advanced vacuum furnace systems.  AMG serves growing industries worldwide with its unique combination of metallurgical engineering expertise and production know-how.  AMG is a market leader in many of its products and systems, which are critical to the production of key components for the aerospace, energy (including solar and nuclear), electronics, optics, chemicals, construction and transportation industries.  AMG has two operating divisions of businesses, Advanced Materials and Engineering Systems, and owns a majority interest in publicly-listed Timminco Limited (TSX: “TIM”).
 
The Advanced Materials Division develops and produces niche specialty metals and complex metals products, many of which are used in demanding, safety-critical, high-stress environments.  AMG is one of a limited number of significant producers globally of niche specialty metals, such as ferrovanadium, ferronickel-molybdenum, aluminum master alloys and additives, chromium metal and ferrotitanium, used by steel, aluminum, chemical and superalloy producers for aerospace, automotive, energy, electronics, optics, chemicals, construction and other applications.  Other key products produced by AMG include specialty alloys for titanium and superalloys, coating materials, tantalum and niobium oxides, vanadium chemicals and antimony trioxide.
 
The Engineering Systems Division designs, engineers and produces advanced vacuum furnace systems and operates vacuum heat treatment facilities.  AMG is a global leader in supplying technologically-advanced vacuum furnace systems to customers in the aerospace, energy (including solar and nuclear), transportation, electronics, superalloys and specialty steel industries.  Examples of furnace systems produced by AMG include vacuum remelting, solar silicon melting and crystallization, vacuum induction melting, vacuum heat treatment and high pressure gas quenching, vacuum precision casting, turbine blade coating and sintering.  AMG also provides vacuum case-hardening heat treatment services on a tolling basis to customers through facilities equipped with vacuum heat treatment furnaces.
 
Timminco Limited is a majority controlled, publicly-listed subsidiary of AMG. Timminco is a leader in the production of upgraded metallurgical silicon for the rapidly growing solar photovoltaic energy industry. Timminco also produces silicon metal and magnesium products for use in a broad range of industrial applications.
 
AMG operates globally with production facilities in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Australia and also has sales and customer service offices in Belgium, Russia, China and Japan (website: www.amg-nv.com).
 
 
For further information please contact:
 
AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V.   +1 610 293 2508
Bill Levy
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
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