Amsterdam, 21 May 2010 — AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V.’s (“AMG”, EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: “AMG”) affiliate Timminco Limited (“Timminco”; TSX: TIM) announced today that, further to its news release of May 13, 2010, it has completed the second of three tranches of its private placement equity offering, which is expected to generate total gross proceeds of approximately C$13.1 million. The second tranche of approximately 9.0 million common shares was issued at a price of C$0.65 per share for gross proceeds of approximately C$5.8 million. AMG acquired approximately 4.2 million common shares with the remaining shares issued to other investors. As a result, AMG now owns approximately 79.1 million common shares of Timminco, representing approximately 41.1% of Timminco’s total issued and outstanding shares.
Timminco expects to complete the third tranche of the equity financing of approximately 4.1 million common shares at the same price per share, for additional gross proceeds of approximately C$2.6 million, on or about June 14, 2010. AMG will acquire all of the common shares under the third tranche. Upon completion, AMG’s ownership will increase to approximately 42.3%.
The net proceeds of the offering will be paid to Timminco’s senior secured lender to reduce a portion of the principal amount outstanding under a new term loan credit facility and to reduce a portion of the outstanding balance under Timminco’s revolving credit facility with the Bank of America, N.A. The amount repaid under the revolving credit facility may be reborrowed, and used for general corporate purposes, subject to continued compliance with, and availability under, these credit facilities.
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 interests in publicly-listed companies Graphit Kropfmühl AG (Deutsche Börse: GKR.DE) and 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.
Graphit Kropfmühl AG is a majority controlled, publicly listed subsidiary of AMG. Based on its secure raw material sources in Africa, China and Europe, Graphit Kropfmühl is a specialist in the production of silicon metal and the extraction, processing and refining of natural crystalline graphite for a wide range of energy saving industrial applications.
Timminco Limited is a publicly listed affiliate of AMG. Timminco produces silicon metal for the chemical, aluminum, electronic and solar industries. Timminco also produces solar grade silicon, using its proprietary technology for purifying silicon metal, for the solar energy industry.
AMG operates globally with production facilities in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Sri Lanka 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. +1 610 975 4901
Jonathan Costello
Vice President of Corporate Communications
jcostello@amg-nv.com
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AMG affiliate Timminco completes second tranche of equity financing