AMG establishes Stichting Continuiteit AMG
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Amsterdam, 7 July 2010 (Regulated Information) --- AMG Advanced Metallurgical
Group N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") announced that it has established
the Foundation Continuity AMG (Stichting Continuiteit AMG) following the
resolution adopted at its Annual Meeting on May 12(th), 2010. The Foundation
enables AMG to issue preference shares in the interest of AMG's stakeholders.
The Foundation is organized as a Stichting under Dutch law and its Board
members are independent from AMG.
The Board of the Foundation consists of Mr. Hans de Munnik (Chairman), former
partner of KPMG N.V. and currently Chairman of the Dutch Accounting Standards
Board, Mr. Willem van Hassel, former Chairman and Managing Partner of Trenité
Van Doorne and former Dean of the Netherlands Bar Association and Mr. Hendrik
Borggreve, Member of the Supervisory Board of the Royal Bank of Scotland AG,
Germany. It is contemplated that the Foundation will enter into a call option
arrangement with AMG as soon as practicable enabling the Foundation to acquire
preference shares up to the total number of ordinary shares outstanding.
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(at)amg-nv.com
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"forward looking." Forward looking statements include statements concerning
AMG's plans, expectations, projections, objectives, targets, goals, strategies,
future events, future revenues or performance, capital expenditures, financing
needs, plans and intentions relating to acquisitions, AMG's competitive
strengths and weaknesses, plans or goals relating to forecasted production,
reserves, financial position and future operations and development, AMG's
business strategy and the trends AMG anticipates in the industries and the
political and legal environment in which it operates and other information that
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"expects," "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "may," "will," "should," and
similar expressions, and the negatives thereof, are intended to identify forward
looking statements. By their very nature, forward looking statements involve
inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, and risks exist
that the predictions, forecasts, projections and other forward looking
statements will not be achieved. These forward looking statements speak only as
of the date of this press release. AMG expressly disclaims any obligation or
undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward looking
statement contained herein to reflect any change in AMG's expectations with
regard thereto or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which
any forward looking statement is based.
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