AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. Subsidiary Bogala Graphite Expands Exploration Activities

Amsterdam, 29 July 2014 --- AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") announces that AMG Mining's majority owned Bogala Graphite Lanka Plc ("Bogala"), is starting an exploration program at the Rangala mines in Sri Lanka. 

The Rangala mines, which are 100% owned by Bogala, are located 8 km southeast of the Bogala mines.  Significant commercial quantities of high purity graphite have been identified at the Rangala deposit, which last operated as an active mine in 1983.  Bogala has applied for a mining license from the Sri Lanka Geological Survey & Mines Bureau for the Rangala deposit.

Bogala Graphite Lanka Plc is the largest global producer of high purity vein graphite, which has superior electrical and thermal conductivity due to its crystalline structure.  AMG Mining AG is Bogala's majority shareholder.  AMG Mining is one of the world's leading graphite producing and refining companies, with mining activities in Asia, Europe and Africa.       

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AMG creates and applies innovative metallurgical solutions to the global trend of sustainable development of natural resources and CO₂ reduction.  AMG produces highly engineered specialty metal products and advanced vacuum furnace systems for the Energy, Aerospace, Infrastructure, and Specialty Metals and Chemicals end markets.

AMG Processing develops and produces specialty metals, alloys, and high performance materials.  AMG is a significant producer of specialty metals, such as ferrovanadium, ferronickel-molybdenum, aluminum master alloys and additives, chromium metal and ferrotitanium, for Energy, Aerospace, Infrastructure and Specialty Metal and Chemicals applications.  Other key products include specialty alloys for titanium and superalloys, coating materials and vanadium chemicals.

AMG Engineering designs and produces advanced vacuum furnace systems, and operates vacuum heat treatment facilities, primarily for the Aerospace and Energy (including solar and nuclear) industries.  Furnace systems produced by AMG include vacuum remelting, solar silicon melting and crystallization, vacuum induction melting, vacuum heat treatment and high pressure gas quenching, turbine blade coating and sintering.  AMG also provides vacuum case-hardening heat treatment services on a tolling basis.