AMG announces voluntary tender offer for Graphit Kropfmühl - Seite 2

Tender, AMG intends to use the proceeds of the incremental facility to refinance
GK´s existing $33.7 million debt facilities, of which $25.3 million was drawn as
of September 30, 2011, and to fund the squeeze out of minority shareholders.

Dr. Heinz Schimmelbusch, AMG´s Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, said,
"This is the next step in AMG´s stated objective to expand AMG´s mine based
businesses and to simplify its corporate structure by consolidating all
operating activities under one public entity, AMG.  This also will lead to
increased operational and financial flexibility and an elimination of
redundancies."

About AMG

AMG creates and applies innovative metallurgical solutions to the global trend
of sustainable development of natural resources and CO(2) 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 consists of two operating divisions, Advanced
Materials and Engineering Systems, and owns an interest in publicly-listed
Graphit Kropfmühl AG (Deutsche Börse: GKR.DE).

The Advanced Materials Division 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, 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, 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.

Graphit Kropfmühl AG is a majority controlled, publicly listed subsidiary of
AMG.  Based on its secure raw material sources in Africa, Asia 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.

With over 3,000 employees, AMG operates globally with production facilities in