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was a pleasing reduction of 3.6 percentage points in the material usage
ratio, which can be attributed to the reorganization of sales controlling.

Bettina Meyer: "The operating EBITDA is in line with our Group planning for
the first quarter of 2016. Since our business activities traditionally pick
up in the course of the year, we also still assume that we'll achieve our
forecast as regards sales and earnings targets for the year as a whole. I
believe that assumption is strengthened not least by the positive order
trend in the first quarter of 2016." At March 31, 2016, euromicron posted
new orders from continuing core business operations totaling EUR 85.2
million (previous year: EUR 76.1 million) and order books of EUR 123.4
million (previous year: EUR 118.7 million). That means new orders are 12%
and order books are 4% above the comparative figures for the previous year.

The Group's new strategy is to be implemented and the innovation process of
euromicron AG is to be accomplished within the transformation phase in 2016
and 2017. Initial successes were already achieved in the strategic
orientation toward the future market of the "Internet of Things" in the
first quarter of 2016. The portfolio of euromicron Deutschland GmbH was
adapted further to the new orientation, for example. At the same time,
necessary measures to increase efficiency were implemented successfully.
They include professionalization and standardization of business
administration structures and IT systems. Jürgen Hansjosten from euromicron
AG's Executive Board comments: "In addition to the implemented measures in
the Group, we succeeded in initiating pilot projects for customers
from the future market of the 'Internet of Things' in the first quarter of
2016. We're also investing group-wide in further sales staff in order to
benefit from the huge growth potential in the IoT market. We therefore
expect additional boosts that will make a positive contribution to
euromicron Group's development in the coming quarters."

The full report on the first quarter of 2016 is available as of today on
the company's website at www.euromicron.de in the section "Investor
Relations/Publications/Financial Reports".
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euromicron AG (www.euromicron.de) unites medium-sized high-tech companies
from the fields of Digital Buildings, Critical Infrastructures and Smart
Industry. As a German specialist for the Internet of Things, euromicron
enables its customers to network business and production processes and