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AMG comments on U.S. Department of Commerce anticircumvention inquiry regarding vanadium

States.  U.S. law provides this remedy when merchandise is imported and further
processed in order to circumvent an antidumping order protecting a U.S. domestic
industry and its workers.

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The Department found sufficient evidence to warrant initiating a circumvention
inquiry, including evidence indicating that the ferrovanadium sold in the United
States is the same class or kind of merchandise as the ferrovanadium covered by
the order, that the ferrovanadium sold in the U.S. is produced from vanadium
pentoxide imported from Russia and further processed in the United States, and
that the further processing of Russian vanadium pentoxide into ferrovanadium in
the United States is a minor or insignificant process.

AMG Vanadium expects the anticircumvention inquiry to confirm these facts and to
result in the imposition of antidumping duties on the imports circumventing the
order.

AMG Vanadium is a leading North American producer of ferrovanadium.   It uses an
environmentally friendly proprietary technology for the recycling of spent
refinery catalysts to produce ferrovanadium and ferronickel-molybdenum at its
facility in Ohio, USA.
About AMG

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 consists of two operating divisions, 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 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, 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.

With over 2,600 employees, AMG operates globally with production facilities in
Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic, United States, China,
Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Poland, India and Sri Lanka and also has sales
and customer service offices in Belgium, Russia and Japan (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

Disclaimer

Certain statements in this press release are not historical facts and are
“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
is not historical information.  When used in this press release, the words
“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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