AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwired - Apr 29, 2013) - AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") announces that AMG Aluminum has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its 45% equity interest in Nanjing Yunhai KB Alloys Co., Ltd ("YKB") to Nanjing Yunhai Special Metals Co., Ltd. The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2013.
This is the next step in AMG Aluminum's strategy to streamline its organization and seamlessly support its global customers, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. AMG Aluminum will continue to serve this region through its wholly owned subsidiary, AMG Aluminum China, which is located in Jiaxing, China.
AMG Aluminum is the world-leading provider of aluminum master alloys and grain refiners for the aluminum industry. With over 350 employees and five ISO 9001 manufacturing plants in Brazil, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States, AMG Aluminum offers a comprehensive range of products including grain refiners, hardeners, tablets/compacts, strontium modifiers, specialty alloys, mechanical alloys, and chemicals and fluxes for the global aluminum industry. "The sale of YKB will enable AMG Aluminum to directly serve the growing Asia Pacific region with high quality products and world class technical capabilities that customers associate with AMG Aluminum", said Julien Crisnaire, President of AMG Aluminum.
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 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, 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.
AMG Mining produces critical materials utilizing its secure raw material sources in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. AMG Mining produces critical materials such as high purity natural graphite, tantalum, antimony and silicon metal. These materials are of significant importance to the global economy and are available in limited supply. End markets for these materials include electronics, energy efficiency, green energy and infrastructure.
With over 3,000 employees, AMG operates globally with production facilities in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic, United States, China, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Poland, India and Sri Lanka and has sales and customer service offices in Belgium, Russia and Japan ( www.amg-nv.com ).
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