Amsterdam, 28 July 2026(Regulated Information) --- AMG Critical Materials N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") is pleased to confirm the transaction initially announced on October 10, 2025 to sell Graphit Kropfmühl GmbH ("GK") to Asbury Advanced Materials has been successfully completed as of July 28, 2026 in accordance with the announced terms.
"The completion of the Graphit Kropfmühl divestiture marks another important step in executing AMG's long-term strategy," said Michael Connor, AMG's Chief Corporate Development Officer. "This transaction is a positive outcome for both companies. GK gains an owner with deep industry expertise, while AMG further strengthens its ability to allocate capital to opportunities that are more closely aligned with our strategic priorities and long-term value creation objectives. The divestiture reinforces our focus on our core critical materials and energy transition businesses, while strengthening our balance sheet and enhancing our financial flexibility. We thank the GK team for their many contributions and wish them continued success."
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About AMG
AMG's mission is to provide critical materials and related process technologies to advance a less carbon-intensive world. To this end, AMG is focused on the production and development of energy storage materials such as lithium, vanadium, and tantalum. In addition, AMG's products include highly engineered systems to reduce CO2 in aerospace engines, as well as critical materials addressing CO2 reduction in a variety of other end use markets.
AMG's Lithium segment spans the lithium value chain, reducing the CO2 footprint of both suppliers and customers. AMG's Vanadium segment is the world's market leader in recycling vanadium from oil refining residues, spanning the Company's vanadium, titanium, and chrome businesses. AMG's Technologies segment is the established world market leader in advanced metallurgy and provides equipment engineering to the aerospace engine sector globally. It serves as the engineering home for the Company's fast-growing LIVA batteries, NewMOX SAS formed to span the nuclear fuel market, and AMG's mineral processing operations in antimony.
With approximately 3,500 employees, AMG operates globally with production facilities in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, China, Mexico, Brazil, and India, and has sales and customer service offices in Japan (www.amg-nv.com).
For further information, please contact:
AMG Critical Materials N.V.
Thomas Swoboda
tswoboda@amg-nv.com
+49 176 1000 73 14
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