SGL CARBON SE / Key word(s): Forecast/Change in Forecast 30.07.2012 18:28 Dissemination of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wiesbaden, July 30, 2012. As previously guided, SGL Group's Q2/2012 EBIT on the Group level will approximately reach the level of Q1/2012 Group EBIT. However, while the Business Areas Performance Products and Graphite Materials & Systems continue to perform as anticipated, the Business Area Carbon Fibers & Composites (BA CFC) is facing additional delays in military and civil aviation projects, a major production facility shutdown of a customer in the wind industry on top of an overall weak demand environment for industrial carbon fibers in particular. As a result, EBIT in BA CFC in Q2/2012 did not show the expected improvement over Q1/2012 but will remain approximately on the level of the Q1/2012 loss of EUR 8 million. As the end market conditions of the BA CFC show no immediate signs of improvement, we now expect full year 2012 BA CFC losses to be higher than in 2011 versus the previous expectations of a loss reduction. Nevertheless, the Company expects the BA CFC losses in the second half to improve compared to the first half of this year. As a result, full year 2012 Group EBIT is now expected to be in the range of the 2011 full year Group EBIT of EUR 160 million. The half year 2012 report and outlook will be published on August 9, 2012. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information and Explaination of the Issuer to this News: Important note: This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on the information currently available to us and on our current projections and assumptions. By nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, as a consequence of which actual developments and results can deviate significantly from these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not to be understood as guarantees. Rather, future developments and results depend on a number of factors; they entail various risks and unanticipated circumstances and are based on assumptions which may prove to be inaccurate. These risks and uncertainties include, for example, unforeseeable changes in political, economic, legal, and business conditions, particularly relating to our main customer industries, such as electric steel production, to the competitive environment, to interest rate and exchange rate fluctuations, to techno-logical developments, and to other risks and unanticipated circumstances. Other risks that in our opinion may arise include price developments, unexpected developments connected with acquisitions and subsidiaries, and unforeseen risks associated with ongoing cost savings programs. SGL Group does not intend or assume any responsibility to revise or otherwise update these forward-looking statements. Your contact: Corporate Communication / Tino Fritsch Telephone +49 611 6029 105 / Fax +49 611 6029 101 / Cell +49 170 540 2667 E-mail: tino.fritsch@sglcarbon.de / www.sglgroup.com 30.07.2012 DGAP's Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: SGL CARBON SE SoehnleinstraÃe 8 65201 Wiesbaden Germany Phone: +49 (0)611 6029 - 103 Fax: +49 (0)611 6029 - 101 E-mail: investor-relations@sglcarbon.de Internet: www.sglgroup.com ISIN: DE0007235301 WKN: 723530 Indices: MDAX Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, München, Stuttgart End of Announcement DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-Adhoc: SGL CARBON SE: Difficult carbon fiber end-markets continue to burden EBIT of Business Area Carbon Fibers & Composites
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