Lucerne, April 15, 2020 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH, a global leader in special long steel, announced today that the Board of Directors of the company has appointed Dr Markus Boening as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Group Executive Board effective October 1, 2020 at the latest. The acting CFO Matthias Wellhausen had decided to leave the company in the course of 2020, after the successful refinancing.

Lucerne, April 1, 2020 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH, a global leader in special long steel, announces the successful completion of its financial restructuring. Following the capital increase of CHF 325 million completed in January 2020, the company has now signed the new financing agreements with the banks and its major shareholder BigPoint Holding AG, which will run until March 2025.

Lucerne, March 16, 2020 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH, a global leader in special long steel, has today announced that the holders of the EUR 350 million 5.625% Senior Secured Notes (“Notes”) issued by SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH Luxembourg Finance S.A. (“Issuer”) and due in 2022 have validly tendered EUR 328,753 million (93.93 %) of the Notes as of the expiration of the offer on March 13, 2020.

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Lucerne, February 6, 2020 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH, a global leader in special long steel, has today launched a change of control offer for the EUR 350 million 5.625% Senior Secured Notes issued on April 24, 2017 and June 25, 2018 with maturity in 2022 that was triggered by a change of control event on January 8, 2020.

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Lucerne, January 24, 2020 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH, a global leader in special long steel, informs that Dr Oliver Thum has announced his resignation from the Board of Directors of SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH AG with immediate effect.

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Lucerne, January 9, 2020 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH, a global leader in special long steel, informs that its share capital recorded in the commercial register was increased to 2,028,333,333 shares with a nominal value of CHF 0.30 each.

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Lucerne, December 9, 2019 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH, a global leader in special long steel, has received a positive decision from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA on the appeal against the Swiss Takeover Board's decision of November 22, 2019. In the first instance, the Swiss Takeover Board had rejected Martin Haefner/BigPoint Holding AG's application for an exemption from the obligation to make a mandatory offer. This means that the share capital increase approved by the shareholders at the Extraordinary Shareholder Meeting on December 2, 2019 can now be implemented as planned.

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Lucerne, December 2, 2019 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH (“S+B”), a global leader in special long steel, announces that the shareholders at today's extraordinary shareholders' meeting approved the capital reduction and simultaneous capital increase by at least CHF 325 million proposed by the Board of Directors.

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Lucerne, December 2, 2019 – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH, a global leader in special long steel, announces that at its meeting this morning the Board of Directors decided to remove the option of a share capital increase with an issue price of CHF 0.15 per share based on the current market price of the shares. The proposal to the extraordinary shareholders' meeting has been adjusted accordingly.