Amsterdam, 31 March 2008 --- AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. (EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: AMG) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Metallurg Vanadium Corporation ("MVC"), has signed a new multi-year agreement with a major operator in the Alberta Oil Sands to process and recycle additional quantities of spent catalysts. The company stated that this contract is the basis for the first stage of MVC's two stage expansion plans and will require that the company double its capacity to process spent catalysts by late 2009.

AMG is the largest producer of ferrovanadium in North America supplying more than 25% of North American requirements. AMG produces ferrovanadium entirely from secondary sources using spent catalysts from the Alberta Oil Sands and power plant residues from power plants in Mexico and Canada that use oils from the Caribbean basin.