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• 5,583,529  Shares placed for 15 €

Wiesbaden, March 17, 2006. Further to the ad-hoc announcement issued March 16 on the intended capital increase, SGL Carbon announces that all 5,583,529 shares have been successfully placed in an accelerated bookbuilding.

The shares have been placed at a price of €15 per share resulting in gross proceeds totalling €83,7 million. The shares were placed with German and international institutional investors. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein was sole bookrunner for this transaction.

This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States without registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission if no exemption from registration has been issued. The issuer does not plan to register the securities for sale to the public in the USA.


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This document contains statements on future developments that are based on currently available information and that involve risks and uncertainties that could lead to actual results deviating from these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, for example, unforeseeable changes in political, economic and business conditions, particularly in the area of electrosteel production, the competitive situation, interest rate and currency developments, technological developments and other risks and unanticipated circumstances. We see other risks in price developments, unexpected developments relating to acquired and consolidated companies, ongoing restructuring measures and unforeseeable occurrences in conjunction with the reviews to be performed by the European antitrust authorities. SGL Carbon does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.