Events of Significance

Completion of the purchase of the SIG-Beverages Group

With economic effect as of April 1, 2008, Salzgitter AG has taken over all the shares in SIG Beverages from the SIG Group, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, through its subsidiaries Salzgitter Mannesmann PET Technologie GmbH and PET International GmbH, and has thereby expanded the market position of its new Technology Division. The integration of the PET stretch-blow molding technology associated with the acquisition of SIG Beverages enables KHS AG, a subsidiary of Klöckner-Werke, to offer turn-key plants from a single source in the high-growth market for plastic bottles.