Aap Implantate : Q3/2015 sales with EUR 8.4 million (+7%) in line with expectations; strong quarter in Biomaterials business (+27%) more

aap: Q3/2015 sales with EUR 8.4 million (+7%) in line with expectations; strong quarter in Biomaterials business (+27%)

aapImplantate AG (XETRA: AAQ.DE) generated sales of EUR 8.4 million in the third quarter of 2015 (Q3/2014: EUR 7.8 million) according to preliminary figures, thereby achieving a result within the August forecast of EUR 7.5 million to EUR 9.0 million. Sales in the first nine months of the current financial year totalled EUR 22.0 million (9M/2014: EUR 22.1 million).

In the trauma business aapImplantate AG reached sales of EUR 2.9 million (Q3/2014: EUR 3.3 million) in the third quarter of 2015. The background to this decline were various developments in our strategically important growth markets in the BRICS and SMIT countries which weighed perceptibly on demand. Crucial were in particular a significantly reduced willingness to invest in China as a consequence of the recent stock market crash and the devaluation of the Chinese currency, the continuing weak Rouble including the trade sanctions imposed against Russia as well as the increasing unfavourable development of the Euro/Turkish Lira exchange rate in connection with a reimbursement reduction already implemented at the beginning of the year. Furthermore the first shipments to Brazil which were planned for the third quarter could not be carried out due to delays in product approval.

Although customer interest in aapImplantate AG's trauma portfolio remains intact, the company was unable to escape these external developments entirely. Furthermore, the US market has yet to make a significant contribution toward sales due to in part protracted administrative processes.

In contrast sales in the biomaterials business rose by 27% year-on-year in the third quarter of the current financial year to EUR 5.4 million (Q3/2014: EUR 4.2 million). The growth driver in the third quarter of 2015 was in particular the bone cement business with global leading companies.

In the first nine months of 2015, aapImplantate AG's sales in the trauma business totalled EUR 8.5 million (9M/2014: EUR 8.4 million). In the biomaterials business sales totalled EUR 13.0 million (9M/2014: EUR 12.7 million) in the nine-month period 2015.

The preliminary results contained in this press release are based on management's initial analysis of operations for the period ended on 30 September 2015, and are therefore subject to change. aapImplantate AG plans to announce its final results for the third quarter respectively the first nine months of 2015 on 13 November 2015.

This release contains forward-looking statements based on current experience, estimates and projections of the management board and currently available information. They are not guarantees of future performance. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance of the company and the estimates given here. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of aapto be materially different from those that may be expressed or implied by such statements. These factors include those discussed in aap's public reports. Forward-looking statements therefore speak only as of the date they are made. aapdoes not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this release or to conform them to future events or developments