China Carbon Graphite Group, Inc. ("China Carbon" or the "Company"), the largest wholesale supplier of fine-grain and high-purity graphite in China and one of the nation's top manufacturers of carbon and graphite products, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011.

Second Quarter 2011 Financial Highlights: 

Revenue increased 274%, from $3.2 million in Q2 2010 to $12.1 million in Q2 2011

EBIDTA improved 11%, from $1.8 million in Q2 2010 to $2.0 million in Q2 2011

Gross profit rose 1,070%, from $0.2 million in Q2 2010 to $2.7 million in Q2 2011

Gross profit rate increased 214%, from 7% in Q2 2010 to 22% in Q2 2011

Net income grew 22%, from $0.7 million in Q2 2010 to $0.9 million in Q2 2011

Adjusted net income rose 279%, from $0.68 million adjusted net loss in Q2 2010 to $1.2 million in Q2 2011

"We are very pleased with our second quarter results," said China Carbon's CEO Donghai Yu. "Solid growth in our core businesses, fine and high purity graphite products, along with our capacity expansion drove 274 percent revenue growth from the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2011. This past quarter, we continued to see in China increased demand for coupled with a lack of supply of fine and high purity graphite products. As a result of these circumstances, these products maintained higher margins than graphite electrodes. Moreover, due to the soaring demand of high purity graphite in China's emerging solar and mold industries, the average unit price of high purity graphite products rose 98 percent in the second quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year."

Due to these conditions, we continued our strategy of adjusting our product mix to meet current market demand. By boosting our supply of fine and high purity graphite products, and raising the price of our high purity graphite, we were able to realize considerable growth in our higher margin business. Our sales of high purity graphite alone reached approximately $9.4 million in the second quarter of 2011, which is a $9 million or 231 percent increase when compared to our sales of these products during the same period in 2010. We are very confident about our future as we expect the heightened demand for our higher margin products to extend through 2011, and we intend to continue to invest aggressively in our higher margin businesses in upcoming quarters to further improve profits.

2011 Second Quarter Financial Results

Revenue

During the three months ended June 30, 2011, we had sales of $12,145,024 as compared to sales of $3,248,351 for the three months ended June 30, 2010, an increase of $8,896,673, or approximately 273.9%. Our revenue was generated mainly from sales of graphite electrodes, fine grain graphite, high purity graphite, and semi-processed graphite products. Sales increase was mainly attributable to a significant increase in the demand of our products during the three months ended June 30, 2011 resulting from the market recovery, new customer developments, and change of product mix to include more high purity graphite products which average unit price increased 98% in the three months ended June 30, 2011 compared to the same period last year. The fast development of manufacturing of solar and mold products increased the demand of our products as raw material. Increased production capacity and increased unit prices also contributed to the increase of total sales. The increased unit price of high purity graphite is due to a large demand for such products in the market. We also had a decrease in the demand of high purity graphite in 2010. Since then, the company has been successful to improve its product mix to achieve higher profit by increasing sales of fine grain graphite and high purity graphite products which generate a better margin.

Cost of Sales & Gross Profit

During the three months ended June 30, 2011, our cost of sales was $9,456,762, as compared to $3,019,732 during the three months ended June 30, 2010, an increase of $6,437,030, or 213.2%. The increase in cost of sales was directly associated with the increase in sales. Our gross margin increased from 7.0% for the three months ended June 30, 2010 to 22.1% for the three months ended June 30, 2011. The increase reflects the variance in production mix, as the percentage of our sales of high purity graphite products, a higher margin product compared to graphite electrodes, increased significantly. Fine grain graphite products decreased its margin due to the market demand shifts more to purity graphite electrodes during the three months ended June 30, 2011. The increased sales and increased margin of high purity graphite products offset the margin and unit price of fine grain graphite products.

Net Income

Our net income for the three months ended June 30, 2011 was $882,303, as compared to net income of $720,640 for the three months ended June 30, 2010, an increase of $161,663, or 22.4%. Our 2010 net income benefited significantly from change in fair value warrants, so we experienced more real growth in net income this year.

Liquidity & Capital Resources

China Carbon had a cash and cash equivalent position totaling $4.1 million at the end second quarter of 2011 compared to $0.3 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of $3.8 million or 1,270 percent.

Recent Updates

In July 2011, China Carbon completed the installations at its new facility, which includes baking and dipping plants, with the expectation that it will become fully operational by September 2011. Testing at the baking plant has already been completed and the Company anticipates that testing at the dipping plant will be finished by September 2011 with operations beginning shortly thereafter. Once the facility is completely up and running, China Carbon believes that its new facility will have an annual production capacity of 30,000 tons, which would double the Company's current annual production capacity. Through its expansion efforts, China Carbon is looking to better position itself to meet the growing demand the Company is seeing for its higher margin products.

Business Outlook

"Right now, we plan to have our new facility specialize in the manufacturing of higher margin products, like large size, ultra high power graphite electrodes, and high purity and fine gain graphite products," remarked Mr. Yu. "China's emerging aerospace, defense, automotive and clean tech end industries present the greatest demand for all types of graphite, specifically the forms of graphite we are planning to produce at our new facility. Moreover, we anticipate considerable growth in China's electric arc furnace steel production, which we believe will contribute to increased demand for large size, ultra high graphite electrodes. Accordingly, we are working hard to become the first company in China to produce 800 mm diameter ultra high power graphite electrodes. Through our product development and capacity expansion efforts, we are striving to enhance our production of higher margin products so we can gain further leverage in China's graphite sector."