Doubling Proppant Capacity to Capture Strong Export Market Opportunity
GONGYI, China, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Gengsheng Minerals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CHGS) ("Gengsheng" or "the Company"), a materials technology company in China with products capable of withstanding high temperature, saving energy and boosting productivity in certain industries such as steel and oil, today announced that it has signed fracture proppant supply contracts worth a total value of $1 million with a distributor to supply oil fields in North America. All the deliveries will be fulfilled by April 2009.
Fracture proppants are light, bauxite-based, grain-like materials that have a round and smooth surface and a quality of resisting high pressure and acid corrosion. They are used by oil and gas drillers to extract pockets of oil and natural gas scattered underground. Gengsheng initially signed proppant contracts with a total value of $3.54 million with the same North
American-based distributor in late 2008. The Company has shipped approximately $2.2 million of the materials to date.
Also today, the Company announced it is expecting to double the production capacity of its fracture proppant business from 30,000 tons per year to 60,000 tons per year in the city of Gongyi, Henan Province. The expansion will add new equipment to the existing facilities and the new capacity is expected to start commercial operations by April 2009.
"I am pleased to announce the renewal of our contracts with a foreign buyer of proppants," said Mr. Shunqing Zhang, Chairman of Gengsheng. "We are also excited that our production capacity increase for this strategically important product will be completed by April. In light of the export market growth for our products, we believe now is the right time to expand our capacity to take advantage of the market demand."
About China Gengsheng Minerals, Inc.
China Gengsheng Minerals, Inc. ("Gengsheng") develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of high-tech industrial material products, including monolithic refractories, industrial ceramics and fracture proppants. A market leader offering customized solutions, Gengsheng sells its products primarily to the iron-and-steel industry as heat-resistant components for steel-making furnaces, industrial kilns and other high-temperature vessels to guarantee and improve the productivity of those expensive pieces of equipment while reducing their consumption of energy. Founded in 1986 and based in China’s Henan province, Gengsheng currently has over 200 customers in the iron, steel, oil, glass, cement, aluminum and chemical businesses located in China and in 11 other countries. Gengsheng conducts business through Gengsheng International Corporation, a British Virgin Islands company, and its Chinese subsidiaries, which are Henan Gengsheng Refractories Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou Duesail Fracture Proppant Co., Ltd. and Henan Gengsheng High Temperature Materials Co., Ltd.
For more information about the Company, please visit http://www.gengsheng.com .
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For more information, please contact:
In China:
Mr. Shuai Zhang
Investor Relations
China Gengsheng Minerals, Inc.
Tel: +86-371-6405-9846
Email: shuai298@126.com
In the U.S.:
Mr. Valentine Ding
Investor Relations
Grayling
Tel: +1-646-284-9412
Email: vding@hfgcg.com