Ad-hoc-Message due to §15 WpHG

Alphaform AG: With interim report for Q2 2005:

-	Sales for the second quarter of 2005 at € 6,142 thousand up on previous year’s level (Q2/2004: € 4,810 thousand)
-	Consolidated results for the second quarter of 2005 up year-on-year from minus € 52 thousand by € 103 thousand to € 51 thousand.
-	Group incoming orders as of 30 June 2005 amounted to € 1.7 million (previous year as of 30 June 2004: € 2.9 million)
-	At € 1,487 thousand, operating cash flow in HY1 remains positive
-	With effect from 1 August 2005, there was a divestment of 100 % of the shares in Weilburg-based Alphaform-OHP GmbH – book losses of approximately € 850 thousand

Feldkirchen, 5 August 2005. In the second quarter of 2005, Alphaform AG Enabling Technologies and Services (ATF) improved the net result after taxes and interest against the previous year by € 103 thousand to € 51 thousand (Q2 2004: minus € 52 thousand). In the second quarter of 2005, sales totalled € 6,142 thousand (Q2 2004: € 4,810 thousand). With incoming orders of roughly € 1.7 million to the end of the first quarter of 2005, the order book was about 41% lower than in the previous year (PY:  € 2.9 million). This reduction results due to the closing of several major projects at the end of Q2.

As previously indicated, Alphaform AG is paring back its portfolio to concentrate on its core services of rapid prototyping and rapid tooling activities. In this context and with effect from 1 August 2005, there was a divestment of 100% of the shares in Weilburg-based Alphaform-OHP GmbH. The aim of the divestment is to stop the assumption of current losses as well as to effect a reduction in Group operating expenditure. The sale of company shares will generate book losses of approximately € 850 thousand, of witch € 628 thousand result from write off of the investment.

Given current forecasting uncertainty, the company is not publishing detailed forecasts of sales and earnings for the current year.

The entire interim report on Q2 2005 will be published on 12 August 2005 and will be available on our website www.alphaform.de/ir - rubric Reports.

End of Ad hoc publication © DGAP 08.04.2005

Alphaform AG Enabling Technologies and Services
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