Fuwei Films Announces Material Increase in Polyester Film for PCB (Base Film for Dry films) from Major Customer

BEIJING, Jan. 26, 2017  -- Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: FFHL) ("Fuwei Films" or the "Company"), a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality BOPET plastic films in China, today announced that the Company has signed an annual sales contract for 2017 with Eternal Electronic Material (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. ("Eternal Electronic"), one of the Company's top five customers during the year ended December 31, 2015 that purchases polyester film for PCB from Fuwei Films. Polyester film for PCB is a base film for dry film. Eternal Electronic is a well-known manufacturer of dry films globally, which is mainly used in Printed Circuit Boards ("PCB"). Based on the new contract, Fuwei expects that the total polyester film for PCB sales in the first quarter of 2017 will approximately increase by 34.5% compared to the same period of 2016. Fuwei Films continues to improve its product quality and has been supplying Eternal Electronic with advantageous prices and sound services for the past few years.

"We believe that the increase of orders from Eternal Electronic demonstrates that our product quality of polyester film for PCB is recognized by our customers," commented Mr. Zengyong Wang, Chairman of Fuwei Films, "Our Company will continue to execute a portfolio of products that optimizes a higher margin strategy. We intend to continue to leverage our R&D capabilities and develop new, high-quality products with strong profit margins and maintain our excellent customer service in order to maintain a competitive advantage over our competitors."

 

About Fuwei Films

 

Fuwei Films conducts its business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fuwei Films (Shandong) Co., Ltd. ("Fuwei Shandong"). Fuwei Shandong develops, manufactures and distributes high-quality plastic films using the biaxial oriented stretch technique, otherwise known as BOPET film (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate). Fuwei's BOPET film is widely used to package food, medicine, cosmetics, tobacco, and alcohol, as well as in the imaging, electronics, and magnetic products industries.

 

Safe Harbor

 

This press release contains information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to risks. Risk factors that could contribute to such differences include those matters more fully disclosed in the Company's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which, among other things, include both the possible delisting of the Company's ordinary shares from the NASDAQ Global Market; significant competition in the BOPET film industry, especially the significant oversupply of BOPET films resulting from the rapid growth of the Chinese BOPET industry capacity, changes in the international market and trade barriers, especially the adverse impact of the antidumping investigation and imposition of an anti-dumping duty on imports of the BOPET films originating from the People's Republic of China ("China") conducted by certain main importing countries; and the effect of the recent US presidential election on trade policy, fluctuations of RMB exchange rate, the reduce in demand for the Company's products or the loss of main customers which may result in the decrease of sales, and negatively influencing the Company's financial performance, uncertainty as to the future profitability, uncertainty as to the Company's ability to successfully obtain additional funds to meet the working capital needs of the new BOPET production line, uncertainty as to the Company's ability to continuously develop new BOPET film products to be produced by the third production line and keep up with changes in BOPET film technology, risks associated with possible defects and errors in its products including complaints and claims from clients, uncertainty as to its ability to protect and enforce its intellectual property rights, uncertainty as to its ability to attract and retain qualified executives and personnel, and uncertainty in acquiring raw materials on time and on acceptable terms, particularly in light of the volatility in the prices of petroleum products in recent years, instability of power and energy supply, and the uncertainty regarding the future operation of the Company in connection with the changes in the labor law in China, the measures taken by the Chinese government to save energy and reduce emissions, and the complaints from nearby residents and local government about the noise caused by our production as well as the uncertainty of the impact of major shareholder transfer that have substantial influence over the Company and the Company's business operation including possible overlap of our BOPET products, customers and market orientation with an BOPET film manufacturer, which is controlled by the same individual who has control over the shares of our major shareholder. The forward-looking information provided herein represents the Company's estimates as of the date of the press release, and subsequent events and developments may cause the Company's estimates to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking information in the future. Therefore, this forward-looking information should not be relied upon as representing the Company's estimates of its future financial performance as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Actual results of our operations may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of the risk factors.

 

For more information, please contact:

 

In China:

 

Ms. Xiaoli Yu

Investor Relations Manager

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In the U.S.:

 

Vivian Chen

Investor Relations

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