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American Resources Corporation Increases Specialty Carbon Order Book at Record Prices
New purchase order for specialty carbon will be shipped into the international marketplace for specialty fabrication and alloy metal productionCompany's
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[{"type":"text","content":"New purchase order for specialty carbon will be shipped into the international marketplace for specialty fabrication and alloy metal productionCompany's expanded carbon production for Q2 2022 is providing customers with needed supply growth while realizing record prices from its facilities for specialty stoker carbonFISHERS, IN / ACCESSWIRE / April 4, 2022 / American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:AREC) (\"American Resources\" or the \"Company\"), a next generation and socially responsible supplier of rare earth and critical elements, carbon and advanced carbon materials to the new infrastructure and electrification marketplace, today announced that it has expanded its sales commitments for a portion of its specialty carbon stoker products for the second quarter of 2022 by approximately 15,000 tons at a record average price realization in the mid $200 per ton.Tom Sauve, President of American Resources Corporation commented, \"Our ability to secure this business for the specialty carbon markets is a testament to the quality of our operations and efforts of our team to identify top-quality assets and position the Company to be the strongest producer in our region. We are continuing to ramp up production at an attractive time to capitalize on the strength in the steel making and specialty carbon markets. During recent customer visits, we were able to showcase the restructuring of our mining complex's which have positioned us to provide strong and growing production, highly specific processing capabilities and inventory, giving them comfort of our ability to deliver for them and at the same time, deliver for our shareholders. To our knowledge, this is the highest price of carbon that has ever been sold from our facilities.\"Specialty stoker is a specific sized carbon product that is processed to a very low ash content for a variety of commercial uses. American Resources' specialty carbon stoker, given its specific properties, is expected to meet the demand of the global silicon, ferrosilicon and microsilica marketplace for various industrial and technological applications. This specialized stoker product is able to be produced from either of the Company's Perry County Resources or McCoy Elkhorn operations in eastern Kentucky due to the quality of carbon produced and the capabilities of their processing facilities.American Resources c...