Business Description

Description of Business Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Corporation”) manufacture and sell highly engineered, high-performance specialty metal products and customized equipment utilized by industry throughout the world. It operates in two business segments: the Forged and Cast Engineered Products (“FCEP”) segment and the Air and Liquid Processing (“ALP”) segment. This segment presentation is consistent with how the Corporation’s chief operating decision maker evaluates financial performance and makes resource allocation and strategic decisions about the business. See Note 24 . In February 2025, Union Electric Steel UK Limited (“UES-UK”), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation, entered into a formal consultation process with its unions and staff to evaluate various options to improve its profitability. The U.K. operations had been impacted by unpredictable and high energy costs compared to its foreign competitors, lower demand for its products manufactured in the U.K., and increased imports of rolls and flat rolled steel into Europe from low-cost countries. UES-UK completed its formal consultation process in the second quarter of 2025 and, in light of UES-UK's historical performance and management's outlook for the remainder of 2025 and subsequent years, decided to exit its operations. On October 14, 2025, (the “Filing Date”), the Directors of UES-UK filed a Notice of Appointment with the High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts at Leeds (the “Insolvency Court”) formally appointing certain insolvency practitioners of FRP Advisory Trading Limited (“FRP”) as administrators of UES-UK (collectively, the “Administrators”). This action was confined to UES-UK exclusively and did not affect the Corporation or any of its other subsidiaries. As of the Filing Date, UES-UK was in administration and…