Director/PDMR Shareholding

KBC Advanced Technologies plc

("KBC" or "the Company")

Directors Dealing

The Company announces that on 20 December 2012 it received notification of the following dealings by a director of the Company and his related parties in the ordinary shares of 2.5p each in the Company (the "Ordinary Shares").

Kestrel Partners LLP ("Kestrel") acquired 65,200 Ordinary Shares at a price of 51.9 pence per Ordinary Share on 20 December 2012 on behalf of Kestrel Opportunities, a cell of Guernsey Portfolios PCC Limited ("Kestrel Opportunities").

Following the transaction referred to above, Kestrel Opportunities holds 5,258,010 Ordinary Shares, representing 8.94% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Oliver Scott, Non-Executive Director of KBC, is a founding partner of and holds a beneficial interest in Kestrel, the investment manager of Kestrel Opportunities, and is a shareholder in Kestrel Opportunities. Mr Scott therefore has a legal interest in a total of 5,258,010 Ordinary Shares, representing 8.94% of the issued share capital of the Company.

21 December 2012

KBC Advanced Technologies plc

Janet Ireland, Company Secretary, Tel 01932 242424

Cenkos Securities plc

Bobbie Hilliam, Tel 020 7397 8900