curasan AG announced consolidated earnings results for the nine months of 2017. As in the first half of the year, the export share of net sales after the first nine months of the financial year was 81% higher than the previous year's figure of 79%. Net sales increased by 5% to EUR 4.73 million in the reporting period against EUR 4.51 million a year ago. Loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (LBITDA) at EUR 1.87 million were 14% down on the previous year of EUR 1.64 million. At EUR 2.91 million, net loss was 38% against EUR 2.11 million a year ago. The reasons for the decline in earnings are due to unexpected sales shifts caused by supply and production bottlenecks, time-consuming sales partner acquisition and the estimated one-off tax burden from the potential additional payment from 2008.