Lenzing AG

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Sep 23, 2016

EANS-Voting Rights: Lenzing AG / Publication of an Announcement according to art. 93 BörseG with the objective of Europe-web publication

Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is responsible for the content of this announcement.

Release according to article 93 BörseG with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution

Person/company obliged to make the notification:

----------------------------------- Name: B & C Industrieholding GmbH als Komplementär der B & C Iota GmbH & Co KG Place: Wien State: Österreich

Pursuant to sec 93 para 2 of the Stock Exchange Act, Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft announces that B & C Industrieholding GmbH informed Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft on September 22, 2016 according to sec 91 of the Stock Exchange Act as follows:

B & C Iota GmbH & Co KG (FN 353486h; hereafter "B & C Iota") has sold 1,330,000 shares of Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft (FN 96499k; hereafter "Lenzing") on September 19, 2016. The sales contracts were settled on September 22, 2016.

Upon settlement of the sales contracts B & C Iota holds 680,959 Lenzing-shares (approx. 2.57% of the share capital with voting rights) and an equal amount of voting rights. B & C Iota, therefore, has fallen below the threshold of 4% of the voting rights.

B & C Privatstiftung (FN 203482p), following a sale of Lenzing-shares by B & C Iota through various subsidiaries, holds approx. 62.57% of the Lenzing-shares and continues to exceed the threshold pursuant to sec 91 of the Stock Exchange Act of 50% of the voting rights in Lenzing.

Lenzing, September 23, 2016

Further inquiry note: Lenzing AG Mag. Waltraud Kaserer Tel.: +43 (0) 7672-701-2713 Fax: +43 (0) 07672-96301 mail to:w.kaserer@lenzing.com issuer: Lenzing AG

A-A-4860 Lenzing phone: +43 7672-701-0 FAX: +43 7672-96301 mail: office@lenzing.com WWW: http://www.lenzing.com sector: Chemicals ISIN: AT0000644505 indexes: WBI, ATX, Prime Market stockmarkets: official market: Wien language: English

Aussendung übermittelt durch euro adhoc The European Investor Relations Service