Andritz AG — Major Shareholding Notification 2017

Nov 7, 2017

Publication Date: 07.11.2017 08:43 EANS-Voting Rights: Andritz AG / Publication of a participation notification according to art. 93 para. 2 Stock Exchange Act

Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution. The issuer is responsible for the content of this announcement.

On November 3, 2017 ANDRITZ AG was informed that certain subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc., Wilmington, USA, as shown on the table below, have holdings in ANDRITZ AG, which is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange. As of November 2, 2017 these subsidiaries held a total of 4.01% of ANDRITZ AG's share capital (104,000,000 shares).

Person subject to notification obligation:

• * Name: BlackRock, Inc.
• * City: Wilmington
• * Country: USA

Details to the stake-holdings as of November 2, 2017:

____________
	% of voting	% of voting		Total number of
				rights attached rights through Total of both voting rights
	to shares	financial/other	in %	of issuer
				__ __ instruments __ ___
Resulting
situation on
the date on	3.87%	0.13%	4.01%	104,000,000
which threshold
was crossed /
				_reached __ __ __ __
Position of
previous	3.85%	0.15%	3.99%
				notification__ __ __ __ __

Notified details of the resulting situation:

				____________
Voting rights
attached to
				shares_ __ __ ___ ____
	Number of		% of voting
				ISIN_Code__ voting_rights_ ______ _rights __
AT0000730007	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
				__ (Sec91_BörseG) (Sec_92_BörseG) (Sec_91_BörseG) (Sec_92_BörseG)_
				___ ___ _4,027,777 __ ___3.87%
				SUBTOTAL_ ___ _4,027,777 __ ___3.87%

_____________________________________________________________________________

|Financial / | |Other | |Instruments | |pursuant to | |sec. 91a, para.| |1,_no._1_BörseG|

			Number of voting
			rights that may
Type of	Expiration	Exercise	be	% of voting
instrument	Date	Period	acquired if the	rights
			instrument is
			___ __ __ _exercised_ _______
			Securities_Lent __ __ __64,675 _____0.06%
			SUBTOTAL_ __ __ __64,675 _____0.06%

				____________
Financial /
Other
Instruments
pursuant to
sec. 91a,
para. 1, no.
3_BörseG____
Type of	Expiration Exercise		Physical /	Number of	% of voting
instrument	Date	Period	Cash	voting rights	rights
				__ _ _ _Settlement ___ _____
				CFD_ __ _ _Cash_ _73,738 __0.07%
				SUBTOTAL_ _ __ _ _73,738 __0.07%

Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation: Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial/other instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity:

	____________			Financial/
		Directly	Shares held	other	Total of both
No.	Name		controlled directly (%) instruments		(%)
		by no.		held directly
	_ _ __ ___ (%)__ _______
1	BlackRock,
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
2	Trident	1
	_ Merger,LLC __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
3	Investment	2
	Management,
	_ LLC_ __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
4	Holdco 2,	1
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
5	Financial	4
	Management,
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
6	BlackRock	5
	_ Holdco4,_LLC ___ ___ __ ____
7	BlackRock	6
	_ Holdco6,_LLC ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
8	Delaware	7
	_ HoldingsInc. ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Institutional
9	Trust	8
	Company,

	National
	Association
$10$	BlackRock	8
	Fund_Advisors
	BlackRock
11	Capital	5
	Holdings,
	$Inc._$
12	BlackRock	11
	Advisors, LLC
	BlackRock
13	International	5
	Holdings,
	$Inc._$
	BR Jersey
14	International	13
	Holdings_L.P.
	BlackRock
16	(Singapore)	14
	Holdco Pte.
	Ltd.
	BlackRock
16	(Singapore)	15
	Limited_
	BlackRock
17	Asia-Pac	15
	Holdco,LLC
	BlackRock HK
18	Holdco	17
	Limited_
	BlackRock
	Asset
19	Management	18
	North Asia
	Limited_
20	BlackRock	18
	Cayco_Limited
	BlackRock
	Trident
21	Holding	20
	Company
	Limited_
	BlackRock
22	Japan	21
	Holdings_GK_
	BlackRock
23	Japan Co.,	22
	Ltd.
	BlackRock
24	Australia	14
	Holdco Pty.
	Ltd.
	BlackRock
	Investment
25	Management	24
	(Australia)
	Limited_
	BlackRock	14
26	Holdco_3,_LLC

27	Canada	26
	_ HoldingsLP __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
28	Canada	27
	_ HoldingsULC_ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Asset
29	Management	28
	Canada
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
30	BlackRock	14
	_ GroupLimited ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
31	Advisors (UK)	30
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
32	International	30
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
33	(Netherlands)	30
	_ B.V.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
34	Investment	30
	Management
	_ (UK)Limited_ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Asset
35	Management	34
	Deutschland
	_ AG__ __ _ _ ____

Further inquiry note: Dr. Michael Buchbauer Head of Group Finance, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Tel.: +43 316 6902 2979 Fax: +43 316 6902 465 mailto:michael.buchbauer@andritz.com

end of announcement euro adhoc

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