Andritz AG — Major Shareholding Notification 2018

Nov 22, 2018

Publication Date: 22.11.2018 21:00 EANS-Voting Rights: Andritz AG / Publication of a participation notification according to art. 135 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.

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 20, 2018 these subsidiaries held a total of 4.81% 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 20, 2018:

____________
	% 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	3.91%	0.90%	4.81%	104,000,000
which threshold
was crossed /
				_reached __ __ __ __
Position of
previous	4.20%	0.65%	4.85%
				notification__ __ __ __ __

Notified details of the resulting situation:

	____________
Voting rights
attached to
	shares_ __ __ ___ ____
	Number of			% of voting
	ISIN_Code__ voting_rights_ ______ _rights __
	Direct	Indirect		Direct		Indirect
	AT0000730007 (Sec 130 BörseG (Sec 133 BörseG (Sec 130 BörseG (Sec 133 BörseG
	___ 2018)__ _2018) __2018)_ 2018)___
	___ ___ _4,067,261 __ ___3.91%
	SUBTOTAL_ ___ _4,067,261 __ ___3.91%

		___________ Financial / Other Instruments pursuant to sec. 131, para. 1, no. 1 BörseG 2018_____________
					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 __ __ _907,230 _____0.87%
				SUBTOTAL_ __ __ _907,230 _____0.87%

				___________
				Financial / Other Instruments pursuant to sec. 131, para. 1, no. 2 BörseG
				2018_____________
Type of	Expiration Exercise		Physical /	Number of	% of voting
instrument	Date	Period	Cash	voting rights	rights
				__ _ ___________ Settlement_ ____ _______
				CFD_ __ ___ _Cash _24,404 __0.02%
				SUBTOTAL _ __ _ _24,404 __0.02%

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
	_ FundAdvisors ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
11	Capital	5
	Holdings,

	$Inc.__$
12	BlackRock	11
	Advisors, LLC
	BlackRock
13	Capital	$12$
	Management
	$Inc.__$
	BlackRock
14	International	5
	Holdings,
	$Inc._$
	BR Jersey
15	International	14
	Holdings_L.P.
	BlackRock
16	(Singapore)	15
	Holdco Pte.
	Ltd.
	BlackRock
17	(Singapore)	16
	Limited
	BlackRock HK
18	Holdco	16
	Limited_
	BlackRock
	Asset
19		18
	Management
	North Asia
	Limited_
	BlackRock
	Trident
20	Holding	23
	Company
	Limited_
	BlackRock
21	Japan	20
	Holdings_GK_
	BlackRock
22	Japan Co.,	21
	Ltd.
	BlackRock Lux
23	Finco	18
	S.a.r.l.
	BlackRock
24	Australia	15
	Holdco Pty.
	Ltd.
	BlackRock
	Investment
		24
25	Management
	(Australia)
	Limited_
26	BlackRock	15
	Holdco_3,_LLC
	BlackRock
27	Canada	26
	Holdings_LP_
	BlackRock
28	Canada	27
	Holdings_ULC_

	BlackRock
	Asset
29	Management	28
	Canada
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
30	BlackRock	40
	_ GroupLimited ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
31	Advisors (UK)	33
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
32	Asset	33
	Management UK
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
33	Finance	30
	Europe
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
34	International	30
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
35	(Netherlands)	33
	_ B.V.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
36	Investment	33
	Management
	_ (UK)Limited_ ___ ___ __ ____ BlackRock
	Asset
37	Management	36
	Deutschland _ AG__ __ _ _ ____
38	BlackRock	26
	_ Cayman1_LP __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
39	Cayman West	38
	Bay Finco
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
40	Cayman West	39
	Bay IV
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____

Other Comments: The disclosure obligation arose due to voting rights attached to shares for BlackRock, Inc. going below 4%.

Further inquiry note: Dr. Michael Buchbauer Head of 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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issuer:	Andritz AG
	Stattegger Straße 18
	A-8045 Graz
phone:	+43 (0)316 6902-0
FAX:	+43 (0)316 6902-415
mail:	welcome@andritz.com
WWW:	www.andritz.com
ISIN:	AT0000730007
indexes:	ATX, WBI
stockmarkets: Wien
language:	English

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