Andritz AG — Major Shareholding Notification 2018

Nov 1, 2018

Publication Date: 01.11.2018 09:31 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 October 29, 2018 these subsidiaries held a total of 5.01% 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 October 29, 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	4.55%	0.46%	5.01%	104,000,000
which threshold
was crossed /
				_reached __ __ __ __
Position of
previous	4.15%	0.23%	4.38%
				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)___
				___ ___ _4,726,872 __ ___4.55%
				SUBTOTAL_ ___ _4,726,872 __ ___4.55%

		___________ 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 __ __ _248,788 _____0.24%
			SUBTOTAL_ __ __ _248,788 _____0.24%

				___________
				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 __230,743 ______0.22%
				SUBTOTAL _ __ _ __230,743 ______0.22%

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

29	BlackRock	39
	_ GroupLimited ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
30	Advisors (UK)	32
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
31	Asset	32
	Management UK
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
32	Finance	29
	Europe
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
33	International	29
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
34	(Netherlands)	32
	_ B.V.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
35	Investment	32
	Management
	_ (UK)Limited_ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Asset
36	Management	35
	Deutschland
	_ AG__ __ _ _ ____
37	BlackRock	25
	_ Cayman1_LP __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
38	Cayman West	37
	Bay Finco
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
39	Cayman West	38
	Bay IV
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____

Other Comments: The disclosure obligation arose due to total holdings attached to shares for BlackRock, Inc. going above 5%.

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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

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:	WBI, ATX
stockmarkets: Wien
language:	English

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