Andritz AG — Major Shareholding Notification 2020

Feb 27, 2020

Publication Date: 27.02.2020 21:21 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 February 25, 2020 these subsidiaries held a total of 4.96% 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 February 25, 2020:

____________
	% 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	3.92%	1.03%	4.96%	104,000,000
which threshold
was crossed /
				_reached __ __ __ __
Position of
previous	4.05%	1.04%	5.09%
				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)___
				___ ___ _4,081,817 __ ___3.92%
				SUBTOTAL_ ___ _4,081,817 __ ___3.92%

		___________ 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 __ __ _824,218 _____0.79%
				SUBTOTAL_ __ __ _824,218 _____0.79%

				___________
				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 __251,734 ______0.24%
				SUBTOTAL _ __ _ __251,734 ______0.24%

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.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
2	Holdco 2,	1
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
3	Financial	2
	Management,
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
4	International	3
	Holdings,
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BR Jersey
5	International	4
	_ HoldingsL.P. ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
6	Australia	5
	Holdco Pty.
	_ Ltd.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Investment
7	Management	6
	(Australia)
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
8	Trident	1
	_ MergerLLC_ __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
9	Investment	8
	Management
	_ LLC_ __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
10	(Singapore)	5

	Holdco Pte.
	Ltd.
	BlackRock HK
11	Holdco	10
	Limited
	BlackRock
	Asset
12		11
	Management
	North Asia
	Limited
	BlackRock Lux
13	Finco	11
	S.a.r.l.
	BlackRock
1 4	Japan	13
	Holdings_GK_
	BlackRock
15	Japan Co.,	14
	Ltd.
	BlackRock
1 ୧	(Singapore)	10
	Limited
17	BlackRock	5
	Holdco_3,_LLC
18	BlackRock	17
	Cayman_1_LP
	BlackRock
1 d	Cayman West	18
	Bay Finco Limited
	BlackRock
20	Cayman West	1 d
	Bay IV
	Limited
21	BlackRock	20
	Group_Limited
	BlackRock
22	Finance	21
	Europe
	Limited
	BlackRock
23	Investment	22
	Management
	(UK)Limited
	BlackRock
	Asset
24	Management	23
	Deutschland
	AG
	BlackRock
25	International	21
	Limited
	BlackRock
26	(Netherlands)	22
	B.V.
	BlackRock
27
	Advisors (UK)	22
	Limited
	BlackRock
28	Capital	3

	Holdings,
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
29	BlackRock	28
	_ Advisors,LLC ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
30	Canada	17
	_ HoldingsLP __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
31	Canada	30
	_ HoldingsULC_ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Asset
32	Management	31
	Canada
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
33	BlackRock	3
	_ Holdco4,_LLC ___ ___ __ ____
34	BlackRock	33
	_ Holdco6,_LLC ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
35	Delaware	34
	_ HoldingsInc. ___ ___ __ ____
36	BlackRock	35
	_ FundAdvisors ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Institutional
37	Trust	35
	Company,
	National
	_ Association_ ___ ___ __ ____

Other Comments:

The disclosure obligation arose due to total holdings in voting rights for BlackRock, Inc. going below 5%. Additionally, voting rights attached to shares for BlackRock, Inc. have gone below 4%.

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Further inquiry note: Dr. Michael Buchbauer Head of Group Finance 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

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