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Jul 7, 2008

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Corporate | 7 July 2008 11:52

Annual General Meeting of Roth & Rau AG

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Annual General Meeting of Roth & Rau AG:
- Share split approved with large majority
- Business performance underpins growth course
- Incoming orders rise by 115.9% to Euro 181.1 million in 1st half

Hohenstein-Ernstthal, 7 July, 2008 – Shareholders at this year’s Annual
General Meeting of Roth & Rau AG approved the planned share split with a
large majority. There was also widespread approval for releasing the
Management and Supervisory Boards from responsibility for the 2007
financial year.

The share capital will be increased from company funds to provide a
foundation for implementing the share split. On this basis, bonus shares
will be issued at a ratio of 1:4, resulting in a corresponding arithmetic
decline in the price of Roth & Rau’s share. 'Following our entry into the
Prime Standard and our immediate advance to the TecDAX, this will enable us
to further enhance the attractiveness of Roth & Rau’s share', commented
company CFO Carsten Bovenschen. 'Our aim is to address an even larger group
of potential investors.'

Furthermore, the Annual General Meeting elected Eberhard Reiche to the
Supervisory Board. Mr. Reiche had already been appointed to the Supervisory
Board until 4 July 2008 by order of Chemnitz District Court. He took over
as Chairman of the Supervisory Board from Harald Löhle, who had stood down
from this position as of 31 January 2008. Agenda items seven and eight,
involving the creation of approved capital and the authorisation to issue
bonds, failed to receive the required three-quarter majority.

The Management Board presented the successful past 2007 financial year to
around 100 shareholders attending the meeting and provided a positive
outlook for the current 2008 financial year. 'We have seen a thoroughly
successful start to the current financial year and have achieved growth, in
some cases substantial, in all major key figures', reported Bovenschen
confidently. Roth & Rau received incoming orders of Euro 181.1 million in
the first half of 2008, equivalent to growth of 115.9% on the first half of
the previous year, and already 24% up on total sales in 2007.

Says Dr. Dietmar Roth, CEO of Roth & Rau AG: 'We have achieved a great deal
in the first months of the new financial year both in operating and in
strategic terms, and have thus latched seamlessly onto our successful
performance in the past year. We have already deployed part of the gross
emissions proceeds of Euro 101.2 million we received from the execution of
our capital increase with subscription rights in April to finance important
steps within our growth strategy. Two important examples of this are the
cooperation agreed with the University of Neuchâtel in order to strengthen
our research and development and the takeover of AIS Automation Dresden
GmbH. We will continue to pursue this course in the coming months, thus
underpinning our growth strategy.'

About Roth & Rau AG:
Roth & Rau AG based in Hohenstein-Ernstthal (ISIN DE000A0JCZ51) is by
market share one of the world’s leading suppliers of plasma process systems
for the photovoltaics industry. Furthermore Roth & Rau supplies components
and process systems based on plasma and ion beam technology for other
sectors. Developed by Roth & Rau, these products are manufactured and
distributed worldwide through the company’s photovoltaic and plasma and ion
beam technology divisions. In fiscal year 2007 Roth & Rau achieved
according to IFRS an EBIT of Euro 14 million on sales of Euro 146 million,
employing an average of 190 people. Roth & Rau’s photovoltaic division
focuses on providing antireflective coating facilities as well as fully
automated manufacturing lines (turnkey production lines) for the production
of crystalline silicon solar cells. Another focus is on the production of
equipment for the coating of thin film solar modules. The plasma and ion
beam technology division, which accounted for 6 percent of total sales in
the financial year 2007, produces plasma sources and ion beam sources as
well as process systems for plasma and ion beam enhanced thin film and
surface processing methods. Customers served by this division include, in
particular, companies in the semiconductor and automotive industries, R&D
departments in various industries including photovoltaics as well as
research institutes and universities.

Contact:
Haubrok Investor Relations GmbH
Simone Gorny
Kaistraße 16
40221 Düsseldorf
Tel.: +49 (0) 211/30126-130
Fax: +49 (0)211/30126-5130
E-Mail: s.gorny@haubrok.de

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Language: English
Issuer: Roth & Rau AG
An der Baumschule 6-8
09337 Hohenstein-Ernstthal
Deutschland
Phone: 03723 6685-0
Fax: 03723 6685-100
E-mail: info@roth-rau.de
Internet: www.roth-rau.de
ISIN: DE000A0JCZ51
WKN: A0JCZ5
Indices: TecDAX
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin, Stuttgart, München, Düsseldorf

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