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Corporate | 2 July 2007 10:18

Roth & Rau AG: Change in the Management Board

Roth & Rau AG / Change of Personnel

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Change in the Management Board:
Dr. Rau to focus in future on research and development

Hohenstein-Ernstthal, 2 July 2007 – From 1 July 2007, Dr. Bernd Rau will
once again be exclusively performing strategic tasks as Senior Vice
President in the field of research and development at Roth & Rau AG. With
this move, Roth & Rau, the leading specialist in antireflective coating
equipment, will be implementing the planned personnel measures already
announced upon its IPO. These envisaged the company being managed by a
Management Board consisting of two members - a CEO and a CFO. The position
of Chief Technical Officer (CTO) previously occupied by Dr. Rau is to be
left vacant. 'Following the expiry of my management board contract, I can
focus on research and development once again and assume direct
responsibility together with our highly motivated team for the development
of innovative processes and solutions', commented Dr. Rau, who holds a PhD
in physics. As one of the cofounders of the company, Dr. Rau holds a 9.13 %
shareholding and thus remains one of the major shareholders in Roth & Rau
AG.

One of the strategic focuses of his activity will be co-designing a major
externally sponsored project. The aim is to develop a new research focus
equipped with a technical centre at the Technical University in Chemnitz
within the framework of the 'Solar Factory 2020' project. As well as Roth &
Rau and other representatives of the industry, the participants in the
project include the State of Saxony and the Technical University (TU) in
Chemnitz.

'I have been successfully working alongside Dr. Rau for more than 25 years
now. Our mutual past even extends far beyond Roth & Rau’s existence as a
company. Our academic training at the TU in Chemnitz means that we share
the same roots', remarked Dr. Dietmar Roth, CEO of Roth & Rau AG. 'I am
therefore all the more pleased that Dr. Rau will continue to work on behalf
of the company and that he would like to contribute his superb expertise,
his longstanding experience and his ideas to the R&D division once again.'

About Roth & Rau AG:
Roth & Rau AG (ISIN DE000A0JCZ51) develops and manufactures equipment and
process systems on the basis of plasma and ion beam technology and supplies
these to a global customer base in a wide variety of sectors. Roth & Rau’s
photovoltaic business field focuses on providing antireflective coating
facilities for crystalline silicon solar cells. With a global market share
(excluding Japan) of around 60 %, Roth & Rau is the global market leader in
this area. The company’s second business field of plasma and ion beam
technology, which accounted for around 15 % of total sales in the past
financial year, develops equipment for the semiconductor and automotive
industries, as well as for research and development in various
sectors.

Contact:
Haubrok Investor Relations GmbH
Simone Gorny
Kaistraße 16
40221 Düsseldorf
Tel.: +49 (0) 211/30126-130
Fax: +49 (0)211/30126-172
E-Mail: s.gorny@haubrok.de

DGAP 02.07.2007

Language: English
Issuer: Roth & Rau AG
Gewerbering 3 OT Wüstenbrand
09337 Hohenstein-Ernstthal Deutschland
Phone: 0372349880
Fax: 03723 498825
E-mail: silvia.roth@roth-rau.de
Internet: www.roth-rau.de
ISIN: DE000A0JCZ51
WKN: A0JCZ5
Indices:
Listed: Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart;
Entry Standard in Frankfurt

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