Rottneros — Board/Management Information 2009

Oct 22, 2009

PRESS RELEASE

Rottneros AB (publ) Box 600, SE-194 26 Upplands Väsby, Sweden Tel. +46 8 590 010 00 www.rottneros.com

Upplands Väsby, 22 October 2009

Rottneros AB appoints Nomination Committee

The Annual General Meeting for 2009 resolved to have the Nomination Committee, prior to the Annual General Meeting for 2010, constitute the Chairman of the Board, who shall not chair this Committee, as well as two additional members, of whom one will represent the company's largest shareholder and the other shall represent one of the company's four largest shareholders.

The following members have been appointed for the Nomination Committee: Olle Grundberg, Chairman, Nemus Holding AB; member Torgny Prior, Prior&Nilsson Fond och Kapitalförvaltning AB; and member Rune Ingvarsson, Chairman of Rottneros AB.

According to the instruction resolved by the general meeting, it is the duty of the Nomination Committee to prepare and present proposals to the general meeting for the election of chairperson and other board members, in addition to the board fee to be divided between the chairperson and other board members and any remuneration for committee work, election of and fee for an auditor, when applicable, as well as for the election of chairperson at the annual meeting of shareholders.

Shareholders wishing to submit views or present a proposal to the company's Nomination Committee may do so to the Chairman of the Nomination Committee, Olle Grundberg, olle.grundberg@bredband.net.

The Annual General Meeting will be held at 3.00pm on Thursday, 22 April 2010 in Stockholm.

For more information, please contact:

Chairman of the Nomination Committee, Olle Grundberg, mobile tel. no. +46 70 654 44 20 Chairman of the Board, Rune Ingvarsson, mobile tel. no. +46 70 288 79 76

NB

This information must be disclosed by Rottneros in accordance with the Swedish Securities Markets Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication on Thursday 22 October 2009 at 16.50 CET.

Rottneros is an independent producer of market pulp. The Group comprises the parent company Rottneros AB, listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm, and its subsidiaries Rottneros Bruk AB and Vallviks Bruk AB with operations involving the production and sale of market pulp. The Group also includes the wood procurement company Rottneros Baltic SIA in Latvia and the sales company Rottneros S.A. in Belgium. The Rottneros Packaging AB division produces food packaging made from paper pulp. The Group has around 350 employees and had a turnover of approximately SEK 2.9 billion in the 2008 financial year.