Rottneros — Board/Management Information 2010

Feb 25, 2010

PRESS RELEASE

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

Upplands Väsby, 25 February 2010

Karl Ove Grönqvist leaves Rottneros

Karl Ove Grönqvist, Rottneros Chief Financial Officer, has decided to leave the Group to take up a post as CFO of EuroMaint AB.

"Karl Ove Grönqvist has worked as the Group CFO for four years. We thank him warmly, especially for last year's substantial refinancing of the Group, and wish him every success in his new post", says Ole Terland, Rottneros CEO and President.

Our work to find a successor will start immediately.

For further information please contact: Ole Terland, +46 8 590 010 00

NB

This information is such that Rottneros must disclose in accordance with the Swedish Securities Markets Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication on Thursday 25 February 2010 at 17.45 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 1.5 billion in the 2009 financial year.