Rottneros — Board/Management Information 2010

Feb 12, 2010

PRESS RELEASE

Change to the composition of the Nomination Committee for Rottneros

The Annual General Meeting of Rottneros for 2009 resolved that the Nomination Committee, prior to the Annual General Meeting for 2010, should constitute the Chair of the Board, who shall not chair the Committee, together with two additional members, of whom one will represent the company's largest shareholder and the other represent one of the company's other four largest shareholders.

The AGM also resolved that if any of the shareholders who had appointed a member of the Nomination Committee ceases to be one of the five shareholders with the greatest voting power, the member(s) appointed by such shareholder(s) must tender their resignation and that a shareholder who has become one of the five shareholders with the greatest voting power shall be entitled to appoint its representative.

According to Euroclear's register, the five shareholders with the greatest voting power comprised, as of 29 January 2010, Nemus Holding, Case Asset Management, Danske Bank A/S, DnB NOR Bank ASA Sverige and HSH Nordbank. Torgny Prior, appointed by Prior&Nilsson Fond and Kapitalförvaltning AB, has therefore tendered his resignation. Case Asset Management has appointed as a new member Henrik Strömbom, CEO of Case Asset Management. Following this, the Nomination Committee comprises:

Olle Grundberg, Chair, Nemus Holding AB Henrik Strömbom, Case Asset Management AB Kjell Ormegard, Chair of the Board of Rottneros AB

The members of the Nomination Committee represent in aggregate just more than 25 per cent of the voting power of all shares in the company.

For more information, please contact: Chair of the Nomination Committee, Olle Grundberg, mobile tel. no. +46 70 654 44 20 Chair of the Board, Kjell Ormegard, mobile tel. no. +46 70 668 93 76

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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 Friday 12 February 2010 at 12.30 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.