Rottneros — Board/Management Information 2010

Jan 22, 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, 22 January 2010

Kjell Ormegard new Chair of the Board of Rottneros AB

The Board of Rottneros AB has appointed board member Kjell Ormegard to chair the Board of Rottneros up to and including the annual meeting of shareholders in April 2010. Kjell Ormegard was elected to Rottneros' Board of Directors in 2007.

This change is owing to Rune Ingvarsson's request to resign immediately from the Board of Rottneros for personal reasons. Rune Ingvarsson was elected to Rottneros' Board of Directors in 2007 and has chaired it since 2008.

For further information, please contact: Kjell Ormegard, Tel. +46 8 590 010 00 or Ingrid Westin Wallinder, Tel. +46 8 527 709 30

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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 Friday 22 January 2010 at 11.00 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.