Rottneros — Share Issue/Capital Change 2010

Jan 13, 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, 13 January 2010

Rottneros: trade in call options

The subscribers of the new shares in the new issue recently implemented by Rottneros, the results of which were announced on 11 December 2009, were allotted for no consideration approximately 0.27 call options for each newly allotted share. A holder of a call option is entitled to buy from Swedbank an ordinary share in Rottneros at a price of SEK 0.82 per ordinary share or such adjusted price as may be required in certain circumstances according to the conditions.

Swedbank, in its capacity as the issuing agent, has allocated the subscribers of the new issue approximately 244 million call options. These call options are listed with Nordic MTF on NGM, (Nordic Growth Market) and trading in them starts on Friday 15 January 2010.

Rottneros' lending banks, which by previous conversion of interest-bearing liabilities obtained shares in Rottneros, have undertaken to sell to Swedbank up to approximately 244 million shares in total to enable Swedbank to fulfil its obligations associated with the call options issued.

The complete conditions for the call options 2009/2011 are available on Rottneros' website, www.rottneros.com.

For further information please contact: Karl Ove Grönqvist, Chief Financial Officer, Rottneros AB, +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 13 January 2010 at 08.00 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.