In response to today’s article in Dagens Industri, Rottneros denies that any assignment has been given to advisors to dispose of any of the Group’s pulp mills. However, and as previously communicated, we are conducting active discussions about finding new use for the CTMP equipment from the closed Utansjö Mill.
For further information please contact:
Ole Terland, CEO and president, Rottneros AB, +46 8 590 010 00
Rottneros discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Securities Markets Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The Information was submitted for publication on Wednesday, 4 January 2012 at 10.45 CET (the Swedish version was released at 09.30 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. The Group has around 308 employees and had a turnover of approximately SEK 1.7 billion in the 2010 financial year.