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Componenta streamlines its organization

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Componenta is renewing its sales and product development organization and
incorporating the forge company Componenta Wirsbo, which operates in Sweden,
into the Group's Machine shops division. The corporate sales and product
development organization will manage the customer interface and look after
product development, with responsibilities allocated by customer business areas
and geographically to sales directors. Jari Leino is responsible for the Heavy
Trucks customer business area and Sweden, as well as for the coordination of
sales as a member of the Corporate Executive Team. Lauri Eklin is responsible
for the Diesel & Wind customer business area and Finland, and Maurice Smits is
responsible for the Off-road customer business area and the Benelux countries,
France and the USA. Jukka Borgman continues as Engineering Director. All the
above report directly to Heikki Lehtonen, President and CEO of the Group. Ali
Alper Celtek is responsible for the Automotive customer business area and
reports to Hakan Göral, SVP, Turkey Division. 

Alan Hooper, Country Sales Manager for the UK, and Norbert Müller, Country
Sales Manager for Germany, report to Heikki Lehtonen. Furio Scolario, who
started as Country Sales Manager for France on 1 March 2009, reports to Maurice
Smits. Luca Ferroni, Country Sales Manager for Italy, reports to Hakan Göral.
The new organization came into force on 10 March 2009. Timo Laitinen, SVP,
Sales and Product Development, and a member of the Corporate Executive Team
does not work anymore for Componenta. 

The forge company Componenta Wirsbo, which operates in Sweden and has been part
of the Group's Other Business, will be incorporated into the Machine shops
division on 31 March 2009. Göran Jansson, managing director of the company,
will in the future report to Michael Sjöberg, SVP, Machine shops. Juha Alhonoja
has been appointed Development Director of the Machine shops division as from 1
May 2009. He is responsible for developing the business of the division and for
the operations of the Nisamo and Pietarsaari business units. Jussi Mustonen,
business unit director of Componenta Nisamo, Juha Pouttu, business unit
director of Componenta Pietarsaari MS, and Mauri Keskinen, development manager
of the Machine shops division, will report to Juha Alhonoja. 

Componenta's strategic goal is to become the leading European cast component
supplier by 2012.  Although demand prospects in most of the Group's customer
sectors have continued to be uncertain at the beginning of 2009, Componenta is
focusing on developing its customer service and is carrying on with projects
that are of strategic importance. Challenging times also create opportunities
to increase market share. 

Helsinki, 10 March 2009 

COMPONENTA CORPORATION

Heikki Lehtonen
President and CEO

Further information:
Heikki Lehtonen, President and CEO
tel. +358 10 403 00


Componenta is a metal sector company with international operations and
production plants located in Finland, Turkey, the Netherlands and Sweden. The
net sales of Componenta were EUR 681 million in 2008. The Group employs 4,500
people. Componenta's shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Componenta
specializes in supplying cast and machined components and total solutions made
of them to its global customers who are manufacturers of vehicles, machines and
equipment. 
 
Componenta Corporation 
Panuntie 4, 
FI-00610 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 10 403 00
Fax +358 10 403 2721
www.componenta.com





                                            

                

            

        

    

    

        

            
        

        

            
        

        



    

        
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