Registration of Componenta’s new shares and the hybrid bond

Not to be released or distributed, directly or indirectly, in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan or any other jurisdiction in which offering or selling shares or subscription rights would be unlawful.

A total of 4,713,385 new shares subscribed in the Componenta Corporation Share Issue directed for subscription to the public have been entered into the Trade Register on 3 April 2012. The new shares will produce shareholder rights as from the date of their registration, 3 April 2012, onwards.

The number of the Company’s shares will amount to 22,213,123 shares after the Trade Register entry of the new shares. The shares entered into the Trade Register will be applied for public listing on 4 April 2012.

The Company issued the Hybrid Bond concurrently with the Share Issue. The amount of the Hybrid Bond is EUR 20,716,000. After the payment of the Hybrid Bond subscriptions, the remaining amounts of the Company’s capital loans and bond are the following: capital loan 2009, EUR 11.2 million, capital loan 2010, EUR 16.0 million and bond 2010, EUR 22.4 million, differing from the earlier, on 27 March 2012 published amount of bond 2010 (EUR 22.5 million).

Helsinki, 3 April 2012

COMPONENTA CORPORATION

Heikki Lehtonen
President and CEO

For further information, please contact:

Heikki Lehtonen
President and CEO
tel. +358 10 403 2200

Mika Hassinen
CFO
tel. +358 10 403 2723

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 576 million in 2011 and its share is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. The Group employs approx. 4,700 people. 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.  

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