Change of number of shares and votes in HEXPOL

The rights issue recently conducted by HEXPOL has, through the issuance of shares subscribed for by using subscription rights, resulted in an increase during March 2011 of in total 6,613,069 shares, of which 295,312 shares are of series A and 6,317,757 shares are of series B.

Furthermore, the number of shares of series B has increased during March with an additional 1,230,158 shares, due to the exercise of subscription warrants under the Incentive Program 2008/2011.

The number of votes increased by in total 10,501,035 during the month.

As per 31 March 2011 there are in total 34,395,204 shares in the company, of which 1,476,562 are of series A with ten votes each and 32,918,642 are of series B with one vote each.

The total number of votes in HEXPOL as per 31 March 2011 is 47,684,262.

For further information please contact:

Urban Ottosson, CFO/IR, + 46 (0) 767 855 144

HEXPOL is a world-leading polymers group with strong global positions in advanced polymer compounds (Compounding), gaskets for plate heat exchangers (Gaskets) and wheels made of plastic and rubber materials for truck and castor wheel application (Wheels).Customers are primarily OEM manufacturers of plate heat exchangers and trucks, global systems suppliers to the automotive industry and the medical technology industry. The Group is organised in two business areas, HEXPOL Compounding and HEXPOL Engineered Products. HEXPOL's sales in 2010 amounted to approximately 3,800 MSEK. After the acquisition of Excel Polymers, the HEXPOL Group has approximately 3,000 employees in nine countries and pro forma net sales in 2010 of above 6,300 MSEK. Read more at www.hexpol.com (http://www.hexpol.com/).

This press release consists of such information that HEXPOL AB (publ) may be obliged to disclose in accordance with the Swedish Securities Market Act and /or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication on March 31, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. CET.

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