Prospectus regarding HEXPOL’s rights issue made public
The prospectus regarding HEXPOL's rights issue has now been made public and is available on HEXPOL's website, www.hexpol.com, as well as on Handelsbanken’s website, www.handelsbanken.se under ”Spara och placera, Aktier och värdepapper”. The prospectus will be distributed by mail to HEXPOL's directly registered shareholders.
For more information regarding the rights issue click here: http://investors.hexpol.com/d/20110112EN
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/).
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