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Metsä Group raises its result guidance for the fourth quarter of 2018

Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release, 13 December 2017 at 10.01 EET
Metsä Group raises its result guidance for the fourth quarter of 2017, which was
announced in the interim report for January - September 2017.

The previous guidance was: Metsä Group’s comparable operating result is in the
fourth quarter of 2017 expected to be to be roughly at the same level as in the
third quarter of 2017.

The new guidance is: Metsä Group’s comparable operating result is in the fourth
quarter of 2017 expected to improve from the third quarter of 2017.

Metsä Group’s comparable operating result was EUR 134 million in the third
quarter of 2017.

The change in result guidance is due to the better than forecast long fibre pulp
market situation and price development as well as the higher than expected
production volumes of the Äänekoski bioproduct mill.

METSÄ GROUP
For further information, please contact:
Vesa-Pekka Takala, CFO, Metsä Group, and Deputy Managing Director of Metsäliitto
Cooperative, tel. +358 10 465 4260
Juha Laine, SVP, Communications, Metsä Group, tel. +358 10 465 4541
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Metsä Group is a forerunner in sustainable bioeconomy utilising renewable wood
from sustainably managed northern forests. Metsä Group focuses on wood supply
and forest services, wood products, pulp, fresh fibre paperboards and tissue and
cooking papers.

Metsä Group’s sales totalled EUR 4.7 billion in 2016, and it employs
approximately 9,300 people. The Group operates in some 30 countries. Metsäliitto
Cooperative is the parent company of Metsä Group and is owned by approximately
104,000 Finnish forest owners.

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