Kemira Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Antti Salminen appointed as Kemira Oyj's Executive Vice President, Supply Chain Management

Kemira Oyj
Stock exchange release
December 7, 2010 at 14.30 pm (CET+1)


PhD Antti Salminen has been appointed as Kemira's Executive Vice President,
Supply Chain Management and member of Kemira's Strategic Management Board. He
will take up the position on March 1, 2011 the latest. Salminen will join Kemira
from KONE Corporation where he currently holds the position of Director, New
Equipment Business, Asia Pacific. In this position he has been responsible for
sales management, delivery management, and coordination of new product
development for all elevator and escalator products in Asia. Prior to this he
worked as delivery process owner with the responsibility to lead the development
and rollout of global delivery process across all KONE business lines (includes
sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, demand supply planning and installation
processes).

Antti Salminen will replace Petri Boman, who will leave Kemira at the end of
2010 to set up a business of his own."I would like to thank Petri for the excellent work he has done in setting up
our global supply chain management and developing Kemira's logistics and
sourcing. I wish him all the best with the new challenges ahead of him", says
Kemira's President and CEO Harri Kerminen.

For more information, please contact
Kemira Oyj
Harri Kerminen, President & CEO
Phone +358 10 862 1810


Kemira is a global two billion euro chemicals company that is focused on serving
customers in water-intensive industries. The company offers water quality and
quantity management that improves customers' energy, water, and raw material
efficiency. Kemira's vision is to be a leading water chemistry company.

www.kemira.com
www.waterfootprintkemira.com


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