Elcoteq - Company Announcement

Elcoteq Comments the News on the Tallinn Plant Enlargement

Elcoteq SE
Stock Exchange Release
January 14, 2010 at 12:45 pm (EET)

Elcoteq SE confirms the information on the stock exchange markets regarding the
enlargement of its operations in Tallinn, Estonia. The enlargement is related to
the manufacturing ramp-up of a new customer and the production consists of high
tech and complex products differing from typical mass production. The
enlargement will take place gradually during the second quarter of 2010.

Production ramp-ups and ramp-downs are characteristic to electronic
manufacturing services business (EMS) and they are done continuously in order to
adapt to the changing customer needs and manufacturing volumes.

Elcoteq and Ericsson completed a transaction on July 31, 2009 whereby the
majority of the machinery, equipment and materials of Elcoteq's Tallinn
manufacturing operations were sold to Ericsson. Currently Elcoteq Tallinn plant
employs approximately 160 persons.


ELCOTEQ SE

Satu Jaatinen
Communications Manager

Further information:
Mikko Puolakka, CFO, tel. +358 10 413 1287

About Elcoteq

Elcoteq SE is a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company in the
communications technology field. Elcoteq's global service offering covers the
entire lifecycle of products, from product development to after-market services.
By further combining mechanics expertise into its service offering, Elcoteq's
vision is to be a leading integrated electronics manufacturing services (IEMS)
company.

Elcoteq provides global end-to-end solutions consisting of product development
services, supply chain management, NPI, manufacturing, and after market services
for the whole lifecycle of its customers' products. These products include
Consumer Electronics products such as mobile and wireless phones, their parts
and accessories, set-top boxes, flat panel TVs and other consumer products as
well as System Solutions products such as wireless and wireline infrastructure
systems and modules, enterprise network products and other industrial segment
products.

The Group's consolidated net sales for 2008 totaled 3.4 billion euros and it
employs approximately 11,000 persons. Elcoteq SE is listed on the Nasdaq OMX
Helsinki Ltd.  For more information visit the Elcoteq website at
www.elcoteq.com.



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