Orion - Company Announcement

Disclosure Under Chapter 2 Section 10

ORION CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 5 SEPTEMBER 2012 at 3.30  EEST

Orion Corporation (business code 1999212-6) has received a disclosure under
Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Markets Act, according to which the total
number of Orion B shares and related voting rights under management of The
Capital Group Companies, Inc., exceeded on 3 September 2012 the one twentieth
(1/20) threshold of the total number of Orion Corporation shares.

Previously, Capital Research and Management Company (CRMC) and Capital Group
International, Inc. (CGII), subsidiaries of The Capital Group Companies, Inc.,
have reported their holdings separately based on an exemption granted by the
Finnish Financial Supervision Authority on 12 September 2007 (J No
13/230/2007). As a result of the corporate re-organization effective 1 September
2012, the exemption no longer applies to CRMC and CGII. Consequently, The
Capital Group Companies, Inc. now reports its holdings in aggregate.

The holdings managed by The Capital Group Companies, Inc., according to the
disclosure:

 Share type        Number of shares Percent (%) of Percent (%)
                                    total shares   voting rights

 A share           0                0              0

 B share           8,313,900        5.8856         0.8427
 ISIN:FI0009014377

 Total             8,313,900        5.8856         0.8427


The taxpayer I.D. advised by The Capital Group Companies, Inc: 86-0206507.
Additional information about the company: www.capgroup.com.

Orion Corporation's share capital comprises 141,257,828 shares, of which44,493,218 are A shares and 96,764,610 are B shares. Each A share entitles its
holder to twenty (20) votes and each B share to one (1) vote. Thus, the total
number of votes is 986,628,970.


Orion Corporation

 Timo Lappalainen  Olli Huotari
 President and CEO SVP, Corporate Functions


Contact person:
Olli Huotari, SVP, Corporate Functions, phone +358 50 966 3054


Publisher:
Orion Corporation
Communications
Orionintie 1A, FI-02200 Espoo
www.orion.fi







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