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Valmet Corporation - Decisions of general meeting

Resolutions of the Annual General Meeting of Valmet Corporation


Valmet Corporation's stock exchange release on March 26, 2014 at 5:20 p.m. EET

The Annual General Meeting of Valmet Corporation was held in Helsinki today. The
Annual General Meeting adopted the Financial Statements for 2013 and discharged
the members of the Board and the CEO from liability for the 2013 financial year.
The Annual General Meeting approved the Board of Directors' proposals, which
concerned authorizing the Board to resolve on repurchasing company shares and/or
taking company shares as pledge, to resolve on the issuance of shares and the
issuance of special rights entitling to shares and to establish a shareholders'
nomination board.

Dividend payment

The Annual General Meeting decided to pay dividends of EUR 0.15 per share for
the financial period ended on December 31, 2013. The dividend shall be paid to
shareholders who on the dividend record date of March 31, 2014 are registered in
the company's shareholders' register held by Euroclear Finland Ltd. The
dividends will be paid on April 11, 2014.

Composition of the Board of Directors

The Annual General Meeting confirmed the number of Board members as seven and
appointed Jukka Viinanen as Chairman of Valmet Corporation's Board and Mikael
von Frenckell as Vice Chairman. Lone Fønss Schrøder was appointed as a new
member of the Board. Friederike Helfer, Pekka Lundmark, Erkki Pehu-Lehtonen and
Rogério Ziviani will continue as members of the Board. The term of office of the
members of the Board of Directors expires at the end of the next Annual GeneralMeeting.

Remuneration of the Board of Directors

The Annual General Meeting resolved that the Chairman of the Board would be paid
EUR 100,000, the Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Audit Committee EUR 60,000
and the other members of the Board EUR 48,000 as annual remuneration. In
addition, for each meeting of the Board of Directors or the committees of the
Board of Directors, a fee of EUR 700 will be paid to the members of the Board
that reside in the Nordic countries, a fee of EUR 1,400 will be paid to the
members of the Board that reside in other European countries and a fee of EUR
2,800 will be paid to the members of the Board that reside outside Europe.

The Annual General Meeting resolved that, as a condition for the annual
remuneration, the members of the Board of Directors be obliged, directly based
on the Annual General Meeting's decision, to use 40 percent of the fixed annual
remuneration for purchasing Valmet Corporation shares on the market at a price
formed in public trading on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and that the purchase
would have to be carried out within two weeks from the publication of the
Interim Review for the period January 1 to March 31, 2014.

Election of the auditor

PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy, authorized public accountants, was appointed as the
company's auditor for a term expiring at the end of the next Annual General
Meeting. The responsible auditor will be Jouko Malinen, APA.

The minutes of the Annual General Meeting

The minutes of the Annual General Meeting will be available as of April 9, 2014
on the company's website www.valmet.com/agm.



Further information, please contact:
Rasmus Oksala, General Counsel, Valmet Corporation, tel. +358 40 586 8997
Hanna-Maria Heikkinen, Vice President, Investor Relations, Valmet Corporation,
tel +358 10 672 0007

VALMET CORPORATION

Markku Honkasalo
CFO

Hanna-Maria Heikkinen
VP, Investor Relations

Valmet Corporation is a leading global developer and supplier of services and
technologies for the pulp, paper and energy industries. Our 11,000 professionals
around the world work close to our customers and are committed to moving our
customers' performance forward - every day.

Valmet's services cover everything from maintenance outsourcing to mill and
plant improvements and spare parts. Our strong technology offering includes
entire pulp mills, tissue, board and paper production lines, as well as power
plants for bio-energy production.

The company has over 200 years of industrial history and was reborn through the
demerger of the pulp, paper and power businesses from Metso Group in December
2013. Valmet's net sales in 2013 were approximately EUR 2.6 billion. Valmet's
objective is to become the global champion in serving its customers.

Valmet's head office is in Espoo, Finland and its shares are listed on the
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.

Read more www.valmet.com , www.twitter.com/valmetglobal


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