Componenta - Company Announcement

The Board of Directors of Componenta is preparing to strengthen the company's balance sheet and financial position

Componenta Corporation Stock Exchange Release 8.9.2009 at 10.00

The Board of Directors is preparing a share issue, on the basis of the
authorization to be applied from the Extraordinary General Meeting to be held
today. In this share issue, derogating from the pre-emptive right of the
shareholders, approximately 6,000,000 new shares in the company would be
offered for subscription by the company's shareholders, holders of the capital
notes, and by professional clients referred to in Chapter 1, Section 4 in the
Securities Market Act, for market price. The minimum subscription would be
1,000 new shares in the company. In the event of oversubscription, the
shareholders would principally receive new shares in the proportion of the
shareholding recorded in the shareholder register on the record date of the
share issue. 

Furthermore, the Board of Directors of Componenta Corporation is preparing a
five-year subordinated capital loan to be offered for subscription by public.
The maximum amount of the capital loan would be EUR 30,000,000. The interest to
be paid on the principal of the loan would be approximately 10%. The loan would
not include a right to exchange shares. The minimum subscription would be EUR
10,000. The loan would be repaid in three equal-sized instalments in 2012, 2013
and 2014. 

The company intends to use the assets to be obtained with the share issue and
the capital loan for strengthening the company's balance sheet and financial
position. 

Helsinki 8 September 2009 

COMPONENTA CORPORATION


Heikki Lehtonen
President and CEO




Further information:

Heikki Lehtonen
President and CEO
tel. +358 10 403 00
Componenta is a metal sector company with international operations and
production plants located in Finland, Turkey, the Netherlands and Sweden. The
net sales of Componenta were EUR 681 million in 2008. The Group employs approx.
3,800 people. Componenta's shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.
Componenta specializes in supplying cast and machined components and total
solutions made of them to its global customers who are manufacturers of
vehicles, machines and equipment. 
Componenta  Corporation 
Panuntie 4 
FI-00610 Helsinki , Finland
Tel. +358 10 403 00
Fax +358 10 403 2721
www.componenta.com

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release_0809200_bod_preparing.pdf