Metso Oyj - Changes in company's own shares

Metso to buy back 300,000 own shares for its Share Ownership Plan

Metso Corporation's company release on February 4, 2009 at 3.30 p.m.

The Board of Directors of Metso Corporation has decided, in
accordance with the authorization granted by the Annual General
Meeting on April 2, 2008, to repurchase a maximum number of 300,000
Company's own shares, which corresponds to about 0.2 percent of all
the outstanding shares of Metso. The shares shall be repurchased as
part of the Company's incentive program announced in October 2008
(Metso Share Ownership Plan 2009-2011) to be used as potential reward
payments in accordance with the Plan criteria.

Own shares will be purchased with the Company's distributable funds
and thus the repurchases will reduce the Company's distributable
non-restricted equity. Shares will be purchased at market price in
public trading on the NASDAQ OMX in Helsinki Exchange.

The repurchase of own shares will start on February 12, 2009 at the
earliest and it will end on March 30, 2008 at the latest.

At the moment, Metso Parent Company holds 60,841 its own shares.

Metso is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for
mining, construction, power generation, automation, recycling and the
pulp and paper industries. We have over 29,000 employees in more than
50 countries. www.metso.com

Further information for the press, please contact:
Pekka Hölttä, Senior Vice President, Corporate Treasurer, Metso
Corporation, tel. +358 20 484 3195

Further information for investors, please contact:
Johanna Sintonen, Vice President, Investor Relations, Metso
Corporation, tel. +358 20 484 3253


Metso Corporation

Olli Vaartimo
Executive Vice President and CFO

Kati Renvall
Vice President, Corporate Communications

Distribution:
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