Kemira Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Change in Kemira's R&D and Technology management

Kemira Oyj
Stock Exchange Release
October 14, 2010 at 15.00 pm (CET +1)


Kemira Oyj's Executive Vice President of R&D and Technology Johan Grön will
leave the company and take up the position as the Chief Technology Officer of
the Fluid and Motion Control group at the ITT Corporation in New York, US. ITT
Corporation is a global US based high-technology engineering and manufacturing
company with revenue of approximately USD 11 billion and a staff of around
40,000 people.

Johan Grön will continue his work at Kemira until the successor has been
appointed or latest until February 2011. Johan Grön has worked as the EVP of R&D
and Technology since 2008. Before that he was the Vice President of R&D in
Kemira's Paper segment in 2005-2008."I want to thank Johan for the excellent co-operation and his work for
developing Kemira's R&D function. Johan has had a very important role in making
Kemira into one of the leading water chemistry companies and building the Center
of Water Efficiency Excellence together with VTT. On behalf of Kemira I would
like to wish Johan great success in his new position ", says Kemira's President
and CEO Harri Kerminen.

Kemira Oyj
Jyrki Mäki-Kala, Chief Financial Officer



For more information, please contact

Kemira Oyj
Harri Kerminen, President & CEO
Phone +358 10 862 1810



Kemira is a global two billion euro chemicals company that is focused on serving
customers in water-intensive industries. The company offers water quality and
quantity management that improves customers' energy, water, and raw material
efficiency. Kemira's vision is to be a leading water chemistry company.

www.kemira.com
www.waterfootprintkemira.com



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