Rautaruukki - Company Announcement

Rautaruukki to change its legal corporate structure in Finland to correspond to its business structure

Rautaruukki Corporation Stock exchange release 4 February 2011 at 9.00am

Rautaruukki Corporation is to divide its Finnish operations into four different
companies. Ruukki's construction business, engineering business, steel business
and stainless steel and aluminium trading business will each act as separate
business entities from 1 May 2011. Rautaruukki Corporation is the parent company
of the new companies.

The arrangement is purely an administrative one under which the group will
reorganise its corporate structure to correspond to its existing businesses.

The entire business of all the Finnish units mentioned above will be transferred
to the new companies. The personnel will transfer without any change of
employment benefits. The arrangements do not apply to the group's units outside
Finland.

The demerger will have no impact on Rautaruukki Corporation's financial
reporting. The reporting segments will continue to be the construction business
(Ruukki Construction), the engineering business (Ruukki Engineering) and the
steel business (Ruukki Metals)

Rautaruukki Corporation will continue providing corporate support functions.

For further information, please contact:
Olli Huuskonen, SVP, General Counsel, tel. +358 20 592 9300

Rautaruukki Corporation
Anne Pirilä
SVP, Communications and Investor Relations

Rautaruukki supplies metal-based components, systems and integrated systems to
the construction and engineering industries. The company has a wide selection of
metal products and services. Rautaruukki has operations in 27 countries and
employs around 11,700 people. Net sales in 2010 totalled EUR 2.4 billion. The
company's share is quoted on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (Rautaruukki Oyj: RTRKS). The
Corporation uses the marketing name Ruukki.

DISTRIBUTION:
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
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www.ruukki.com






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