Metsä Board Oyj - Company Announcement

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services upgraded Metsä Board's credit rating and assigned a positive outlook

Metsä Board Corporation Stock Exchange Release 24 February 2016 at 16.35 pm EET


Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has upgraded Metsä Board Corporation's
rating by one notch from BB to BB+. The outlook of the rating was raised from
stable to positive. 

Upgrade does not have an impact on Metsä Board’s current annual financing costs.


METSÄ BOARD CORPORATION

Further information:
Markus Holm, CFO, tel. +358 10 465 4913
Katri Sundström, Head of Investor relations, tel. +358 400 976 333


www.metsaboard.com

Metsä Board is a leading European producer of folding boxboards and white
linerboards made from fresh forest fibres. Its lightweight paperboards are
developed as the perfect fit for consumer goods, retail-ready and food service
packaging. The pure fresh forest fibres Metsä Board uses are a renewable
resource, traceable to origin in northern forests. 

The global sales network of Metsä Board supports customers worldwide, including
brand owners, converters and merchants. In 2015, the company’s sales totalled
EUR 2.0 billion, and it has approximately 2,600 employees. Metsä Board, part of
Metsä Group, is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.