Raute - Company Announcement

RAUTE TO START ACQUIRING ITS OWN SHARES

RAUTE CORPORATION  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  10 February 2009 at 6.00 p.m.        
RAUTE TO START ACQUIRING ITS OWN SHARES                                 
Raute Corporation's Board of Directors has decided to exercise the authorization
it was given by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 2 April 2008 to   
acquire the company's own series A shares. Under the authorization given by the 
AGM a maximum of 400,000 company's own series A shares may be acquired.         

The company's own shares will be acquired using the company's unrestricted      
equity at the market price at the time of trading in public trading on the      
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki exchange at the share price on the day of trading, in       
accordance with the rules and regulations concerning the purchase of a company's
own shares in public trading.                                                   

Raute Corporation's Board of Directors decided to deviate from the procedures   
referred to in Clauses 3.2.1. to 3.2.2. of the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.'s       
guidelines 3.2.5. related to own shares of the listed companies, because of the 
minor trading volume of the company's shares. The trading volume on certain     
trading day may lead to that the acquisition of own shares of the company can be
more than 50 percent of the average trading volume of that trading day. The     
acquisition of own shares shall be effected in a way that no exceptional market 
movements result from such trading and on that trading day the amount of the    
shares cannot exceed 5 percent of the maximum amount of the share acquisition in
accordance with the decision of the company.                                    

The own shares will be acquired to be used as part of the company's incentive   
schemes for key personnel.                                                      

Purchase of the shares will begin at the earliest on 19 February 2009 and will  
end at the latest on 2 April 2009.                                              

RAUTE CORPORATION                                                               

Board of Directors                                                              


FURTHER INFORMATION:                                                            
Mr. Tapani Kiiski, President and CEO, Raute Corporation, tel. +358 3 829 3560,  
mobile phone +358 400 814 148                                                   
Ms. Arja Hakala, CFO, Raute Corporation, tel. +358 3 829 3293,                  
mobile phone +358 400 710 387                                                   

RAUTE IN BRIEF:                                                                 
Raute is a technology company serving the wood products industry worldwide. Its 
most important customers are the plywood and LVL industries. The company is one 
of the world's leading suppliers of mill-scale projects to these customer       
industries. The total service concept also includes technology services, with   
which Raute supports its customers throughout the entire life cycle of their    
investments. Raute's head office and main production plant are in Nastola,      
Finland. Its other production plants are in the Vancouver area of Canada, in the
Shanghai area of China, and in Jyväskylä and Kajaani, Finland. Net sales in 2007
were EUR 111 million and the number of personnel 570. More information on the   
company can be found at www.raute.com.                                          

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