Resolutions of Rautaruukki Corporation's Extraordinary General meeting

Rautaruukki Corporation Stock exchange release 27 August 2014 at 2.45pm EEST

Resolutions of Rautaruukki Corporation's Extraordinary General meeting

Rautaruukki Corporation's Extraordinary General Meeting was held today in Helsinki. A total of 32 shareholders were represented at the Meeting.

Board of Directors
It was confirmed that the number of members of the Board of Directors is four (4). Martin Lindqvist, President and CEO; Håkan Folin, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Jonas Bergstrand, Executive Vice President and Head of Legal & Strategy, all from SSAB AB (publ), and Mikko Hietanen, Acting CFO of Rautaruukki Corporation, were elected to the Board. Martin Lindqvist was elected as chairman of the Board of Directors and Jonas Bergstrand was elected as deputy chairman.

Fees of the Board of Directors
The Extraordinary General Meeting resolved that no remuneration be paid to the Board members.

Revoking the decision to establish a shareholders' Nomination Board
In accordance with the Board of Directors' proposal, the Extraordinary General revoked the decision to establish a shareholders' Nomination Board. At the same time, the function of the existing Nomination Board ceases.

The minutes of the Extraordinary General Meeting will be available for the inspection of shareholders at the Rautaruukki's head office and may also be viewed on the company's website at www.ruukki.com by 10 September 2014. The proposals made to the Extraordinary General Meeting may be viewed in their entirety on the company's website.

For further information, please contact:
Olli Huuskonen, Secretary to the Board of Directors, tel. [phone]

Rautaruukki Corporation

Taina Kyllönen
SVP, Marketing and Communications

Rautaruukki is now part of SSAB (publ) ("SSAB"), a steel company with global reach which has its main production plants in Sweden, Finland and the United States. The company's steel business is structured around four divisions - SSAB Special Steels, SSAB Europe, SSAB Americas and the steel distribution partner Tibnor, and one division, Ruukki Construction, which focuses on the construction business. Rautaruukki's share is quoted on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. SSAB's shares are quoted on NASDAQ OMX Nordic Stockholm and NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. www.ssab.com.  www.ruukki.com

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