Rautaruukki to Establish Separate Stainless Steel and Aluminium Trading Business

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.