Rights Issue: 4 new shares @ 0.08 EUR for 1 existing share

Outokumpu Oyj is one of the world's leading manufacturers of stainless steels. Net sales break down by activity as follows: - sales of generic steel products (95.3%): rolled products, plates, flat steels, etc. The group also develops ferrochrome production activity. Net sales break down by geographical area between Europe (71.6%) and America (28.4%); - ferrochrome production (3%); - other (1.7%): primarily holdings in industrial groups. Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Finland (3.5%), Europe (61.2%), North America (28.7%), Asia/Pacific (5.3%) and other (1.3%).