Okmetic Oyj: OKMETIC OYJ CONCLUDES SHARE REPURCHASE PROGRAMME

OKMETIC OYJ STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE       16 NOVEMBER 2011 AT 1.00 P.M.

OKMETIC OYJ CONCLUDES SHARE REPURCHASE PROGRAMME

Okmetic Oyj has completed the repurchase programme which began on 16 August 2011. Based on an existing authorisation of the extraordinary general meeting on 6 November 2008 Okmetic Oyj has repurchased 240,865 own shares which corresponds to approximately 1.4 percent of the total number of Okmetic shares.

The shares have been repurchased with the company's distributable assets and the repurchase decreases the company's distributable equity by 1,147,375.32 euro. The shares have been repurchased in a proportion other than that of the shares held by the shareholders through public trading on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Oy at market price prevailing at the time of repurchase. The average purchase price per share was 4.76 euro.

The repurchased shares may be used in developing the company's capital structure, as compensation in possible corporate acquisitions or in other business arrangements, as part of the company's incentive plan or transferred or cancelled in other ways.

Currently, the company holds a total of 297,576 company's own shares.

OKMETIC OYJ

Juha Jaatinen
Senior Vice President, Finance, IT, and Communications

For further information, please contact:

Senior Vice President, Finance, IT, and Communications Juha Jaatinen, Okmetic Oyj, tel. +358 9 5028 0286, email: juha.jaatinen@okmetic.com

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Okmetic is a technology company which supplies tailor-made silicon wafers for sensor and semiconductor industries and sells its technological expertise to the solar cell industry. Okmetic provides its customers with solutions that boost their competitiveness and profitability.

Okmetic's silicon wafers are part of a further processing chain that produces end products that improve human interaction and quality of life. Okmetic's products are based on high-tech expertise that generates added value for customers, innovative product development and an extremely efficient production process.  

Okmetic has a global customer base and sales network, production plants in Finland and the US and contract manufacturers in Japan and China.

Okmetic's shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki under the code OKM1V. For more information on the company, please visit our website at www.okmetic.com.