Ruukki Group Plc Stock Exchange Announcement, 13 February 2006 at 11:15 a.m. TECHNICAL CHANGES RELATED TO RUUKKI GROUP OYJ SHARES Ruukki Group Plc has applied for 3,652,000 new shares to be listed on the OMX Nordic Exchanges small cap list. The issued new shares will not be entitled to any dividends based on fiscal year 2006. Therefore the new shares are to be listed as a new instrument that will be combined with the existing old shares by 31 December 2007 at the latest. The new shares are issued due to conversion of subordinated convertible bond notes into shares. The 3,652,000 shares have been registered with the Trade Register on 13 February 2007. After the registration Ruukki Group Plcs share capital is 23,638,649,60 euros and the total number of shares is 139,615,737. The issued new shares will be traded on the OMX Nordic Exchange as of 14 February 2007. After the abovementioned conversion, the outstanding capital of the subordinated convertible bond is EUR 9,000.00, totalling 20 bond units, which corresponds to 0.13 % of the original bond principal and which entitles bondholders to convert the the remaining bond units to a total of 20.000 new Ruukki Group Plc shares. The Finnish Financial Supervision has previously granted Ruukki Group a permit not to disclose a separate prospectus in relation to the issue and trading of these new shares. The company does not have any pending share capital increases that are not registered with the Trade Register. Ruukki Group Plc Antti Kivimaa Chief Executive Officer For further information, please contact: Mr. Antti Kivimaa Chief Executive Officer Ruukki Group Plc Tel. +358 400 501780 www.ruukkigroup.fi