Larox Wins Major Orders for Deliveries to Southern Africa Larox has secured five new significant contracts worth a combined € 7.5 million to supply filters and a turnkey filter building to mining companies in Southern Africa. Orders were booked for the third quarter of 2007. Deliveries will take place during 2008. Outotec Oyj, Finland, has ordered Ceramec disc filters for their project to be delivered to the Republic of South Africa. This is the third pelletising and sinter plant order Outotec has been awarded from Samancor Chrome. The new plant will produce 600,000 tonnes of sintered pellets annually from chromite ore and it will be built in Middelburg. The plant is expected to be commissioned towards the end of 2008. A nickel mine has placed an order for a turnkey supply of a filter building. This is complementary to the order received during the first quarter of this year, which consisted of a large size Larox PF vertical pressure filter for nickel concentrate filtration. Two Larox PF filter deliveries to South Africa and the one to Zimbabwe are all for platinum concentrate filtration. To all these projects Larox was able to offer well-known and approved filtration technologies. The received orders strengthen further Larox's position in Southern Africa especially in PGM concentrate filtration. For further information please contact: Larox Corporation Mikko Häkämies Chief Communications Officer Phone: +358 (5) 6688 232 E-mail: firstname.surname@larox.com Distribution: OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki, central media www.larox.com Larox develops, designs and manufactures industrial filters and is a leading technology company in its field. Larox is a full service solution provider in filtration for separating solids from liquids. It supplies comprehensive aftermarket services throughout the lifespan of the Larox solution. Companies world-wide in mining and metallurgy, chemical processing and related industries benefit from the Larox technologies. Larox operates in over 40 countries and has over 440 employees. Larox Group is headquartered in Lappeenranta, Finland. Product factories are located in Lappeenranta and Utrecht, The Netherlands. Net sales in 2006 totalled 122.8 million euros, of which more than 95 % were generated by exports and the company's foreign operations.