Ruukki Group's Kostroma investment project: announcement by Kostroma region's administration


Today it has appeared to Ruukki Group Plc that Kostroma region's administration 
has today published in its web site                                             
(http://www.dip-kostroma.ru/modules/news/print.php?storyid=1264) an announcement
related to Ruukki Group's planned Kostroma investment projects.                 

The key content of the announcement is that Ruukki Group's planned Kostroma     
sawmill project has been removed from the Kostroma region's register of         
investment projects, and moreover that the priority investor status application 
for the sawmill has been disapproved. 

The status of Ruukki Group's pulp mill project in the Kostroma region's         
investment register has not changed.                                            

Ruukki Group Plc or its Russian subsidiary have not received any official       
notification on the issue.                                                      

RUUKKI GROUP PLC                                                                

Matti Vikkula                                                                   
Chief Executive Officer                                                         

Ruukki Group focuses on wood-based industrial business operations. Currently the
group operations are located mainly in Finland, but in future the targeted      
emphasis is principally in Russia. Ruukki Group Plc's share is listed on        
Helsinki Stock Exchange. In the OMX Nordic Exchange the shares of the company   
are traded in the mid cap sector, in the industrials segment.