RAUTE RECEIVES ORDERS WORTH EUR 7.5 MILLION FROM RUSSIA


RAUTE RECEIVES ORDERS WORTH EUR 7.5 MILLION FROM RUSSIA                         

Raute Corporation has received orders worth about EUR 7.5 million from the      
Russian Sveza Group. The orders include several plywood production lines, among 
others a peeling line, a drying line, and a layup and pressing line, to Sveza   
Group's Manturovo mill. The machine deliveries will mainly take place in the end
of 2008.                                                                        

The investment of Sveza Group targets to improve raw material recovery, and to  
significantly increase production efficiency, flexibility, and capacity at the  
Manturovo mill.                                                                 

Sveza Group is a leading Russian company within the wood products industry. The 
company operates five mills in Russia producing plywood, overlaid plywood and   
particleboard. The group is the largest birch plywood producer in Europe. Its   
current annual plywood production capacity is 660,000 m3, of which Manturovo    
mill's share prior to the investment is 67,000 m3.                              

The order is proof of Raute's strong position in Russia, and its leading        
position as the technology supplier for the plywood industry. The co-operation  
between Raute and Sveza has been close and long-span. During the last 12 months 
Sveza has bought machinery from Raute worth almost EUR 25 million.              


RAUTE CORPORATION                                                               


Tapani Kiiski                                                                   
President and CEO                                                               


FURTHER INFORMATION:                                                            
Mr. Tapani Kiiski, President and CEO, Raute Corporation,                        
+358 3 829 3560, mobile phone +358 400 814 148                                  

RAUTE IN BRIEF:                                                                 
Raute is a technology company serving the wood products industry worldwide. Its 
most important customers are the plywood and LVL industries. The company is one 
of the world's leading suppliers of mill-scale projects to these customer       
industries. The total service concept also includes technology services, with   
which Raute supports its customers throughout the entire life cycle of their    
investments. Raute's head office and main production plant are in Nastola,      
Finland. Its other production plants are in the Vancouver area of Canada, in the
Shanghai area of China, and in Jyväskylä and Kajaani, Finland. Net sales in 2007
were EUR 111 million and the number of personnel 570. More information on the   
company can be found at www.raute.com.                                          

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