APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE'S PROPOSAL REGARDING COMPOSITION OF RAUTE CORPORATION'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

RAUTE CORPORATION  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  20 JANUARY 2009 at 3:00 p.m.         


APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE'S PROPOSAL REGARDING COMPOSITION OF RAUTE                
CORPORATION'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS                                                

Raute Corporation's Appointments Committee proposes to the Annual General       
Meeting convening on 2 April 2009 that the number of Board members is six.      
The Appointments Committee proposes that from the current Board members Mr.
Ilpo Helander, Mr. Mika Mustakallio, Mr. Panu Mustakallio, and Ms. Sinikka 
Mustakallio be re-elected. It is also proposed that Mr. Erkki Pehu-Lehtonen and 
Mr. Risto Hautamäki shall be elected as new members of the Board of Directors.  
Mr. Erkki Pehu-Lehtonen is proposed to be elected as Chairman and Ms. Sinikka   
Mustakallio as Vice-Chairman of the Board. The proposed persons have given their
consent to the election. Mr. Jarmo Rytilahti, member of Raute Corporation's     
Board of Directors since 2003 and Chairman since 2004, has informed that he will
withdraw from Raute's Board.                                                    

The new proposed Board member Mr. Erkki Pehu-Lehtonen, M.Sc. (Mechanical        
Engineering), b. 1950, is currently Senior Advicer to the Board of Pöyry Plc. He
joined the Pöyry Group in 1994 and worked as Pöyry's President and CEO from 1999
until May 2008. He was President of Jaakko Pöyry Oy in 1996 - 1999 and Executive
Vice President of Jaakko Pöyry Oy in 1994 - 1996. Mr. Pehu-Lehtonen is also a   
member of the Board of Directors of Tekla Corporation.                          

The new proposed Board member Mr. Risto Hautamäki, M.Sc. (Eng.), b. 1945, was   
President of Metso Paper in 2005 - 2007 and a member of Metso's Board of        
Directors and Compensation Committee in 2004 - 2005. Before joining Metso, he   
was President and CEO of Tamfelt Corporation in 1995 - 2005 and President and   
CEO of Valmet Paper Machinery Inc. in 1990 - 1994.                              

The proposals above will be included in the notice to the Annual General Meeting
which will be published later.                                                  

RAUTE CORPORATION                                                               

Tapani Kiiski                                                                   
President and CEO                                                               


FURTHER INFORMATION:                                                            
Mr. Jarmo Rytilahti, Chairman of the Board of Directors, mobile +358 400 204 023
Ms. Sinikka Mustakallio, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, mobile +358 40
5538 878                                                                        

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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