Sandvik publishes offer document

Sandvik publishes offer document

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indirectly, to or within jurisdictions where the publication or the
distribution would not comply with laws and regulations in such
jurisdictions, including the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan,
Canada, New Zealand or South Africa. The Offer is not being made to (and
acceptances will not be accepted from) persons in or from jurisdictions
where the announcement of the Offer or approval of acceptances of the
Offer would require further documentation, filings or other measures in
addition to those required by Swedish law.

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event of any discrepancy in content between the language versions, the
Swedish version shall prevail.

Sandvik Aktiebolag (“Sandvik”) has today published the offer document
regarding the offer to the minority shareholders of its subsidiary Seco
Tools Aktiebolag (“Seco Tools”) to tender all their outstanding shares
in Seco Tools to Sandvik. The offer document will be distributed to
directly registered Seco Tools shareholders as per 28 November 2011. A
printed version of the offer document will be available at Sandvik,
Storgatan 2, SE-811 81 Sandviken, Sweden, and from Handelsbanken’s
branch offices. The offer document can also be downloaded in electronic
form from Sandvik’s website www.sandvik.com and from Handelsbanken’s
website www.handelsbanken.se/investeringserbjudande.

The acceptance period of the offer runs from 1 December 2011 up to and
including 10 January 2012.

http://info.sandvik.com/en/ (http://info.sandvik.com/en/)

Sandviken, 28 November 2011

Sandvik Aktiebolag (publ)

The information was submitted for publication at 11:00 CET on 28
November 2011.

For further information, contact Jan Lissåker, Vice President Investor
Relations, +46 26 26 10 23.