Transaction in Own Shares

Filtrona plc
19 November 2007



19 November 2007.


TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES


Filtrona plc (' Filtrona') announces that it has today purchased through
JPMorgan Cazenove Limited 100,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 231.9906p
per share. The purchased shares will be held as treasury shares.


Following the above purchase, Filtrona holds 4,715,000 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 214,611,795.

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