Transaction in Own Shares

Filtrona plc
11 December 2007



11 December 2007.



TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES



Filtrona plc (' Filtrona') announces that it has today purchased through
JPMorgan Cazenove Limited 8,049,604 of its ordinary shares at a price of 209.5p
per share. The purchased shares will be held as treasury shares.



Following the above purchase, Filtrona holds 13,664,604 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 205,662,191.





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