Rautaruukki to improve the efficiency of its st...

Press Release 13 January 2009

Rautaruukki is to focus parts processing on the service centres in
Raahe and Seinäjoki, and will close the steel service centre in
Tampere by the end of June this year. Ruukki Metals' Tampere unit has
held employer-employee negotiations related to closure of the unit.
These negotiations ended on 12 January 2009 and closure of the
Tampere steel service centre will result in the loss of 63 jobs.


Focusing parts processing and closure of the Tampere steel service
centre are part of Ruukki's actions to further improve production and
cost-efficiency under the Boost programme launched in October 2008.

See also Rautaruukki's stock exchange release dated 1 December 2008.

For further information, please contact: Olavi Huhtala, President,
Ruukki Metals, tel. [phone]


Rautaruukki supplies metal-based components, systems and total
solutions to the construction and engineering industries. The company
has a wide selection of metal products and services. Rautaruukki has
operations in 26 countries and employs 15,000 people. Net sales in
2007 totalled EUR 3.9 billion. The company's share is quoted on the
OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki (Rautaruukki Oyj: RTRKS). The
Corporation uses the marketing name Ruukki.


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