Transaction in Own Shares

Filtrona plc
21 September 2007



21 September 2007.



TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES



Filtrona plc (' Filtrona') announces that it has today purchased through
JPMorgan Cazenove Limited 240,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 238.5854p
per share. The purchased shares will be held as treasury shares.



Following the above purchase, Filtrona holds 1,440,000 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 217,886,795.





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