EANS-Adhoc: voestalpine AG / voestalpine successfully places a bond issue of EUR 500 million

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Corporate Bond Issue

25.01.2011

- Proceeds intended for general financing purposes
- Issue price: 100.888 % (including 1.5% bank commissions)
- Coupon: 4.75 %

voestalpine AG has successfully placed a corporate bond issue of EUR
500 million in the capital market, intended to be used for general
financing purposes. The quality of the final order book exceeding
more than EUR 700 million and more than 150 different investors was
excellent.

Issue of the bond and the start of official trading in the Second
Regulated Market of the Vienna Stock Exchange (ISIN AT0000A0MS58) are
scheduled for 3 February 2011.

The bond issue can be subscribed by retail investors based on the
issue price at Austrian and German banks between 28 January and 1
February 2011.

This information pursuant to the Austrian Securities Supervision Act
(Wertpapieraufsichtsgesetz, WAG) and the Austrian Capital Market Act
(Kapitalmarktgesetz, KMG) does not qualify as financial analysis or
as an investment advice or recommendation, nor as an offer to sell or
a solicitation to buy securities. The offer of securities of
voestalpine AG in Austria and Germany is being made solely by means
and on the basis of the prospectus dated January 10, 2011, which has
been approved by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier
(CSSF), published and notified to the Austrian Finanzmarktaufsicht
(FMA) and the German Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht
(BaFin) and is available free of charge at voestalpine AG,
voestalpine-Straße 1, A-4020 Linz, and in electronic form on the
website of the issuer (www.voestalpine.com) and of the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange (www.bourse.lu), as well as the final terms. This
information is not for distribution in or into the United States of
America and must not be distributed to U.S. persons (as defined in
Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended) or
publications with a general circulation in the United States or
distributed or published in another country, where its distribution
or publication is unlawful.

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ots Originaltext: voestalpine AG
Im Internet recherchierbar: http://www.presseportal.de

Further inquiry note:

DI Peter Fleischer
Head of Investor Relations
Tel.: +43/50304/15-9949
Fax: +43/50304/55-5581
mailto:peter.fleischer@voestalpine.com
http://www.voestalpine.com

Branche: Metal Goods & Engineering
ISIN: AT0000937503
WKN: 897200
Index: WBI, ATX Prime, ATX
Börsen: Wien / official market