EANS-News: ANDRITZ: Modernization of Austria's oldest hydropower plant on the River Danube Ybbs-Persenbeug provides clean energy for additional 17,000 households

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Graz (euro adhoc) - Graz/Vienna, June 3, 2013. ANDRITZ HYDRO, part
of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order from
VERBUND, the leading Austrian electrical energy supplier and one of
the biggest hydropower generation companies in Europe, to modernize
the Ybbs-Persenbeug run-of-river power plant (total capacity: 236
megawatts), which went into operation in 1959. Recently, one of the
first major project milestones, the model test of the turbines, was
finished successfully. Due to new technologies in hydraulic and
electrical engineering, improved materials and manufacturing
techniques, and digital control systems, the hydropower plant will
generate additional power for 17,000 households until 2020. Currently
the Danube river hydropower plant delivers power for 380,000
households.

The modernization will improve the plant's efficiency and
availability, and its annual output will increase by around 60
million kilowatt-hours, representing the equivalent to an annual
saving of 49,000 tons of CO2 emissions. With its "Ybbs 2020" project,
VERBUND is continuing its collaboration with ANDRITZ HYDRO to
revitalize the power stations on the River Danube. Aschach power
station on the Danube was already modernized between 2006 and 2010.

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The ANDRITZ GROUP The ANDRITZ GROUP is a globally leading supplier of
plants, equipment, and services for hydropower stations, the pulp and
paper industry, the metalworking and steel industries, and
solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors. In
addition, ANDRITZ offers technologies for certain other sectors
including automation, the production of animal feed and biomass
pellets, pumps, machinery for nonwovens and plastic films, steam
boiler plants, biomass boilers and gasification plants for energy
generation, flue gas cleaning plants, plants for the production of
panelboards (MDF), thermal sludge utilization, and biomass
torrefaction plants. The publicly listed, international technology
Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria, and has a staff of around
23,700 employees. ANDRITZ operates over 220 production sites as well
as service and sales companies all around the world.

ANDRITZ HYDRO ANDRITZ HYDRO supplies electromechanical equipment for
hydropower stations. With over 170 years of accumulated experience
and more than 30,000 turbines installed totaling approximately
400,000 megawatts output, the business area is one of the world's
leading suppliers for hydraulic power generation, offering the
complete product portfolio, including turbines, generators, and
additional equipment of all types and sizes: "from water to wire" for
small-scale hydropower stations up to outputs of more than 800
megawatts. ANDRITZ HYDRO also holds a top position in the growing
hydropower plant service, refurbishment, and upgrade market. Pumps
(for water transport, irrigation, and applications for various
industries) and turbogenerators for thermal power stations are also
allocated to the business area.

Further inquiry note:
Oliver Pokorny
Group Treasury, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
Tel.: +43 316 6902 1332
Fax: +43 316 6902 465
mailto:oliver.pokorny@andritz.com

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