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On 12 January ÅF reported signing a contract worth approximately SEK 100 million for consulting services relating to the construction of a third reactor at the Álvaro Alberto Nuclear Power Station (CNAAA) in Angra dos Reis in the federal state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This initial contract, which will be managed by ÅF Switzerland, related to services under the category of "Owner's Engineering Responsibilities".

Today ÅF can announce that a new contract, worth almost SEK 600 million, has been signed that includes the 3D Modelling of the piping, ventilation and electrical engineering design, technical support services and the as-built design for the Nuclear Island buildings of ANGRA 3 Nuclear Power Station. The project will be managed by resources from ÅF Finland and working with a significant number of local sub-contractors to ÅF.

As with the initial contract, the principal is once again Electrobrás Termonuclear S.A - Electronuclear (ETN). This company is a subsidiary of Electrobrás, a stock market listed company, which is majority owned by the Brazilian state.

ÅF's involvement in this new project is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2012 and is scheduled for completion during 2019.

ÅF won the tender primarily as a result of its high level of expertise and extensive reference portfolio from projects for the international nuclear power industry. ÅF is currently the world's sixth largest energy consulting company and one of the world's leading independent consultants in the field of nuclear power.

ÅF has recruited Ulrika Lundgren to the position of, Vice President, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions. Ulrika will take up this new position on 1 September and will, at the same time, join the ÅF Group Management team.

This is a new position in the ÅF Group and one that confirms the Group's continuing, long-term commitment to investment in growth through corporate acquisitions.

Ulrika Lundgren has many years' experience of M&A and strategic business development and joins ÅF from a post with the defence and security company Saab AB. Her previous employers have included Gambro, Investor and Handelsbanken.

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With effect from 1 April 2012 ÅF is implementing an organisational change in respect of the Group's operations outside Scandinavia (i.e. those in countries other than Sweden, Norway and Denmark). The main purpose of this restructuring exercise is to improve profitability and accelerate the Group's international growth.

The main components of the change are as follows:

• The Energy Division Energy will be split into two new divisions: International North and International South. In contrast to the current situation, these two divisions will be responsible for the full spectrum of ÅF's consulting services within their respective geographical areas.
• International North will consist of the ÅF Group's consulting resources in Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Estonia. The number of employees in this new geographical region will total approximately 750.
• International South will consist of ÅF Switzerland and Spain with subsidiaries in India, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Nigeria, Italy, Brazil and the UK. The number of employees in this new geographical region will total approximately 350.
• Eero Auranne (formerly President of the Energy Division) will head the work of International North.
• Roberto Gerosa (formerly VP Business Development) will head the work of International South. Roberto Gerosa joined ÅF in 2006 following the acquisition of the Swiss technical consulting company, Colenco, where he was Managing Director.

As a result of the change, ÅF will comprise five divisions: Industry, Infrastructure, International North, International South and Technology.

The Industry, Infrastructure and Technology Divisions will henceforward report their results from Scandinavia and be represented in a strategic role on the board for ÅF operations in the rest of the world.

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ÅF has signed a contract with Stora Enso to conduct a pre-project prior to the construction of a new bleaching plant at the Skutskär Pulp Mill, and other reconstruction work in connection with related aspects of the process.

The initial order value for ÅF amounts to approx. SEK 6 million.  

Most of the work will be carried out by consultants from ÅF's office in nearby Gävle, but additional specialist resources and competence will be called in from other ÅF offices. The work will be integrated with that undertaken by Stora Enso Skutskär's own project organisation.

The project is scheduled for completion by the end of June 2012, after which a formal decision will be taken about future implementation.

ÅF has secured the initial order thanks to its proven ability to offer high levels of competence, its strong local organisation and its reference portfolio of major industrial projects that demonstrate the breadth and depth of the company's expertise in the pulp and paper industry. This new assignment further consolidates ÅF's position as the leading supplier of technical consulting services to the Swedish forest industry. 

ÅF has signed a contract, together with Tyréns AB, with the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company, SKB, relating to the systems project management of the storage of spent nuclear fuel at Forsmark. At the end of 2011 ÅF and Tyréns announced their involvement in a preliminary study prior to systems project management (SEK 6 million). The new contract is estimated to be worth approximately SEK 75 million, at least half of which is expected to accrue to ÅF. The assignment will be carried out during 2012 and 2013.

Systems project management involves producing drawings, models, specifications and system solutions ahead of the planned starting date for the construction of the nuclear fuel storage facility in 2017.

Most of the work will be carried out by ÅF in Stockholm and will call upon resources and expertise from various ÅF divisions. Project management activities will be conducted in close liaison with SKB on site at Forsmark.

ÅF has won this order thanks both to a strong portfolio of references from major infrastructure and industrial projects and to the company's world-class expertise in the nuclear power industry.

ÅF has been awarded two contracts to serve as an advisor to the cities of Quy Nhon and Nha Trang in Vietnam. ÅF's task is to support the management of the cities' utilities in the fields of waste management and water treatment. The projects are funded by the World Bank.

In an additional consulting project, ÅF will serve as an advisor to Vietnam's Ministry of Finance. This assignment involves securing the environmental and social compatibility of local infrastructure projects, which will be financed by the Local Development Investment Fund of the World Bank.

The total value of these consulting services for ÅF is more than USD 2 million.

ÅF has an office in Hanoi and has been established in the Vietnamese market for over 15 years. ÅF has implemented over 30 major projects in Vietnam, ranging from large hydropower dams, pulp and paper mills, and coal and gas-fired power plants to urban development and environmental projects.

ÅF has signed a major consultancy contract with Iggesund Paperboard (Workington) Ltd.

Iggesund Paperboard is part of the Swedish forest industry group Holmen.

Iggesund Paperboard will build a new biomass-fuelled CHP (Combined Heat and Power) plant at its Workington paperboard mill in Cumbria, UK. The power output of the CHP plant will be approximately 50 MWe and 80 t/h steam, which will be delivered to the adjacent paperboard mill. After completion of the project, all power and steam generated for the mill will be based on renewable biofuels. The fuels will be fresh wood in chips or logs, bark and sawdust.

The ÅF assignment includes project management, engineering, procurement, as well as site construction and commissioning management services. The project starts immediately, and commercial operation is scheduled to start in March 2013.

The Nomination Committee of ÅF AB (publ) proposes that Anders Narvinger be elected as a new member of the company's Board of Directors. Anders Narvinger has previously held the post of President and CEO of ABB Sweden and is currently on the board of a number of listed companies. The Nomination Committee motivates its proposal by pointing to that fact that "Anders Narvinger will bring to the board extensive industrial and international experience".

The Nomination Committee also proposes the re-election of Ulf Dinkelspiel as Chairman of the Board, and of Patrik Enblad, Eva-Lotta Kraft, Björn O Nilsson, Helena Skåntorp, Anders Snell and Lena Treschow Torell as directors of the company. Jon Risfelt has chosen not to seek re-election.

Anders Narvinger was born in 1948. He holds a degree in Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and an Economics degree from Uppsala University. Anders Narvinger has previously been President of ABB Sweden. His current appointments include the chairmanships of TeliaSonera AB, Alfa Laval AB, Trelleborg AB and Coor Service Management. He is a director of PernodRicard SA and JM AB. Anders Narvinger is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and is Vice Chairman of the Swedish National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, ICC.

The complete proposal of the Nomination Committee will be presented in the invitation to attend the annual general meeting of shareholders in ÅF AB. The annual general meeting will be held at the company's head office in Solna on 2 May 2011 from 17.00 (5 p.m.) onwards.

The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency has selected ÅF in the allocation of framework agreements for government agencies. The contract covers project consulting services in IT and spans two years, with the option of a subsequent two-year extension.

"As the Swedish Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agencynegotiates on behalf of practically all government agencies, this is an important contract that will help to boost our growth even more in the public sector," says Johan Olsson, President of the Infrastructure Division.

ÅF primarily won the contract thanks to its experience of turnkey deliveries that encompass all parts of the tender. The contract is expected to form the basis of assignments for the seven selected consultancies worth a total of nearly SEK 400 million per year.

In project consulting services, ÅF takes principal responsibility for the result of a certain specified assignment. ÅF benefits from its large size and breadth in such services. The contract covers the areas of usability, management and control, operational development and strategy, system development and system management, information security, infrastructure and GIS.

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ÅF AB

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ÅF is a leaderintechnicalconsulting, with expertise founded on more than a century of experience. We offer highly qualified services and solutions for industrial processes, infrastructure projects and the development of products and IT systems. Today ÅF has more than 4,000 employees. Our base is inEurope, but our business and our clients are found all over the world.

ÅF has been awarded with a paper machine speed increase study for a classified client. The customer requested a substantial increase of the production speed of more than 20%.

ÅF Materials Technology put together a tailor made team for these specific customer needs. Depending on the findings, the progressing results and the specific customer requests, the scope and techniques are evolving to fit into the specific customer application.

This study is a typical ÅF assignment as it involves several of ÅF's highly specialized competences. The ÅF-Group is autonomous and unique as it is able to offer independent packages to its customers.

The engineers perform inspections, thickness measurements and non destructive testing to find weak points in the systems. Moreover, they carry out Vibration measurements and studies, Fatigue and strength calculations, as well as Metallographic analyses.

ÅF's dedicated Paper and Board expert team is one of the pulp and paper industry's most respected and preferred supplier of strategy consulting and engineering for all kinds of pulp & paper mill projects globally. As part of the ÅF group of consulting companies, they draw from over 100 years of experience and more than 4400 consultants worldwide supplying expertise to the whole pulp and paper making related projects.

ÅF is an engineering company based out of Stockholm, Sweden with offices in 19 countries all over the world and offers services in all industrial categories; e.g., pulp & paper, environment, energy, food, pharmaceutical, oil, automation, IT.

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Tomas Anderson
Manager Paper & Board
Direct: +46 (0)10 505 95 97

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