Ahlstrom has Ordered Production Equipment for Ahlstrom’s Tver Mill from Vaahto Pulp & Paper Machinery

VAAHTO GROUP PLC OYJ STOCK EXCHANGE BULLETIN 10.1.2007 at 11.00

AHLSTROM HAS ORDERED PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT FOR AHLSTROM’S TVER MILL FROM VAAHTO PULP & PAPER MACHINERY

Ahlstrom, a global leader in high performance fiber-based materials, has placed an order with Vaahto Pulp & Paper Machinery for some of the key production equipment of a new glass nonwoven production line.

The equipment will be manufactured in Vaahto’s workshops in Hollola, Tampere and Kokkola, and will be delivered to the Tver region in Russia during the summer of 2007. The start-up is scheduled for the last quarter of 2007.

Last year Vaahto Pulp & Paper Machinery won an order to deliver production equipment to Ahlstrom’s La Gere mill in France.

The total value of these two Ahlstrom orders amounts to more than 6 million euros.

Vaahto Pulp & Paper Machinery is a part of Vaahto Group, which is a globally operating high technology company serving process industry in the fields of pulp and paper machinery and process machinery.

Lahti January 10, 2007

VAAHTO GROUP PLC OYJ

Antti Vaahto

President (CEO)

Further information:

Jyrki Strengell

Tel. +358 400 613800

Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Vaahto Pulp & Paper Machinery