SURTECO places assignable loan for EUR 200 million

Buttenwiesen-Pfaffenhofen, 16 October 2017 - SURTECO SE, leading global manufacturer of surfaces for the furniture and wood-based industry and producer of technical extrusions (profiles) made of plastic, has successfully placed a assignable loan with a total volume of EUR 200 million - twice as much as the original target volume of EUR 100 million. "The placement of the assignable loan will enable us to refinance among other things the successful acquisition of the Probos Group in Portugal and the repayment of the US private placement in August," according to Dr. Herbert Müller, Chairman of the Board of Management of SURTECO SE. "The new funds will give us the scope and the flexibility to continue our growth trajectory dynamically."

The issue volume is distributed over terms of 5, 7 and 10 years, primarily at fixed interest rates. The transaction was arranged by Bayerische Landesbank and Deutsche Bank AG.

"We are delighted about the very high level of interest demonstrated by investors in our transaction. This has enabled us to take advantage of the current low level of interest rates and to secure favourable financing conditions with very attractive framework conditions over the long term," according to Andreas Riedl, Chief Financial Officer of SURTECO SE.

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Profile of SURTECO

SURTECO SE, Buttenwiesen-Pfaffenhofen, is a leading international specialist for surface technologies. The product portfolio includes papers printed with decorative designs, impregnated products, release papers, decorative flat foils and edgebandings based on specialist papers for technical applications and plastics. The extensive product portfolio is completed by skirtings made of plastic, technical extrusions for industry and do-it-yourself ranges and shutter systems.

The Group currently has a workforce of appr. 3,300 and manufactures at 25 sites on four continents, currently generating approximately 27 % of sales in Germany, 45 % in European countries outside Germany and the remainder in America, Asia and Australia. Customers of SURTECO generally come from the wood based materials, flooring and furnishing industry and the interior industry.

The shares of SURTECO SE are listed on the official market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt and Munich Stock Exchanges under the ticker symbol SUR and ISIN DE0005176903. They are also traded on the stock markets in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart Hamburg and Hannover.

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