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Current report:

Initialising Floorboard Production at Vinnitsa in Ukraine

Report number: 26/2007 day: 2007-08-23

Legal basis

Art. 56 par. 1 pt 1 of the Bidding Act – confidential information

Contents of the report:

The management of Barlinek S.A. hereby announces publicly that the dependent company Barlinek Invest ltd. in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, has initiated production of floorboards. In the next few weeks the line will successively attain full production capacity. The total production capacity of the Vinnitsa plant is 2,000,000 m2 of floorboards per annum, which gives a total, along with the output of Barlinek Inwestycje ltd. in Barlinek (a dependent company of Barlinek S.A.), of over 8 m m2 of floorboards per annum.

Realising this investment will allow the Barlinek Group to meet our customers’ expectations to an even greater degree, and to improve effectiveness and profitability of production.