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October 3, 2008, Vaasa

CITEC REPRESENTS FINLAND AT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S "YOUR FIRST JOB ABROAD" EVENT IN PARIS

Citec has been selected to represent Finland in the European Commission’s “Your First Job Abroad” event in Paris on October 3.

The European Commission has launched the “Your First Job Abroad (YFJA)” initiative to promote free movement of workers within Europe. On October 3, the Commission is arranging a tribute event with around 100 employees and employers from all over Europe. Among all corporate candidates in Finland, Citec was selected by The European Employment Services, EURES, to represent Finland. The event will include seminars and testimonials as well as key note speeches by Annie Gauvin, Director of ANPE (France), and Christoph Maier, European Commission official (DG Employment).

Citec Engineering’s participants at the Paris event are Tânia Costa, Design Engineer, and Katarina Westerén-Hagnäs, Human Resources Manager. Tânia Costa joined Citec Engineering in 2008 and was recruited through the EURES network from Portugal to Finland.

“We are very proud to personify Finnish corporations at this event organized by the European Commission. Citec Engineering has been working actively with EURES for some years. We are very satisfied with the cooperation that helps us recruit engineers to our European offices. Today, we have 16 different nationalities working with us at Citec Engineering”, said Katarina Westerén-Hagnäs, Human Resources Manager at Citec Engineering. “Tânia Costa is a good example of successful recruitments to Finnish companies through EURES. Tânia is a multi-talented engineer, highly educated and speaks several languages fluently”, said Westerén-Hagnäs.

”Citec Engineering fits well into this role being a global company, and as its strong growth requires constant recruitment of skilled people from European countries”, said Katja Helander, EURES Manager in Finland.

The purpose of the EURES network is to promote mobility on the European labour markets by providing advice to job seekers who want to work abroad and to employers who want to recruit workers from abroad. EURES is administered by the European Commission. EURES services consist of a network of more than 700 EURES advisers covering the whole EU/EEA area. In Finland, the EURES advisers work in the employment offices of the largest cities. Their activities are coordinated by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy.

For more information, please contact:

Michael Smirnoff, Director, Communications, Citec
Mobile: +358 50 464 0656
E-mail: michael.smirnoff(at)citec.fi

Press release, September 22, 2008, Vaasa
Wärtsilä signs global partnering agreement with Citec

Wärtsilä Finland Oy has renewed its framework agreement with Citec. The purpose of the agreement is to further deepen and strengthen the current partnership to join forces for a long-term and mutually beneficial and profitable partnership.

Citec´s main responsibility is to continue to deliver high-quality engineering, technical information and documentation services to Wärtsilä. Citec Engineering´s services for Wärtsilä will mainly consist of plant engineering for development, delivery and service projects. Citec Information´s services will be mainly development of documentation, project management in documentation work, information design, technical writing and document coordination.

"The new contract is very significant for both parties”, says Osmo Härkönen, Vice President, Wärtsilä Finland Oy, Project Management. We appreciate Citec´s modern way-of-working, which stimulates Wärtsilä´s requirements in today´s dynamic business world with its rapid changes and challenges", says Härkönen.

The partnership level of the agreement enables Citec to continue its strong investment in competence development and recruitment. Citec´s growth in for instance India has been very strong in order to provide excellent services to Wärtsilä and other customers.

“We are very proud that our hard work for Wärtsilä is very much appreciated and that we can continue working as a key business partner with Wärtsilä, says Martin Strand, CEO of Citec Engineering and Kai Dahl, CEO of Citec Information.

For more information, please contact:
Michael Smirnoff, Director, Communications, Citec
Mobile: +358 50 464 0656
E-mail: michael.smirnoff(at)citec.fi

Press release, May 26, 2008, Helsinki
Citec Information signs collaboration agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks

Citec Information, specialised in technical information, and Nokia Siemens Networks have today signed a collaboration agreement that extends the Document Management and Archiving (DMA) co-operation between the companies.

Citec Information will now assume wider responsibilities in providing services for the Nokia Siemens Networks Document Management and Archiving service area. The services consist of managing the design and product development related documentation, provision of application support for Document Management and Product Data management systems as well as archiving services. Citec Information offers continuous application and process support as well as information management and coordination services for the R&D programs. In addition, Citec contributes strongly to application development and deployment, including testing, deployment planning and implementation.

“Nokia Siemens Networks and Citec have been successfully cooperating in the customer documentation and document management areas for over 8 years,” says Ryan Gold, Head of Engineering Solutions at Nokia Siemens Networks. “This agreement will allow Nokia Siemens Networks to concentrate on our strengths while being able to benefit from Citec’s expertise as a leading company for document management and archiving services.”

In conjunction with this agreement, 12 employees from Nokia Siemens Networks are transferred to Citec Information as of June 30, 2008.

“I am very proud that our cooperation with Nokia Siemens Networks is taking another leap forward”, says Kai Dahl, CEO of Citec Information. “We are now able to combine the excellent skills of the team joining us from Nokia Siemens Networks together with our own”, says Dahl.

Nokia Siemens Networks DMA service function is today represented in Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere and Oulu. Related Citec Information services are globally offered by Citec at the same locations as above, and in Bangalore, India.

For more information, please contact:

Kai Dahl, CEO, Citec Information Oy
Mobile: +358 40 582 2555
E-mail: kai.dahl(at)citec.fi

Michael Smirnoff, Director, Communications, Citec
Mobile: +358 50 464 0656
E-mail: michael.smirnoff(at)citec.fi

Riitta Mård, Nokia Siemens Networks
Phone: +358 7180 31452
E-mail: riitta.mard(at)nsn.com

Press release, May 14, 2008, Vaasa/Bangalore

OLLI KYTÖKARI APPOINTED MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CITEC INFORMATION INDIA

Olli Kytökari has been appointed Managing Director of Citec Information India Pvt as of July 1, 2008.

Olli Kytökari has a strong background from the technical communications industry and currently holds the position as Head of Business Unit Telecom at Citec Information. Prior to working in senior management positions at Citec, he was employed by Nokia Networks and by Comptel.

Olli will be based in Bangalore, India, and reports to Kai Dahl, CEO of Citec Information.

For more information, please contact:

Michael Smirnoff, Director, Communications, Citec
Mobile: +358 50 464 0656
E-mail: michael.smirnoff(at)citec.fi

Press release, May 2, 2008, Vaasa/Mumbai
MUKUL BHATIA TO HEAD CITEC ENGINEERING INDIA

Mr. Mukul Bhatia has been appointed Managing Director for Citec Engineering India Pvt Ltd.

Mukul Bhatia has more than 20 years of solid experience from senior engineering positions. He has recently headed the Fluid Power Group within the Engineering Center of Eaton Corporation, a large diversified US industrial group. In this role, he supported Eaton’s global growth goals, including targeted growth within Asia Pacific. He has also worked as General Manager, Chief Engineer of Invensys India Pvt Ltd, and prior to that, as General Manager of Intersil India.

“I am very happy that Mukul joins our dedicated team in India and I am convinced that he will continue to strengthen our growth in the business, says Martin Strand, CEO of Citec Engineering. “Mukul possesses excellent leadership skills as well as extensive knowledge from working in challenging national and international business environments – I wish him all the best in this key role”, says Strand.

Mukul Bhatia will join Citec Engineering as of May 5, 2008, and reports to Martin Strand, CEO of Citec Engineering. He will be based in Mumbai.

For more information, please contact:

Michael Smirnoff, Communications Director, Citec
Mobile: +358 50 464 0656
E-mail: michael.smirnoff(at)citec.fi

Press release, April 8, 2008
CITEC INFORMATION ACQUIRES MERK CONSULTING
- strengthens its position within life sciences

Citec Information has acquired Merk Consulting Ab. Merk was founded in 1987 in Uppsala, and provides documentation and marketing services to organizations in the life sciences. The company’s customer base consists mainly of international companies within the areas of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, veterinary care, and general healthcare.

“I am very happy that Citec has found a strong partner within life sciences. This is a key area for us in our international growth strategy,” says Rune Westergård, Chairman of the Citec companies.

Gary Manders, one of the owners of Merk Consulting, will head the Life Sciences business unit that is going to be set up within Citec Information. Gary Manders is reporting to Kai Dahl.

“Citec Information is one of the leading European companies offering technical communication services. We are all very impressed by Citec’s competence and its corporate culture,” says Gary Manders. “It is going to be exciting to add our knowledge of the life science industries to the tremendous capabilities within Citec to create strong synergy effects for the benefit of our customers. This enables us to increasingly offer attractive turn-key solutions for them,” says Gary.

All employees within Merk Consulting are hired by Citec Information.

For more information, please contact:

Kai Dahl, CEO, Citec Information Oy
Mobile: +358 40 582 2555

Gary Manders, Head of Business Unit, Merk Consulting Ab
Mobile: +46 (0)70 565 1737

Press release, 22 January, 2008
CITEC CONTINUES TO EXPAND OUTSIDE FINLAND

Finnish Citec Engineering, specialised in multi-engineering and consulting services for industry, continues to expand its operations and has opened several new offices abroad. The latest additions are the branch offices in Moscow (Russia), Contrexéville (France) and Chennai (India), the last being an addition to the current subsidiary in Mumbai. In Russia Citec has been granted the specific design licenses needed to engage in engineering business. These investments aim at serving the existing customers better, at the same time as they open up new business opportunities for Citec.

—The industry is doing well and that also shows in our operations, says CEO of Citec Engineering Mr Martin Strand. Citec has during the last years grown to employ over 500 people. We are continuously recruiting new people, not only to the new offices, but especially to India and Finland. At this very moment we have some thirty available jobs in various engineering disciplines and we can offer more as the business grows. At Citec both experienced and newly graduated engineers find exiting assignments, he continues.

At the moment there is no sight of maturity in the market. Citec Engineering has recently initiated cooperation with Kraftanlagen München, one of the leading German companies in the piping system and plant construction sector. Big Finnish customers are among others Wärtsilä and Ruukki.

Press release, 28 September, 2007
CITEC INFORMATION SIGNED COMPANY SPECIFIC COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT

The Federation of Professional and Managerial Employees (YTN) and Citec Information Oy Ab have today signed a two-year company specific collective agreement. The agreement concerns the entirety of the Finnish personnel, with some exceptions also including the top management. Citec Information employs about 320 technical information experts in Finland.

The agreement contains several clear improvements for the personnel, among others an extra holiday week yearly after five years of employment and child care services for sick children. A significant benefit is also that work-related telephone calls and travelling for work during free time is compensated for. The agreement also includes a comprehensive working time bank system. The negotiation position of the personnel is strengthened by a shop steward system regulated by the agreement.

The cost effect of the salary increase level in the agreement is 7.5 per cent during two years. The increases include a local portion, which is reserved for developing a new salary system. If an agreement regarding the salary system cannot be reached, that portion will be paid retroactively as a general salary increase.

—We want to be forerunners also in this respect, says CEO Kai Dahl. The starting point was that we are all in the same boat: it was in our interest to build a good work community together with the personnel. In the agreement we have included solutions that benefit both the company and the people working in it. We also know that there will be a shortage of skilled people in the future. One way of committing the personnel is to offer them good employment benefits, he says.

—With the company specific agreement we have created functional rules appropriate for the company and its field of business, which improves the competitive position of the company. This is also important for the personnel. Very positive is also that the company wanted to strengthen the position of the shop steward, says legal adviser Kari Eskola from the Federation of Professional and Managerial Employees (YTN).

Additional information:

Legal adviser Kari Eskola, Federation of Professional and Managerial Employees (YTN)/ Akava Special Branches, tel. +358 40 590 5693

CEO Kai Dahl, Citec Information Oy Ab, tel. +358 40 5822 555

HR Manager Timo Ylilauri, Citec Information Oy Ab, tel. +358 40 5173 021

Press release, 3 September, 2007
CITEC INFORMATION OBTAINED ISO 9001:2000 QUALITY CERTIFICATION

Citec Information Oy Ab (“Citec”), specialised in technical information, has been granted the international ISO 9001:2000 quality certificate for its quality management system. Citec has systematically developed its business processes over the years. As a result of this work and quality audits performed at Citec’s locations in Finland, Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has now handed over the Quality Certificate.

“We have worked on improving our processes for years already. The Quality Certificate can be seen as the evidence from an independent observer that we are doing things right. This is also a tool that helps us to continue to improve our processes and increase the added value to our customers.” says CEO Kai Dahl.

The Certificate demonstrates that Citec has a quality system to secure that the customers get the expected service level in time and that Citec internally works in an effective manner. Citec understands the quality system as a process where routines are continuously improved. Regular audits make sure that the requirements of the standard on the one hand, and the internally set quality objectives on the other hand, are fulfilled.

Additional information:

Ms. Sirpa Ihalainen, Quality Manager, Citec Information Oy Ab, tel. +358 50 348 1615

Mr. Kai Dahl, CEO, Citec Information Oy Ab, tel. +358 40 5822 555

Press release, 2 April, 2007
CITEC TO HANDLE VALTRA’S DOCUMENTATION

Citec Information Oy Ab (”Citec”), specialised in technical communication, has signed a documentation service agreement with Valtra Oy (”Valtra”), entering into force on 1 April 2007. The services include for instance product manuals for tractors, service books and spare part catalogues.

Techniman Oy (“Techniman”) has produced the technical documentation for Valtra earlier. Valtra will from now on purchase these services from Citec. As of 1 April all 13 employees of Techniman Oy in Suolahti and Jyväskylä, Finland, will join Citec.

Valtra is the market leader in the Nordic countries and the second most sold brand in Latin America. Last year Valtra manufactured 17,500 tractors worldwide.

”We have already for some years been looking for a partner who could develop our technical documentation. At Valtra we want to do what we are the world’s best in – produce tractors. We also want to bring our documentation to a level which corresponds to today’s requirements. I’m therefore happy and proud that we have now signed the contract with Citec”, says product manager Mr Juha Salakka at Valtra’s tractor manufacturing plant in Suolahti, Finland.

Citec’s CEO Mr. Kai Dahl is satisfied that the cooperation with Valtra has been established and says that it is an advantage to have former employees of Techniman on board Citec. “There is continuity in our work, and at the same time we can add value by bringing in new working methods and information technology that improves our customer’s services” he says.

”For the moment it’s business as usual”, says Managing Director of Techniman Mr. Timo Jäntti. ”We are much looking forward to being part of Citec, who is a renowned actor in the business since many years, and who has a demonstrated skilled workforce”.

Additional information:

Mr. Kai Dahl, CEO, Citec Information Oy Ab, tel. +358 40 5822 555
Mr. Timo Jäntti, Managing Director, Techniman Oy, tel. +358 400 645 002

Press release, 26 January, 2007
EXCELLENT FEEDBACK ON CITEC ACADEMY SEMINAR

Citec Information arranged a seminar on technical information for its business associates at Arlanda Business and Conference Center in Sweden on 25 January 2007. 45 people joined the full-day seminar program, which ended with a relaxed come together where participants had the chance to get to know each other better and discuss the passed day's topics.

The seminar theme was "Faster, better, more cost effective technical information - Is it possible?" (click here for more information). In addition to Citec's own speakers (Messrs Björn Peltonen and Ilkka Palola), our partners Trisoft (Mr Miel De Schepper) and Tedopres (Mr Roel Seegers) presented their solutions as part of the technical information process. Wärtsilä (Mr Ingmar Ahlqvist) was invited to present the customer case.

The very positive feedback from the seminar participants indicated a great interest for similar seminars in the future.

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