HEXPOL’s annual report for 2011 published

HEXPOL’s annual report for 2011 has today been published on our website
www.hexpol.com and is under distribution to the Group’s shareholders.

Georg
Brunstam, HEXPOL’s President and CEO, comments the year in the annual
report:

-          2011 was the best year ever - so far, for HEXPOL Group.
Our sales rose by a healthy 89 percent to 7,197 MSEK (3,798). We increased our
earnings per share by 72 percent to 18.63 SEK (10.83).

-          Operating
profit rose sharply to 895 MSEK (460). Our operating cash flow remained strong,
as previous years, amounting to healthy 911 MSEK (506).

-          The
acquired Excel Polymers Group was successfully integrated with greater
synergies, and achieved more rapidly, than expected.

The annual report can be
downloaded from the website, www.hexpol.com. The website also provides
information on giving notice of intention to attend HEXPOL’s AGM on May 4.
Printed copies of the annual report can be ordered via HEXPOL’s communication
department at info@hexpol.com.
For further information please contact:

Urban Ottosson, CFO/IR, 46 (0) 767
855 144
HEXPOL is a world-leading polymers group with strong global positions in
advanced rubber compounds (Compounding), gaskets for plate heat exchangers
(Gaskets) and wheels made of plastic and rubber materials for truck and castor
wheel application (Wheels).Customers are primarily OEM manufacturers of plate
heat exchangers and trucks, global systems suppliers to the automotive industry-
and engineering industry and the medical technology industry. The Group is
organised in two business areas, HEXPOL Compounding and HEXPOL Engineered
Products. HEXPOL's sales in 2011 amounted to 7,197 MSEK. The HEXPOL Group has
approximately 3,000 employees in ten countries. Read more at www.hexpol.com.