Metso to buy back 300,000 own shares for its Share Ownership Plan

The Board of Directors of Metso Corporation has decided, in accordance with the
authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting on March, 31 2009, to
repurchase a maximum number of 300,000 Company's own shares, which corresponds
to about 0.2 percent of all the outstanding shares of Metso. The shares shall be
repurchased as part of the Company's incentive program i.e. Metso Share
Ownership Plans to be used as potential reward payments in accordance with the
Plan criteria.

Own shares will be purchased with the Company's distributable funds and thus the
repurchases will reduce the Company's distributable non-restricted equity.
Shares will be purchased at market price in public trading on the NASDAQ OMX in
Helsinki Exchange.

The repurchase of own shares will start on February 16, 2010 at the earliest and
it will end on March 26, 2010 at the latest.

At the moment, Metso Corporation holds a total of 409,617 own shares.

Metso is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for mining,
construction, power generation, automation, recycling and the pulp and paper
industries. We have about 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries.
www.metso.com

For further information, please contact:
Pekka Hölttä, Senior Vice President, Corporate Treasurer, Metso Corporation,
tel. +358 20 484 3195
Johanna Henttonen, Vice President, Investor Relations, Metso Corporation, tel.
+358 20 484 3253


Metso Corporation

Olli Vaartimo
Executive Vice President and CFO

Kati Renvall
Vice President, Group Communications

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