ORION CORPORATION  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  1 September 2010  AT  11.20 AM EET              

A total of 2,230 Orion B-shares have been returned to Orion Corporation free of consideration, by virtue of the terms of the Share-based Incentive Plan of 2007.

The current total number of own B-shares held by Orion is 516,654, the returned shares included.   

                                                                                                                                                                            
Orion Corporation

Timo Lappalainen            Olli Huotari
President and CEO          SVP, Corporate Functions

Contact person:
Olli Huotari, Senior VP, Corporate Functions, phone +358 10 426 3054

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Homepage: www.orion.fi