SUSS MicroTec AG: 2010 Shareholders' Meeting in Munich

Garching near Munich, Germany, June 23, 2010 – The shareholders of SUSS MicroTec AG (ISIN: DE0007226706) today voted by a large majority in favor of all resolution proposals put forward by the Management Board and Supervisory Board at this year's ordinary Shareholders' Meeting. In total, approximately 80 shareholders, shareholder and bank representatives, and guests joined the Company at the meeting in Munich. Thus, 33% of the Company's equity capital was represented.

In addition to discharging the Management Board and Supervisory Board from liability for the 2009 fiscal year and appointing auditors for the individual and consolidated financial statements, the amendment of the articles of incorporation pursuant to the German Act on Implementing the Shareholders' Rights Directive (ARUG) was on the agenda. All proposals were approved by at least 99% of the voting rights represented at the Shareholders' Meeting. Agenda item 6, which dealt with the creation of new conditional capital as well as the authorization to issue convertible and/or optional bonds, was removed from the agenda prior to the Shareholders' Meeting and was thus not presented for resolution.

In his statement of accounts, Chief Executive Officer Frank Averdung detailed the main developments and results of the past fiscal year and the first quarter of 2010. The focus of the report was on the investment and divestment projects started in fiscal year 2009 and completed in the current 2010 fiscal year, as well as on the recently announced relocation of the Substrate Bonder division from the USA to the Sternenfels site in Germany.

"The relocation of the Substrate Bonder division to the site in Sternenfels, Germany, is the final step on our path to prepare the SUSS MicroTec Group for its future growth," commented Frank Averdung, Chief Executive Officer of SUSS MicroTec AG. "By reducing our four manufacturing sites worldwide at the beginning of 2010 to two highly efficient sites by the end of 2010, we will be better positioned in the future to leverage synergies in research and development and in production," explained Mr. Averdung.

The speech given by the Chief Executive Officer and the presentation regarding agenda item 1 of the invitation can be downloaded here.

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