Holding(s) in Company

4 January 2012

FILTRONA PLC

AXA Group - Disaggregation Exemption Notification - UK

Filtrona plc announces that following the disaggregation exemption notified to the FSA under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules on 17th October 2011, AXA SA and its subsidiary notifying Group entities, acting independently from their parent and from each other, no longer have any reportable holdings in Filtrona plc on a Group aggregate basis. However, AXA Investment Managers SA has now crossed upwards the 5% threshold and has a holding of 8.11% and 208,470,668 shares on a Group disaggregated basis as an independent Group subsidiary.

Enquiries:

Jon Green

Company Secretary

Filtrona plc

T: 01908 359100