By Giulia Petroni

Andritz AG said Friday that it would start a buyback program for up to 1,000,000 shares or 0.96% of the company's voting share capital.

The Austrian plant-engineering company said the program will start on Nov. 5 and last until Feb 1, 2021 and will be conducted through the Vienna Stock Exchange. It added it made use of a buyback authorization received at the 2018 annual general meeting.

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