St. Marien / September 27, 2011 – The technological Group HTI High Tech Industries AG (“HTI”), listed at the prime market of the Vienna Stock Exchange announces, that notification was received from Oberbank AG (“Oberbank”), Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark AG (“RLB Steiermark”), Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich Aktiengesellschaft (“RLB Oberösterreich”) as well as Raiffeisen Bank International AG (“RBI”) about the full exercising of their conversion rights in regards to the hybrid convertible bond (ISIN AT0000A0NV11), held by the above mentioned. Under consideration of the conversion, as notified by Volksbank Graz-Bruck on September 02, 2011 shares for a nominal value of EUR 9,350,000.- off the total volume of the hybrid convertible bond of EUR 9,500,000.-, issued in March 2011 in the course of the restructuring of the Group’s finances, are being issued (see also Ad hoc-information as of April 01, 2011).

Due to the implementation of the exercising of the conversion rights (including the conversion by Volksbank Graz-Bruck with a nominal value of EUR 1,450,000.- / see Corporate News as of September 02, 2011) the current HTI share capital of 36,233,944 pieces with a proportionate amount of the share capital of EUR 1.- per share and the thus related 36,233,944 voting rights will be increased by 9,350,000 shares with a proportionate amount of the share capital of EUR 1.- per share and the thus related 9,350,000 voting rights to a total of 45,583,944 shares with a proportionate amount of the share capital of EUR 1.- per share and the thus related voting rights of 45,583,944. After the conversion scheduled for November 2011, according to present notifications to HTI, Oberbank will hold around 3%, RLB Steiermark around 12%, RLB Oberösterreich around 2%, RBI around 0.5% and Volksbank Graz-Bruck around 3% of the share capital of HTI.