UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Issuer Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
April 3, 2007
Commission file number 1-14400
Metso Corporation
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
Fabianinkatu 9 A,
P.O. Box 1220
FI-00101
Helsinki, Finland
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Annual General Meeting of Metso Corporation: dividend of EUR 1.50 per share
(Helsinki, Finland, April 3, 2007) — Metso Corporation (NYSE: MX; OMXH: MEO1V)
The Annual General Meeting of Metso Corporation approved today the accounts for 2006 as presented
by the Board of Directors and voted to discharge the members of the Board of Directors and the
President and CEO of Metso Corporation from liability for the financial year 2006. In addition, the
Annual General Meeting approved the proposals of the Board of Directors to amend the Articles of
Association and to authorize Board of Directors to resolve of a repurchase of the Corporation’s own
shares and of a share issue.
The Annual General Meeting decided to establish a Nomination Committee of the Annual General
Meeting to prepare proposals for the following Annual General Meeting in respect of the composition
of the Board of Directors along with the director remuneration. Nomination Committee consists of
the representatives appointed by the four biggest shareholders along with the Chairman of the Board
of Directors as an expert member.
Matti Kavetvuo was re-elected the Chairman of the Board and Jaakko Rauramo was re-elected the Vice
Chairman of the Board. Eva Liljeblom, Professor at the Swedish School of Economics and Business
Administration, Helsinki, Finland, was elected as new member of the Board. Board members re-elected
were Svante Adde, Maija-Liisa Friman, Christer Gardell and Yrjö Neuvo. The term of office of Board
members lasts until the end of the next Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting decided that the annual remunerations for Board members be EUR 80,000
for the Chairman, EUR 50,000 for the Vice Chairman and the Chairman of the Audit Committee and EUR
40,000 for the members and that the meeting fee including committee meetings be EUR 500 for
meeting.
The auditing company, Authorized Public Accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers was re-elected to act as
an Auditor of the Corporation until the end of the next Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting decided that a dividend of EUR 1.50 per share be paid for the financial
year which ended on December 31, 2006. The dividend will be paid to shareholders who have been
entered as shareholders in the Corporation’s shareholder register maintained by the Finnish Central
Securities Depository Ltd. by the dividend record date, April 10, 2007. The dividend will be paid
on April 17, 2007.
Metso is a global engineering and technology corporation with 2006 net sales of approximately
EUR 5 billion. Its 25,500 employees in more than 50 countries serve customers in the pulp and paper
industry, rock and minerals processing, the energy industry and selected other industries.
www.metso.com
For further information, please contact:
Aleksanteri Lebedeff, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Metso Corporation,
tel. +358 20 484 3240
Further information for investors, please contact:
Johanna Sintonen, Vice President, Investor Relations, Metso Corporation, tel. +358 20 484 3253
or
USA: Mike Phillips, Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration, Metso USA, Inc., tel. +1 770
246 7237.