Filtrona plc, the international, market leading, speciality plastic and fibre products supplier, today announces annual results for the year ended 31 December 2005.

Sales were £513.7m (2004: £477.5m) up 7.6%.

• Operating profit before intangible amortisation and demerger expense was £57.8m (2004: £48.1m) up 8.7% after excluding non-recurring IFRS adjustments.
• Profit before tax was £50.0m (2004: £45.7m) up 9.4%.
• Adjusted earnings per share were 15.0p (2004: 14.0p) up 7.1%.
• Full year dividend of 6.4p providing an increase of 8.5% compared with the notional dividend for 2004.

Commenting on today’s announcement, Jeff Harris, Chairman of Filtrona said:

“These are a very good maiden set of full year results for Filtrona and reflect the underlying strength of the Company’s market positions within its international niche markets in both plastic and fibre technologies.”

Click here to download the preliminary results for year ended 31 December 2005

Enquiries

Filtrona plc                                                     Finsbury

Mark Harper, Chief Executive                             Morgan Bone

Steve Dryden, Finance Director                          Gordon Simpson

Tel: 01908 359100                                          Tel: 020 7251 3801