Umicore - Acquisition of own shares

On the basis of Article 207 of the Royal Decree of 30 January 2001, as amended on 26 April 2009, implementing the Belgian Companies Code, Umicore announces the following share buy-back transactions.

Date of acquisition	Number of shares	% of total shares	Average price (€)	Highest price (€)	Lowest price (€)
18/09/2017	1,509	0.00%	67.20	67.20	67.18
19/09/2017	2,816	0.00%	67.39	67.40	67.36
20/09/2017	246	0.00%	67.40	67.40	67.40
21/09/2017	10,000	0.01%	67.70	68.30	67.00
22/09/2017	12,429	0.01%	67.46	67.80	67.13
Total for the week	27,000	0.02%	67.53	68.30	67.00
Total in 2017	383,011	0.34%	51.30	68.30	48.19

All details related to the acquisition of own shares by Umicore can be found here.

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Investor Relations

Evelien Goovaerts                                         +32 2 227 78 38                    [email protected]

Eva Behaeghe                                               +32 2 227 70 68                          [email protected]

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