Sandvik AB - Financial Information

We intend to publish the year-end and interim reports on the following dates:

2000

18 Feb (9:00 a.m.) - Report on Operations in 1999
4 May (noon) - First-Quarter Report
(app. 5:00 p.m.) - Report from Annual General Meeting
9 Aug (9:00 a.m.) - Semi-Annual Report
2 Nov (9:00 a.m.) - Third-Quarter Report

2001

16 Feb (9:00 a.m.) - Report on Operations in 2000

Current information is available at our website www.sandvik.com

Sandviken, 16 December 1999

Sandvik AB; (publ)