Société Nationale de Crédit et d’Investissement (‘SNCI’) - Luxembourg state-owned Investment and Development Bank and Paul Wurth S.A. (‘Paul Wurth’) are pleased to announce that they have signed today contracts allowing Paul Wurth to purchase in a first step 50.4% of the shares held by SNCI in CTI Systems S.A. (‘CTI’). Today’s agreements materialize the intentions of the parties announced on 31 March 2009.