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Shareholders Approve All Resolutions on the Agenda of Ternium's Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting

The annual general meeting of shareholders of Ternium S.A. (NYSE: TX), which was held today in Luxembourg, approved all resolutions on its agenda.

Among other resolutions adopted at the meeting, the shareholders approved the consolidated financial statements and unconsolidated annual accounts for the year ended December 31, 2009 and the proposed dividend of US$0.05 per share (US$0.50 per ADS), or approximately US$100 million. Ternium will pay the dividend on June 10, 2010, and the corresponding ex-dividend date will be June 3.

The shareholders meeting also re-elected Ubaldo Aguirre, Roberto Bonatti, Wilson Nélio Brumer, Carlos Condorelli, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Adrian Lajous, Bruno Marchettini, Gianfelice Mario Rocca, Paolo Rocca and Daniel Agustín Novegil, and elected Ronald Seckelmann as members of the board of directors to serve until the next annual shareholders meeting which will be convened to decide on the 2010 accounts, and re-appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as Ternium's independent auditor for the 2010 fiscal year.

The board of directors subsequently re-appointed Paolo Rocca as its chairman and Daniel Novegil as Ternium's chief executive officer, and confirmed Ubaldo Aguirre, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Adrián Lajous as members of the board's audit committee, with Mr. Aguirre to continue chairing that committee. All three members of the audit committee qualify as independent directors under our articles of association.

The extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, also held today, approved the renewal of the validity of the Company's authorized share capital and the authorizations to the Company's board of directors with respect to any issuance of shares within such authorized share capital, in each case, for a further five-year period and otherwise on their current terms and conditions.

For a summary of the resolutions adopted at the meetings, please see the report on Form 6-K to be submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, available through http://www.sec.gov/.

Forward Looking Statements

Some of the statements contained in this press release are "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements are based on management's current views and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by those statements. These risks include but are not limited to risks arising from uncertainties as to gross domestic product, related market demand, global production capacity, tariffs, cyclicality in the industries that purchase steel products and other factors beyond Ternium's control.

About Ternium

Ternium is a leading steel company in Latin America, manufacturing and processing a wide range of flat and long steel products for customers active in the construction, home appliances, capital goods, container, food, energy and automotive industries. With its principal operations in Mexico and Argentina, Ternium serves markets in the Americas through its integrated manufacturing system and extensive distribution network. The Company has an annual production capacity of approximately nine million tons of finished steel products. More information about Ternium is available at www.ternium.com.