LUXEMBOURG, May 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The annual and extraordinary general meetings of shareholders of Ternium S.A. (NYSE:TX), which were held today in Luxembourg, approved all resolutions on its agenda.

Among other resolutions adopted at the meetings, the shareholders approved the consolidated financial statements and unconsolidated annual accounts for the year ended December 31, 2017 and the proposed dividend of USD0.11 per share (USD1.10 per ADS).  The dividend will be paid on May 10, 2018, and the corresponding record date will be May 7, 2018.

In addition, the shareholders re-elected Ubaldo José Aguirre, Roberto Bonatti, Carlos Alberto Condorelli, Vincent Robert Gilles Decalf, Adrian Lajous Vargas, Gianfelice Mario Rocca, Paolo Rocca and Daniel Agustín Novegil as members of the board of directors to serve until the next annual shareholders meeting that will be convened to decide on the 2018 accounts. The meeting also re-appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers, Societé coopérative, Cabinet de révision agréé, as Ternium's independent auditor for the 2018 fiscal year.

The board of directors subsequently re-appointed Paolo Rocca as its chairman, Daniel Agustín Novegil as vice-chairman and Máximo Vedoya as Ternium's chief executive officer, and confirmed Ubaldo José Aguirre, Vincent Robert Gilles Decalf and Adrián Lajous Vargas 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.

Furthermore, the extraordinary shareholders meeting approved all proposed amendments to our articles of association.

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

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