Transaction in Own Shares

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Essentra plc has purchased a total of 46,000 ordinary shares as part of its ongoing buyback program, with transactions occurring on March 23, 25, 27, and 30, 2026. The volume-weighted average prices paid per share ranged from 88.60 GBp to 94.26 GBp, with all purchases executed on the London Stock Exchange. Essentra intends to cancel these shares, which will reduce the total number of ordinary shares in issue to 284,773,244, excluding treasury shares, and this figure will serve as the denominator for shareholder notification calculations under FCA rules.

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Essentra plc

01 April 2026

1 April 2026

ESSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 23, 25, 27 and 30 March 2026 it purchased in 46,000 ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") from Peel Hunt LLP as part of the buyback programme announced on 29 March 2023 (the "Buyback Programme").

Date	Trading Venue	Volume-weighted average price paid per share (GBp)	Aggregated number of shares purchased	Lowest price paid per share (GBp):	Highest price paid per share (GBp):
23/03/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	93.3000	11,500	93.3000	93.3000
25/03/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	94.2600	11,500	94.2600	94.2600
27/03/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	90.1000	11,500	90.1000	90.1000
30/03/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	88,6000	11,500	88,6000	88,6000

Essentra intends to cancel the purchased Ordinary Shares.

Following the settlement of the above purchases and cancellation, Essentra will have 284,773,244 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue (excluding 3,077,057 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each held in treasury).

Upon cancellation, the figure 284,773,244 will represent the total number of voting rights in Essentra and can be used by shareholders once the shares have been cancelled as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as such Regulation has become part of domestic law by virtue of and for the purposes of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020) and as such Regulation has been amended in such form by any regulations made under that Act), the schedule below contains detailed and aggregated information of the individual trades made by Peel Hunt LLP as part of the Buyback Programme.

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule 12.4.6.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Essentra plc

Tim George, Deputy Company Secretary

Tel: +44 (0)1908 359100

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (Gbp)	Market / Sytematic Internaliser	Date	Time of transaction	Trade ID
11500	93.3	XLON	23/03/2026	11:11:06	00191184205TRLO0
11500	94.26	XLON	25/03/2026	11:59:18	00191343205TRLO0
11500	90.1	XLON	27/03/2026	12:07:16	00191478493TRLO0
11500	88.60	XLON	30/03/2026	12:07:55	00191551860TRLO0

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