Transaction in Own Shares

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Essentra plc has announced the purchase of 200,000 ordinary shares as part of its ongoing buyback program, with transactions occurring on multiple dates between May 11th and May 28th, 2026, primarily on the London Stock Exchange. The volume-weighted average prices paid per share ranged from 80.40 GBp to 88.40 GBp. Following these purchases, Essentra will have 287,420,301 ordinary shares in issue, with 284,024,244 representing the total voting rights. These repurchased shares are intended to be held in treasury for potential cancellation or to satisfy employee share plan awards.

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Essentra plc

29 May 2026

ESSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 26 and 28 May 2026 it purchased in 200,000 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):
11/05/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	84.2000	11,500	84.2000	84.2000
13/05/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	81.7000	11,500	81.7000	81.7000
15/05/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	81.3000	11,500	81.3000	81.3000
18/05/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	80.4000	11,500	80.4000	80.4000
20/05/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	84.2000	11,500	84.2000	84.2000
22/05/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	85.8920	11,500	85.2000	86.4000
26/05/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	88.1000	11,500	88.1000	88.1000
28/05/2026	Aquis (AQXE)	-	-	-	-
	BATS (BATE)	-	-	-	-
	Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-	-	-
	Turquoise (TRQX)	-	-	-	-
	London Stock Exchange (XLON)	88.4000	11,500	88.4000	88.4000

The Company intends to hold these shares in Treasury and then either cancel them or retain them for the purpose of satisfying awards under the Company's employee share plans.

Following the settlement of the above purchases, Essentra will have 287,420,301 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue (excluding 3,396,057 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each held in treasury).

The figure 284,024,244 will represent the total number of voting rights in Essentra and can be used by shareholders 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 LR 9.6.6

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	84.2	XLON	11/05/2026	15:29:22	00193586085TRLO0
11500	81.7	XLON	13/05/2026	14:23:28	00193742214TRLO0
11500	81.3	XLON	15/05/2026	14:59:41	00193906050TRLO0
11500	80.4	XLON	18/05/2026	11:29:16	00193960486TRLO0
11500	84.2	XLON	20/05/2026	14:42:32	00194132203TRLO0
11500	85.2	XLON	22/05/2026	08:01:37	00194231682TRLO0
11500	88.1	XLON	26/05/2026	13:06:20	00194367356TRLO0
11500	88.4	XLON	28/05/2026	11:38:07	00194519248TRLO0

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