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LANXESS News Newsflash:

Sunday - April 29, 2007


LANXESS on the way to becoming the world’s biggest supplier of chrome ore
to the chemical industry
80 million tons of extra reserves found in South African mine’s catchment
area

Leverkusen / Johannesburg - 80 million tons of extra ore reserves have been
found in the chrome ore mine operated by LANXESS in South Africa. "With
these we will be able to safeguard the growth of this profitable business
for several decades," said LANXESS Management Board Chairman Axel C.
Heitmann while visiting the mine in Rustenburg. The mine is run by the
Leather business unit and supplies in particular company sites in South
Africa and Argentina that process the raw material into products for
leather manufacture.

LANXESS is already among the world’s top producers of chrome ore for
chemical applications. With these newly discovered reserves the company
will considerably expand its position in this market. LANXESS is currently
drawing up a concept for mining these additional volumes. LANXESS has
already invested five million euros in measures to improve efficiency and
safety at the site. Currently nearly 200 LANXESS employees work for the
mine.

In February LANXESS completed the acquisition of the Dow Group’s 50 percent
interest in Chrome International South Africa (CISA) in Newcastle. The now
fully consolidated subsidiary will operate with immediate effect under the
name LANXESS CISA (Pty) Ltd. "With the completion of the acquisition we are
the only company to handle the entire value creation chain from the chrome
ore to the leather tanning materials," added Heitmann.

The ore from Rustenburg is processed into sodium dichromate and chromic
acid in Newcastle in the world’s most modern chrome chemicals plant.
Processing into chrome tanning salts for the global tanning industry then
takes place in Merebank.

The Leather business unit belongs to the Performance Chemicals business
unit, which achieved total sales in fiscal 2006 of EUR 1,812 million.

Two photos of the visit by the LANXESS Management Board Chairman to the
mine in Rustenburg can be downloaded from
http://mediarelations.lanxess.com/lanxess/lnxnews.nsf/id/2007-0070-EN


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differences between the actual future results, financial situation,
development or performance of the company and the estimates given here. The
company assumes no liability whatsoever to update these forward-looking
statements or to conform them to future events or developments.


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The LANXESS News Team