INNOVATIVE NORYL® PKN RESIN FROM GE PLASTICS DESIGNED FOR FREEZER-TO-MICROWAVE PACKAGING

DeSter.ACS, a custom manufacturer of food delivery systems, is using NORYL PKN4766 resin for the transparent top in its microwaveable-hinged container and PKN 4765 resin for the black bottom tray. John Squire, DeSter's Director of Marketing and Development, said, "This is the industry's first microwaveable packaging, and it has been very well received in the marketplace. It has allowed us to address the market's needs for aesthetics, convenience, and affordability very successfully." Bergen op Zoom - September 2003 - Based on growing demand for ready to cook; freezer to microwave meals, a number of exciting new products and technologies have just been created to address the increasing market for more aesthetically versatile, cost efficient, and environmentally sensitive materials.

GE PLASTICS LATEST X GEN™ RESIN TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO DELIVERS A WHOLE NEW GENERATION OF PERFORMANCE

The combination of the chemical resistance, excellent clarity, high flow with impact resistance can make the new XYLEX™ XCC resin from GE’s advanced technology “X GEN™ ” portfolio, an excellent fit in applications that demand both toughness and style, such as telecommunications applications, medical, electronics, sporting goods and food service applications, like the flip key-pad of Sony Ericsson P800 multimedia smartphone. BERGEN OP ZOOM —June 23, 2003—GE Plastics, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced a new portfolio of resins that combines outstanding GE product engineering with extreme product performance. This advanced technology will be marketed under the “X GEN™ resin” brand.

Fact sheet

Overview: GE Plastics is a global plastics materials supplier and distributor, which serves customers in a variety of industries including aerospace, appliances, automotive, building and construction, data storage and optical media, medical, electrical and electronics devices, telecommunications, computers and peripheral devices, outdoor vehicles and devices, and packaging. Through the GE brand, GE Plastics helps its customers achieve a competitive edge through productivity, performance and design differentiation, and on-line services for fulfillment, design, appearance and technical support.

GE PLASTICS BROADENS VISUALfx™ RESINS PORTFOLIO WITH BLACK AND WHITE EFFECTS

Available in CYCOLAC® ABS resin, Alliage is a versatile metallic effect that offers three-dimensionality in a wide color range. BERGEN OP ZOOM—June 23, 2003—Black and white may seem like primary colors to the general populace, but in the exclusive world of product designers these colors are the next “hot” trend. According to a 2003 color and effects guide developed for GE Plastics by design and strategy consultancy Polymer Solutions Inc., a joint venture between industry design giant Fitch Richardson Smith, Inc., and GE, black and white -- plus all the variations on each -- will be a key consumer product design element over the next year. Responding to this trend, GE Plastics unveiled a new dark and light palette for its Visualfx™ resin portfolio that includes new Earth Elements, Glacial Elements, Alliage™ resin effect and Tempulse™ resin effect.

GE Plastics presskit Kunststoffen 2003 Veldhoven

At Kunststoffen 2003 (Veldhoven, the Netherlands 24-25 September 2003) GE Plastics presented the following:

--50 Jaar na de Ontdekking Blijft GE’s Verbazingwekkende LEXAN® Polycarbonaat Onze Producten Verbeteren--

GE prototype car with co-extruded LEXAN® SLX film on the body panels and fenders generates excitement in the automotive industry for its ability to impart a Class A finish with high-gloss, weatherability, scratch and chemical resistance for molded plastic parts without the need to paint. This commercial polymeric film, which is being evaluated by the automotive industry, is applied using an in-mold decoration process over an injection molded XENOY® resin. Bergen op Zoom, 17 juni 2003 – Misschien weet u de naam niet, maar een paar van de grootste innovaties van de afgelopen 50 jaar zijn er op gebaseerd. Van de eerste stap op de maan tot laptop computers; GE’s LEXAN kunststof – een van de meest veelzijdige materialen ter wereld – is een belangrijk deel van ons leven geworden. Dit jaar viert GE Plastics, onderdeel van General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), de 50e verjaardag van het innovatieve materiaal.

GE ORGANISEERT SPONSORLOOP VOOR ZIEKENHUIS LIEVENSBERG

Ter ere van de 50e verjaardag van LEXAN® polycarbonaat, organiseerde GE Plastics zondag 5 oktober jl., een sponsorloop, met optredens van Ome Willem, Flat Out en Jim, in het centrum van Bergen op Zoom. Meer dan 600 lopers namen deel aan deze loop waarvan de opbrengst van € 42.000 aan de binnentuin van Ziekenhuis Lievensberg wordt gedoneerd. BERGEN OP ZOOM—18 september 2003— Ter ere van de 50e verjaardag van LEXAN® polycarbonaat organiseert General Electric Plastics B.V. op zondagmiddag

GE PLASTICS REINFORCES SUPPORT IN DRIVING INNOVATIVE PRODUCT DESIGN SOLUTIONS

- BERGEN OP ZOOM— September 17, 2003 — In support of its services to the design community, GE Plastics worked with designafairs GmbH, one of Europe’s foremost design consultancies, to have a permanent state-of-the-art presentation at designafairs’ new Color and Materials Laboratory, which opened in Munich on September 17, 2003. This center of expertise brings together the leading technologies in materials, colors and effects to serve industrial designers in driving real design innovation in new and existing applications.