GREAT LAKES LAUNCHES POLYMER ADDITIVES B2B WEB SITE

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – February 15, 2001 - Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (NYSE:GLK) today announced the launch of www.pa.greatlakes.com, the new web site for the company’s Polymer Additives Division, offering Great Lakes customers around the world fast, responsive and efficient access to the company’s Polymer Additives products and services.

Visitors to the site will find information about Great Lakes Polymer Additives and the company’s wide range of products in the flame retardants and polymer stabilizers businesses. Data to view or download includes product information, product applications and technical specifications, material safety data and much more. Visitors looking for technical assistance will find tutorials on product mechanisms and the opportunity to submit their technical inquiries to the Great Lakes experts.

For Great Lakes customers who want to order on-line, the new electronic order management system allows quick and easy order placement, access to order status, order history and customer account information.

“Great Lakes’ progress with pa.greatlakes.com clearly represents a quantum step forward toward our stated B2B goal of an ERP to ERP interface,” commented Jack Teat, Vice President Global Sales and e-Business. “One single global interface offers our customers the benefits of reduced cost, improved service and convenient order management.”

Great Lakes Chemical Corporation is the world’s leading producer of various speciality chemicals for such applications as flame retardants, polymer stabilizers, fire extinguishants, water treatment, as well as a growing line of performance and fine chemicals for the life sciences industry. The stock of the company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

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