GREAT LAKES COMPLETES ANOX™ NDB EXPANSION

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA—Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (NYSE:GLK) today announced that an expansion at its manufacturing facility in Pedrengo, Italy, has increased production capacity by 50% for its line of Anox™ NDB polymer stabilizer blends.

The increased capacity will shorten delivery lead-times and further improve the company’s production flexibility and dedicated service to customers. Global demand for No Dust Blends, marketed under the trade name Anox™ NDB, continues to show significant growth due to the product’s proven customer benefits.

Anox™ NDB is a synergistic combination of polymer stabilizers and other additives in a dust-free physical form, which provides a cleaner and healthier working environment. They are incorporated into the polymer mix in one, simple application, thereby ensuring accurate dosing of all components and avoiding out of specification production. Anox™ NDB is proven to increase productivity, reduce costs and improve final product quality.

Great Lakes announced earlier this month the expansion of Anox™ NDB production at Gulf Stabilizers Industries (GSI) in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. When complete, the expansion will triple the existing Anox™ NDB capacity, which went on stream in early 2001. GSI is a joint venture between Great Lakes and the A.H. Al Zamil Group of Saudi Arabia.

Anox™ NDB is also manufactured at Great Lakes sites in the U.S. and South Korea.

Through its Polymer Additives division, Great Lakes offers an extensive line of UV stabilizers, antioxidants, polymer stabilizer blends and optical monomers, as well as a full line of flame retardants that include bromine-, phosphorus-, and antimony-based flame retardants and other synergists. For more information about these product lines, please visit the Great Lakes Polymer Additives web site at www.pa.greatlakes.com.

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