Press release
Corporate Press
March 17, 2010

Evonik introduces new matting agent

Specially formulated for the UV-cured coatings market—excellent transparency and easy to disperse.

Evonik Industries is expanding its range of matting agents to include its new EXP 3600 product. This silica-based matting agent is perfectly suited for use in UV-cured coatings, thanks to its special surface configuration. This product is characterized, moreover, by high transparency, low residual gloss, excellent surface quality, and scratch-resistance. More information and the product data sheet can be found at www.acematt.com.

Evonik’s ACEMATT® products are efficient matting agents that have been popular with paints and coatings manufacturers for many years now. As with all of the other ACEMATT® products, EXP 3600 is easy to incorporate and it does not negatively impact the coating system’s other application properties in any way.

About Evonik

Evonik Industries is the creative industrial group from Germany which operates in three business areas: Chemicals, Energy, and Real Estate. Evonik is a global leader in specialty chemicals, an expert in power generation from hard coal and renewable energies, and one of the largest private residential real estate companies in Germany. Our strengths are creativity, specialization, continuous self-renewal, and reliability. Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world. In fiscal year 2008 around 41,000 employees generated sales of about €15.9 billion and an operating profit (EBITDA) of about €2.2 billion.

Disclaimer

In so far as forecasts or expectations are expressed in this press release and where our statements concern the future, these forecasts, expectations and statements may involve known or unknown risks and uncertainties. Actual results or developments may vary, depending on changes in the operating environment. Neither Evonik Industries AG nor its group companies assume an obligation to update the forecasts, expectations or statements contained in this release.