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For Immediate Release

Updated Inorganic Chemicals Guide Provides Building Blocks for Success for Bayer MaterialScience Customers

May 11, 2006

PITTSBURGH, May. 11, 2006 — Bayer MaterialScience LLC announces the release of Your Building Blocks for Success, a newly updated reference guide to the chlor-alkali products available from the company's Inorganic Basic Chemicals business unit.

The guide provides an overview of Bayer MaterialScience's food-grade and NSF-certified chlor-alkali products — caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorate and spent sulfuric acid. In addition, it addresses the applications, production, distribution and transportation of these products.

The booklet also describes Bayer's BayCare^SM Progressive Product Stewardship Program and BayCare^SM Online Resource center (www.BayCareOnline.com). BayCare is a multi-phased, comprehensive product stewardship program designed to reduce environmental impact, improve process safety and foster positive relationships with neighbors in plant communities.

For a copy of Your Building Blocks for Success, please call 1-800-662-2927 or visit www.BayerMaterialScienceNAFTA.com.

Bayer MaterialScience LLC is one of the leading producers of polymers and high-performance plastics in North America and is part of the global Bayer MaterialScience business with nearly 19,000 employees at 40 sites around the world and 2005 sales of 10.7 billion euros. Our innovative developments in coating, adhesive and sealant raw materials, polycarbonates, polyurethanes and thermoplastic urethane elastomers enhance the design and functionality of products in a wide variety of markets, including the automotive, construction, electrical and electronics, household and medical industries, and the sports and leisure fields. Our inorganic basic chemicals unit produces chlorine and related essential products for the chemicals industry. Let us give life to your vision. Bayer MaterialScience — Where VisionWorks.

Bayer Corporation, headquartered in Pittsburgh, is part of the worldwide Bayer Group, an international health care, nutrition and innovative materials group based in Leverkusen, Germany. In North America, Bayer employed 16,200 at the end of 2005 and had net sales of 7.3 billion euros. Bayer's three operating companies — Bayer HealthCare LLC, Bayer CropScience LP and Bayer MaterialScience LLC — improve people's lives through a broad range of essential products that help diagnose and treat diseases, protect crops and advance automobile safety and durability.

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Company:	Bayer MaterialScience
Email:	thomas.erdner@bayerbms.com