Notes to Editors

Advanced Composites Group (ACG) is a manufacturer of advanced composite materials and components. ACG specialises in the manufacture of high performance composite materials for a diverse range of industries, such as motorsport, aerospace, marine, automotive, construction, wind energy and leisure sports. The main focus of the Group's business, which operates through four divisions, is the manufacture of prepregs for components and tooling. ACG has manufacturing operations in Heanor and Manchester in the UK, and Tulsa in the USA. The Group is managed from its head office in Heanor and employs approximately 400 world-wide.

Umeco plc, ACG’s parent company, is an international provider of advanced composite materials primarily to the aerospace, defence, wind energy, recreation and automotive industries. Revenue from continuing operations to 31st March 2011 was £207.4 million, and these operations had 863 employees in manufacturing and distribution operations in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Umeco is managed through two business streams:

• Structural Materials – development, manufacture and supply of advanced composite materials

and

• Process Materials – development, manufacture and supply of vacuum bagging materials