LAPORTE (DL) LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 18th March 1998) HAMPSHIRE METAL FINISHERS LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 18th March 1998) REDDISH SAVILLES LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 18th March 1998) TAK CHEMICALS LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 18th March 1998) THE FULLERS’ EARTH UNION LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 18th March 1998) SILEXINE COATINGS LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 23rd March 1998) PERMAWOOD LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 23rd March 1998) TRACEBREW LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 23rd March 1998) LAPO-TOX LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 23rd March 1998) COLLINS & HARMER PLASTICS LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 13th March 1998) LAPODORM NO. 1 LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 13th March 1998) R & I CONNELL LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 13th March 1998) REXBASE LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 13th March 1998) SIMVIC LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 13th March 1998) LAPORTE GROUP (OVERSEAS) LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 13th March 1998) WEYCLOSE LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 13th March 1998) GLEBE MINES LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 18th March 1998) REMEDIAL CHEMICALS LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 18th March 1998) TAKDUST PROPERTIES LTD. (Last Date for Claims: 18th March 1998)

Notice is hereby given that the Creditors of the above-named Companies, which are being voluntarily wound up, are required, on or before the aforementioned dates, respectively, to send to the undersigned, Ladislav Hornan, of Hacker Young and Partners, St. Alphage House, 2 Fore Street, London EC2Y 5DH, the Liquidator of the Companies, written statements of the amounts they claim to be due to them by the individual Companies, and, if so requested, to provide such further details or produce such documentary or other evidence as may appear to the Liquidator to be necessary. A Creditor who has not proved his debt before the declaration of any dividend is not entitled to disturb, by reason that he has not participated in it, the distribution of that dividend or any other dividend declared before his debt was proved. L. Hornan, Liquidator   Note. This notice is purely formal. All known Creditors have been, or will be, paid in full, but if any person considers that he has a claim against the Company, he should send in his claim forthwith.