Purchase of Own Shares

Alumasc Group PLC
3 October 2000


                    THE ALUMASC GROUP plc
                              
                   PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

Alumasc,  the  specialist engineering and building  products
group, announces that on 2 October  2000  it  purchased, for 
cancellation,  105,000 (approximately 0.3%) of its ordinary
shares  at a price of 143p xd per ordinary  share, leaving
38,882,787 ordinary shares outstanding.


Enquiries:

The Alumasc Group plc                            01536-383844
  John McCall (Chairman & Chief Executive)
  David Sowerby (Finance Director)

Bankside Consultants Limited                     020-7220 7477
  Charles Ponsonby