Share Purchase

Alumasc Group PLC
19 September 2000

                                   
                    THE ALUMASC GROUP plc
                              
                       SHARE PURCHASE

Alumasc, the specialist engineering and building products
group, announces that today it purchased 125,000 of its
ordinary shares at a price of 139p per ordinary share.


Enquiries:
The Alumasc Group plc                             01536-383844
  John McCall (Chairman & Chief Executive)

Bankside Consultants Limited                     020 7220 7477
  Dominic Barretto