ESOT Purchase

Elementis PLC
14 May 2007







Elementis plc ('the Company')

The Company's Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT) has today notified the
Company that it has purchased 46,495 ordinary shares in Elementis plc.

The aggregate purchase price of £41,032 paid by the Trust will be met out of
funds provided by the Company.

Kathryn Silverwood
Company Secretary

14 May 2007



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