Purchase of Own Securities

Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC
5 October 2000


Spirax-Sarco Engineering Plc

As part of its share repurchase programme, Spirax-Sarco Engineering Plc
announces that, on 5 October 2000, it purchased for cancellation 1,000,000
ordinary shares from Merrill Lynch International at a price of 335 pence per
share.