Nexam’s patent application regarding its crosslinking technology for aromatic polyetherketones is approved in Europe.

Nexam has today received a notice of allowance from the European Patent Office
(EPO) that the company’s European patent application regarding its crosslinking
technology for aromatic polyetherketones (PAEK) will be granted.
Nexam has developed several special crosslinkers for PAEK. The largest plastic
within the group PAEK is PEEK.

PAEK is a plastic with excellent mechanical properties and chemical resistance,
even at very high temperatures. With Nexam’s crosslinking technology, the
processability of the plastic improves and properties such as heat and chemical
resistance increases.

The PAEK market amounts to about 4,000 tons and is growing annually by 10-15%.
The main application areas are within automotive / transportation, electrical &
electronics, industrial machinery, aerospace and oil & gas.

“The granted patent gives us future protection for Nexam’s technology and
products in this area. We are talking about a market for very high performance
plastics with high prices. Nexam is currently working in projects with several
leading producers of these plastics.”, says Dane Momcilovic, R&D Director.

Nexam currently has, in addition to already approved patents, 40 patent
applications within 12 patent families.

For more information on Nexam’s technology, please go to
http://www.nexam.se/Technology/.

Note: This press release has been translated from Swedish. The Swedish text
shall govern for all purposes and prevail in case of any discrepancy with the
English version.
For more information, please contact:

Lennart Holm, Chairman of the Board: +46 (0)706 30 8562
Per Palmqvist Morin, CEO, +46 (0)706 55 55 82
Nexam is a Swedish company with a world-leading technology within its area for
heat-activated crosslinking of plastics and polymers. The company develops,
manufactures and markets unique heat-activated crosslinkers to the plastics
­market. A company description and more information about the business will be
found on www.nexam.se. The company’s Certified Adviser is Remium Nordic AB.