BSW Timber Endorsement

Accsys Technologies PLC
20 March 2006

20th March 2006
AIM: AXS

            Accoya wood to Set 'New Standards of Reliability' across
                      Windows, Doors and Cladding Markets


Following BSW Timber's recent Press Release, which is reproduced below, Accsys
Technologies PLC comments as follows:

  • BSW recognises the market potential for Accoya wood, with its exceptional
    attributes: dimensional stability, durability, reliability and
    sustainability;

  • BSW will promote Accoya wood to UK & Ireland's major window, door
    manufacturers and joinery firms and has further plans to market Accoya wood
    in the timber cladding sector through the A. Proctor Group Ltd.;

  • BSW has forged an exclusive agreement with leading coatings supplier Akzo
    Nobel Sikkens to provide a package of coatings guarantees for windows and
    doors that is set to create a new industry benchmark; and

  • Extensive testing has yielded impressive results, endorsed by British
    Research Establishment.


BSW Press Release reads as follows: ' BSW Timber, the UK's largest sawmilling
group, is hoping a new high performance wood will significantly increase its
share in the windows, doors and cladding markets.

The company has signed an agreement with Titan Wood to be the exclusive supplier
across the UK and Ireland of Accoya wood - a modified, environmentally friendly
wood that offers outstanding levels of performance, stability and
sustainability.

Following two years of extensive research, BSW is now promoting Accoya wood to
many of the UK's leading window and door manufacturers as well as joinery firms,
and is further planning a route to market for the timber cladding sector through
the A Proctor Group.  BSW has also signed an exclusive agreement with leading
coatings supplier Akzo Nobel Sikkens to provide a high quality finish for the
new product.

Accoya wood offers performance attributes that are equivalent to or better than
the best tropical hardwoods and superior to many artificial material
alternatives. It is produced using a patented process that adapts sustainably
grown softwoods and non-durable hardwoods by increasing the amount of acetyl
molecules present in the wood.  Natural wood has 2% acetyl molecules, oak has 4%
and Accoya wood has 20%.

Wood acetylation protects wood from rot by making it inedible to most
micro-organisms and insects, without making it toxic.  It also greatly reduces
the wood's tendency to swell and shrink, making it less prone to cracking and
ensuring that when painted it requires dramatically reduced maintenance.

Since acetyl molecules are already present in all wood species, the process does
not introduce anything that does not occur naturally in wood and Accoya wood is
therefore completely non-toxic.

John Alexander, Head of Business Development at BSW Timber, says: 'Accoya wood
will raise standards of reliability and performance for timber windows, doors
and cladding to new levels.  It is a high performance wood product, which has
excellent environmental credentials and is more sustainable than other materials
used in non-timber windows and doors.

'Testing of Accoya wood for machining properties, gluing and coatings has now
been completed, with excellent results.  We now offer a product that has new
levels of warranty against decay and a new warranty for quality coating
finishes, and does not require any further preservative treatment at joinery
companies' factories.

'Significantly, these benefits are endorsed and backed by leading third party
technical experts such as the British Research Establishment. And our two-year
commercial partnership with Akzo Nobel Sikkens will offer a solution for joinery
companies looking for new market opportunities and increased manufacturing
efficiencies.

'We aim for this advanced technology to contribute to our partner and customer
success in the joinery products market, as well as helping them compete with
non-wood products and imported timber windows.'

Customer trials of Accoya wood in key product applications are currently
underway in the UK with BSW and Titan Wood interested in establishing reference
projects for the UK, in cladding in particular, during the next four to six
months.

Trial material, at maximum four metres lengths, is coming to the UK from Titan
Wood's large-scale pilot plant in the Netherlands.  Titan Wood is presently
building a 30,000 m3 commercial scale production plant, with start-up due in
September 2006.

Initial commercial volumes are expected to be available in the UK through BSW
towards the end of 2006.  Larger volumes will be available in the in 2007 once
the Dutch operating plant achieves full operating conditions.  BSW Timber plans
to establish a BSW Accoya wood production plant in the UK as the market
materialises.'


          ACCOYA is a registered trademark owned by Titan Wood Limited


                                      ENDS



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Notes to Editors: BSW Timber in the UK / Europe
     
•    BSW Timber is the largest sawmilling business in Great Britain. The company 
     has six sawmills in the UK and one in Latvia, producing a total of over
     600,000m3 of sawn timber per year.

•    BSW Timber supply sawn timber products to customers in the Construction, 
     Pallet and Packaging, Fencing and Garden Products sectors.

•    BSW is committed to supporting sustainable forestry, and use FSC 
     certification by independent auditors as a way to display this.

•    All BSW Timber sawmills have FSC Chain of Custody Certificates, and all 
     timber supplied from UK sawmills is FSC certified.

•    BSW Timber's Group Headquarters is in Earlston, Berwickshire.  Its six UK 
     sawmills are based in:

     o    Boat of Garten, Inverness-shire / Fort William, Inverness-shire / 
          Petersmuir, East Lothian / Carlisle, Cumbria / Newbridge-on-Wye, 
          Powys / Senghenydd, Mid Glamorgan


Accsys Technologies - owns the rights to a number of processes, including high
temperature cracking and cellulose modification. Accsys' core technologies have
either existing patent protection or pending patent applications.  Accsys is
focusing its energies on the launch of its Titan Wood business: once this
business has been established, the Directors intend to pursue other technologies
within its portfolio.

Wood Acetylation - Wood acetylation is a process which increases the amount of '
acetyl' molecules in wood, thereby changing its physical properties.  The
process protects wood from rot by making it 'inedible' to most micro-organisms
and insects, without - unlike conventional treatments - making it toxic.  It
also greatly reduces the wood's tendency to swell and shrink, making it less
prone to cracking and ensuring that when painted it requires dramatically
reduced maintenance.


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