ESOT Purchase

Elementis PLC
04 August 2006


Elementis plc ('the Company')


The Company's Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT) has today notified the
Company that it has purchased 1,658,696 ordinary shares in Elementis plc.

The aggregate purchase price of £1,427,142 paid by the Trust will be met out of
funds provided by the Company.


Jennifer Murphy
Company Secretary

4 August 2006



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