Holding(s) in Company

Elementis PLC
13 January 2005




                           SCHEDULE 10
 
             NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     ELEMENTIS PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     HANOVER INVESTORS PARTNERS-V, LLC

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

      -

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

     PLEASE SEE BELOW

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

     43,573,071

6)   Percentage of issued Class
      10.08%

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed
      -

8)   Percentage of issued Class
      -

9)   Class of security

      ORDINARY SHARES

10)  Date of transaction

     NOT KNOWN

11)  Date company informed

      12.1.2005

12)  Total holding following this notification

      43,573,071
               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

      10.08%

14)  Any additional information



15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

      PENNY WATSON
      01784 227023

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

     Date of Notification ...13.1.2005.............


Letter to Elementis plc
Dated 12 January 2005


Notification of interest in shares


We, Hanover Investors Partners-V, LLC, notify you pursuant to sections 198 - 202
of the Companies Act 1985 of Great Britain ('the Act') that:

1.   we are interested in 43,573,071 ordinary shares in the share capital of
     Elementis plc ('the Shares');

2.   so far as known to us the Shares are, or are shortly to be, registered in
     name of 'Hanover Investors Partners-V, LLC'; and

3.   our interest in the Shares (or in any of them) is not such an interest as
     is mentioned in section 208(5) of the Act.


Please also treat this letter as a notification pursuant to sections 198 - 202
of the Act on behalf of HIP IV Incorporated of 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400,
Wilmington, New Castle Deleware, USA 19808, that it is interested, in its
capacity as our managing member, in all the Shares and that its interest in the
Shares (or in any of them) is not such an interest as is mentioned in section
208(5) of the Act.


Letter from Hanover Investors Partners-V,LLC




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