Holding(s) in Company

Elementis PLC
15 February 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.

      19,750,000

6)   Percentage of issued Class
      4.57%

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

      15.2.05

12)  Total holding following this notification

      63,323,071
               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

      14.65%

14)  Any additional information

      -

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

      MARK PRUDDEN
      01784 227022


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

     Date of Notification ...15.2.2005.....................




Letter to Elementis Plc

 
Notification of interest in shares


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


1.   we are interested in 63,323,071 ordinary shares in the share capital of 
     Elementis plc ('the HIP V Shares');

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

3.   our interest in the HIP V 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, Delaware, USA 19809, that it is interested in a total of
63,695,000 ordinary shares in the share capital of Elementis plc. These shares
include all the HIP IV Shares, in which HIP IV Incorporated is interested in its
capacity as our managing member and 371,929 shares registered in the name of
Hanover Investors Partners IV-L.P., in which HIP IV Incorporated is interested in
its capacity as the general partner of Hanover Investors Partners IV-L.P, HIP IV
Incorporated's interest in all such 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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