Director/PDMR Shareholding

Morgan Crucible Co PLC
09 November 2006



The Morgan Crucible Company plc


The Company was informed on 8th November 2006 that the Trustees of The Morgan
General Employee Benefit Trust ('the Trust') had acquired 386,901 Ordinary
shares in the capital of the Company at an average price of £2.668958 per share
to satisfy future obligations arising from provisional share awards made under
The Morgan Crucible Long Term Incentive Plan 2004 and share options granted
under The Morgan Crucible Executive Share Option Scheme 2004.  1,843,058
Ordinary shares have also been transferred out of the Trust in satisfaction of
the exercise of share options previously granted by the Company.


Following this purchase and transfer of shares out of the Trust, the Trust holds
a total of 5,763,923 Ordinary shares representing 1.96% of the share capital of
the Company.  The class of discretionary beneficiaries for whom the Trust holds
such shares consists of employees of the Company including executive directors,
Mark Robertshaw, Kevin Dangerfield and Mark Lejman.  Under the provisions of
Schedule 13 of the Companies Act 1985 these directors are deemed to be
beneficially interested in all of such shares held by the Trust.


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