Date of trading update

Rotork PLC
17 October 2005

Date:          For immediate release, 17 October 2005





                                  ROTORK plc

                             DATE OF TRADING UPDATE



Rotork, the international specialist engineering group, will be announcing its
regular autumn trading update on Thursday 24 November, 2005.



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