Result of AGM

Elementis plc held its AGM today (22.4.10) at the City Presentation Centre in
London and all resolutions proposed were passed on a vote on a show of hands.

Copies of the special resolutions passed at the AGM will be submitted to the UK
Listing Authority shortly and will become available in due course for inspection
at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility located at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London E14 5HS

For information, the following table shows the proxy voting position received
for the meeting. The total number of shares in issue is 448,159,747. (Total
voting rights was: 448,159,747.) The percentage figure next to each voting
result column shows the respective result as a percentage of the total number of
proxy votes cast for that resolution (ie excluding votes withheld).

+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|Resolution    |  Votes for|    %|Discretionary|   %|     Votes|    %|     Votes|
|              |           |     |        votes|    |   against|     |  withheld|
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|1. Receive    |361,972,013|99.79|      714,693|0.20|    20,680| 0.01| 1,389,205|
|annual report |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|and accounts  |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|2009          |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|2. Final      |357,903,856|99.06|      697,477|0.19| 2,694,253| 0.75| 2,801,004|
|dividend      |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|3.            |275,665,375|76.02|      706,681|0.19|86,252,667|23.79| 1,471,867|
|Remuneration  |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|report        |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|4. Re-elect   |342,004,306|94.30|      729,155|0.20|19,960,133| 5.50| 1,402,997|
|Robert Beeston|           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|(Chairman)    |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|5. Re-elect   |360,724,866|99.66|      709,317|0.20|   512,822| 0.14| 2,149,586|
|David Dutro   |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|(CEO)         |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|6. Re-appoint |361,137,228|99.57|      733,581|0.20|   842,531| 0.23| 1,383,251|
|auditors      |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|7. Auditors'  |361,036,510|99.54|      742,428|0.20|   931,475| 0.26| 1,386,178|
|remuneration  |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|8. Authority  |358,827,326|98.94|      750,774|0.21| 3,087,586| 0.85| 1,430,905|
|to allot      |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|shares        |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|9. Amend LTIP |266,952,193|77.01|      754,241|0.22|78,936,693|22.77|17,453,462|
|and authority |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|to grant      |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|options       |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|10. Amend US  |361,471,077|99.71|      778,019|0.21|   279,999| 0.08| 1,567,496|
|Share Save    |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|Plan          |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|11. Hold      |352,528,118|97.19|      743,578|0.21| 9,435,367| 2.60| 1,389,528|
|general       |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|meetings at   |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|14 clear days'|           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|notice        |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|12.           |361,593,707|99.71|      748,166|0.21|   301,191| 0.08| 1,453,527|
|Disapplication|           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|of pre-emption|           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|rights        |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+
|13. Authority |361,756,480|99.73|      758,908|0.21|   207,246| 0.06| 1,373,957|
|to purchase   |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|own ordinary  |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
|shares        |           |     |             |    |          |     |          |
+--------------+-----------+-----+-------------+----+----------+-----+----------+

Resolutions 11 to 13 were passed as special resolutions.

Wai Wong
Company Secretary
0207 408 9303


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