Purchase of Own Securities

Porvair PLC
24 March 2000


                  Porvair plc ('the Company')
                  Purchase of Ordinary Shares
                               
On 24 March 2000 the Company acquired 10,000 ordinary shares of
2p  each  in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing  0.04
per  cent. of the Company's issued ordinary share capital at  a
price  of  205p per Ordinary Share. Following this  acquisition
the  Ordinary  Shares  are to be cancelled  and  the  Company's
issued  ordinary  share capital will be reduced  to  25,673,073
Ordinary Shares.