Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 4234Q

Surface Transforms PLC

19 October 2011

 



Surface Transforms plc

("Surface Transforms" or the "Company")

Holdings in the Company

Surface Transforms plc (AIM: SCE) announces, having been so advised by its shareholder, AXA S.A., that following the disaggregation exemption notified to the FSA under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules on 17 October 2011, AXA S.A. and its subsidiary notifying group entities, acting independently from their parent and from each other, no longer have any reportable holdings in Surface Transforms on a group aggregated basis. However, AXA Investment Managers S.A. has now crossed upward through the 5 per cent. threshold with a holding of 2,355,000 ordinary shares in the Company (equivalent to 7.39 per cent of the total issued share capital of the Company) on a group disaggregated basis as an independent group subsidiary.

- Ends -

Enquiries:

Surface Transforms Plc
Dr.Kevin Johnson, CEO	[phone]
David Bundred, Chairman	[phone]
Seymour Pierce Ltd	[phone]
Guy Peters / David Foreman (Corporate Finance)
Paul Jewell (Corporate Broking)

Notes to Editors:

See: www.surface-transform.com

Surface Transforms plc is the UK's leading manufacturer of `next-generation' carbon fibre reinforced ceramic composite materials (CRFCs).It is one of two global manufacturers of carbon ceramic brake discs and the Company's high-performance products are being commercialised with major industry partners, for an expanding range of innovative global applications in automobile brakes, aircraft brakes and rocket components.

 

END

 

 

HOLEAXEPFDPFFFF