Mar 13, 2015

The appointment of Dr McIntyre follows his nomination to join the Board by Tasnee, the Company's major shareholder, on 3 March 2015, following their additional $6 million investment.

Dr McIntyre has a Ph.D in Fundamental Surface Electrochemistry which he obtained from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. He was then awarded a Max Planck Fellowship to Study under Professor Heinz Gerischer, Director of the Fritz-Haber Institute. He worked there as a group leader for 5 years on fundamental surface chemistry of semi-conductors and metals and for that work he was awarded the Tajima Prize for Electrochemistry, awarded annually by the International Society of Electrochemistry. He has since held management positions at Courtaulds Chemicals, now AKZO, ICI, Tioxide, now Huntsman, and most recently, Cristal Global, formerly Millennium Chemicals. Dr McIntyre has been a Director of Stainless Steel International (UK), Millennium Chemicals (UK), Cristal UK, and many other Cristal companies for the past 10 years. He has a wide range of publications and patents and in the last 15 years has directed teams which have been responsible for the scale-up of many of Cristal's major pigments and specialty products.

Chairman Ian Neal commented:

"We are very pleased to welcome a person of Dr McIntyre's experience and expertise to our Board. He is highly regarded and has been overseeing the implementation of Dyesol's current Technology Development Plan since its inception."

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