William M. Brown Announces Not Stand for Re-Election to the Board of Celanese Corporation

Celanese Corporation specializes in the manufacture and marketing of chemicals and specialty materials. The products are intended for the production of automotive components, beverages and food products, cigarette filters, paints and coatings, packaging, textiles, etc. Net sales by category of products break down as follows: - acetyl products (55.7%); - high performance engineering polymers (44.3%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (25.8%), Germany (22.6%), China (17.8%), Singapore (10.5%), Belgium (4.6%), Mexico (3.3%), Japan (2.9%), Switzerland (2%), India (1.4%), South Korea (1.4%), Brazil (1.3%), Canada (1.3%), France ( 0.8%), the United Kingdom (0.8%), Italy (0.7%), Spain (0.5%), and other (2.3%).