ARLANXEO – strong global synthetic rubber playerARLANXEO at K 2016

Jan Paul de Vries, CEO ARLANXEO Düsseldorf, June 28, 2016

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ARLANXEO – a global leading synthetic rubber company

ARLANXEO name: combining one syllable each of Saudi Aramco and LANXESS; ending “EO” refers to elastomers

Background: � ARLANXEO: Joint venture formed by LANXESS and Saudi Aramco;

Start-up April 1, 2016� A world-leading synthetic rubber company: development,

manufacturing and marketing of high-performance rubber

Global set-up:� 20 plants in nine countries� ~3,800 employees worldwide� Global sales of ~2.8bn € in 2015� Corporate Headquarters: Maastricht, Netherlands

Business Units:� Tire & Specialty Rubbers� High Performance Elastomers

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ARLANXEO – a powerful combination

ARLANXEO – Performance Elastomers

� World’s largest integrated energy enterprise

� Backward integration into feedstock for synthetic rubber

� Strategic commitment to further develop value chain downstream

� Leading market and technology positions in synthetic rubber

� Well invested asset base

� Broadest product portfolio in the rubber industry with leading brands and quality

A leading player in synthetic rubber

A leading player in feedstocks

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Saudi Aramco – the world’s largest energy player ext ends its business downstream

Company Business Downstream commitment

Saudi Aramco targets to be the world’s leading inte grated energy and chemicals company by 2020

� Headquarters: Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

� Employees: ~62,000 globally � State-owned (100%)

� Represented in all major global energy markets

� World’s largest integrated energy enterprise* - producing 1 in 8 barrels of oil globally

� World’s largest oil production capacity

� World scale integrated chemical complexes

� A world leading producer of natural gas

� Powerful partnerships to extend downstream business, e.g.:

− SATORP (JV with Total) and further expansions

− Sadara (JV with Dow): Naphtha based chemicals value chain (start up Q3 2015)

− and further global projects

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ARLANXEO established new structures within a short period of time

� ARLANXEO Executive Board announced and Shareholders’ Committee established

� ARLANXEO Country representatives (Managing Director and CFOs) nominated

� ARLANXEO support functions established

� Headquarters in Maastricht, Netherlands, officially opened (June 22, 2016)

ARLANXEO launched on April 1 Headquarters building in Maastricht, Netherlands (2nd floor)

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Synthetic rubber* capacity

Backward integration � � � � � � �

* Butyl, SSBR, ESBR, Nd- Co-, Li-, PBR, EPDM, (H)NBR, CR, EVM

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ARLANXEO – synthetic rubber operations now benefit f rom backward integration

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ARLANXEO – synthetic rubber businesses for a wide ra nge of applications

Primarily used in inner liners, treads and sidewall s of modern, fuel-efficient tires as well as non-tire

applications

High Performance Elastomers (HPE)Tire & Specialty Rubbers (TSR)

For a wide range of technical applications (e.g. se als, hoses, profiles, cable sheathing, special films and

adhesives)

Butyl rubbers ~400kt

PBRs/SBRs >1,000kt

EPDM ~450kt

(H)/NBR >130kt

CR >60kt

EVM ~15kt

* PBR/SBR= Polybutadiene rubber / Styrene butadiene rubber, EPDM = Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer, (H)NBR= (Hydrated) Nitrile butadiene rubber, CR= Chloroprene rubber, EVM= Ethylene vinyl acetate rubber

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ARLANXEO on the K fair exhibition

� ARLANXEO booth with ~250m² including exhibition area, information desk and two meeting rooms

� First ARLANXEO booth on K will represent diverse range of synthetic rubbers applications focusing on: new products, mobility, leisure and green

K trade fair location: hall 6

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ARLANXEO’s Executive Board – long-standing internati onal management experience

Jan Paul de VriesChief Executive Officer (CEO)

Ali Ba-BaidhanChief Financial Officer (CFO)

Jorge NogueiraMember of the

Executive Board

Fayez AlsharefChief Procurement

Officer (CPO)

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ARLANXEO Shareholders’ Committee

Matthias ZachertChairman of the Shareholders’

Committee

Michael PontzenShareholders’

Committee Member

Warren W. WilderVice Chairman Shareholders’

Committee

Khalid H. Al-Dabbagh

Shareholders’ Committee Member

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More than 100 years of experience in performance elastomers

2008 –2012

1909Fritz Hofmann invented synthetic rubber

1930BUNA registered as trademark

1955Foundation of Marl, largest and most modern synthetic rubber plant in Europe 1975

First production of Brominated Butyl Rubber

1939Isobutylene copolymerized with isoprene making Butyl Rubber ”cross-linkable“

1936Start of industrial production of SBR (BUNA)

1929Invention of

butadiene styrene copoly-

merization to produce SBR

1943Synthetic rubber production exceeded 120kt p.a.

1961First production of Chlorinated Butyl Rubber

1944Butyl rubber production in Sarnia (Canada) started

2004Spin-off of LANXESS

from Bayer

2008Acquisition of Petroflex

2010Groundbreaking for new Singapore site

1990Acquisition of Polysar

Selected milestones in our history

2013Butyl SGPopening

2015EPDM CHN opening

Nd-BR SGPopening

2016ARLANXEO starts –JV of Saudi Aramco

and LANXESS

2011Acquisition of DSM Elastomers