Rohm and Haas Named "Best Innovation Contributor” by Henkel Corporation’s Laundry and Home Care Business

Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE:ROH) has been named "Best Innovation Contributor – 2008” by Henkel’s Laundry and Home Care business. The award was made by Thomas Müller-Kirschbaum, Corporate Senior Vice President for R&D, Technology and Supply Chain within Henkel's Laundry & Home Care business sector. The award was given for breakthrough technology for automatic dishwashing detergents.

Rohm and Haas developed a new, super-efficient dispersant based on polyacrylic technology that allowed Henkel to reformulate its automatic dishwashing detergents and offer new features for its products. Ian Burke, Global Business Manager for Rohm and Haas’s Primary Materials business, says, "It is quite gratifying to be engaged with a valued partner like Henkel. Our relationships with our counterparts within the Laundry and Home Care division are exceptional.” Burke notes that Rohm and Haas strives for this kind of partnership with key customers around the globe. "This is how we can be successful together, even during a down economy,” he says.

In making the presentation, Müller-Kirschbaum explained that this kind of innovation and collaboration is crucial in today’s economic environment and the key to industry success. "This innovative chemistry contributes to assuring Henkel’s leading position in premium automatic dishwashing detergents, now and in the future.”

The global automatic dishwashing detergent is estimated to generate approximately $3 billion in sales a year, according to Euromonitor International.

About Rohm and Haas Company

Leading the way since 1909, Rohm and Haas is a global pioneer in the creation and development of innovative technologies and solutions for the specialty materials industry. The company’s technologies are found in a wide range of industries including: Building and Construction, Electronics and Electronic Devices, Household Goods and Personal Care, Packaging and Paper, Transportation, Pharmaceutical and Medical, Water, Food and Food Related, and Industrial Process. Innovative Rohm and Haas technologies and solutions help to improve life every day, around the world. Based in Philadelphia, PA, the company generated annual sales of approximately $9.6 billion in 2008. Visit www.rohmhaas.com for more information.

About Henkel

For more than 130 years, Henkel has been a leader with brands and technologies that make people's lives easier, better and more beautiful. Henkel operates in three business areas – Home Care, Personal Care, and Adhesive Technologies – and is ranked among the Fortune Global 500 companies. The more than 55,000 employees worldwide are dedicated to fulfilling the corporate claim, "A Brand like a Friend," and ensuring that people in more than 125 countries can trust in brands and technologies from Henkel. Henkel markets a wide range of well-known consumer and industrial brands in North America, including Dial^® soaps, Purex^® laundry detergents, Right Guard^® antiperspirants, got2b^® hair gels, Loctite^®adhesives. For more information about Henkel, visit their website on http://www.henkel.com