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Superglass Holdings Plc

 ('Superglass' or 'the Company')

Trading Update

Superglass Holdings PLC, the UK's leading independent manufacturer of glass wool mineral fibre insulation solutions, today releases a trading update. This statement also comprises the Interim Management Statement for the period from 28 February 2011 to date.

Within the interim results statement released on 28th April 2011, we reported that we had seen an upturn in CERT-related activity since the end of February. However, volatility in CERT-related volumes has had a major influence on the Company's performance since that statement. The Company's assessment of the wider market suggests that there is a significant and continuing aggregate shortfall in CERT-related installations.

Superglass has continued to win market share in other channels, but we continue to experience significant energy related input cost pressures which we are unable to pass on to customers. Together with some reduction in plant efficiency as a result of the variability in CERT-related volumes, these are impacting our margins. Management is taking all appropriate actions to manage controllable costs.

Whilst growth is still expected in turnover, we now expect to record only a modest adjusted profit before taxation (PBTA *) for the financial year.

Even at this much reduced level of profitability, Superglass continues to be strongly cash generative at the operating level. As a result, we remain covenant-compliant and continue to trade within the limits of our available bank facilities. Since the end of last year the Company has already agreed, in collaboration with its bankers, relaxations to the covenant structure and repayment profile of its debt facilities. Constructive discussions with the Company's bankers continue with a view to ensuring that the facilities remain appropriate to the Company's current operating performance.

The Government's CERT targets remain in place and a substantial increase in energy suppliers' activity is now required to achieve these targets by December 2012. We have also identified measures which we could take to improve our competitiveness if funding was available to us. However, in the absence of a sustained improvement in CERT-related activity, and resultant profitability and cash generation, it is clear that the Company's current facility structure does not provide the necessary headroom to permit capex investment to increase operating efficiency.

* PBTA - Profit before tax adjusted for the effect of amortisation of intangibles.

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