Termination of offer period

23 Oct 2006 16:06

Morgan Crucible Co PLC23 October 2006 IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 23 OCTOBER 2006 THE MORGAN CRUCIBLE COMPANY PLC TERMINATION OF OFFER PROCESS AND TRADING UPDATE On 7 August, The Morgan Crucible Company plc ("Morgan Crucible" or the"Company") announced that it had "received a preliminary approach that may ormay not lead to a cash offer being made for the Company". Discussions inrelation to this approach have now terminated. The outlook for the Company remains unchanged since the interim resultsannouncement on 3 August 2006. The Board remains confident of the prospects ofthe Group and a trading update will be issued, as usual, in December. END JPMorgan Cazenove Limited ("JPMorgan Cazenove") which is authorised andregulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is actingfor Morgan Crucible and no-one else in connection with the matters referred toherein and will not be responsible to anyone other than Morgan Crucible forproviding the protections afforded to clients of JPMorgan Cazenove of for givingadvice in relation to such matters. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange