Tom Mallon and Joe Costa join RohMax Team

Tom Mallon and Joe Costa join RohMax Team USA, Inc. during 2009 as Global Key Account Manager. He has completed a transitional period with his predecessor, Armand Bianchini, who retired last year, and is based in the Rohmax Horsham, PA., Regional NAFTA office. He joined RohMax from Evonik's pharma polymer business line, where he held the position of Regional Business Directo. Tom brings with him strong leadership and business management skills, coupled with technical depth. He holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Penn State and an MBA from St. Joseph's University.

November, bringing with him several decades of sales, marketing and technical experience in the lubricants Industry gained at ConocoPhillips and Petro-Canada. Joe is working through a transition period with Cheryl Budzinski, whoe retired at the end of last year. Joe is based in the Houston area and brings with him a wealth of sales management expertise and technical skills coupled with in-depth industry knowledge and International experience.

RohMax Oil Additives
RohMax Oil Additives is a leading global supplier of high performance VISCOPLEX lubricant additives and VISCOBASE synthetic base fluids for use in automotive and industrial lubricants. The company also produces dewaxing aids and Sulfance used in refinery processing and forms part of Specialty Acrylics business unit of Evonik Industries AG (www.evonik.com). For additional information and a listing of worldwide locations, please visit www.rohmax.com

Company Information
Evonik Industries is the creative industrial group which operates in three highly profitable, promising business areas: Chemicals, Energy and Real Estate. Evonik is a global leader in specialty chemicals, an expert in power generation from hard coal and renewable energies, and one of the largest private residential real estate companies in Germany. Our strengths are creativity, specialization, continous self-renewal and reliability. Evonik Industries is active in over 100 countries around the world. In fiscal 2006 around 43,000 employess generated sales of 14.8 billion Euro nd operating Profit (EBIT) of over 1.2 billion Euro. Evonik plans to enter the capital Markets in the first half of 2008.