PLEASE NOTE: THE HEARING ON THE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT AND VOTING PROCEDURES MOTION HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO AUGUST 25, 2008 AT 11:30 A.M.PREVAILING EASTERN TIME

On May 1, 2004, The Flintkote Company ("Flintkote") filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition for reorganization in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the "Bankruptcy Court"). The case is being administered under case number 04-11300 and is assigned to the Honorable Judith K. Fitzgerald.

On August 25, 2004, Flintkote Mines Limited ("Mines") the wholly-owned subsidiary of Flintkote, filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition with the Bankruptcy Court. On September 9, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order directing that the cases of Flintkote and Mines be jointly administered for procedural purposes under case number 04-11300.

In November 2004, a proof of claim form along with the Notice of Bar Date was mailed to all of the Debtors' known creditors and other parties in interest. The Notice of Bar Date advised that the Bankruptcy Court had set January 31, 2005 as the deadline for filing proofs of claim (the "General Bar Date").

The Notice of Bar Date also advised that if you had a claim relating to the rejection of an executory contract or unexpired lease by either of the Debtors pursuant to an order entered prior to the confirmation of the plan of reorganization, you were required to file a proof of claim on or before the later of (i) the General Bar Date; or (ii) thirty (30) days after the date of the order authorizing the applicable Debtor's rejection of the applicable contract or lease.

Any entity that failed or fails to file a proof of claim by the applicable Bar Date described above may be forever barred, estopped and enjoined from (i) asserting any General Claim against the applicable Debtor in an amount that exceeds the amount, if any, that is identified in that Debtor's Schedules on behalf of such Entity as undisputed, noncontingent, and unliquidated; or (b) voting upon, or receiving distributions under, any plan of reorganization in the Debtors' chapter 11 cases in respect of such General Claim, notwithstanding that such Entity may later discover facts in addition to, or different from, those which that Entity knows or believes to be true as of the applicable Bar Date, and without regard to the subsequent discovery or existence of such different or additional facts.

On February 22, 2008, the Debtors filed a proposed Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization and an Amended Disclosure Statement. On February 22, 2008, the Debtors also filed a Notice of Filing of Revisions to Plan and Disclosure Statement. A hearing to consider the adequacy of the Amended Disclosure Statement and to consider approval of the Voting Procedures Motion as Amended is currently scheduled for April 22, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. prevailing Eastern Time at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, 824 Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801.

Objections to the Amended Disclosure Statement, if any, must be made in accordance with the terms set forth in the Notice of Hearing to Consider Approval of Disclosure Statement which was mailed on June 26, 2007 to all known creditors and parties in interest. You may obtain a copy of the Notice of Hearing to Consider Approval of Disclosure Statement by calling 1(800)290-0537. Copies of the Amended Plan and the Disclosure Statement can be viewed by clicking on the links on the left side of this page.

The documents filed with the Bankruptcy Court are available for inspection by accessing the Court's website at www.deb.uscourts.gov. Please contact PACER at www.pacer.psc.uscourts.gov to obtain the internet password required to gain access to the documents. You will not be able to obtain copies of documents by calling the Bankruptcy Court directly.

If you have any questions, you may call the Claims Agent toll-free at 1 (800) 290-0537, or you may write to the Debtors' claims agent, by first class mail, at the following address: The Garden City Group, Inc., Claims Agent for Flintkote, P.O. Box 9000-6230, Merrick, New York 11566-9000. You may also wish to contact your attorney.

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Please note that the Claims Agent is not permitted to give legal advice. We strongly recommend that you read the Amended Disclosure Statement and Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization in their entirety for more complete information (To view any of these documents, please click on the appropriate link on the left).