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Rockwood Press Release

For Immediate Distribution
May 16, 2008

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Contact:
Timothy McKenna
tmckenna@rocksp.com
Phone: 609-734-6430


Rockwood Holdings, Inc., to Present at
Goldman-Sachs Basic Materials Conference,
Presentation Webcast

Princeton, NJ USA (May 16, 2008) – Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC), a global producer of specialty chemicals and advanced materials, will participate in the Goldman Sachs Basic Materials Conference on Thursday, May 22. Seifi Ghasemi, chairman and chief executive officer of Rockwood, will make a presentation on the company’s strategy and diversified portfolio of businesses at 8 AM that morning.

You may log on to the live conference here. A listen-only, live webcast of the conference call will be available at www.rocksp.com. Materials for the call, including a PowerPoint file detailing the results, will be available for download on the company's website on the morning of the call.

The company’s Powerpoint presentation is available here (1.9 mb).


Rockwood Holdings, Inc. is a leading global specialty chemicals and advanced materials company. Rockwood has a worldwide employee base of approximately 9,500 people and annual net sales of approximately $3 billion. The company focuses on global niche segments of the specialty chemicals, pigments and additives and advanced materials markets. For more information on Rockwood, please visit www.rocksp.com.

The information set forth in this press release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 concerning the business, operations and financial condition of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates ("Rockwood"). Words such as "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "forecasts," "predicts" and variations of such words or expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Although Rockwood believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance that its expectations will be realized. "Forward-looking statements" consist of all non-historical information, including any statements referring to the prospects and future performance of Rockwood. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in Rockwood's forward-looking statements due to numerous known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including, among other things, the "Risk Factors" described in Rockwood's 2006 Form 10-K on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Rockwood does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which any such statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.