NEWS RELEASE
July 30, 2007

A Rebirth After 199 Years:
Introducing Knowlton Technologies

WATERTOWN, NEW YORK (August 1, 2007) – A new website, brochure and corporate identity are shaping up to be an extraordinary moment in the history of Knowlton Specialty Papers as it enters the third century of continuous operation. While keeping its legal name, the company has changed its marketing identity to Knowlton Technologies to more accurately and strategically reposition the corporate brand.

For nearly 200 years the company has quietly prospered as one of northern New York’s most versatile paper mills, manufacturing a variety of products including absorbent media, high performance racing filters, high-energy friction materials, moldable pre-pegs and high temperature gaskets. These are a few of the technical products winning a variety of customer accolades for innovation and performance.

Knowlton is now entering a period of rebirth, due in large part to a workforce of dedicated, hard working employees who each and every day focus their collective talents reinventing the company.

“We’re not the same Knowlton we were five years ago, or for that matter even five months ago,” said Franklin D. Cean, Chairman/CEO of Knowlton. “The Knowlton of today continues to focus on differentiating, leading-edge technological capabilities that are most highly-valued by our customers, and which make us a strong competitive adversary.”

The company’s experience and technical know-how producing composites and media for a multitude of market needs has broadened into a variety of highly-sophisticated specialty organic and inorganic fiber applications, according to Mr. Cean.

Knowlton’s accelerated prototyping of composite wet-laid non-wovens for use in technical media and reactionary papers is well documented in the industry.

“We’ve transformed technology into a way of life at Knowlton’s, pioneering the development of a wide range of new products from innovative materials,” he said. “Customers today are faced with a multitude of technological obstacles. We encourage them to contact Knowlton Technologies for timely solutions.”

“While others may take months or years, or even give up, Knowlton engineers are proud of their ability to process complicated materials in a few days, sometimes even hours,” said Jamie Lee, Knowlton Director of Technology and New Business Development. “We explore science like no one else, creating exotic structured media utilizing a host of diverse materials and fibers.”

“Customers solicit Knowlton because we have the ability to develop and manufacture products where others fail,” said John McMahon, who recently joined the company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. McMahon, possessing a resume that includes 27 years in the specialty paper industry, stated, “Knowlton is a unique company with talented, dedicated people, who have proven skills to focus on new markets and the rapid deployment of new technology.”

A pioneer in the paper industry, the “new” Knowlton is now looking forward to its 200th year anniversary, “with plans and expectations of serving the industry far into the future,” McMahon said.