Cytec Engineered Materials Receives Silver Boeing Performance Excellence Award

WOODLAND PARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cytec Industries Inc. (NYSE: CYT) announced today that three sites in its Engineered Materials business unit, Anaheim, California; Orange, California; and Greenville, Texas, have received 2010 Boeing Performance Excellence Awards. The Boeing Company issues these awards annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. Cytec’s Anaheim, Orange and Greenville sites maintained a Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from Oct. 1, 2009, to Sept. 30, 2010.

“Having both California sites and our Greenville, Texas site selected reflects on our commitment to customer focus. We continually strive to understand and address our customers’ product needs to help them continue to be successful in all their applications.”

“Cytec is honored to be part of the elite group recognized by Boeing with this prestigious award,” said Alain Theoret, Manufacturing Director. “Having both California sites and our Greenville, Texas site selected reflects on our commitment to customer focus. We continually strive to understand and address our customers’ product needs to help them continue to be successful in all their applications.”

Cytec’s Anaheim site supplies both adhesives and prepregs to Boeing programs. The Orange site supplies commercial prepregs to Boeing for aircraft interior and secondary structure applications. The Greenville site supplies secondary structural prepreg materials for Boeing legacy aircraft such as 777 and 737 and for key growth programs including 787 and 747-8.

Corporate Profile

Cytec’s vision is to deliver specialty chemicals and materials technologies beyond our customers’ imagination. Our focus on innovation, advanced technology and application expertise enables us to develop, manufacture and sell products that change the way our customers do business. Our pioneering products perform specific and important functions for our customers, enabling them to offer innovative solutions to the industries that they serve. Our products serve a diverse range of end markets including aerospace composites, structural adhesives, automotive and industrial coatings, electronics, inks, mining and plastics.

For more information on the Boeing Performance Excellence Award, visit http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/doingbiz/supplier_portal/bpea.html.