Bluestar Silicones Launches a New Range of Silbione(R) TCS 7560 & 7561 Elastomers for Lingerie, Support Stockings and Medical Textile Applications

LYON, France, February 16, 2010 - Bluestar Silicones is launching a new line of TCS 7560 and TCS 7561
Silbione(R) products designed for the elastic band market for lingerie and
medical applications (support stockings and medical equipment). These two new
silicone elastomers have excellent "anti-slip" non-compression properties,
thus improving wearer comfort.

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Self-fixing stockings… a real success!

For more than twenty years, self-fixing stockings have applied
transparent silicone technology, which is adhesive and "anti-slip" for
elastic bands and lace: stockings and socks stay up! This "anti-slip"
technology is also used for other lingerie articles, braces and bra cups for
example.

Bluestar Silicones offers new sensations

Today, Bluestar Silicones is going further with a new range of platinum
polyaddition bi-component products, Silbione(R) TCS 7560 and TCS 7561, based
on its expertise in LSR technologies (Liquid Silicone Rubber) and its
experience in the medical device field.

This innovative technology offers new solutions to the paramedical market
for support stockings and prostheses.

Silbione(R) TCS 7560 provides elasticity, less compression for the wearer
and is perfectly harmless to the skin.

Silbione (R) TCS 7561 is even more flexible, with a very low compression
thus reducing skin compression and friction, bringing the wearer greater
comfort and confidence, for new sensations and enhanced pleasure!

From an coating process point of view, the new range offers flexibility
and higher productivity, allowing to substantially accelerate production
output.

Created in 2007 with China National BlueStar Corporation's acquisition of
Rhodia Silicones, Bluestar Silicones is a global supplier of silicones with a
turnover of EUR600 million and manufacturing sites in all regions of the
world. Bluestar Silicones is one of the world's leading manufacturers of
completely integrated silicones. With 180 researchers throughout the world
and over 50 years' experience in silicones, Bluestar Silicones offers a
complete range of silicone products in the fields of release coatings,
specialty elastomers, health products, specialty fluids, emulsions and
resins.

Press contact: Pascal Louis Caillaut, Bluestar Silicones, Phone: +33(0)4-72-13-19-00 - Fax: +33(0)4-72-13-19-44, E-mail: pascal-louis.caillaut at bluestarsilicones.com