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Stepan Acquires Assets of Peter Cremer’s Methyl Ester Plant

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Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL) today announced it has acquired the manufacturing assets of Peter Cremer GmbH's 100,000 ton per year methyl ester plant located on Singapore's Jurong Island.

"Methyl esters are a core building block of Stepan's surfactant business and the acquisition of this asset on Singapore's Jurong Island provides a great opportunity to reach our global customer base with methyl esters and value added derivatives," stated F. Quinn Stepan Jr., President and CEO of Stepan Company.  "Our plan is to install methyl ester fractionation capability on the site in order to supply our customers and our internal surfactant needs globally with fractionated methyl esters and derivatives made from tropical oils available in the region.  The site acquisition and the further planned capital investments will firmly position Stepan for continued global growth leveraging our strong position in methyl esters."

Stepan intends to re-start production of the Jurong Island plant by the end of 2011 after adding fractionation capabilities to the plant's current production capabilities.  Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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