Directorate Change

Haydale (AIM: HAYD), the global advanced materials group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Gareth Kaminski-Cook as independent Non-Executive Director of the Group starting on the 1st January 2024.

Gareth Kaminski-Cook has a breadth of relevant experience in international businesses including currently as Chief Executive Officer of Autins Group plc, a UK and continental Europe based industrial materials technology business. Gareth joined Autins from Low & Bonar plc, the fully listed international performance materials group, where he was Group Director of Strategy, Sales and Marketing and Global Business Director, Interiors and Transportation (a global business supplying specialist materials to the Automotive and Flooring industries).

Gareth has 30 years' experience in market-leading industrial organisations across several business sectors, having worked previously for Saint Gobain, Rexam, BPB and Danaher. He has lived and worked in Asia, the US and Europe, and has a deep understanding of the manufacture and application of specialist thermal materials across relevant industrial markets such as Automotive and Building Products. Gareth is a former Officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers and a Civil Engineering graduate from Birmingham University.

David Banks, Chairman of Haydale, commented:

"I am very pleased to welcome Gareth to the Board and we all look forward to the benefits of his considerable experience in performance materials and across many Industries, some where we already have customers adopting our Functionalisation of Nanomaterials into their products.".

The following information regarding the appointment of Gareth Richard Norman Kaminski-Cook, aged 59, is disclosed under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies:

Autins Limited

Solar Nonwovens Limited

Autins Gmbh

Autins AB

Autins Technical Centre Limited

Acoustic Insulations Limited

Automotive Insulations Limited

Rowans Hospice

Mr Kaminskj-Cook owns 200,000 Shares in the Company. There are no further disclosures to be made under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.