Assuming the full exercise of the over-allotment (greenshoe) option, the Capvis (C.I.) Ltd.

and Capvis General Partner II Ltd. funds, both advised exclusively by Capvis Equity

Partners AG of Zurich, will have withdrawn completely from Polytec Holding AG. The

greenshoe consists of some 1.7 million shares, equivalent to 15 percent of the shares on

offer and 7.8 percent of total equity. Prior to the IPO Capvis held a 63.6 percent stake in

Polytec. The company’s founder and CEO Friedrich Huemer is now its largest single

shareholder, with over 30 percent.

Friedrich Huemer established the POLYTEC ELASTOFORM company in Marchtrenk

near Linz in 1986 to manufacture industrial components from PUR elastomers. In the

mid-1990s the POLYTEC GROUP expanded its Car Styling Division and concentrated

entirely on the automotive industry. The company now cooperates with car-makers to

develop and produce plastic and metal vehicle components, both interior and exterior –

most of them original accessories.

Capvis acquired a majority holding in the POLYTEC GROUP in the autumn of 2000 by

means of a leveraged buy-out. Not long after that, in 2001, Polytec took over two

factories in Italy and Sweden (Polytec Composites Italy and Sweden) from automotive

component supplier Lear, and also Avo in Belgium. The following year saw two

acquisitions in Germany: Thermoplast (from the Dana Corp.) and Riesselmann. The last

major step was taken in 2004, when Capvis acquired Findlay Europe, the well-known

producer of car-door panels, and merged it with Polytec.

In the last five years the POLYTEC GROUP has thus continuously expanded all its

divisions, its Automotive Systems Division in particular. Its overriding focus on innovation

and customer orientation has combined with a strategy of selective acquisitions to

generate remarkable growth in sales: within those five years the POLYTEC GROUP has

boosted its sales by a factor of six, from some €80 million in 2000 to around €500 million

in 2005. Last year the POLYTEC GROUP generated EBITDA of €42 million and EBIT of

€25 million. The group employs about 3,700 people at 23 locations.

The banking syndicate was led by Lehman Brothers and Bank Austria Creditanstalt as

joint bookrunners. Capvis was advised by independent capital-market experts Lilja & Co.,

Zurich, and by Wolf Theiss solicitors, Vienna.

In March 2006, Capvis – the leading Private Equity company in Switzerland – received

the Private Equity International award as the “Best Private Equity House in Switzerland”

for the fifth year in succession. In Austria Capvis has held a majority stake in ACP GmbH

(All Computer Products) of Vienna, the leading Austrian IT systems house, since the

beginning of 2006. The Capvis corporate objective is to cooperate on an active,

entrepreneurial basis with the managers of the companies in which it is involved in order

to increase the value of its holdings. The funds advised by Capvis acquire majority

shareholdings in medium-sized companies in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Capvis

is currently the exclusive adviser to funds with a total volume of €540 million. The ten

companies in which Capvis is a shareholder generate total sales of around €1.5 billion

and have over 7,500 employees.

For further information please contact:

Capvis Equity Partners AG

Dr Alexaander Krebs

Phone 0041 43 300 58 58

Fax 0041 43 300 58 59

alexander.krebs@capvis.com

Capvis Equity Partners AG

Dr Yves Dudli

Phone 0041 43 300 58 58

Fax 0041 43 300 58 59

yves.dudli@capvis.com

who will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

See also www.capvis.com and www.polytec-group.com for more info.

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