LSB Industries Subsidiary Restarts Pryor Plant

LSB Industries, Inc.

announced today that its subsidiary, Pryor Chemical Company, located in Pryor, Oklahoma has restarted production of anhydrous ammonia following a shut-down due to a pipe failure resulting in a fire in June of this year that damaged the ammonia plant's primary reformer. At present, repairs have been completed and anhydrous ammonia is being produced at Pryor in accordance with our restart plan. The nitric acid and urea plants will be activated to produce urea ammonium nitrate in proper sequence to meet anticipated customer orders.