Taminco Commences 10M Share Secondary Offering

Taminco Corporation

announced today that it has commenced a public secondary offering of its common stock (the "Offering").  In the Offering, which is subject to market and other conditions, certain of the Company's stockholders intend to offer 10,000,000 shares of common stock for sale and grant the underwriters the right to purchase up to 1,500,000 additional shares from certain of the Company's stockholders.  All of the shares in the Offering are being offered by selling stockholders.  The Company will not receive any of the proceeds from the Offering. Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Jefferies, Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank are acting as joint book-running managers for the Offering. ING, KBC Securities USA, Inc., Rabobank, SMBC Nikko and Apollo Global Securities are serving as co-managers for the Offering.  A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective.  The Offering will be made only by means of a prospectus.