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Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. Completes Exchange Offer For 9-1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes

28 October 1997

Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. Completes Exchange Offer For 9-1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes

    ROMULUS, Mich., Oct. 28 -- Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc.
announced that its offer to exchange all of its outstanding
9-1/8 percent Senior Subordinated Notes due 2007 for 9-1/8 percent Series B
Senior Subordinated Notes due 2007, which have been registered under the
Securities Act, expired at 5 p.m. New York City time on October 24, 1997.
    According to The Bank of New York, the exchange agent, all of the $400
million principal amount of notes outstanding had been tendered in response to
the exchange offer.
    Hayes Lemmerz International, with annual sales of over $1.4 billion, is
the world's largest wheel manufacturer and is a world leader in the design,
engineering and manufacture of steel and aluminum wheels and brake drums and
rotors for the automotive and commercial highway markets in North America,
Europe and Asia.

SOURCE  Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc.