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LSB Completes Sale of Automotive Products Business

8 May 2000

LSB Industries, Inc., Completes Sale of Automotive Products Business

    OKLAHOMA CITY, May 8 LSB Industries, Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: LSBD) (the "Company") announced today that it has
completed the sale of substantially all of the assets of its Automotive
Products Business.  The purchaser of the Automotive Products Business assumed
approximately $22 million of the Automotive Products Business' debts and
issued to the Company $8.6 million subordinated promissory notes.
    Jack E. Golsen, the Company's Chairman, stated that this sale represents
significant progress in the plan of the Company to focus on its core Chemical
and Climate Control Business.