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Roll Coater, Inc. Announces General Price Adjustment

8 September 2000

Roll Coater, Inc. Announces General Price Adjustment

    INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 7 Roll Coater, Inc., a wholly owned
subsidiary of ArvinMeritor, announced today that it will issue a
general price increase of approximately 6 percent per item to its customer
base that will take effect Jan. 1, 2001.
    Roll Coater president Donald Ebert commented that, "Roll Coater has not
issued a general price adjustment in the past six years.  In that time, Roll
Coater has absorbed operating expense increases in areas such as labor,
natural gas, paint, utilities and government, as well as absorbed and self-
imposed environmental compliance measures, without transferring any of the
burden to our customer base.  Moreover, many paint companies have recently
requested price increases of their own, and the cost of natural gas has
dramatically increased in recent months."
    Ebert continued, "Our employees have made every effort to improve our
manufacturing and administrative processes, so that external price pressures
could be absorbed without creating the need for adjustments.  However, after a
period, it becomes necessary to request price adjustments, so that we can
afford to improve our processes and services, which, in turn, provide the
level of satisfaction that our customers demand.  Over time, we believe that
our customer base will receive more value through our increased ability to
continuously improve as a result of this price adjustment."