MARYLAND CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC. Recognized Among Top 100 Regional Minority Businesses

Will Receive Award at November 6, 2008 Ceremony

BALTIMORE, MD – July 29, 2008 – Maryland Chemical Company, Inc. announced that it will cut the ribbon on its state of the art distribution facility on Friday, August 1, 2008 at 2pm.

The company and its twenty employees recently moved from its Russell Street location to make way for the City’s Gateway South redevelopment project. “It’s amazing here in our new facility and we are excited to have found a new home in Fairfield, the hottest neighborhood for industry in Baltimore,” remarked Jeanette Glose Partlow, President. “We are now poised for expansion, particularly in our innovative ChemStation product line, and to provide services to the thriving life sciences sector of our economy.”

The Maryland Chemical Company relocation project team included Baltimore Development Corporation and Kimball Construction Company. General contractor Kimball Construction brought top-notch partners to the design-build project, which was completed within a year of breaking ground in August 2007. An environmental highlight of the project was the adaptive reuse of an existing industrial property. Application for the property located at 3310 Childs Street, into the Maryland Department of the Environment Voluntary Cleanup Program, (designed to encourage reinvestment in industrial property) was successfully completed in 2007.

Maryland Chemical Company, in business in Baltimore for 55 years, became women owned in 2004, and subsequently received Minority/Women Business Enterprise certification from the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore.

Maryland Chemical Company, Inc. provides essential environmental, specialty and commodity chemical products and expert hazardous materials warehousing and logistics services to customers in the major markets of food and beverage processing, water & wastewater treatment, bioscience and general industry.