About APG Silica Trust

The APG Silica Trust (the "Trust") was established on April 30, 2013 pursuant to the Third Amended Plan of Reorganization of Global Industrial Technologies, Inc., et al., dated December 8, 2005, as Amended, Revised and Supplemented, as confirmed by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and affirmed by the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (the "Plan"), pursuant to Section 1121(a) of Title 11 of the United States Code (the "Bankruptcy Code") in the jointly administered Chapter 11 Case of Global Industrial Technologies, Inc. et al. (the "Bankruptcy Case"), Case No. 02-21626 JKF in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (the "Bankruptcy Court").

The Plan was confirmed by an order of the Bankruptcy Court entered on February 13, 2013, and affirmed by an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania entered on March 11, 2013.

The sole Trustee of the Trust is Anne M. Ferazzi. The Future Claimants’ Representative is Philip A. Pahigian, represented by Gary P. Nelson of Sherrard, German & Kelly, P.C., and the Trust Advisor is Bryan Blevins of the Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. General Counsel to the Trust is Steven A. Buxbaum of Haynes and Boone, LLP.

The Trust was formed to resolve APG Silica Trust Claims for which the APG Entities (as defined below) have Legal Responsibility, as provided in and required by the Plan and the APG Silica Trust Agreement. “Legal Responsibility” means responsibility for (i) a claim for personal injury caused by exposure to goods manufactured or sold, or by operations (including installation) conducted by an APG Entity where initial exposure occurred on or prior to February 14, 2002, which is the Petition Date applicable to each of the APG Entities, involving products containing respirable crystalline silica or (ii) a claim for personal injury caused by exposure to goods manufactured or sold, or operations (including installation) conducted by General Refractories Company on or prior to August 1, 1994, involving products containing respirable crystalline silica. APG Silica Trust Claims DO NOT include workers’ compensation claims except as specifically provided in the APG Silica Trust Distribution Procedures and other than Convenience Class Claims, they DO NOT include claims from exposure as a sandblaster, unless the exposure was in a covered industry for not less than one year.

The “APG Entities” are the following companies:

• A.P. Green Industries
• A.P. Green Services, Inc.
• • f/k/a Bigelow Arch Company
  • f/k/a Bigelow Liptak Corporation
• APG Development Corp.
• Detrick Refractory Fibers, Inc.
• APG Refractories Corp.
• Intogreen Co.
• A.P. Green International Inc.
• A.P. Green Refractories, Inc.
• Bigelow-Liptak of Canada, Ltd. (pre-1985 only)