Albemarle Corporation to Present at the Citi 2008 Small and Mid-Cap Conference

RICHMOND, Va., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Albemarle Corporation announced today that Richard J. Diemer Jr., Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President and John N. Nicols, Vice President of Catalyst, will be speaking to investors at the Citi 2008 Small and Mid-Cap Conference at the Four Seasons at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 at 11:25am PT.

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You may access the presentation through Albemarle's website at http://www.albemarle.com/ under the Investor Information heading. The presentation will also be webcast through Veracast and may be accessed at the following link, http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/citigroup/smallmidcap08/11206488.cfm .

Albemarle Corporation, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered specialty chemicals for consumer electronics; petroleum and petrochemical processing; transportation and industrial products; pharmaceuticals; agricultural products; and construction and packaging materials. The Company operates in three business segments -- Polymer Additives, Catalysts and Fine Chemicals, and serves customers in approximately 100 countries. Learn more about Albemarle at http://www.albemarle.com/.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Albemarle Corporation's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K.