LSB Industries Inc. (LXU)

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LSB Industries, Inc. Provides Update on Its Pryor, Oklahoma Facility (10/19/16)

OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LSB Industries, Inc. (NYSE:LXU) (“LSB” or the “Company”) today announced that its Pryor, Oklahoma chemical facility (“Pryor Facility” or “Pryor”) resumed production of ammonia on October 8, 2016. The Company announced on October 5, 2016 that Pryor’s scheduled Turnaround had been extended to perform additional work on both the ammonia and urea plants in order to increase their reliability going forward.

LSB expects Pryor’s urea plant to return to service by November 1, 2016, which will enable the facility to resume production of urea ammonium nitrate (UAN). Relative to the timeline disclosed in the Company’s October 5, 2016 announcement, the urea plant’s return to service has been delayed as a result of the inspection process by the welding contractor’s Authorized Inspector (AI), which is responsible for ensuring that work on pressure vessels meets federal and state codes. In addition to addressing the increased scope of work dictated by the AI related to corrosion in the urea plant’s pressure vessel and liner, LSB has elected to implement design changes to the vessel’s liner in order to minimize future corrosion and related downtime. Management expects the additional downtime related to this work on Pryor’s urea plant to have little to no impact on LSB’s fourth quarter 2016 EBITDA above what was disclosed in the Company’s October 5, 2016 announcement.

About LSB Industries, Inc.

LSB Industries, Inc., headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, manufactures and sells chemical products for the agricultural, mining, and industrial markets. The Company owns and operates facilities in Cherokee, Alabama, El Dorado, Arkansas and Pryor, Oklahoma, and operates a facility for a global chemical company in Baytown, Texas. LSB’s products are sold through distributors and directly to end customers throughout the United States. Additional information about the Company can be found on its website at www.lsbindustries.com.

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