Exhibit 10.8.1


                            Tredegar Industries, Inc.

                                  Amendment to
          Tredegar Industries, Inc. Retirement Benefit Restoration Plan
                           (Effective January 1, 1999)

1.       Section 1.08 is amended by deleting it in its entirety and substituting
         therefor the following:

                  Section 1.08.  Eligible  Employee  means an individual  who is
                  employed by the Company or an Affiliate and who is a member of
                  a "select group of management or highly compensated employees"
                  (as such  phrase  is used in the  Employee  Retirement  Income
                  Security Act of 1974, as amended).

2.       Section 7.01 shall be amended by deleting the last sentence thereof and
         substituting therefor the following:

                  Such right to amend or modify the Plan shall be  exercised  by
                  the Company by the  Committee  and such right to terminate the
                  Plan  shall  be  exercised  by the  Company  by its  Board  of
                  Directors.