Exhibit 10.2

                    SUPPLEMENTAL SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN
                          FOR KEY SALARIED EMPLOYES OF
                              MILLIPORE CORPORATION

                                    Amendment

     WHEREAS Millipore Corporation (the "Company") established the Supplemental
Savings and Retirement Plan for Key Salaried Employees of Millipore Corporation
(the "Plan"), effective January 1, 1985; and

     WHEREAS the Company retained the right to amend the Plan from time to time
and to interpret its provisions; and

     WHEREAS the Company now desires to amend the Plan to provide for the
transfer to the Mykrolis Corporation 2001 Deferred Compensation Plan for Senior
Management of certain liabilities attributable to Participants whose employment
is transferred to Mykrolis Corporation;

     NOW, THEREFORE, the Company adopts the following amendments, effective
April 1, 2001:

      1. Section 3 is amended to add a new Section 3.6 to read as follows:

         "3.6 Mykrolis Corporation Employees. Effective April 1, 2001
         (or such later date on which the Participant's employment is
         transferred from Millipore Corporation to Mykrolis
         Corporation), each Participant who becomes an employee of
         Mykrolis Corporation on or after such date shall cease to
         participate in the Plan and shall not be permitted to defer
         any further compensation pursuant to the Plan. In addition and
         subject to the consent of each affected Participant, effective
         as of such date the liability for all benefits due hereunder
         to all Participants who become employees of Mykrolis
         Corporation shall be transferred to the Mykrolis Corporation
         2001 Deferred Compensation Plan for Senior Management
         ("Mykrolis Plan"). After such date, the affected Participants
         shall be entitled to benefits only from the Mykrolis Plan and
         shall not be entitled to any


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         benefits from this Plan. The transfer of employment from
         Millipore Corporation to Mykrolis Corporation shall not be
         deemed a termination of employment for purposes of this Plan,
         and effective April 1, 2001, Participants whose employment is
         transferred to Mykrolis Corporation shall not be entitled to a
         distribution hereunder."

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, MILLIPORE CORPORATION has caused this document to be
executed this 31st day of March, 2001.

                                            MILLIPORE CORPORATION



                                            By: /s/ Jeffrey Rudin
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                                                Jeffrey Rudin
                                                Vice President, General Counsel


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