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CE - Q4 2004 CELANESE CORP Earnings Conference Call

Event Date/Time: Feb. 28. 2005 / 11:00AM ET
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CE - Q4 2004 CELANESE CORP DEL Earnings Conference Call
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CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS
Andrea Stine
Celanese Corp. - Director of Investor Relations

David Weidman
Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Corky Nelson
Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Lyndon Cole
Celanese Corp. - Executive V.P.

CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPANTS
Kunal Banerjee
Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Sergey Vasnetsov
Lehman Brothers - Analyst

Kevin McCarthy
Banc of America Securities - Analyst

Steven Bleier
Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Frank Mitsch
Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

Tuan Pham
Banc of America Securities - Analyst

Bill Hoffman
UBS - Analyst

Michael Judd
Greenwich Consultants - Analyst

Christopher Miller
JP Morgan - Analyst

Jeff Cianci
UBS - Analyst

Beth Fusco
Merrill Lynch - Analyst

Gregg Goodnight

PRESENTATION

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Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the fourth quarter 2004 Celanese
Corp. Conference call. My name is Anne Marie [ph] and I will be your coordinator
for today. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. We will be
facilitating a question and answer session towards the end of today's
conference. If at any time during the call you require assistance please press
star followed by zero and a coordinator will be happy to assist you. I would now
like to turn the presentation over to your host for today's call, Ms. Andrea
Stine, Director of Investor Relations. Please proceed.

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Andrea Stine - Celanese Corp. - Director of Investor Relations

Thank you, Anne Marie, and welcome to Celanese Corporation's fourth quarter
2004 financial results conference call on Monday, February 28. My name is Andrea
Stine, Director of Investor Relations. On the call today are David Weidman,
Chief Executive Officer and Corky Nelson, Chief Financial Officer. The Celanese
Corporation Press Release was distributed via Business Wire this morning at 8 AM
Eastern Time and is posted on our Web site, celanese.com.

During this call management may make forward-looking statements concerning, for
example, Celanese Corporation's future objectives and results which will be made
under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and
subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual results may differ
materially from these expectations due to changes in economics, business,
competitive market, political and regulatory factors. More detailed information
about these factors is contained in this morning's earnings release and in
Celanese Corporation's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Celanese Corporation undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any
forward-looking statements. Celanese Corporation's fourth quarter 2004 earnings
release references the performance measures net debt and adjusted EBITDA, which
are non-US GAAP measures. The most directly comparable financial measures
presented in accordance with US GAAP and our financial statements for net debt
and adjusted EBITDA are total debt and net earnings respectively. The combined
full-year 2004 results in the release are based on the results of the
predecessor company for this first three months of 2004 and the successor
company for the last nine months. Each period is prepared on a basis consistent
with US GAAP. However, the combined presentation is not in accordance with US
GAAP. This call makes reference to segment earnings, also a non-US GAAP measure.
The most directly comparable measure to segment earnings in our consolidated
financial statements is "earnings/loss from continuing

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operations before tax and minority interest." For reconciliation of our non-US
GAAP measures to US GAAP figures please see the schedules accompanying the
earnings release.

This morning Dave Weidman will review the performance of the Company and its
businesses and Corky Nelson will provide an overview of the financials. Lyndon
Cole, Executive Vice President and head of our Ticona Technical Polymers Segment
will be available to answer questions about Ticona during the Q and A. Now I
would like to turn the call over to David Weidman. Dave?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Andrea, thank you and welcome everyone to the first earnings conference call
for Celanese Corporation and thank you for your interest. We are very excited to
be here. This morning I'd like to start by briefly covering some financial
highlights for the year. Then Corky will provide more detail to this very
positive story. Lastly I'll get into results of our businesses and provide our
view of the future.

For Celanese 2004 saw accomplishments in two major areas. First, we transformed
our Company from a German based AG with a dual listing to a US headquartered
company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. This is enabling Celanese to be a
leaner, faster and more agile company and we're already starting to see tangible
benefits. Second, we achieved great results for the year and for the most recent
quarter. Celanese is reporting strong underlying business results for the year
2004. These business accomplishments reflect the success of our focused strategy
on strengthening our premier integrated acetyls chain and Chemical Products and
our ongoing success in building global leadership positions in our Ticona
technical polymers business.

Now some highlights of the year. Our sales grew almost 10 percent to $5.1
billion reflecting strong volume growth in all of our businesses, particularly
Ticona and Chemical Products. Adjusted EBITDA rose 19 percent to $801 million as
a result of this volume growth and improved pricing environment with strong
demand and productivity improvements. For the fourth quarter our sales rose 15
percent mainly due to the pricing environment amid strong demand in chemical
products and volume growth in Ticona. We achieved gross profit margin expansion
in the quarter largely due to higher pricing amid strong demand in our Chemical
Products segment and for both the full year 2004 and the fourth quarter we
reported net losses which primarily reflect costs and expenses taken to
transform our Company. Now I'd like to turn it over to Corky who will review the
financials in a little more detail. Corky?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Thank you, Dave. As Dave has mentioned we had a superb 2004 led by solid fourth
quarter performance. For those following on the Web cast today you will see that
we achieved sales growth of 10 percent to almost $5.1 billion in 2004 compared
to $4.6 billion in 2003 based on higher volume, pricing and improved
productivity and currency. In the quarter our sales grew 15 percent to
approximately $1.3 billion versus the same period last year. Gross margins
expanded by 35 percent in the year, almost double in the fourth quarter compared
to prior year, again on higher pricing, strong demand and productivity
improvements especially in our Chemical Products segment, partially offset by
higher raw material cost. In the fourth quarter SG&A expense rose 75 percent to
$220 million mainly due to an unusual item of $50 million in management
compensation expense and $23 million in additional amortization expense due to
purchase accounting adjustments. The management compensation expense included
charges related to a new deferred compensation plan, a new stock incentive plan
and other executive bonuses. The higher amortization expense related to patents
and customer relations that were required to be marked up under purchase
accounting literature. I should also note SG&A in 2003 was somewhat lower than
usual due to the reversal of accrual of approximately $20 million mostly related
to environmental liabilities. Taking into account these unusual items, SG&A was
flat fourth quarter 2004 over fourth quarter 2003.

Special charges rose in the fourth quarter mainly due to a $32 million non-cash
impairment relating to our decision to dispose of Ticona's cyclo-olefin
copolymer business in the year. In the year, special charges mainly related to
$50 million of non-cash impairment charges related to the restructuring of our
Acetate Products business and $26 million in charges we took for fees associated
with the acquisition by Blackstone of Celanese.

Operating profit rose to $28 million in the fourth quarter over the $10 million
loss in 2003. Contributing to this increase were higher pricing and strong
demand, as well as productivity improvements in our Chemical Products. We also
have lower depreciation and amortization expense of $47 million, largely due to
purchase accounting allocations related to the acquisition of Celanese and lower
stock appreciation rights expense of $18 million. Partially offsetting these
effects were higher raw material and energy costs and as we discussed previously
a management compensation expense and non-cash impairment items. On the tax line
we had a $12 million provision in the fourth quarter and $87 million for the
full year. For 2005 we expect to have an effective tax rate in the range of 34
to 37 percent.

Now let's turn to the adjusted EBITDA slide. In 2004 adjusted EBITDA rose by 19
percent to $801 million due to higher volumes, pricing and improved
productivities and cost savings. Higher raw material costs partially offset some
of these increases.

We use adjusted EBITDA as a key performance measurement to help us better
understand our underlying business. To give you a better understanding of how we
calculate this measure we've put together this slide to help bridge the net
income to adjusted EBITDA by grouping add-backs into major categories of, one,

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interest, tax, depreciation and amortization of about $650 million, and two,
unusual and non-reoccurring expenses of $259 million, and these include special
charges and restructuring costs, management compensation and transitional costs
relating to the acquisition by Blackstone of Celanese. And the final category is
we've added back one-time non-cash charges of $70 million such as inventory
step-ups relating to purchase accounting adjustments. We have also provided
additional detail in the tables of the Press Release and suggest that you read
through these for greater understanding of these unusual activities in 2004 that
do not directly relate to the underlying performance of the business.

Next I'd like to change to or move on to joint ventures. As previously
discussed, joint ventures play an important part of our global strategy. They
increase our ability to serve global markets including through Asia, in
particular, as extensions of our Ticona and Acetate Products businesses and
provide significant earnings and cash dividends, typically ranging in the range
of $75 million to $85 million annually. In 2004 the major developments within
affiliates included earnings from equity investments that grew almost 40 percent
versus 2003 in our affiliates in Asia, benefiting from higher sales volume. I
should also point out that dividends from cost investments were lower in 2004
due to the timing of a payment that will be made in the first quarter of 2005.
Also in 2004 I should point out that there was a one-time special dividend of
almost $10 million, which did not recur in 2004. Please also keep in mind that
we are receiving minimal dividends from our acetate JVs as we continue to
reinvest our dividends towards doubling production capacity in our 3 China joint
ventures. The expansions are expected to be complete by the end of 2007.

Next let me turn to capitalization. For those following on the Web cast today,
you will note from the next slide that we ended 2004 with approximately $3.4
billion in debt compared to $637 million at the end of 2003. Debt increased
mainly to finance the Celanese acquisition and to make pension contributions of
some $463 million to significantly close the under-funded status of our pension
plan. Cash and cash equivalents were $838 million at the year-end leaving net
debt of $2.5 billion. Net debt to adjusted EBITDA was a little over 3 times at
December 31st, 2004. As previously disclosed we did a major refinancing
following the close of our initial public offering. Using proceeds from this
stock offering we are redeeming today about $188 million of our senior discount
notes and $519 million of senior subordinated notes of our subsidiaries on a pro
rata basis.

And let me take a break here and point out that in today's Press Release there
were numbers of 207 and 573 noted as debt reduction. Those numbers did include
the premium and accrued interest along with the debt being paid down today. The
main objective of our refinancing wasto one, lower the overall cost to borrowed
capital and two, provide financing for the acquisition of the Vinamul emulsions
business which closed earlier this month and in the future the Acetex
acquisition which is currently undergoing regulatory review and finally to
provide flexibility in our debt structure to retire debt going forward as we
de-leverage the Company. Due to refinancing we achieved benefits of close to $40
million in interest expense savings annually excluding refinancing costs and the
acquisitions. Refinancing costs are expected to be about $115 million. As a part
of our new financing we have in addition a delay draw term loan of $242 million
to finance Acetex. Including this additional borrowing, along with approximately
$265 million in debt we will assume with the closing of Acetex acquisition our
total debt is expected to rise to close to $4 billion.

Next let me quickly cover the positive developments in our pension area. During
2004 as previously mentioned we made significant contributions to our plans.
These contributions increased the funding status of our accumulated benefit
obligations from 77 percent at the end of 2003 to 90 percent at the end of 2004.
Our total benefit obligations decreased from approximately $1.2 billion to about
$1 billion. Increases, due to purchase accounting adjustments, offset in large
part the recent plan contributions. However, we expect pension expense will be
about half of what it was in 2004. In 2005 pension expense is expected to be
about $26 million. In 2005 post-retirement benefit expense is expected to be
about $26 million as well. On a historical basis in 2004 the pension and OPEC
were about $110 million. Given these contributions in the current guidelines we
do not anticipate making any additional contributions of pension plans in the
foreseeable future. Obviously this is predicated on stable capital markets
during this period and no significant change in pension legislation or
accounting literature treatment.

Turning next to capital expenditures, capital expenditures for 2004 were
approximately $210 million compared to $211 million in 2003. As we have
previously mentioned, capex is typically about 4 to 5 percent of net sales. On
the left, I highlighted capital expenditures by business, on the right by types.
We spend about a quarter of our capital expenditures on revenue generating
projects which included a 20 percent recent expansion of Ticona's North American
polyacetal capacity of 102,000 tons and the expansion of our GUR ultra high
molecular weight polyethylene plant in Germany which increased our total
worldwide capacity by 17 percent. We also spent about a third of our
expenditures for cost reduction initiatives, which has helped us maintain our
competitive position. And again, as I have recently mentioned, about 45 percent
of our capital expenditures historically is non-discretionary capital, those
items such as environmental, safety and maintenance of assets to insure
reliability of supply to our customers and safety of our operations. In 2005 we
expect spending to be about $210 to $230 million with most of the revenue
generating expenditures dedicated to construction of our new acetic acid plant
in China.

In closing, I've added an appendix slide as part of the presentation today which
I do not plan to go through, but this slide should help you with giving guidance
on key 2005 data items necessary for your modeling going forward. In summary,
the financial highlights - Celanese delivered solid performance in 2004 and has
built

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significant momentum in the fourth quarter of 2004, which continues to grow into
2005. With that as context let me turn it back over to Dave.

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Thanks, Corky. Now let me move into some highlights for 2004. First, Celanese
completed the acquisition of ICI's Vinamul emulsion business earlier this month.
This business has sales of about $350 million and pre-synergy EBITDA margin in
the low double-digit percent range. By this acquisition we've accomplished four
things, number one - greater integration of our acetyl chain, number two -
greater critical mass in our emulsion business which effectively doubles in
size, number three - increased our emulsion product portfolio and number four -
extended geographic reach to meet the technology and service needs of customers
on a global scale. This acquisition closed on February 4th and our integration
is on track. Second, in another transaction we received shareholder approval for
the announced acquisition of Acetex, a Canadian headquartered producer of acetyl
chemicals. Acetex will strengthen our ability to deliver a reliable supply of
acetyl chemicals to the global marketplace. We are awaiting regulatory approval
in Europe.

Third, Celanese took three major steps to strengthen the profitability of our
leading global position in acetate products. Number one, in October we announced
our decision to consolidate production into three plants from five existing
units. Number two, we're exiting an unprofitable filament business line, and
number three, we are expanding our three acetate joint ventures in China to be
positioned for the growth in that region. The magnitude of these three changes
in aggregate is huge. Fourth, Celanese made significant progress on our acetic
acid project in China by signing a major raw material agreement with Wison for
carbon monoxide. This raw material will be coal based and promises cheaper and a
more secure supply compared to competing alternatives in China. Fifth, Celanese
is taking steps in our commitment to reduce our SG&A spending by consolidating
headquarters' operations to Dallas, downsizing our acetate business and
implementing restrictions on outside spending. Additionally in 2004 our Chemical
and Ticona businesses streamlined their sales and marketing organizations with
the benefits occurring, some, in 2004 but largely in 2005 and beyond. And sixth,
we started a procurement initiative where we are finding substantial
Celanese-specific opportunities. Progress here is also on track.

Now I'd like to focus on the businesses. Our Chemical Products business, which
accounts for about 65 percent of our sales, had a great quarter. The main
headline here is margin expansion due to a favorable pricing environment on
strong demand. Success in pricing offset steep increases in raw material costs.
The improvements in our operations and business accelerated starting last spring
when we began to see volume growth, further productivity gains and higher
pricing under good market driven demand, but it really took off starting in the
fourth quarter as these factors continued to improve. We believe that we are at
the beginning of a period of sustained demand growth for most of our acetyl
products.

The first quarter outlook for Chemical Products continues to be a margin
momentum story. Both the industry and Celanese continue to enjoy sustained
demand growth in our key products. For the quarter we expect the pricing will be
favorable as demand continues to be robust and the key raw materials will see
only modest increases from fourth quarter levels taking into account several
favorable cost contracts we have on raw materials. For the rest of the year we
anticipate the following developments in our chemicals business. Number one, the
pricing environment should remain stable as demand remains high across most
acetyl products. Number two, we expect to begin purchasing most of our internal
methanol requirements from Southern Methanol Company by the middle of the year.
This program will lower our costs and significantly decrease our exposure to
volatile gulf coast natural gas. Number three, we expect the pressures from
ethylene purchase prices to be partially offset by several cost-based purchase
contracts that Celanese has in place for this commodity. Number four, in the
second half expected capacity expansions are announced for competitors' acetyl
units in Asia, with some capacity in Europe shutting down and several
turnarounds slated. We expect that demand will remain strong but there will be
some easing in the current supply-demand balance, which is tight. Number five,
one of Celanese's strengths is a deeply integrated acetyl chain. Our integrated
strategy gives us the flexibility to capture efficiencies and add value at
multiple points along the chain, which will drive profitability, and we are
beginning to see very strong pricing momentum in many downstream products amid
strong demand, which we believe will continue going forward. In all we expect
that 2005 will be a much better year for our chemical business, topping an
already impressive 2004 performance.

Now let's turn to our Ticona engineered plastics business which is about 17
percent of our sales. Ticona experienced solid growth of 13 percent in 2004 with
all product lines contributing. This volume growth was a result of new product
development and an expanding economy, which more than offset raw material and
pricing pressures. Earnings from our Asian joint ventures, as Corky indicated,
also increased as a result of improved business conditions. In the fourth
quarter our volumes grew at 6 percent, a healthy rate but more muted when
compared to earlier rates in 2004. This slowing growth signaled an automotive
production slowdown and demand weakening in electrical and electronics sector.
We see these trends extending into the first quarter. Profitability was also
pressured by higher raw material costs and some modest price erosions. So we
believe that volume growth will pick up again following a pause as our customers
adjust inventory.

The business has responded to this earnings growth challenge by taking the
following four actions - number one, exiting the under-

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performing cyclo-olefin copolymer or COC business, number two - announcing price
increases globally, number three - accelerating new application programs, and
number four - implementing cost containment efforts. Let me remind you that
Celanese-engineered plastics is a higher margin business built on the strengths
of leading market position, the ability to provide service and products to
global customers, a pipeline of new applications developed from deep intimate
customer partnerships and a low cost position. Our view is that Ticona's
earnings growth momentum will pick up in the second half of 2005 and continue
beyond that, as this business has traditionally been a late bloomer in the
economic cycle.

Turning now to our other businesses, our Acetate Products business, which makes
up about 14 percent of our sales, continued to provide stable results in the
fourth quarter. Full year profitability rose on higher volumes and slightly
higher pricing and, as highlighted earlier, our major task for the next several
quarters will be implementing our acetate restructuring plan. Currently this
project is on track. Our Performance Products segment, which accounts for about
3 percent of our sales, came in as expected with modest earnings decline for the
quarter and the year, and our first quarter expectations are roughly equivalent
to that of the same quarter last year.

Now I'd like to talk about our outlook. With a view that the strong business
environment seen in the fourth quarter will continue, we expect the first
quarter EBITDA on an adjusted basis will be about 25 to 30 percent higher than
adjusted EBITDA of 208 million in the first quarter of 2004. This expected
increase in adjusted EBITDA reflects strong underlying business growth of 15 to
20 percent in adjusted EBITDA, particularly in Chemical Products and the receipt
of dividends from our affiliates in joint ventures of approximately $40 million
to $45 million. Assuming global growth continues, we expect 2005 overall to be a
strong year for Celanese. We believe we will benefit from the methanol sourcing
agreement with Southern Methanol which will go into effect in July and from our
recent acquisition of the Vinamul emulsion business. We face the challenges of
volatile raw material costs and projected new capacity coming on stream in Asia
for acetyls, which could temporarily loosen the tight supply-demand balance. As
a result we expect adjusted EBITDA for the full year to grow by 12 to 17 percent
over combined full year 2004. Now I'd like to turn it back to Andrea.

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Andrea Stine - Celanese Corp. - Director of Investor Relations

Thank you, Dave. We would now like to begin the Q and A session. May I please
request that each of you interested in posing a question submit just one
question at a time to enable as many of you as possible to have an opportunity
to ask questions? With that we would now like to take your questions. Anne
Marie, please.

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[operator instructions] Gregg Goodnight with UBS.

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Greg Goodnight

Your SG&A costs as a percent of sales were particularly high. What is your
expectation in '05 and where do you see your target and how long is it going to
take to get there?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Real good. Obviously a number of those fourth quarter 2004 numbers related to a
lot of activity relating to transaction, and we would hope to get that back on
track and down towards the 10 to 10.5 percent range and going south of that. We
have initiated significant internal cost containment initiatives and we would
expect to see those click in by the first quarter and running through the
balance of the year.

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Gregg Goodnight

Okay, I'll get back in queue. Thank you.

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Operator

Kunal Banerjee with Morgan Stanley.

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Kunal Banerjee - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Just a couple of questions - first, you talked a little bit about the capacity
that's coming on in Asia. I'm assuming that is BP and BP's JV with Formosa [ph]
and again BP offsetting that with some closures in the UK. Can you talk about
what else there may be, what sort of supply growth you're looking for, where
utilization rates are today and what kind of a hit the utilization could take as
a result of this capacity coming on?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Yes, Kamal, thanks for the question. Let me break this into three buckets. The
first is acetic acid that you talked about. Our view is that the acetic acid
capacity utilization today is somewhere in the mid-90 percent range, the low to
mid-90 percent range coming out of the fourth quarter. There is growth in acetic
acid, GDP plus 150 to 200 basis points so let's call it 5 to 6 percent, and the
new capacity you've highlighted are de-bottlenecks that will come on in the
second half of the year, or that's the announcement that they'll come on in the
second half of the year. That will add capacity to

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the market. Netting that against a capacity that BP is taking out we see about a
3 to 4 percent increase in total capacity and when you net that against the
growth we think that that is basically balancing the world, perhaps, out into
the second half of the year. Second is vinyl acetate. There was an announcement
late last week that there was new vinyl acetate capacity announced in Asia
targeted to be in place and begin producing in about 6 months from now. Vinyl
acetate growth again here is at 3 1/2 to 4 percent per year. We judge that to be
very, very tight right now with mid to high 90 percent capacity utilization. The
new capacity that was announced was, if it came on when announced, would add
about 4 to 6 percent new capacity in the marketplace. So again, going forward we
see some new capacity in the market easing very tight capacity utilization
temporarily and that is assuming these come in. Now the third point I'd make is
that Celanese is an integrated chain. We have the flexibility to optimize our
system and capture through our integrated chain the highest value shifting our
production and our sales depending on where that profitability is. We're much
more than acetic acid and vinyl acetate so as we look going forward we have the
flexibility in our chain to optimize profitability and we do have different
capacity utilizations throughout the chain. Products are tight throughout and we
will optimize our business as the opportunity presents itself.

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Kamal Banergy - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Could I just ask one more question on the Acetex closing and is it possible if
I look at your European position obviously you don't have an overlap with them
in acid but there is a VAM overlap. Is it possible that there could be some
concessions required on the VAM position to make the Acetex acquisition happen?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Let me be cautious here because this is still under regulatory review.
Obviously we do believe that there are compelling reasons for the merger to
occur. We think this is pro-competitive. We're optimistic with the outcome but
until there is an actual opinion rendered in judgment I'd rather stay away from
that.

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Kamal Banergy - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

All right, thank you.

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Operator

Sergey Vasnetsov with Lehman Brothers.

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Sergey Vasnetsov - Lehman Brothers - Analyst

David, I wanted to ask you a question about the trends in China and in Asia in
general given that you're reporting a little bit later than other companies
because it can give us some benefits of your insight, what activity picked up
there after the Chinese New Year in February?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Sergey, thanks for the question. We saw two things in the first quarter this
year. Before Chinese New Year we had very good demand and a very good pricing
environment. Part of that we believe was because there was some acetic acid
capacity that came out of the market because of a disruption in one of our Asia
competitor's manufacturing plant. The pricing was good in the first part of the
quarter and after Chinese New Year as expected we've seen demand come back on
really quite strong.

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Kevin McCarthy with Banc of America Securities.

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Kevin McCarthy - Banc of America Securities - Analyst

Good morning, Dave. It sounds like there is perhaps a little bit more capacity
coming on in acetyls than we might have expected say last year. My question
relates to the Acetex acquisition. I believe they have a large project on the
drawing board for Saudi Arabia. You are expanding in China. Does it make sense
to go ahead with both of those large projects in the '07 or '08 time frame given
the news on the supply additions?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Kevin, thanks for the question and obviously since we're still in regulatory
review there's not a lot I can say here. I'd be delighted to talk about it after
we go through the approval process. But I can say that we look at it as a
strategic investment and we would manage the investment on a strategic basis.

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Kevin McCarthy - Banc of America Securities - Analyst

Okay then just to clarify what is your current expectation on closure of the
Acetex deal?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

As soon as we get regulatory approval. We're right in the middle of that now.

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Kevin McCarthy - Banc of America Securities - Analyst

Okay and I think I heard Corky say your total debt would be up to $4 billion
following closure. If I net out your cash as adjusted for

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potential takeout of the Celanese AG minority holders would that put your net
debt in the range of say $3.6 billion? Is that about right?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

That's correct.

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Steven Bleier with Morgan Stanley.

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Steven Bleier - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

A quick question on your guidance. Can I assume that your guidance does not
include EBITDA from the Acetex business that you hopefully will acquire this
year?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Correct, correct. That's right. We do have within the guidance of expectations
around the ICI Vinamul business but only what we have in hand right now.

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Stephen Blyer - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Okay, great. Next question just on your performance products business, is there
much seasonality here and I ask that because operating profit did decline in the
fourth quarter. Should we-- is the fourth quarter operating profit a good run
rate to use for '05?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

No, no it's really not. Let me guide you a little bit for modeling purposes.
There is seasonality in the business with the first half of the year being
stronger than the second half of the year. This is because it's a high intensity
food sweetener that goes into beverages and you sell a lot more beverages in the
summer time than you do in the fall and winter. As we indicated in our guidance
we would see the first quarter to be very similar this year to what we saw the
first quarter last year and fourth quarter is the weakest quarter overall.

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Steven Bleier - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Okay, thank you.

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Frank Mitsch with Fulcrum Global Partners.

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Frank Mitsch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

I'm just curious on one issue, or on a couple of issues. What are the shares
outstanding that you're using and what was the reasoning behind not including
anything regarding EPS?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

There's an additional slide for modeling purposes that's been included in
today's presentation. The number of shares outstanding is 158.7 million.

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Frank Mistch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

Okay and what was the reasoning that you decided not to include that in the
actual Press Release?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Well because of all of the extra noise and unrelated activities around the
acquisition and the one-off cost we have elected not to do it this past year but
on a going-forward basis we will certainly be using that.

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Frank Mitsch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

All right, terrific and then you made a comment or there was a question
regarding the cost in terms of taking out the minority holders in Germany. I
guess the news last week regarding a German court revisiting the domination
agreement might throw a monkey wrench into those works. Can you give us your
take on what's going on there and what the timing of the court's action could be
and what are the implications?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Delighted to, Frank. What came out last week was fully within expectation.
There was not a material change in our expectations or the activity. This is a
process in the German courts that will go on for an extended period of time. The
judge in the case asked for more questions and wanted to get more data and
information. That is to be expected. The next time they'll likely pick it up
will be about a year after our general meeting that passed the domination in
profit and loss agreement and it's our view that this will extend out for
several years.

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Frank Mitsch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

So we might not get a resolution to this issue for several years?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

It could be several years, yes.

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Frank Mitsch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

Okay, terrific. Thank you. I'll get back in the queue.

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Tuan Pham with Banc of America Securities.

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Tuan Pham - Banc of America Securities - Analyst

Hi, it's Tuan Pham. It seems as though your guidance for dividends from joint
ventures and affiliates is pretty high in the first quarter. Could you elaborate
on where you anticipate most of the improvement will come from? And could you
also maybe give us some guidance for the balance of the year?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Yes, as I mentioned in my prepared remarks there was a carryover from last year
that won't be paid until the first quarter of this year, so that's kind of
driven the thing unusually high in the first quarter of this year but by and
large it should be fairly consistent with what it has been in the past. Again, I
want to emphasize as I mentioned in my prepared remarks, it was a carryover.

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Tuan Pham - Banc of America Securities - Analyst

Okay and what was the size of that carryover? I might have missed it.

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

About $10 million to $12 million.

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

I'd also add that in some of our joint ventures there is a dividend payout
towards the end of first quarter for the prior year so we get some, if you will,
first quarter effect with that. It's not straight lined. It's a little bit
lumpy.

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Tuan Pham - Banc of America Securities - Analyst

Yes, because according to what I've been looking at in the past net dividends
have been about $80 to $100 million. I mean would you anticipate it will be
around that this year?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Yes, yes, it should be around that line.

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Tuan Pham - Banc of America Securities - Analyst

Okay, thank you.

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Operator

Bill Hoffman with UBS.

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Bill Hoffman - UBS - Analyst

Yes, you mentioned a couple of times the Southern Methanol contract. I just
wondered if you could help us quantify what percentage of supply is based on
this and maybe some kind of insight into the cost differential that it may
provide you as a benefit this year.

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Yes, Bill, let me take a pass at that. The background I can share with you is
that Celanese consumes in North America just a little over 100 million MMBTUs
[ph] of natural gas. About a third of that is used for our methanol production
in the gulf coast that will be affected, positively affected, by this Southern
Methanol agreement. Another third of it goes for producing methanol in Edmonton,
Canada where we supply methanol to that local market on an attractive basis with
contracts and raw materials and the other third goes for energy and other raw
material consumption inside of the gulf coast US. Now what we've effectively
done by Southern Methanol is we've eliminated the volatility on that one-third
that goes for methanol production that's consumed internally for our acetic acid
production in that region. Now we have some non-disclosures here, but I can
share with you that the financial effect on an annualized basis, a full-year
basis, if you assume gas is going to be somewhere in the $5.50 to $6 per MMBTU
range, is somewhere around $45 million to $55 million and we will begin this
project in the middle part of the year and we'll see a partial year benefit in
2005 and in 2006 we'll see a full year benefit.

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Bill Hoffman - UBS - Analyst

That's great. Thank you very much.

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Operator

Michael Judd with Greenwich Consultants.

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Michael Judd - Greenwich Consultants - Analyst

One of your comments about your outlook in terms of adjusted EBITDA and your
cap ex, do you have an estimate in terms of how much debt you think that you
could pay down this year and then next year?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

At this point in time we haven't looked at it but we plan to take another look,
fresh look at it after the first quarter. As you see we are generating
significant free cash flow and consistent with our objectives we plan to
de-leverage the Company on a going forward basis. But we haven't given any
specific guidance on that at this point in time.

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Michael Judd - Greenwich Consultants - Analyst

Okay and then I think what I read through your presentation was that you don't
expect to make any voluntary pension contributions this year or next year?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

That's correct. As I mentioned there's nothing required at this time given the
significant contributions that were made this past year in conjunction with the
Blackstone acquisition when $463 million was put in the funds. And I should also
point out prior to that the Company on two different occasions did put in $150
million each as well so there has been significant build up in the contributions
to well over 90 percent of funding percentage.

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Michael Judd - Greenwich Consultants - Analyst

And lastly are there further acquisitions we should anticipate?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Michael, it's a good question and obviously we have nothing announced at this
time. However, we continue to look for acquisitions that are accretive, are
strategic for the Company and help strengthen our position globally. We think
those types of acquisitions create value for the shareholders, but as Corky
indicated we do have the objective of using the cash that we generate to
de-leverage the Company. We look for both on acquisitions, and we continue to
invest in value investments inside of our Company. We think those are very good
projects, and we have a modest dividend that we announced too, all in the effort
to create value for the shareholder.

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Michael Judd - Greenwich Consultants - Analyst

Thank you.

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Operator

Christopher Miller [ph] with JP Morgan.

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Christopher Miller - JP Morgan - Analyst

I just wanted to follow up on a couple issues. D&A this quarter was definitely
a little bit lower than it had been. What do you see as your run rate for D&A on
a quarterly basis?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

On D&A we looked on an annual basis for 2005 to be in the 230 to 250 range.

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Christopher Miller - JP Morgan - Analyst

Okay and from additional restructuring charges, as you look to take some costs
out, what sort of cash restructuring charges do you expect that we'll see over
the course of 2005 and then into 2006?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

I haven't looked at 2006 but somewhere in the $30 million for 2005, which has
been built into the plan.

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Christopher Miller - JP Morgan - Analyst

Okay, thank you so much.

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Jeff Cianci [ph] with UBS.

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Jeff Cianci - UBS - Analyst

Yes, a follow up with Corky. It was nice of you to give us EBITDA guidance but
we all have to come up with some EPS numbers on First Call so there's some
inconsistencies below the line I'm just trying to clarify. Equity affiliates you
did say-- I think David said they'll be heavy in the first quarter so don't
multiply that by four.

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

That's correct.

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Jeff Cianci - UBS - Analyst

Do you have an idea-- I mean is the first quarter basically the whole year? You
do get more as the year progresses, right? Do you have a range for us?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Let me take a look at that. I'm not sure we've got a range for you that at this
time but we can come out with that.

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Jeff Cianci - UBS - Analyst

What about the difference between the cost accounting and the equity
accounting? Is it skewed one way or the other? Do you have some cost affiliates
as well?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Yes, we do have some cost affiliates.

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Jeff Cianci - UBS - Analyst

Can you give me any numbers in the plan, which one is going to be bigger in
'05?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Why don't we get back with you on that? It's a good question.

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Jeff Cianci - UBS - Analyst

And then finally the interest and other income it looks like for the year it
came in about 25 million for '04 combined if I'm reading that right?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

That's correct.

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Jeff Cianci - UBS - Analyst

Is that a good run rate?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

It would appear that way, yes.

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Jeff Cianci - UBS - Analyst

Okay I guess the missing question is that the equity earnings and the cost of
where those cost affiliates are in the income statement? I can't see them.

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Okay the equity is obviously above and in the operational or OP line and then
the cost is down below.

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Jeff Cianci - UBS - Analyst

Is it on page 12? I just don't see it. Is it buried in a different place? I've
been missing-- or was it in the statements?

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Let us do this. Let us get back with you on that.

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Jeff Cianci - UBS - Analyst

All right. [indiscernible] Thank you.

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Operator

Beth Fusco with Merrill Lynch.

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Beth Fusco - Merrill Lynch - Analyst

Just a follow-up on the domination agreement issue, can you tell us whether you
have access to the cash flow of these entities pending the deliberation of the
German courts or are you relying on cash on your balance sheet to service your
debt?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp.l - President and CEO

The domination of profit and loss agreements allow for full access to the cash.
We have no limitations on cash, no limitations on operations. We view this as a
subsidiary of Celanese Corporation and we also view the obligation to the
minorities as being more debt-like rather than equity-like obviously.

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Beth Fusco - Merrill Lynch - Analyst

Well, if the domination agreement is being challenged by minority shareholders
saying that they weren't getting enough sufficient information then maybe they
just want to be paid more. There is no stopping you from continuing to control
the entities with whom you've concluded the domination agreement pending the
judgment by the German courts, is that how it works?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Beth, that's right. There's no restrictions while the challenges are ongoing
and I would also point out that there are no restrictions even if there were a
judgment by the lower court while the appeal process is in place. There's no
restrictions on our ability to operate these subsidiaries while this process is
ongoing at the court it's in now as well as other courts if there are appeals,
which there likely would be. That's why I indicated earlier we view that what's
going on now is the normal course of business. It's not a surprise test that we
are where we are. It's within expectation and we view this as being a process
that will continue over several years.

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Beth Fusco - Merrill Lynch - Analyst

So is it your intention then to just let the process take its - follow along
through the appeal until you reach a decision or would you consider just simply
settling with the plaintiffs and getting on with it.

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Yes, we certainly would look at that on a value creation basis. We have no
obligation to settle. We have no restrictions in the operations of the Company
or the access to the cash and I think if an opportunity presented itself that
would be interesting and compelling we certainly would consider it, but we're
not at this point in time suggesting that we would settle.

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Beth Fusco - Merrill Lynch - Analyst

Okay so at the end of the day once the appeal process is completed you're very
confident that this could not be decided in favor of the plaintiffs and against
yourselves.

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

We have high confidence in that and we believe that it's a stretched out
process.

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Beth Fusco - Merrill Lynch - Analyst

Okay, thank you.

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Operator

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Corky Nelson - Celanese Corp. - Executive Vice President and CFO

Dave, why don't I go back and answer an earlier question on the cost and equity
while we're waiting for the final queue ups. Again, let me point out that if
you'll go to page 12 you'll see in two areas there where the equity and net
earnings of affiliates is located and in the cost basis its affiliates are
picked up on the other income and expense line as a net item. And if you also
tie that back to the table on dividends you can see how that splits out between
those two categories. That's on table 7 in the appendix to the Press Release so
that should help you out with that guidance.

One additional item I should also point out is you're calculating earnings per
share in addition to the common stock of 158.7 outstanding. On a fully diluted
basis I believe that's 170.7 as well and again, that's in that appendix slide
that I've added to key 2005 modeling purposes.

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Operator

Frank Mitsch with Fulcrum Global partners.

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Frank Mitsch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

Just a question on the volume growth of the overall Company, you grew 6 percent
for '04, up only 1 percent for the fourth quarter, and I know you mentioned that
you had some terrific-- you had a difficult comp in your acetyls business but
that seems like a pretty

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stark drop-off for the fourth quarter. Can you talk about some factors behind
that and then the context of what are you seeing so far in January and February
in terms of volume growth?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Frank, yes, let me break this into two parts. One is Celanese and one is the
market. We continue to see very robust growth in the market and demand continues
to climb. For Celanese though we're running the majority of our operations on a
sold-out basis. That frankly is a hybrid company. It's an integrated change is
good news because it allows us then to pick and choose where we put our base
molecules, in upgraded products and look for margin expansion opportunities
either through upgraded products or through price.

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Frank Mitsch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

Okay so we should continue to see volume growth slow but margins expand.

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

That would be our view.

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Frank Mitsch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

And you mentioned in the Chemical Products that you recalculated some of the
contract manufacturing business. What percent of profitability is that of that
segment? I assume it's a relatively small part. I just wanted to be sure.

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Let me share a few facts with you. We buy about 1.2 billion pounds of ethylene
going primarily into our vinyl acetate business, and on a global basis we have
over 50 percent of that contracted on cost-based formulas, somewhere between 50
and 60 percent on cost-based formulas. There are a number of contracts that have
been in place for a number of years. Others have been in place only for two or
three years. They extend out over the longer and intermediate future.

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Frank Mitsch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

Okay but I thought what the comment in the press release said was that you had
a contract manufacturing range [indiscernible] certain [indiscernible] are now
being sold. Only the margins realized under the contract manufacturing agreement
is reported in net sales. So the fact that you would be reporting fewer-- lower
sales but that would all be positive margin obviously would help your margins in
that segment. I just wanted to get a sense for this particular, the certain
acrylate products that are now being sold and how big of a portion of the
overall Chemical Products business that was.

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Low single digit millions.

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Frank Mitsch - Fulcrum Global Partners - Analyst

All right, terrific. Thank you.

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Operator

Gregg Goodnight.

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Gregg Goodnight

With respect to the Southern Methanol the material balances suggest that that
alone will not allow you to shut down or to exit your Clear Lake methanol JV. Is
that correct?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Gregg, what I can share with you is that we made a sourcing decision on
methanol on a make or a buying basis. In other words, if we find the ability to
buy in the market or buy on a long-term contract is better than making ourself
out of high cost gulf coast gas we'll do that. We have done that in the past. We
would view, with the favorability of the Southern contract, that we would not
source from our own production in the Gulf Coast but those facilities being
idled they have a very low book cost, a very small single-digit book value. The
costs of idling those facilities, separating the people, again is a very low
number, and going forward we would view purchasing under the contract to be more
favorable than making it.

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Gregg Goodnight

Okay, in terms of shutting down that venture, would you see that as a
possibility?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Well, there have been no announcements on that so I really can't say much about
that.

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Gregg Goodnight

Okay, next question, Ticona, even without the special charge on the fourth
quarter, seemed particularly weak. You mentioned the automotive. I was trying to
get a sense for seasonality of the business. Is that some of it or was it just
that week?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Let me answer a question on this broadly and then Lyndon Cole is on the line
and perhaps he can add some flavor into the fourth quarter and what we're seeing
in the first quarter. But overall the fourth quarter is the weakest quarter for
Ticona and that was reflected in the numbers compared to the rest of the year.
On top of that we saw the slowing in demand in automotive and electrical
electronics that I highlighted in my speech and also on top of that there was
one other effect, which was a turnaround in our facilities that had an effect in
the high single digit range on the earnings. Lyndon, do you want to add a little
bit.

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Lyndon Cole

Going forward the first quarter, the first half of the year is always stronger
than the second half due to the seasonality and what we're seeing in the first
quarter is continuation of what the automotive industry did in the fourth
quarter where they're constantly expecting the inventory [inaudible] and their
production, and we'll expect in the first quarter that the US automotive
industry will be off close to 5 percent in production and the European industry
up around 2 percent. You'll see exactly the same phenomenon in the connector
industry so the electrical connector market is [inaudible] in this inventory
chain relative to its sales. So you really do see a breather in the fourth
quarter and that continues in the first couple of months of this year as well.

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

Thanks Lyndon.

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Lyndon Cole

Was that okay?

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Gregg Goodnight

If I can just ask one last question, your tender offer to buy out the minority
shares, when would that expire if it's not expected?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

The tender offer in the US for the minorities is open until the first of April.
However, it will go beyond that date, since it will be extended to remain
outstanding until two months after the German courts reach a final resolution on
the issue of the price offered.

[Editor's Note: The transcript has been edited to clarify that the tender offer
will be extended beyond the April 1 date.]

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Gregg Goodnight

Okay and your expectation right now is--how is it going?

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David Weidman - Celanese Corp. - President and CEO

I don't know. I really can't speculate at this time but it's out there until
the first of April. However, again, the tender offer will likely go beyond that
date, since it will be extended to remain outstanding until two months after the
German courts reach a final resolution on the issue of the price offered,

[Editor's Note: The transcript has been edited to clarify that the tender offer
will be extended beyond the April 1 date.]

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Gregg Goodnight

Okay, thank you very much.

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Operator

And you seem to have no further questions at this time. I'd like to turn the
call back to you and Andrea Stine for closing remarks.

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Andrea Stine - Celanese Corp. - Director of Investor Relations

Thank you for joining the Celanese Corporation fourth quarter conference call.
If you have further questions about Celanese please call me in Dallas at 972
443-3756. A telephone replay of the conference call will be available from noon
central time today until 11 PM central time on March 4th. The numbers to the
replay are posted on our Web site at www.celanese.com. A replay of the Web cast
is also available on our Web site as well. The next Celanese conference call
will be on May 10th when we release our first quarter 2005 results. Thank you
for your interest in Celanese and this concludes our conference call.

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Operator

Thanks for your participation in today's call. This does conclude the
presentation. You may now disconnect. Have a great day.

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