2000 RMA Safety & Health Improvement Excellence(*) Award Winners.

                  General Products Group

          Company                         Plant

Advanced Elastomer Systems, L.P.        Pensacola, FL
Ames Rubber (Ames Amesil)                Oakridge, NJ
BRC Rubber Group                         Ligonier, IN
Chardon Rubber                           Alliance, OH
                                          Chardon, OH
                                           Nashua, NH
                                       St. Joseph, MI
Chicago Rawhide                          Franklin, NC
Cooper Tire & Rubber
  (Nishikawa-Standard)
  (Cooper-Standard Automotive)          New Haven, IN
Federal-Mogul                              Skokie, IL
Freudenberg-NOK, General                  Bristol, NH
  Partnership                        Purcellville, VA
                                       Scottsburg, IN
                                          Spencer, IA
Gates Rubber                                 Iola, KS
                                   Siloam Springs, AR
Goodyear Tire & Rubber               Mt. Pleasant, IA
HBD Industries                      Bellefontaine, OH
                                      Spartanburg, SC
M.A. Hanna Rubber Compounding              Burton, OH
  (PolyOne)                               Chicago, IL
                                        Kennedale, TX
                                        Kingstree, SC
Ottawa Rubber                             Holland, OH
Titan Industries                           Exacta, CO
                                           Spring, TX
Trostel, Ltd. (Polymer Compound        Whitewater, WI
  Division)
VIP Rubber                               La Habra, CA

(*) The Rubber Manufacturers Association's Excellence
Award is based upon the ability of a plant to achieve an
incidence rate for lost workday cases that is 75% better
than the average achieved by plants that provided data
to RMA.