EX-10.17 54 a2118869zex-10_17.htm EXHIBIT 10.17
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EXHIBIT 10.17

SUPPLEMENTARY SAVINGS PLAN
OF LAPORTE INC.

(As Amended and Restated Effective December 30, 1997)

Table of Contents

		Page
ARTICLE I Introduction		1
ARTICLE II Definitions		1
2.1.	"Account"	1
2.2.	"Affiliate"	1
2.3.	"Beneficiary"	1
2.4.	"Board"	1
2.5.	"Code"	1
2.6.	"Committee"	1
2.7.	"Company"	1
2.8.	"Compensation"	1
2.9.	"Effective Date"	1
2.10.	"Eligible Employees"	2
2.11.	"Employer"	2
2.12.	"Matching Account"	2
2.13.	"Matching Credits"	2
2.14.	"Participant"	2
2.15.	"Plan"	2
2.16.	"Plan Year"	2
2.17.	"Profit Sharing Plan"	2
2.18.	"Profit Sharing Plan Matching Contributions"	2
2.19.	"Profit Sharing Plan Salary Deferral Contributions"	2
2.20.	"Salary Deferral Account"	2
2.21.	"Salary Deferral Agreement"	2
2.22.	"Salary Deferral Credits"	2
2.23.	"Seconded Employees"	2
2.24.	"Statutory Limitations"	2
2.25.	"Termination"	2
2.26.	"Unforeseeable Emergency"	2
ARTICLE III Participation		3
3.1.	Eligibility to Participate	3
3.2.	Enrollment	3
3.3.	Deferral of Compensation	3
ARTICLE IV Accounts
4.1.	Maintenance of Accounts	3
4.2.	Salary Deferral Credits	4
4.3.	Matching Credits	4
4.4.	Interest Credits	4
4.5.	Vesting	4
4.6.	Quarterly Statements	4
ARTICLE V Payments		4
5.1.	Methods of Payment	4
5.2.	Commencement of Benefits	5
5.3.	Effect of Termination	5
5.4.	Death Benefits	5
5.5.	Hardship	5

5.6.	Tax Increases	5
5.7.	Tax Withholding	5
ARTICLE VI Determination of Benefits, Claims Procedure and Administration		5
6.1.	Determinations	5
6.2.	Interpretation	6
6.3.	Reports	6
6.4.	No Liability	6
ARTICLE VII General Provisions		6
7.1.	Designation of Beneficiary	6
7.2.	Amendment and Termination	6
7.3.	No Contract of Employment	6
7.4.	Nonalienation of Benefits	6
7.5.	Corporate Successors	7
7.6.	Unfunded Plan	7
7.7.	Governing Law	7
7.8.	Payments to Incompetents or Minors	7
7.9.	Partial Invalidity	7

SUPPLEMENTARY SAVINGS PLAN
OF LAPORTE INC.

(As Amended and Restated Effective December 30, 1997)

ARTICLE I

Introduction

Laporte Inc. (the "Company") adopted the Supplementary Savings Plan of Laporte Inc. (the "Plan"), effective July 1, 1990, in order to provide supplemental retirement benefits to certain of its management and highly compensated employees whose benefits under the Profit-Sharing/401(k) Plan of Laporte Inc. (the "Profit Sharing Plan") and/or the Laporte Inc. Money Purchase Pension Plan (the "Money Purchase Pension Plan") are restricted as a result of the limitations imposed by Sections 401(a)(17), 401(k)(3), 401(m)(2), 402(g)(1) and 415 of the Code, or who are otherwise ineligible to participate in the Profit Sharing Plan or the Money Purchase Pension Plan. The Plan was subsequently amended and restated in its entirety effective December 15, 1993. The Plan was again amended and restated in its entirety effective January 1, 1996. The Plan is hereby further amended and restated in its entirety effective as of the "Effective Date" (as defined herein). The benefits, if any, of an Eligible Employee who terminated employment prior to the Effective Date shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Plan as in effect as of such termination date.

ARTICLE II

Definitions

Where the following terms appear in this Plan, they shall have the respective meanings set forth in this Article II, unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary:

2.1. "Account" means the Salary Deferral Account and Matching Account maintained by the Committee to reflect the accrued benefit of a Participant under the Plan.

2.2. "Affiliate" means any entity that is a member of a controlled group of corporations or a group of trades or businesses under common control (as such terms are defined in Sections 414(b) and (c) of the Code), of which the Company is a member.

2.3. "Beneficiary" means the person or persons entitled to receive benefits under the Plan after the death of a Participant pursuant to Section 7.1 hereof.

2.4. "Board" means the Board of Directors of the Company.

2.5. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any regulations issued thereunder.

2.6. "Committee" means the committee appointed by the Board to administer the Plan

2.7. "Company" means Laporte Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its successors.

2.8. "Compensation" means the amount of compensation that would be available for elective deferral under the Profit Sharing Plan and/or the Money Purchase Pension Plan if the limitations of Section 401(a)(17) of the Code were not imposed.

2.9. "Effective Date" means December 30, 1997.

2.10. "Eligible Employees" means a management or highly compensated employee of an Employer (i) who is eligible to participate in the Profit Sharing Plan and/or the Money Purchase Pension Plan, but whose contributions are limited by the Statutory Limitations, or who is a Seconded Employee, and (ii) who is selected by the Committee to participate in the Plan.

2.11. "Employer" means the Company and each Affiliate that is a participating employer under the Profit Sharing Plan and/or the Money Purchase Pension Plan and that has elected, with the consent of the Company, to be a participating employer under this Plan.

2.12. "Matching Account" means the portion of a Participant's Account derived from Matching Credits.

2.13. "Matching Credits" means the amount credited to a Participant's Account pursuant to Section 4.3.

2.14. "Participant" means an Eligible Employee who has enrolled in the Plan in accordance with Section 3.2.

2.15. "Plan" means the Supplementary Savings Plan of Laporte Inc., as set forth herein and as amended and restated from time to time.

2.16. "Plan Year" means the calendar year.

2.17. "Profit Sharing Plan" means the Profit-Sharing/401(k) Plan for Employees of Laporte Inc.

2.18. "Profit Sharing Plan Matching Contributions" means the matching contributions made by an Employer on behalf of a Participant under the Profit Sharing Plan.

2.19. "Profit Sharing Plan Salary Deferral Contributions" means the pre-tax, salary deferral contributions made by the Employer to the Profit Sharing Plan on behalf of a Participant pursuant to the Participant's election.

2.20. "Salary Deferral Account" means the portion of a Participant's Account derived from Salary Deferral Credits.

2.21. "Salary Deferral Agreement" means an agreement entered into between an Eligible Employee and an Employer whereby the Eligible Employee agrees to become a Participant in the Plan and to defer a portion of his or her Compensation under this Plan pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.3.

2.22. "Salary Deferral Credits" means the amount credited to a Participant's Account pursuant to Section 4.2.

2.23. "Seconded Employees" means those employees of the Employer who are only eligible to make salary deferrals under the Profit Sharing Plan and/or the Money Purchase Pension Plan because they participate in a non-United States pension plan sponsored by the Employer.

2.24. "Statutory Limitations" means the limitations imposed by Sections 401 (a) (17), 401 (k) (3), 401 (m) (2), 402 (g) (1) and 415 of the Code on the amount that may be contributed to the Profit Sharing Plan and/or the Money Purchase Pension Plan on behalf of an Eligible Employee.

2.25. "Termination" means the termination of a Participant's employment with his or her Employer for any reason.

2.26. "Unforeseeable Emergency" means a severe financial hardship to the Participant resulting from a sudden and unexpected illness or accident of the Participant or of a dependent (as defined in Section 152(a) of the Code) of the Participant, loss of the Participant's property due to casualty, or similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond the control of the Participant. The circumstances that will constitute an Unforeseeable Emergency shall be determined by the Committee depending upon the facts of each case.

ARTICLE III
Participation

3.1. Eligibility to Participate. The Committee, in its sole discretion, shall select management or highly compensated employees of the Employer, including Seconded Employees, as eligible to participate in the Plan. The Committee shall notify such Eligible Employees of their eligibility as soon as practicable after the Committee has made its selection. The Committee may revoke a Participant's eligibility prospectively; however, such revocation may not adversely affect such Participant's rights hereunder with respect to amounts previously credited to his or her Account.

3.2. Enrollment. Each Eligible Employee may become a Participant in the Plan by filing with his or her Employer a fully completed and executed Salary Deferral Agreement on which the Eligible Employee elects to participate in the Plan and to defer a portion of his or her Compensation. A Salary Deferral Agreement must be filed with the Employer prior to the first day of the Plan Year to which it relates. If an Eligible Employee first becomes an Eligible Employee after the first day of a Plan Year, his or her Salary Deferral Agreement must be filed with the Employer within thirty (30) days after the date on which he or she first becomes an Eligible Employee in order to participate in the Plan for such Plan Year; however, such Salary Deferral Agreement shall only apply to Compensation earned after the date the Salary Deferral Agreement has been filed with the Employer.

A Salary Deferral Agreement shall be irrevocable and shall remain in full force and effect for subsequent Plan Years unless modified or terminated by the filing with the Employer of a new Salary Deferral Agreement. A new Salary Deferral Agreement shall apply only to Compensation earned by the Participant after the end of the Plan Year in which it is filed with the Employer. If a Participant receives a distribution on account of hardship from the Profit Sharing Plan and/or the Money Purchase Pension Plan under circumstances requiring that deferrals under this Plan be suspended, deferrals under this Plan shall cease for such period as may be required in connection with such distribution.

3.3. Deferral of Compensation. Each Plan Year a Participant shall have the right to elect on his or her Salary Deferral Agreement the percentage of the Participant's Compensation to defer for such Plan Year, and to make the designations provided for in Sections 5.1 and 5.2, all in the manner permitted by the Company.

A Participant shall be permitted to defer Compensation under this Section 3.3 for a Plan Year only if he or she has elected to contribute a percentage of his or her Compensation to the Money Purchase Pension Plan and/or to the Profit Sharing Plan as a Profit Sharing Plan Salary Deferral Contribution for such Plan Year, and such contribution cannot be made in its entirety because of the Statutory Limitations, provided that this restriction shall not apply to Seconded Employees or any other Participants prohibited from making contributions to the Profit Sharing Plan and/or the Money Purchase Pension Plan.

ARTICLE IV

Accounts

4.1. Maintenance of Accounts. The Employer and the Committee shall maintain on the Employer's books and records an Account for each Participant that shall be credited with any credits and earnings pursuant to this Article IV and charged with payments and forfeitures pursuant to Article V. Each Participant's Account shall consist of a Salary Deferral Account and a Matching Account. The amount available for payments shall be limited to the portion of the Account that is vested. The Employer or the Committee may from time to time assess reasonable service charges against all or any portion of the Accounts to defray costs associated with the implementation and administration of the Plan. Payments under the Plan shall be charged against Accounts on the date on which the payments are made and forfeitures shall be charged on the date of Termination.

4.2. Salary Deferral Credits. The Salary Deferral Account of each Participant shall be credited at the end of each calendar quarter with Salary Deferral Credits equal to the amount of Compensation deferred by the Participant during such payroll period pursuant to Section 3.3.

4.3. Matching Credits. The Matching Account of each Participant, other than a Participant who is a Seconded Employee, shall be credited at the end of each calendar quarter during a Plan Year with a Matching Credit in an amount equal to:

(A) the amount of Profit Sharing Plan Matching Contributions or the Money Purchase Pension Plan contributions that would have been made by the Employer on behalf of the Participant for the calendar quarter if (i) the Profit Sharing Plan Salary Deferral Contributions and Profit Sharing Plan Matching Contributions and the Money Purchase Pension Plan contributions had not been restricted by the Statutory Limitations, and (ii) the Participant had elected to contribute as Profit Sharing Plan Salary Deferral Contributions and/or Money Purchase Pension Plan contributions the amount actually elected plus the amount of Salary Deferral Credits elected under this Plan, minus

(B) the Profit Sharing Plan Matching Contributions and/or the Money Purchase Pension Plan contributions otherwise actually made by the Employer on behalf of the Participant for such calendar quarter.

In addition to the other matching contributions, the Employer shall make additional credits to the Participant's Matching Account based on the annual, variable profit sharing contribution in regards to Compensation above the Statutory Limitations (this contribution has historically been approximately 2% to 4% of compensation).

Also, the Employer may from time to time in its sole discretion make additional contributions to the Participant's Matching Account and correspondingly credit the Matching Account of the Participant for such additional contribution. The Employer may make different additional contributions for each Participant.

4.4. Interest Credits. As of the last day of each calendar quarter, each Participant's Account shall be credited with an interest credit equal to (i) the Account balance on such date, multiplied by (ii) one-fourth of the prime rate being charged by Chase Manhattan on the first day of the calendar quarter.

4.5. Vesting. A Participant shall at all times be fully vested in his or her Salary Deferral Account. A Participant's vested percentage in his or her Matching Account shall be equal to the percentage that the Participant is vested in his or her Profit Sharing Plan Matching Contributions and/or Money Purchase Pension Plan contributions. The portion of a Participant's Matching Account that is not vested shall be forfeited on Termination and shall not be restored in the event the Participant is subsequently reemployed by the Employer. The Committee, in its sole discretion, may accelerate vesting of all or a portion of a Participant's Matching Account to such extent and at such times as may be in the best interests of the Employer.

4.6. Quarterly Statements. Statements indicating the total amount credited to a Participant's Account as of the last day of each calendar quarter shall be furnished by the Committee to the Participant not more than ninety (90) days after the end of each calendar quarter and at such other time or times as the Committee may determine.

ARTICLE V

Payments

5.1. Methods of Payment. A Participant shall designate in his or her Salary Deferral Agreement whether his or her Account balance shall be distributed in a single, lump sum payment or in

approximately equal quarterly installments for a period of three (3) years, five (5) years, ten (10) years, fifteen (15) years, or twenty (20) years, as permitted by the Company. Payment of the lump sum or first quarterly installment shall be made on the date specified in Section 5.2. A Participant and the Employer may agree to change the method of payment of his or her Account balance, if an additional service agreement ("Additional Service Agreement") is entered into by the Employer and the Participant and such Additional Service Agreement is a bona fide written agreement with the Employer which requires the Participant to provide substantial services to the Employer for a reasonable period of time before benefit payments commence.

5.2. Commencement of Benefits. Payment of a Participant's Account shall be made or shall commence on the last day of the month in which the Participant's employment terminates with the company (whether because of retirement or any other reason).

5.3. Effect of Termination. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.2, in the event of the Participant's termination prior to the first day of the Plan Year in which payment of the Participant's Account would otherwise be made or commenced in accordance with Section 5.2, payment of the Participant's Account shall be made or commenced no later than the last day of the Plan Year of Termination.

5.4. Death Benefits. Upon the death of a Participant prior to the distribution of the entire balance of his or her Account, the remaining balance in the Participant's Account shall be paid to the Participant's Beneficiary in the form designated by the Participant; provided, however, that if the Participant elected quarterly installments and the Committee has determined that an Unforeseeable Emergency has occurred, the Committee may approve a Beneficiary's request for a single, lump sum payment.

5.5. Hardship. A Participant's Account shall be distributed according to Sections 5.1 and 5.2, except that a Participant may apply for and receive a distribution of all or a portion of the vested balance in his or her Account prior to the date the Account is otherwise payable if the Committee determines that an Unforeseeable Emergency has occurred. Payment may not be made to the extent that the need caused by the Unforeseeable Emergency is or may be relieved through reimbursement by insurance or otherwise, by reasonable liquidation of the Participant's assets, to the extent the liquidation of such assets would not itself cause severe financial hardship, or by cessation of deferrals under this Plan or the Profit Sharing Plan and/or the Money Purchase Pension Plan. Amounts shall only be distributed because of an Unforeseeable Emergency to the extent necessary to address the Unforeseeable Emergency.

5.6. Tax Increases. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.1, in the event a Participant's Accounts are being paid in installment payments, and during said payout period Federal personal income tax rates for the highest marginal tax rate are scheduled to increase by fifteen (15) or more percentage points, any remaining installment payments shall be paid in a lump sum at a date determined by the Committee which precedes the effective date of such tax rate increase.

5.7. Tax Withholding. The Committee may assign all or some of its duties hereunder to an officer or other employee of the Company. The Company shall withhold from payments due under the Plan any and all taxes of any nature required by any government to be withheld.

ARTICLE VI

Determination of Benefits, Claims Procedure and Administration

6.1. Determinations. The Committee may assign all or some of its duties hereunder to an officer or other employee of the Company. The Committee shall make all determinations as to rights to benefits under this Plan. Subject to and in compliance with the specific procedures contained in the applicable regulations promulgated under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as

amended: (i) any decision by the Committee denying a claim for benefits under this Plan by the Participant or any other claimant shall be stated in writing by the Committee and delivered or mailed to the claimant; (ii) each such notice shall set forth the specific reasons for the denial, written to the best of the Committee's ability in a manner that may be understood without legal or actuarial counsel; and (iii) the Committee shall afford a reasonable opportunity to the claimant whose claim for benefits has been denied for a review of the decision denying such claim.

6.2. Interpretation. Subject to the foregoing: (i) the Committee shall have full power and authority to interpret, construe and administer this Plan; and (ii) the interpretation and construction of this Plan by the Committee, and any action taken hereunder, shall be binding and conclusive upon all parties in interest.

6.3. Reports. The Company shall provide the Participant with a statement reflecting the amount of the Participant's Account on a quarterly basis.

6.4. No Liability. No employee, agent, officer or director of the Company shall, in any event, be liable to any person for any action taken or omitted to be taken in connection with the interpretation, construction or administration of this Plan, so long as such action or omission to act be made in good faith.

ARTICLE VII

General Provisions

7.1. Designation of Beneficiary. A Participant may designate one or more Beneficiaries to receive any payments due under the Plan upon the Participant's death. All Beneficiary designations must be on forms provided by the Committee and will be effective on the date filed with the Committee. A Participant may change a Beneficiary designation at any time, without the consent of any prior Beneficiary, by filing with the Committee a new Beneficiary designation form. No Beneficiary designation form shall be effective unless received by the Committee prior to the Participant's death. If a Participant dies without having filed a proper Beneficiary designation form with the Committee, or to the extent no designated Beneficiary is living, any amounts payable under the Plan upon the Participant's death shall be paid to his or her beneficiaries as determined under the provisions of the Profit Sharing Plan.

7.2. Amendment and Termination. The Company may, at any time and from time to time, amend, in whole or in part, or terminate the Plan without the consent of any Participant or Beneficiary; provided, however, that no amendment or termination of the Plan shall reduce the amount then credited to any Participant's Account. If the Plan is terminated, the Employer shall continue to be responsible for making payments attributable to existing Accounts; however, the Committee, in its discretion, may direct that all Account balances be distributed in the form of a single, lump sum distribution.

7.3. No Contract of Employment. The establishment of the Plan, the creation of the Accounts, and/or the making of any payments under the Plan, shall not give any employee the right to remain in the service of any Employer, and all Participants and other employees shall remain subject to discharge to the-same extent as if the Plan had never been adopted.

7.4. Nonalienation of Benefits. None of the interests, benefits or rights of any Participant or Beneficiary hereunder shall be subject to any claim of any creditor of such Participant or Beneficiary and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all such interests, benefits and rights shall be free from attachment, garnishment or any other legal or equitable process available to any creditor of such Participant or Beneficiary. No Participant or Beneficiary shall have the right to alienate, anticipate, pledge, encumber, sell, transfer or otherwise assign any of the benefits or payments that the Participant or Beneficiary may expect to receive under the Plan, and any attempt to do so shall be void.

7.5. Corporate Successors. The Plan shall not be automatically terminated by a transfer or sale of the assets of the Company or by the merger or consolidation of the Company into or with any other corporation or other entity, but the Plan shall be continued after such sale, merger or consolidation only if and to the extent that the transferee, purchaser or successor entity agrees to continue the Plan. In the event that the Plan is not continued by the transferee, purchaser or successor entity, then the Plan shall terminate in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.2.

7.6. Unfunded Plan. The Plan shall at all times be entirely unfunded and, except as provided in the following paragraph, no provision shall at any time be made with respect to segregating any assets of the Company or any other Employer for payment of any benefits due hereunder. The right of a Participant or Beneficiary to receive a distribution hereunder shall be all unsecured claim against the general assets of the Employers, and neither the Participant nor any Beneficiary shall have any rights in or against any specific assets of the Employers.

The preceding paragraph to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may establish a trust to which the Employers may transfer funds for the payment of benefits under the Plan. The terms of such trust must require that its assets be used to satisfy the claims of the Employer's unsecured creditors in the event of the Employer's bankruptcy or insolvency, and the trust must contain such terms and conditions as shall prevent taxation to Participants and Beneficiaries of any amounts held in the trust or credited to an Account prior to the time payments are made. No Participant or Beneficiary shall have any ownership rights in or to the assets of any trust established pursuant to this paragraph.

7.7. Governing Law. This Plan shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, except to the extent preempted by federal law.

7.8. Payments to Incompetents or Minors. If a Participant or Beneficiary entitled to receive benefits hereunder is deemed by the Committee or is adjudged to be legally incapable of caring for his or her affairs, such benefits shall be paid to the duly appointed and acting guardian, if any, and if no such guardian is appointed and acting, to such person or persons as the Committee may designate. Any such payment shall, to the extent made, be deemed a complete discharge of the obligation of the Plan or the Committee to make such payment.

7.9. Partial Invalidity. If any term or provision hereof or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the Plan, or the application of such term or provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid or unenforceable, shall both be unaffected and each term or provision hereof shall be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

EXECUTED AND DATED as of the 30th day of December, 1997.

		LAPORTE INC.
		By:		/s/ Thomas J. Riordan
		Print Name: Thomas J. Riordan Print Title: Vice President & Secretary

FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE
SUPPLEMENTARY SAVINGS PLAN OF LAPORTE INC.

WHEREAS, Laporte Inc., now known as Rockwood Specialties Inc. (the "Company") maintains the Supplementary Savings Plan of Laporte Inc. (as amended and restated effective December 30, 1997) (the "Plan").

WHEREAS, Section 7.2 of the Plan reserves to the Company the authority to amend the Plan at any time; and

WHEREAS, the Company now desires to amend the Plan by reflecting the new company name;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Plan is hereby amended as follows, effective March l, 2001:

1.: The first sentence of Article I is amended to read as follows:
: Rockwood Specialties Inc. (the "Company") adopted the Supplementary Savings Plan of Rockwood Specialtes Inc. (the "Plan"), effective July 1, 1990, in order to provide supplemental retirement benefits to certain of its management and highly compensated employees whose benefits under the Profit-Sharing/401(k) Plan of Rockwood Specialties Inc. (the "Profit Sharing Plan") and/or the Rockwood Specialties Inc. Money Purchase Pension Plan (the "Money Purchase Plan") are restricted as a result of the limitations imposed by Sections 401 (a) (17), 401 (k) (3), 401 (m) (2), 402(g) (1) and 415 of the code, or who are otherwise ineligible to participate in the Profit Sharing Plan or the Money Purchase Pension Plan.
2.: Article 2.15 is amended to read as follows:
: "Plan" means the Supplementary Savings Plan of Rockwood Specialties Inc., as set forth herein and as amended and restated from time to time.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this first amendment to be executed this 1st day of March, 2001.

		ROCKWOOD SPECIALTIES INC. (FORMERLY LAPORTE INC.)
		By:		/s/ Thomas J. Riordan Thomas J. Riordan Vice President & Secretary

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EXHIBIT 10.17

SUPPLEMENTARY SAVINGS PLAN OF LAPORTE INC. (As Amended and Restated Effective December 30, 1997)
Table of Contents
SUPPLEMENTARY SAVINGS PLAN OF LAPORTE INC. (As Amended and Restated Effective December 30, 1997)
ARTICLE I Introduction
ARTICLE II Definitions
ARTICLE III Participation
ARTICLE IV Accounts
ARTICLE V Payments
ARTICLE VI Determination of Benefits, Claims Procedure and Administration
ARTICLE VII General Provisions
FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE SUPPLEMENTARY SAVINGS PLAN OF LAPORTE INC.