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Bateman Engineering N.V. 

('Bateman Engineering or the 'Company')

Management Appointments

As part of an initiative to strengthen the senior management of the Company, the Board of Bateman Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Philippe Monier as Chief Financial Officer (designate). The appointment of Philippe will allow Pieter Du Plessis, the current Chief Financial Officer, to resume a key operational role within the Group as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bateman Engineering Projects Strategic Business Unit ('BEP'). He will remain an executive director.  In addition Arnold Matthee, the Chief Executive Officer of Bateman Engineered Technologies Strategic Business Unit ('BET') is being recommended to be appointed as an Executive Director of the Company. 

Philippe Monier to be appointed Chief Financial Officer

Philippe Monier (49) brings with him a strong international financial background. Most recently he was the Chief Financial officer of Green Gas International B.V., a medium sized private equity backed company involved in the conversion of methane emissions from coal mines and landfill sites into clean energy and carbon credits. He has previously held the positions of Chief Financial officer of mining company Dynatec Corporation of Canada; Chief Financial officer of BHP Billiton Base Metals, a division of BHP Billiton; as well as working for nine years as an investment banker with Lehman Brothers' natural resources corporate finance group. 

Philippe's appointment will be effective from 13 March 2009. His appointment as Chief Financial Officer and executive director will be subject to the approval of shareholders at an extraordinary general to be held in June 2009 (the 'EGM'). Notice of meeting will be sent to shareholders in due course. 

Pieter Du Plessis to be appointed Chief Executive Officer of BEP

Pieter Du Plessis (49) has in his 18 years with the Bateman Engineering Group held key operational, financial and commercial positions. His appointment as BEP CEO will add considerable strength to this key business. Pieter's appointment will be effective from 13 March 2009. 

The position of BEP CEO has been in the temporary care of the Group CEO, Eddie Du Rand, since the Company was restructured in 2008.  

Arnold Matthee to be appointed as Executive Director

Arnold Matthee (53), is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Bateman Engineered Technologies Strategic Business Unit, a position he has held since he joined the Bateman Engineering group in November 2001. Prior to joining the Company, he was Managing Director of Thyssen Krupp Materials Handling and served on the board of the holding company, Thyssen Krupp Engineering Pty Ltd, in South Africa. He spent four years with the ABB Group as General Manager of the ABB Feralin Projects Division in South Africa, where he gained extensive project, manufacturing, construction and industrial relations experience.

His appointment as executive director is subject to shareholder approval at the EGM.  

AIM Rule 17 disclosures in respect of Philippe Monier and Arnold Matthee are set out in the Schedule below.

Bateman Engineering's Chief Executive Officer, Eddie Du Rand, commented:

'These appointments strengthen the management team and reporting structure of the group. Philippe has a wealth of experience in the international environment and his skills will add tremendous value. Having Pieter and Arnold on the board as business heads will ensure that the Company is able to react on a timely basis to changes in our challenging markets.  With these changes the executive board appointments are now complete.'

13 February 2009

ENQUIRIES:

Bateman Engineering	Tel: +31 20 502 2370
Eddie du Rand, Chief Executive Officer
Pieter du Plessis, Chief Financial Officer
Shore Capital and Corporate Limited	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7408 4090
Christian Littlewood
Edward Mansfield
College Hill	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7457 2020
Mark Garraway
Adam Aljewicz

NOTE FOR EDITORS: 

Bateman Engineering is a technology-driven engineering-project house serving the minerals and metals industries worldwide. Bateman Engineering's shares (Reuters: BATE.L / Bloomberg: BATE LN) are traded on AIM, a market of the London Stock Exchange. 

Schedule

DISCLOSURE'S REQUIRED PURSUANT TO AIM RULE 17

Name:  Philippe Monier

Former directorships held in the last 5 years:

• Green Gas Holdings Limited

• Green Gas Services Limited

• Green Gas Germany GmbH

• Green Gas International Limited

• Green Gas DPB a.s.

• G.A.S. Energy Technology, Inc (now Green Gas Americas, Inc)

• G.A.S-Access Pioneer Crossing Energy, LLC (now Green Gas-Access Pioneer Crossing Energy, LLC)

• G.A.S. Project Development, LLC (now Green Gas Project Development, LLC)

• Green Gas Columbia S.A.

• Hofstetter Umwelttechnic AG

Save for the above there are no further disclosures under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules in respect of Philippe Monier.

Name:  Arnold Jordaan Matthee (Age 53)

Current directorships:

• Bateman Africa (Pty) Limited 

• Bateman Engineered Technologies Limited 

• Bateman Projects (Botswana) (Pty) Limited

• Bateman Projects Holdings Limited 

• Bateman Projects Limited 

• Bateman Technologies Corp.

• Bateman Water (Pty) Limited 

• Bateman Water Treatment (Pty) Limited 

• Delkor Technik B.V. 

Former directorships held in the last 5 years:

• Bateman Engineering India Pvt Ltd

• Bateman Howden Pty Limited 

• Bateman South Africa (Pty) Ltd 

• Bateman Titaco Pty Limited 

• Iron & Steel Technology (Pty) Limited 

Save for the above there are no further disclosures under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules in respect of Arnold Matthee.

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