DALLAS, April 24, 2008 Celanese Corporation (NYSE:CE), a global, integrated chemical company, today announced that Martin G. McGuinn, Daniel S. Sanders and John K. Wulff were re-elected to serve on the Celanese board of directors for a three-year term. The elections were held at the company’s annual meeting of shareholders today in Dallas.

Messrs. McGuinn, Sanders and Wulff will continue to serve on the Celanese board until the company’s 2011 annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are elected and qualified. As previously announced, Chinh E. Chu, senior managing director, The Blackstone Group L.P., resigned his Celanese board position effective today.

At today’s meeting, shareholders also ratified the selection of KPMG LLP as the company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008.

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Mark.Oberle@celanese.com     

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Jeremy Neuhart
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Jeremy.Neuhart@celanese.com