News and Press Releases

ALBANY, N.Y., November 23, 2009 – Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (“Momentive” or the “Company”) announced today it is seeking to amend its senior secured credit facility and offer up to $500 million in aggregate principal amount of first-lien senior secured notes due 2017 (the “notes”) in a private offering that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

ALBANY, N.Y., November 23, 2009 – Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (“Momentive” or the “Company”) announced today it is seeking to amend its senior secured credit facility and offer up to $500 million in aggregate principal amount of first-lien senior secured notes due 2017 (the “notes”) in a private offering that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

ALBANY, N.Y., November 19, 2009 — Momentive Performance Materials announced today that, beginning in 2010, it will introduce Silplus* silicone elastomers, a new global heat cured rubber (high consistency elastomer) platform based on a uniform production process and raw material inputs.

ALBANY, N.Y., November 10, 2009 – Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (“Momentive” or the “Company”) today reported its consolidated results for the fiscal three-month period ended September 27, 2009.

ALBANY, N.Y., November 3, 2009 — Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (the “Company”) announced today that it plans to host a conference call to discuss its Third Quarter 2009 consolidated results on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, at 9:00 A.M. EST.

ALBANY, N.Y., October 30, 2009 — Momentive Performance Materials will receive $4.5 million in

funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue the development of breakthrough

technology for the low cost production of light emitting diodes (LEDs) used in solid state lighting (SSL)

and for increased LED light source performance. LED lights can consume 75 percent less energy and

have a longer lifetime than common lighting options, but LED-based lighting is currently more

expensive to produce than conventional lighting. 

ALBANY, N.Y., October 8, 2009 — Momentive Performance Materials will introduce new developments in liquid silicone rubber (LSR) at Fakuma 2009 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, October 13-17, 2009. In collaboration with equipment suppliers, Momentive will be demonstrating two new families of LSR (Liquid Silicone Rubber) during the Fair.

ALBANY, N.Y., September 28, 2009 — Momentive Performance Materials has announced the launch of a

ALBANY, N.Y., September 28, 2009 — Momentive Performance Materials and the Woco-Group of Bad Soden, Salmünster, Germany today introduced a new generation of jointly developed fiber-reinforced liquid silicone rubber (LSR) materials.

ALBANY, N.Y., September 28, 2009 — Silicone rubber elastomers are used extensively across the automotive, consumer goods, healthcare and high voltage insulation markets.