Armstrong Names Four New Board Members

Lancaster, PA, Sept. 28, 2009--Four new members have been elected to the Armstrong World Industries Board of Directors.

They include David Bonderman, Kevin R. Burns, James C. Melville and Edward E. Steiner, who are filling vacancies from recent resignations. They were all nominated by Armor TPG, the firm that recently purchased 7 million shares of Armstrong stock from the Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust.

Bonderman is a founding partner of TPG.

Burns has been a Partner in the Operations Group of TPG since 2003.

Melville is a member of the Minneapolis based law firm of Kaplan, Strangis and Kaplan, P.A. where he has practiced in the corporate, governance, securities and financial areas since 1994.

Steiner has been a partner at Keating Muething & Klekamp since 1993 in the business representation and transactions practice group.