Georgia Gulf Announces Management Appointments

Georgia Gulf Corporation (NYSE:GGC) today announced several management appointments to fill newly created positions within its building and home improvement operations. The new positions have been created to enhance sales, product innovation and manufacturing efficiency. Georgia Gulf acquired Royal Group in fall of 2006, moving rapidly since then to integrate and optimize Royal Group’s operations. Art Ramey has been appointed President of Sales and Marketing for Royal Group’s rigid and cellular PVC window and door profiles, decorative mouldings, trim boards and coatings business units. In this newly created position, Mr. Ramey will have a scope of responsibility that will enable him to implement strategies to leverage current distribution channels with a wider product offering. Mr. Ramey has been with Royal Mouldings for 34 years, serving in positions of increasing responsibility, with his most recent posting being President – Royal Mouldings. He has extensive experience in sales planning and management, as well as brand development and channel management for the products he is now responsible for. Mr. Ramey will report to Bill Doherty, Georgia Gulf’s Vice President of Custom Products. Brandon Nadler has been appointed General Manager of US Operations for Royal Group’s window and door profiles, decorative mouldings, trim boards and coatings business units. He is responsible for extrusion operations in these product areas located in Pennsylvania, Washington, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia, and Texas. Mr. Nadler will focus on improving overall operational efficiencies by deploying best practices across all production facilities. Mr. Nadler has been with Georgia Gulf for 19 years, serving in numerous capacities, including project engineer, production manager and site manager. Mr. Nadler will report to Bill Doherty, Georgia Gulf’s Vice President of Custom Products. Peter Kotiadis has been appointed Vice President of Design and Product Development for Royal Group’s window and door profile, outdoor storage building, fence, deck and rail product lines. Mr. Kotiadis will build on Royal Group’s history of successful product and process development, by ensuring technologies are deployed widely within Royal Group. He will utilize Royal Group’s entire design network, marrying together rigid PVC extrusion, cellular PVC extrusion, compound and finishing technologies as required to create value-added products for customers. Royal Group’s development endeavors have historically been fundamentally decentralized. In addition, Mr. Kotiadis will introduce management techniques to further reduce Royal Group’s time to market with new products. Mr. Kotiadis has over 17 years experience with Royal Group, where he has contributed to the development of a series of innovative extruded products. Mr. Kotiadis will report to Bill Doherty, Georgia Gulf’s Vice President of Custom Products. Commenting on the new appointments, Ed Schmitt, Georgia Gulf’s Chairman, President and C.E.O. commented that, "the management of Georgia Gulf and Royal Group have combined their strengths during the initial months following the acquisition to identify several opportunities to enhance both top and bottom lines. We are now structured to execute this next phase of our integration plan.” Georgia Gulf Georgia Gulf Corporation is a leading, integrated North American manufacturer of two chemical lines, chlorovinyls and aromatics, and manufactures vinyl-based building and home improvement products. The Company’s vinyl-based building and home improvement products, marketed under Royal Group brands, include window and door profiles, mouldings, siding, pipe and pipe fittings, deck, fence and rail and outdoor storage buildings. Georgia Gulf, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, has manufacturing facilities located throughout North America to provide industry-leading service to customers. Safe Harbor This news release contains forward-looking statements subject to the "safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s assumptions regarding business conditions, and actual results may be materially different. Risks and uncertainties inherent in these assumptions include, but are not limited to difficulties in integrating the recently acquired business of Royal Group, Inc., uncertainties relating to Royal Group’s business and liabilities, uncertainties regarding asset sales, synergies, operating efficiencies and competitive conditions, future global economic conditions, economic conditions in the industries to which our products are sold, industry production capacity, raw materials and energy costs and other factors discussed in the Securities and Exchange Commission filings of Georgia Gulf Corporation, including our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.