DSM started using Transwide in December 2002 in a pilot environment at its business unit ACN and is now in the process of implementing the road and rail solutions in several business groups. Consequently the number of transactions and carriers increases significantly. The information from the Transwide system is also integrated into the DSM web-shop so that end customers can have full visibility on the status of road transport fulfillment.

"After having successfully tested its functionalities, we selected Transwide as our standard for transport technology execution based on its leadership position in European transport execution and on its solid corporate shareholding," said Koen Devits, Director DSM Corporate e-Business. With Transwide, DSM now has one standard communication channel to its land transport carriers. This standard channel will enable DSM to simplify processes, reduce errors and costly one-to-one connections.

Transwide benefits

"Before using Transwide, when a truck left our factories, we did not receive enough systematic information on what was happening during transport and at the end-customers' premises. We had to rely on manual data provided by our carriers, which we received weeks after the delivery and which were inconsistent - throughout our carrier base," said Jan Kaptijn, eBusiness Manager at DSM ACN. "With Transwide, we receive information consistently, in real time and pro-actively without imposing any costs on our carriers."

"DSM is at the forefront of implementing technology solutions to offer best in class services to end customers and therefore we are pleased that DSM has selected Transwide," said Gregory Blondeau, Business Development Director at Transwide. "With Transwide, DSM will increase process efficiency and provide real time information to its end customers on, for example, time of arrival or on the exact load details."

Transwide

Transwide is a pan-European land transport execution solution provider and offers a suite of technology solutions to enable the electronic communication and visibility of transport orders, transport documents, waiting times, reservations, real time tracking, and signatures. Transwide has about 100 customers. Transwide serves both carriers and shippers equally and does not have shippers or carriers in its shareholder base. For more information, see www.transwide.com.

DSM

DSM is active worldwide in life science products, performance materials and industrial chemicals. The group has annual sales in 2002 of close to EUR 5.6 billion and employs about 18,500 people at more than 200 sites across the world. DSM ranks among the global leaders in many of its fields. The company's strategic aim is to grow its sales - partly through acquisitions - to a level of approx. EUR 10 billion by 2005. By that time at least 80% of sales should be generated by specialties, i.e. advanced chemical and biotechnological products for the life science industry and performance materials. This strategy represents a continuation of the company's ongoing transformation and concentration on global leadership positions in high-added-value activities characterized by high growth and more stable profit levels. More information about DSM can be found at www.dsm.com.

For more information:

DSM Corporate Communications
Gerard van der Zanden
tel. +31 (45) 5782423
fax +31 (45) 5740680
e-mail media.relations@dsm.com

Corporate e-Business
Han Dols
Tél.: +31 6 53 229 542
E-Mail: han.dols@dsm.com

DSM Investor Relations
Dries Ausems
tel. +31 (45) 5782477
fax +31 (45) 5782595
e-mail investor.relations@dsm.com

Transwide :
Marketing Manager
Jérôme van Lidth
Tél.: +32 2 722 99 38
E-mail : jvanlidth@transwide.com