Press Release          Customers          Vendors/Suppliers          Employees

To Armstrong Wood Products’ valued Vendors & Suppliers:

On May 30, 2003, Armstrong World Industries, Inc. received approval of its Disclosure Statement in the Chapter 11 reorganization case from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware.

Armstrong will soon begin printing and mailing to creditors the Disclosure Statement, the Plan of Reorganization and ballots for voting.  Following the solicitation of votes, the Court will hold a hearing to consider confirmation of Armstrong’s Plan.  It is anticipated that such hearing will be in mid-November, 2003.  If the Plan is confirmed, Armstrong expects that the Plan will be implemented shortly thereafter. 

The Plan is supported by the asbestos personal injury claimants’ committee, the representative for future asbestos personal injury claimants and the unsecured creditors’ committee.  Armstrong’s Disclosure Statement, Plan of Reorganization, Solicitation Procedures and related press releases are available at www.armstrongplan.com.

In the Disclosure Statement you will find that AWI estimates that each holder of an allowed unsecured claim will receive a combination of new common stock, available cash and new notes having a value of approximately 59.5% of the amount of such allowed unsecured claims.

Thank you for your continued support.  The Disclosure Statement and the Plan of Reorganization address how any pre-petition claim you have will be resolved

Post-petition, we have conducted business as usual.  The transition out of Chapter 11 should have no effect on our continuing relationships.

Final decisions about accepting or rejecting executory contracts remain under consideration.

Armstrong Wood Products, Inc. (formerly known as Triangle Pacific Corp.) and all of its subsidiaries, including Bruce Hardwood Flooring LLC, Hartco Flooring Company and Robbins Hardwood Flooring, Inc. were not included in the Chapter 11 filing in December 2000.  In addition, Armstrong World Industries’ parent, Armstrong Holdings and Armstrong World Industries' subsidiaries Armstrong Wood Products, Inc., Armstrong DLW AG, Armstrong Canada, WAVE and other non-U.S. operations subsidiaries were not a part of the filing.