Momentive Specialty Chemicals today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. Results for the first quarter of 2013 include:

• Revenues of $1.2 billion versus $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2012.
• Operating income of $45 million compared to operating income of $44 million for the prior year period. First quarter 2013 operating income reflected lower volumes and slightly higher selling, general and administrative costs, offset by decreased asset impairments, lower business realignment costs and the positive impact of savings from the shared services agreement with Momentive Performance Materials.
• Net loss of $(4) million versus net loss of $(16) million in the prior year period. First quarter 2013 results reflect the same factors impacting operating income, a $32 million income tax benefit and a $6 million loss on extinguishment of debt.
• Segment EBITDA totaled $105 million compared to $146 million during the prior year period.

"North American housing and our past restructuring initiatives, particularly in Europe, continued to drive strong results in our forest products business in the first quarter of 2013," said Craig O. Morrison, Chairman, President and CEO. "We continued to experience softer results in our oilfield proppants business due to lower demand, although we believe this remains a long-term growth business for us. Demand for our specialty and base epoxy resins in the first quarter of 2013 also trailed the prior year results. Despite these headwinds, we continue to prudently balance our growth initiatives with our global cost reduction initiatives and the savings from the shared services agreement with MPM. As of the first quarter of 2013, we are working toward achieving $17 million of in-process cost savings that we expect to achieve over the next 12 to 15 months."

"We were also pleased to successfully complete the refinancing of portions of our capital structure in the first quarter of 2013, which further extended our debt maturity profile. Following these transactions, we do not have any material debt maturities prior to 2018."