Exhibit 99.3

 

   

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      James Hardie Industries SE
      Level 3
      22 Pitt Street
      Sydney NSW 2000 Australia

3 July 2012

 

The Manager

Company Announcements Office

ASX

20 Bridge Street

SYDNEY NSW 2000

      Tel: 02 8274 5239
      Fax: 02 8274 5218
     

 

GPO Box 3935

      Sydney NSW 2001 Australia
     
     
     

Dear Sir/Madam

Fiscal Year 2012 Form 20F

James Hardie announced today that it has filed the following document relating to fiscal year 2012 with the ASX:

 

   

Combined Australian Annual Report on Form 20-F (Form 20-F), which has also been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC);

A copy of this document is available in the Investor Relations area of the company’s website (www.jameshardie.com).

Shareholders who wish to receive a hard copy of the Form 20-F free of charge should contact the company’s Investor Relations office on +61 (02) 8274 5239. Alternatively, shareholders can forward their request by email, including their mailing details, to: [email protected].

Yours faithfully

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SEAN O’SULLIVAN

VICE PRESIDENT – INVESTOR AND MEDIA RELATIONS

 

 

James Hardie Industries SE is a limited liability company incorporated in Ireland with its registered office at Europa House, Harcourt Centre, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Directors: Michael Hammes (Chairman), Brian Anderson (USA), David Dilger, David Harrison (USA), Alison Littley (United Kingdom), James Osborne, Donald McGauchie (Australia), Rudy van der Meer (Netherlands).

Chief Executive Officer: Louis Gries

Company number: 485719


Disclaimer

This Company statement contains forward-looking statements. James Hardie may from time to time make forward-looking statements in its periodic reports filed with or furnished to the SEC, on Forms 20-F and 6-K, in its annual reports to shareholders, in offering circulars, invitation memoranda and prospectuses, in media releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by the company’s officers, directors or employees to analysts, institutional investors, existing and potential lenders, representatives of the media and others. Statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements and such forward-looking statements are statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Examples of forward-looking statements include:

 

 

statements about the company’s future performance;

 

 

projections of the company’s results of operations or financial condition;

 

 

statements regarding the company’s plans, objectives or goals, including those relating to strategies, initiatives, competition, acquisitions, dispositions and/or our products;

 

 

expectations concerning the costs associated with the suspension or closure of operations at any of the company’s plants and future plans with respect to any such plants;

 

 

expectations that the company’s credit facilities will be extended or renewed;

 

 

expectations concerning dividend payments and share buy-backs;

 

 

statements concerning the company’s corporate and tax domiciles and structures and potential changes to them, including potential tax charges;

 

 

statements regarding tax liabilities and related audits, reviews and proceedings;

 

 

statements as to the possible consequences of proceedings brought against the company and certain of its former directors and officers by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC);

 

 

expectations about the timing and amount of contributions to Asbestos Injuries Compensation Fund (AICF), a special purpose fund for the compensation of proven Australian asbestos-related personal injury and death claims;

 

 

expectations concerning indemnification obligations;

 

 

statements about product or environmental liabilities; and

 

 

statements about economic conditions, such as economic or housing recovery, the levels of new home construction and home renovations, unemployment levels, changes in consumer income, changes or stability in housing values, the availability of mortgages and other financing, mortgage and other interest rates, housing affordability and supply, the levels of foreclosures and home resales, currency exchange rates, and builder and consumer confidence.

Words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “expect,” “intend,” “target,” “estimate,” “project,” “predict,” “forecast,” “guideline,” “aim,” “will,” “should,” “likely,” “continue” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements and all such forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the following cautionary statements.

Forward-looking statements are based on the company’s current expectations, estimates and assumptions and because forward-looking statements address future results, events and conditions, they, by their very nature, involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which are unforeseeable and beyond the company’s control. Such known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause actual results, performance or other achievements to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements expressed, projected or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors, some of which are discussed under “Risks Factors” in Section 3 of the Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 2 July 2012, include, but are not limited to: all matters relating to or arising out of the prior manufacture of products that contained asbestos by current and former James Hardie subsidiaries; required contributions to AICF, any shortfall in AICF and the effect of currency exchange rate movements on the amount recorded in the company’s financial statements as an asbestos liability; governmental loan facility to AICF; compliance with and changes in tax laws and treatments; competition and product pricing in the markets in which the company operates; the consequences of product failures or defects; exposure to environmental, asbestos, putative consumer class action or other legal proceedings; general economic and market conditions; the supply and cost of raw materials; possible increases in competition and the potential that competitors could copy the company’s products; reliance on a small number of customers; a customer’s inability to pay; compliance with and changes in environmental and health and safety laws; risks of conducting business internationally; compliance with and changes in laws and regulations; the effect of the transfer of the company’s corporate domicile from The Netherlands to Ireland to become an Irish SE including employee relations, changes in corporate governance and potential tax benefits; currency exchange risks; dependence on customer preference and the concentration of the company’s customer base on large format retail customers, distributors and dealers; dependence on residential and commercial construction markets; the effect of adverse changes in climate or weather patterns; possible inability to renew credit facilities on terms favourable to the company, or at all; acquisition or sale of businesses and business segments; changes in the company’s key management personnel; inherent limitations on internal controls; use of accounting estimates; and all other risks identified in the company’s reports filed with Australian, Irish and US securities agencies and exchanges (as appropriate). The company cautions you that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive and that other risks and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and are statements of the company’s current expectations concerning future results, events and conditions.