Anaheim, CA, April 25, 2000…Park / Nelco (NYSE-PKE) today announced the promotion of Fred Hickman to Senior Director of OEM Marketing. Fred's new responsibility will involve OEM Marketing and Communications on a global basis for Park/Nelco. Mr. Hickman will be reporting to Mr. Robert Forcier, Senior Vice President Advanced Product Marketing and President of Neltec, Inc.

Mr. Hickman joined the Company in 1991 as the Engineering Manager at Nelco Technology, Inc. Fred served in a variety of capacities since that time at both the Neltec, Inc. and Nelco Technology, Inc. facilities and has most recently served as Director of Technology at Neltec. Prior to joining the Company in 1991, Mr. Hickman has held various engineering positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, Hadco and Westinghouse, Corporation. Mr. Hickman has BS in Chemistry from the University of South Carolina.

Commenting on the above announcement, Bob Forcier said, "I am personally very excited that Fred will lead our efforts towards next generation material technologies. In today's fast paced market of evolutionary and revolutionary electronics, close contact with the OEM design community on a day to day basis is critical and Fred will be where the action is." Fred Hickman stated, "I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with the OEM's designers to define the materials needed for both high density interconnects (HDI) and high speed packaging of microprocessors and wireless devices. I believe in this manner we at Park/Nelco can achieve the introduction of advanced products in less time and with more performance for the application".

Park Electrochemical Corp. (NYSE-PKE) is a leading designer and producer of advanced electronic materials used to fabricate complex multilayer printed circuit boards and interconnection systems. Park's electronic materials business operates under the "Nelco" name. With 8 fully integrated production facilities in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia, Park's Nelco companies produce prepreg, laminates, ultra thin materials, continuous lamination, mass lamination and semi-finished multilayers for the global printed circuit board and electronic interconnect markets. Park also manufactures specialty adhesive tapes and advanced composite materials for the electronics, aerospace and industrial markets. For additional information contact (714) 634-3665 in the United States or see us on the World Wide Web at www.parkelectro.com.

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