Park Electrochemical Corp. Announces Appointment of Howard R. Elliott as President of Park’s Neltec, Inc. Business Unit

Lake Success, New York, January 4, 2005…Park Electrochemical Corp. (NYSE – PKE) announced the appointment of Howard R. Elliott as the President of Neltec, Inc., Park’s high-technology circuitry material business unit located in Tempe, Arizona.

Mr. Elliott has over twenty years of management experience in the high-performance printed circuitry materials industry. Mr. Elliott has held senior engineering, technology, research and operations positions at Isola USA Corp., Matsushita Electronic Materials, Inc., Polyclad Technologies, Inc., Allied-Signal, Inc., Hughes Aircraft Company and Texas Instruments, Inc. From January 2001 to August, 2004, he was Director of Research and Development and Engineering at Isola USA Corp., from March 1999 to January 2001 he was Vice President, Plant Operations and Product Development at Matsushita Electronic Materials, Inc. and from September 1991 to March 1999 he was Operations Manager at Polyclad Technologies, Inc. Mr. Elliott received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Arizona in 1984.

Brian Shore, Park’s President and CEO, said, “We are all very pleased that Howard has joined our company as the leader of our very critical Neltec, Inc. business in Tempe, Arizona. I am very much looking forward to working with Howard in the future!”

Park Electrochemical Corp. is a global advanced materials company which develops and manufactures high-technology digital and RF/microwave printed circuit materials and advanced composite materials for electronics, military, aerospace, wireless communication and industrial markets. The Company’s manufacturing facilities are located in Singapore, China (currently under construction), France (two facilities), Connecticut, New York, Arizona and California. The Company operates under the FiberCote, Nelco and Neltec names.