Park Electrochemical Corp. Announces Appointment of Jonathan Spiegel as Product Director

Lake Success, New York, December 16, 2004…..Park Electrochemical Corp. (NYSE – PKE) announced the appointment of Jonathan Spiegel as Product Director for the company effective December 13, 2004. He will be responsible for management of a portion of the company’s advanced technology products. Mr. Spiegel will coordinate product development activities from research and development project criteria identification through product commercialization. He will be working with Vito Tanzi, who is also a Product Director for the company, to accelerate time to market for advanced product and process technologies and will report to Steve Schaefer, the company’s Senior Vice President, Technology.

Mr. Spiegel joins Park with many years experience in product development and management. Most recently, he was Program/Product Manager for Solectron. Prior to that, he was a New Product Development Engineer at Viasystems Technologies Corporation. Mr. Spiegel received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Park Electrochemical Corp. is a leading global designer and producer of electronic materials used to fabricate complex multilayer printed circuit boards and interconnection systems. Park specializes in advanced materials for high layer count circuit boards and high-speed digital and RF/Microwave electronic systems. Park also designs and manufactures advanced composite materials for the aerospace, military and industrial markets. The Company’s manufacturing facilities are located in Singapore, China, France, Connecticut, New York, Arizona and California.