Park Electrochemical Corp. Announces Lamar Group Ltd as Distributor of Portions of Europe

MELVILLE, New York, April 8, 2005….Park Electrochemical Corp. (NYSE – PKE) announced that Lamar Group Ltd. is now representing Park’s advanced digital substrate materials in Great Britain and Ireland. Lamar will sell, distribute and warehouse products manufactured by Park’s Neltec Europe SAS business unit in Mirebeau, France.

Great Britain and Ireland remain active regions for prototype and medium volume advanced digital applications. This new sales representative and distributorship relationship with Lamar will provide reactive localized service to Park’s customers in the region. Customers will benefit from access to a range of Neltec products at the speed and level of service for which Lamar is recognized.

Lamar Group serves the printed circuit board industry with copper clad laminate (high technology multi-layer, FR-4, CEM1), drill board, copper foil, release film, pre-preg, acrylics and kraft paper, together with a wide range of cleaning and maintenance products, inks, chemicals, film storage system, drills and routers, tapes and many other consumable products. Further information on Lamar Group Ltd is available on the World Wide Web at www.lamargroup.co.uk.

Certain portions of this press release may be deemed to constitute forward looking statements that are subject to various factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from Park’s expectations. Such factors include, but are not limited to, general conditions in the electronics industry, Park’s competitive position, the status of Park’s relationships with its customers, economic conditions in international markets, the cost and availability of utilities, and the various factors set forth under the caption “Factors That May Affect Future Results” after Item 7 of Park’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 29, 2004.

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 the 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.