Ron Duquette Joins Park / Nelco as Technical Services Engineer in the Northeast

Anaheim, CA, September 12, 2000…Park / Nelco (NYSE-PKE) announced that Ron Duquette has joined the company as Technical Services Engineer in the Northeastern United States covering New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Ron joins our team to further support the Park/Nelco philosophy of truly understanding customer operations and providing value-added support to those operations. Mr. Duquette reports to Mr. Jack Shirley, Director of Sales for the Eastern United States and Canada.

Ron has over 16 years in the printed circuit board industry, primarily in the role of a operations management. Most recently, he served as manufacturing supervisor for Teledyne and Hadco in New Hampshire. Ron graduated from Rivier College in Nashua, New Hampshire.

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 production facilities in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia, Park’s Nelco companies produce prepreg, laminates, ultra thin materials, mass lamination and semi-finished multilayers. Park also manufactures specialty adhesive tapes and advanced composite materials for the electronics,