Brush Engineered Materials' CEO Gordon Harnett talks to The Wall Street Transcript.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001

The Wall Street Transcript has published an in-depth interview with Gordon Harnett, CEO of Brush Engineered Materials (NYSE:BW), in which he talks at length about the company's future.

The entire 2,300-word interview is available free online at http://www.twst.com/ceos.htm

Harnett gives an overview of the company. "As you may know, the company's early interest, and to this day still a large part of the company, involves the element beryllium. Beryllium, which is number four on the periodic table, is the lightest structural metal known to mankind."

Harnett explains, "Throughout most of this past year revenue growth across our various businesses has ranged 20%-35% which is an indication of both how rapidly each of the markets that we serve is growing and the fact that these markets are demanding higher reliability, higher performing engineered materials."

Looking forward, Harnett states, "I think Brush Engineered Materials is the kind of company that investors ought to be looking for today. In one sense you could argue that we are an old economy kind of company with bricks and mortar. At the same time we're a company with two-thirds of its revenue coming from the new economy -- telecommunications, computers, automotive electronics and optical media, etc. So here's a company with assets, technology and unique materials serving the high-growth technology segments without perhaps some of the volatility that comes with Internet stocks."

This interview is part of a 40-page Investing in Metals Issue available at http://www.twst.com/info/info261.htm or by calling [phone]

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