CMC Industries, Inc. Awarded Contract With Harris Corporation.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 1999--CMC Industries Inc., (Nasdaq: CMCI) today announced that Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has selected CMC to provide manufacturing services for its paging-line product for a leading Fortune 100 communications corporation.

The agreement is with Harris' Communications Products Division in Camarillo, California. CMC also has an agreement with Harris' Novato, California facility.

"CMC and Harris Corporation have enjoyed a long-standing partnership and we are truly excited about extending our relationship," commented Matthew G. Landa, CMC President and Chief Executive Officer. "The growth of our relationship to another part of the Harris family is a testament to our ongoing quality, responsiveness and commitment to our customers."

Harris' Communications Products Division recently presented CMC with the Next Level Supplier Alliance Quality Award for 1998.

"Our decision to award this new project to CMC was based on a number of factors ranging from a competitive bid process to CMC's expertise with this kind of work," stated Barrie Hathaway, Director of Materials of Harris' Communications Products Division. "Most importantly, we have over six years experience with CMC and they've consistently delivered excellent product and services at competitive prices."

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, CMC Industries is a leading provider of electronics manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers in the telecommunications, data communications, computer and electronics industries. The Company has operations in Corinth, Mississippi; Santa Clara, CA; Hermosillo, Mexico; Huntsville, Alabama and Taipei, Taiwan. For further company information, visit CMC's homepage at http://www.cmcindustries.com.

The capabilities, products, and applications at Harris Communications are focused in three markets -- wireless communications, broadcast communications, and communications products. Harris solutions include microwave and wireless loop systems; secure radios for defense, national law enforcement, and air traffic communications systems; analog and digital television and radio systems; enhanced services and digital switching platforms, telecommunication tools and test systems, and network management systems for worldwide communications service providers and broadcasters.

Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), with worldwide sales of $3.9 billion, is an international communications and electronics firm focused on providing product, system and service solutions that take its customers to the next level. The company provides a wide range of products and services such as microwave and wireless loop systems; secure radios for defense, national law enforcement; analog and digital television and radio systems; enhanced services and digital switching platforms, telecommunication tools and test systems, and network management systems; automotive electronics, transportation, business information, defense communications and information; and Lanier office products. For information on Harris Corporation, visit Harris' website at http://www.harris.com/communications.

The matters set forth in this news release may contain forward looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those described herein and are dependent on certain risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the timing and magnitude of orders from customers with projects currently in development, continued orders and growth in orders from customers already in volume production, the ability of the Company to accurately forecast the timing and magnitude of future customer orders and appropriately adjust its expenditures in respect thereof, changes in customer mix and volume, competition, component availability, inventory obsolescence, business conditions in the general economy as well as the industries in which the Company and the Company's customers compete and other risk factors such as those detailed in the Company's SEC reports.