Ceradyne, Inc. CEO to Speak At Adams, Harkness & Hill Summer Seminar.

Business Editors

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2002

Ceradyne, Inc. (Nasdaq:CRDN) Chief Executive Officer Joel Moskowitz will be speaking on Thursday, August 8, at 8:00 a.m. EDT at Adams, Harkness & Hill's 22nd Annual Summer Seminar at the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

Moskowitz's 20-minute presentation will include the Company's strategic business plan, growth opportunities and key variables, and outlook, and will be followed by a five-minute Q&A session. This year's conference includes presentations by approximately 200 companies to an audience of institutional investors seeking growth opportunities in small-cap companies.

To hear a live Webcast of the presentation, go to www.ceradyne.com or http://custom.viavid.com/ahh. The presentation will be archived for 30 days.

Ceradyne develops, manufactures and markets advanced technical ceramics for industrial, electronic, defense and consumer applications. Additional information about the Company can be found at www.ceradyne.com.

The presentation and Webcast may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future performance of Ceradyne that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The Company may use words such as "anticipates," "believes," "plans," "expects," "intends," "future," and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001, and in its Quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2002, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.