Mikron Elects New Directors.

Business Editors

OAKLAND, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 1, 2000

Mikron Instrument Co., Inc. (Nasdaq:MIKR) shareholders elected three new outside directors to Mikron's Board at its annual shareholders meeting on July 24, 2000.

Mr. Lawrence C. Karlson, since his retirement as Chairman of Spectra-Physics AB in 1993, provides consulting services to a variety of businesses and acts as a private investor in both seasoned and development stage companies. He is an outside director of Amerisource Health Corporation (NYSE), CDI Corporation (NYSE), Vlasic Foods International, Inc. (NYSE) and Spectra-Physics Lasers, Inc. (Nasdaq). Mr. Karlson will serve as the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Mr. William J. Eckenrode recently retired as the CFO of Berwind Group, a privately owned investment management company which operates businesses in the industrial, pharmaceutical, natural resources, financial and real estate sectors. He has held financial and general management positions at United Aircraft Corporation, SPS Technologies, Inc., ITE Imperial Corporation and Fischer & Porter Company. Mr. Eckenrode is currently active as a Director of Berwind Financial Group LP and Berwind Property Group Ltd.

Mr. Henry M. Rowan was the founder and currently president of Inductotherm Industries. The Inductotherm group of companies are engaged in such diversified activities as induction melting, heat-treating, power supplies, temperature controllers, metal machining, glass products and optical components. Overall, these companies pursue fifty different technologies with customers in eighty-three countries. Mr. Rowan has received numerous engineering and management awards including election to the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame and recognition by the National Academy of Engineering. Mr. Rowan's endowment was instrumental in establishing an engineering school at Rowan University (formerly Glassboro State College) in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Messrs. Karlson, Eckenrode and Rowan join returning directors Gerald D. Posner, Dennis Stoneman and Keikhosrow Irani on the newly elected board. Mr. Posner, Mikron's CEO, stated that "The experience of the new outside directors will be invaluable in guiding the strategic growth of Mikron."