NEW VICE PRESIDENT RESPONSIBLE FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ASPOCOMP

ASPOCOMP GROUP Oyj STOCK EXCHANGE BULLETIN June 30,2000 at14.00PM

NEW VICE PRESIDENT RESPONSIBLE FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING, RESEARCH AND

DEVELOPMENT FOR ASPOCOMP
Aspocomp is the leading high-tech printed circuit board manufacturing

company in Europe and one of the leading companies in the world. In

order to further intensify development to strengthen the leading

position, professor, doctor of technology Jukka-Pekka Ranta has been

appointed Vice President of Aspocomp Group Oyj, responsible for

strategic planning, research and development from September 1, 2000.

He will be reporting to President and CEO Jarmo Niemi. Dr. Ranta has

acted as professor at Department of Industrial Engineering and

Management and Director of ExIMa Education Unit at the Helsinki

University of Technology. He has also acted as the Chairman of the

Board of Directors of Aspocomp Group Oyj. Relating to the appointment

Professor Ranta has left his resignation from the Board membership

from July 1, 2000.
The Board has decided to elect as a new Chairman Mr. Jorma Eloranta

and as a new Vice-Chairman Mr. Karl Van Horn. Mr. Jorma Eloranta is

at the moment President and Chief Executive Officer of technology

group Patria Industries. He has been involved with printed circuit

board industry since 1982 as a board member and other management

functions. Mr. Karl Van Horn is Chairman of Arlington Capital

Investors. He has been intimately involved in international portfolio

investment matters since 1962.
Professor Ranta has a long and broad experience in managing national

and international research and development projects. He also has good

contacts with various universities and research institutes. Research

and development activities in the electronics industry have been

decentralized and distributed in connection with the outsourcing

trend and decreasing number of vertically integrated companies.

Aspocomp’s aim is to cooperate with universities, research institutes

as well as material and equipment suppliers through its own research

and development projects in order to create new PCB technologies. A

specific attention will be given to demand-supply -chain management

in order to implement the latest research and development results

into operation. Professor Ranta will be in responsible for these

areas. The appointment enables professor Ranta for a full-time

commitment to Aspocomp.
For more information, please contact:

Jarmo Niemi       Chief Executive Officer, on +358 9 759 70711
ASPOCOMP GROUP Oyj
Jarmo Niemi

President and CEO
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