BRUSH WELLMAN INC. PROMOTES MOLDMAX^® MOLD AND TOOLING ALLOYS AT PDx/amerimold 2010

Mayfield Hts., OH – February 24, 2010—Brush Wellman Inc. offers a full family of copper beryllium and non-beryllium containing MoldMAX^® mold alloys. MoldMAX is a high strength – high conductivity mold and tooling copper based alloy for the plastics market.

The newest addition to the MoldMAX family, MoldMAX V^®, is a copper nickel silicon chrome alloy which has characteristics similar to that of MoldMAX LH^®. MoldMAX V has a hardness of 28 HRC and thermal conductivity approximately 4-5X greater than P20 tool steel. Responding to customer desires to reduce both material scrap and machining time, MoldMAX V is now available in tube up to 7" OD with a wall thickness as low as 0.200”. Other forms available include rounds, plates and parts finished machined per customer drawings.

The MoldMAX product line consists of copper beryllium alloys as well as non-beryllium containing copper alloys all of which provide high hardness and excellent conductivity, but fulfill different needs for various injection and blow molding customers. MoldMAX V enhances our non-beryllium alloy offering and provides improved conductivity over the highly successful MoldMAX XL. MoldMAX XL will continue to be the premier mold material for superior machining capabilities and high conductivity in large size plates.

Visit us in booth 825 at PDx/amerimold, Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 11-13, 2010.

About Brush Wellman Inc.

Brush Wellman Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brush Engineered Materials Inc. (NYSE: BW). Through its subsidiaries, Brush Engineered Materials supplies worldwide markets with alloy products, beryllium products, electronic products, precious metal products, and engineered material systems. Around the world, the company's engineered materials can be found in technically demanding end-use products within the telecommunications and computer, automotive electronics, appliance, industrial components, plastics tooling, optical media, oil and gas, aerospace and defense, and off-highway and mining equipment markets. Visit www.BrushWellman.com for additional information.