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ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PEMSTAR Inc. (NASDAQ:PMTR), a leading provider of global engineering and electronics manufacturing services (EMS), today announced that it has received full qualification status for lead-free SMT processing. "This qualification status marks another important milestone in helping PEMSTAR's customers to comply with pending global environmental protection initiatives, including the European Union's (EU's) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation. This legislation will require the restriction of a number of hazardous substances, including lead, from electronic components by July 1, 2006." said Roy Bauer, President and COO of PEMSTAR. "We have been working closely with our supply chain and with our OEM customers to proactively prepare for the new design and manufacturing requirements resulting from these environmental initiatives. This qualification milestone builds on the lead-free manufacturing processing that PEMSTAR has been providing to its customers over the past 15 months in its North America, Europe, and Asia facilities." "PEMSTAR is in business to help our customers achieve success", said Becky Wolfe, Director of Corporate Materials Operations and PEMSTAR's RoHS Corporate Champion. "The RoHS directive is transforming supply chain and engineering practices in the electronics industry. PEMSTAR has invested in the capability to help its customers respond to the rapidly-approaching deadline of July 2006 for RoHS environmental compliance, per the European Union directive." PEMSTAR facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia have passed lead-free validation consisting of the following industry based testing processes * Visual inspection according to the latest revision of IPC-A-610 * Cross-section and microscopic analysis for intermetallics, coating integrity and general defects. * Cross-section and microscopic analysis for solder wetting and fillet quality * Voiding analysis on ball grid arrays (BGA's) with X-ray * Comprehensive reliability testing PEMSTAR offers a full complement of value added services structured to align with each customer's own environmental roadmap: * Materials Declaration Assessment -- including completion of RoHS questionnaire, requirements definition, road-map review, component supplier screening, declaration database administration, and audit trail management. * Supply Chain Management Services -- working collaboratively with OEM customers and component suppliers/manufacturers to develop conversion schedules for impacted components and to develop manufacturing processes, that fulfill the customer's compliance strategy. * Product Re-design Services -- for those product designs containing components which will never have RoHS compliant replacements available, PEMSTAR offers a phased engineering approach to generate concepts, specifications, detailed designs, and prototypes to develop a fully realized, RoHS compliant product, ready for manufacture. About PEMSTAR Concept to customer solutions has proven to be more than just a slogan for PEMSTAR Inc. Since the engineering and manufacturing company's inception in 1994, PEMSTAR has grown to become a successful, effective company fostering innovative thinking and creative solutions. PEMSTAR serves the industrial, medical, communications, computing, data storage, aerospace, and defense markets by providing engineering, manufacturing and fulfillment services to its customers in those markets. The company complements its broad manufacturing capability with specialized expertise in product design, prototype production and testing, as well as custom test and automated assembly equipment design and replication services which meet specific customer requirements. PEMSTAR provides a worldwide footprint with engineering and manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. This broad regional diversification allows PEMSTAR to provide the services their customers need, wherever they need them in the world. More information on PEMSTAR can be found at http://www.pemstar.com/. This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements. These forward-looking statements may contain statements of intent, belief or current expectations of PEMSTAR Inc. and its management. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the potential results discussed in the forward-looking statements. In addition to factors discussed above, risks and uncertainties that may cause such differences for PEMSTAR include but are not limited to: recession or decline in economic conditions; rumors or threats of war; actual conflicts or trade disruptions; trade disruptions resulting from world health alerts or actual disease outbreaks; changes in demand for electronics manufacturing services; changes in demand by major customers due to cancellations, reductions or delays of orders; shortages or price fluctuations in component parts; difficulties managing expansion and integration of acquired or restructured businesses; increased competition; and other risk factors listed from time to time in PEMSTAR's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to risks as included in PEMSTAR's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 and PEMSTAR's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. DATASOURCE: PEMSTAR, Inc. CONTACT: Becky Wolfe, PEMSTAR, Inc., +1-507-535-4389, Web site: http://www.pemstar.com/

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