March 2000

Flomerics is proud to announce that Dr Thomas Robert Rowbotham, non-executive director and Deputy Chairman of Flomerics Group plc, has recently been elected to the Board of IEEE* in the position of Divisional Director (http://www.ieee.org/organizations/corporate/bod.html). In this capacity he will serve as liaison between the Board and the IEEE Communications Society.

Dr Rowbotham, age 58, who is also Group Technology Director at British Telecom, brings a wealth of industrial and commercial experience which has greatly strengthened the Flomerics Group Board since his appointment as part of the acquisition of electro-magnetics specialist software company KCC by Flomerics in July 1999.

Flomerics has, during 1999, continued to strengthen and expand its core businesses, and, through the strategically important acquisition of KCC, is now in a position to exploit additional market opportunities.

The IEEE is a catalyst for technological innovation and a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others. The IEEE is a not-for-profit association with more than 350,000 individual members in 150 countries. Through its technical publishing, conferences and consensus-based standards activities, the IEEE produces 30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical engineering, computers and control technology, holds annually more than 300 major conferences and has more than 800 active standards with 700 under development.

Flomerics develops advanced engineering analysis software including FLOTHERM (thermal management software used to determine the cooling requirements of electronic systems); FLOVENT (ventilation software used to analyze thermal environment and air quality in buildings), and MicroStripes (software used to predict high-frequency electromagnetic fields in antennas, microwave devices and other electronic equipment)