Board Appointment

Elektron PLC 02 February 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 February 2004 ELEKTRON PLC ('the Company') BOARD APPOINTMENT Elektron Plc announces that Keith Anthony Daley (age 48) has joined the Board as a non executive director of Elektron Plc with immediate effect. Keith Daley has extensive experience of banking, the securities markets and corporate finance. He is currently a director of Specialist Holdings Limited which is involved in securities trading and for many years has been an active investor in the shares of smaller companies. Keith Daley is also a director of Torus Investment Managers Limited and Pro Corda Ventures Limited. He was formerly a director of Inhoco 3013 Limited, a cash shell that was acquired by Elektron Plc in December 2003. Keith Daley was a non executive director of The Birmingham Box Company Limited within 12 months prior to that company being placed into administrative receivership on 21 May 1990. As such he represented Specialist Holdings Limited which had lent funds to that company in a rescue refinancing. Save as disclosed above, there are no further disclosures in accordance with Schedule 2 paragraph f of the AIM rules. Adrian Girling, Chairman and Chief Executive of Elektron said 'We are pleased to welcome Keith Daley to the board as the Company moves to capitalise on the opportunities offered by the acquisition of the business of Arcolectric. I very much look forward to working with him.' For further information, please contact: Adrian Girling, Chairman, Elektron Plc Tel: 0208 477 9308 Roland Cornish, Chairman, Beaumont Cornish Limited Tel: 020 7628 3396 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange