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Plextronics Media Contact:
Lori Lecker
Phone: 412-423-2030 x 111
E-mail: llecker@plextronics.com

Pittsburgh, PA, November 14, 2007 - Andy Hannah — President and CEO of Plextronics, Inc., a leading innovator of printed electronics technology — was selected by IDTechEx as the 2007 Printed Electronics Champion. Presented with the award at the Printed Electronics USA Conference in San Francisco last evening, Hannah was credited with promoting the printed electronics industry on a global scale. The event is one of the largest conferences of its kind, and this year attracted more than 500 attendees.

According to IDTechEx, the purpose of the Printed Electronics Champion award is to recognize an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the industry by promoting it to a wider audience while achieving significant technical and commercial development in their own companies.

"Andy's role as Vice Chairman of the Organic Electronics Association, his tireless efforts in promoting printed electronics around the world, and the impressive technical progress that Plextronics has made in the last several years — including an NREL-certified world-record in solar cell efficiency — made Andy the clear choice for this award," said Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx, Inc.

"This is a tremendous and humbling honor," Hannah said. "In every sense, though, this award is truly a reflection of the team at Plextronics. It takes each one of our employees to create, develop and bring to market the products and technology that define our industry and our company."

About Plextronics, Inc.

Plextronics, Inc. is a leading innovator of technology for printed electronics. The printed electronics market comprises next-generation light, power and circuitry products, including flexible displays, plastic solar cells and organic RFID tags. The market for printed electronics was approximately $1 billion in 2006 and is expected to exceed $300 billion within 20 years.

With a company vision of enabling 15 billion printed electronic devices by 2015, Plextronics is creating technology capable of commercial-scale performance and manufacturability. The company's device design, process technology and Plexcore® branded inks enable the formation of active electrical layers — the key drivers of printed electronics.

Plextronics was founded in 2002 as a spinout from Carnegie Mellon University, based upon conductive polymer technology developed by Dr. Richard McCullough. Over the past five years, Plextronics' team of scientists has refined and further developed this technology to deliver exceptional performance for printed electronics.

Some of the company's recent honors include: 2007 Red Herring Top 100 Company, 2006 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards Runner-Up, 2006 NREL Clean Energy Entrepreneur of the Year, the 2006 Organic Semiconductor Industry Awards Start-Up of the year, and Top 50 Nanotechnology Start-Up by Lux Research.

For more information about Plextronics, visit www.plextronics.com.