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KEMET Receives TTI Asia's 2007 Supplier Excellence Award

First Year Asia Supplier Excellence Award has been Presented

GREENVILLE, S.C., July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- KEMET Corporation (NYSE: KEM) is proud to announce that it has been awarded TTI Asia's Supplier Excellence Award. This award represents the highest recognition possible of a supplier's performance within TTI Asia. This is the first time TTI has presented such an award specifically forAsia.

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"We have won the TTI North America Supplier Excellence Award for 13 consecutive years, ever since the program began," said KEMET Chief Executive Officer Per-Olof Loof. "We are very proud to be able to start the same tradition of service to TTI Asia by winning the TTI Asia Supplier Excellence Award the very first year it has been presented."

"TTI's partnership with KEMET inAsia has generated sales growth that has outperformed all others," added John Schneider, KEMET's Vice President of Sales, Asia/Pacific Region. "Their focused attention on customer needs and excellent market intelligence has kept them in the forefront of the passive distribution industry."

"With the 2007 Supplier Excellence Award, KEMET Asia has the distinction to come out on top on all of our major measurements for a supplier," said Sam CW Sung, Director, Product Marketing, TTI Asia. "Once again, our most sincere thanks to all employees of KEMET Electronics Asia for making this achievement possible."

About TTI

Headquartered inFort Worth, Texas, TTI, Inc. is the largest distributor specialist of passive, interconnect and electromechanical components. TTI is the distributor of choice for industrial and consumer electronic manufacturers worldwide. TTI's extensive product line includes: resistors, capacitors, connectors, potentiometers, trimmers, magnetic circuit protection components, wire and cable, identification products, application tools, electromechanical and discrete semiconductor devices. TTI is recognized as the industry's leader in service and quality and provides a broad array of supply chain services to its customer base. TTI employs 1,700 with more than 50 locations throughoutNorth America,Europe andAsia. TTI is a Berkshire Hathaway Company. For more information about TTI visit http://www.ttiinc.com.

About KEMET:

KEMET Corporation applies world-class service and quality to deliver industry-leading, high-performance capacitance solutions to its customers around the world. KEMET offers the world's most complete line of surface-mount and through-hole capacitor technologies across tantalum, ceramic, film, aluminum, electrolytic, and paper dielectrics. KEMET's common stock is listed on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol KEM. Additional information can be found at http://www.kemet.com.

Contact: Dean W. Dimke

Director of Corporate and

Marketing Communication

deandimke@kemet.com

954-766-2806

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