Hawk Corporation Appoints Steve Campbell to Senior Vice President - Hawk Corporation and President of Its Performance Racing Group

CLEVELAND, Oct. 5, 2004 -- Hawk Corporation (AMEX:HWK) announced the promotion of Steven J. Campbell to Senior Vice President of Hawk Corporation and President of its Performance Racing segment. Mr. Campbell will continue in his duties as President of Wellman Products Group, the Company's friction products segment.

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The Performance Racing group is a leading manufacturer of premium branded drive train components for motorsports and performance automotive markets. The products are used by leading teams in the NASCAR racing series, as well as for high-performance street vehicles, and other road race and oval track competition cars.

Campbell joined Hawk in February 2000 as President of the Company's Wellman Products Group. Campbell has more than 20 years of business experience with proven accomplishments in areas of sales, manufacturing, strategic planning and international expansion. Prior to joining Hawk, Campbell was with Cooper Industries, Inc.

Other appointments announced today by the Company's Wellman Products Group include: Thomas Jaros to Vice President and General Manager who will be head of Wellman's original equipment business segment; Stuart Weitzman, Vice President, Aftermarket; Giovanni Paolo Nani to Managing Director, Europe; and Albert Chong to Vice President, Business Development and Sourcing-Asia Pacific; David Hanson to General Manager - China.

These changes are being made to sharpen the Company's focus on improving global share in the original equipment market and growing its aftermarket and Hawk Performance(R) brand businesses.

The Company

Hawk Corporation is a leading worldwide supplier of highly engineered products. Its friction products group is a leading supplier of friction materials for brakes, clutches and transmissions used in airplanes, trucks, construction equipment, farm equipment and recreational and performance automotive vehicles. Through its precision components group, the Company is a leading supplier of powder metal and metal injected molded components used in industrial, consumer and other applications, such as pumps, motors and transmissions, lawn and garden equipment, appliances, small hand tools, trucks and telecommunications equipment. The Company's performance racing group manufactures clutches and gearboxes for motorsport applications and approximately 1,600 employees and 16 manufacturing, research and administrative sites in 5 countries at its continuing operations.

Hawk Corporation is online at: http://www.hawkcorp.com/

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