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Sheldahl Announces Annual Meeting

4 January 1999

Sheldahl Announces Annual Meeting; Tour of Sheldahl's Longmont, Colorado Plant to Follow Meeting

    Northfield, Minn., Jan. 4 -- Sheldahl, Inc. ,
said that its annual meeting of shareholders will be held at 11 a.m. on
Wednesday, January 13, 1999, at the Raintree Plaza Hotel, 1900 Ken Pratt
Boulevard, Longmont, Colorado. Lunch and a tour of Sheldahl's Longmont,
Colorado Micro Products plant will follow the meeting.
    Sheldahl is a leading producer of high-density substrates, high-quality
flexible printed circuitry, and flexible laminates, primarily for sale to the
automotive electronics and datacommunications markets. The Company, which is
headquartered in Northfield, Minn., has operations in Northfield; Longmont,
Colo.; Detroit, Mich.; South Dakota; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Chihuahua,
Chih., Mexico; and sales offices in Hong Kong, China, and Mainz, Germany.
Sheldahl's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market tier of the
Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol SHEL. Sheldahl news and information can
be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.sheldahl.com