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David L. Neilson is Promoted to Executive VP - Sales and Marketing for INTERMET

17 July 2000

David L. Neilson is Promoted to Executive Vice President - Sales and Marketing for INTERMET

    TROY, Mich. - INTERMET Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John 
Doddridge announced today that David L. Neilson has been promoted to Executive 
Vice President - Sales and Marketing.  Neilson will continue to be a member of 
the Corporate Operating Committee and oversee INTERMET's Sales and Marketing 
group.  He previously served as Vice President - Sales and Marketing.

    Commenting on the announcement, Doddridge said that Neilson has vast
experience in the automotive industry, particularly within the supplier
community.  "Dave has made major strides in leveraging our leading position in
cast-metal component manufacturing to become an even bigger, more diverse
supplier to the automotive industry.  And in order to better serve a very
rapidly expanding customer base, Dave successfully restructured our sales and
marketing groups after a number of recent acquisitions," said Doddridge.

    Neilson joined INTERMET in January 1997 after more than 29 years in the
automotive industry.  Prior to INTERMET, he was with ITT Automotive as Vice
President of Sales for North and South America.  Before this, Neilson was Vice
President of Sales and Marketing with automotive parts supplier Takata, Inc.,
after serving as President of Sales at a subsidiary of Automotive Industries,
Inc.  He also served in a number of sales and marketing positions at TRW and
Rockwell International.

    Neilson has a B.A. degree in economics from Albion College.  He was
drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers as a quarterback and played professionally
in 1966.

    With headquarters in Troy, Michigan, INTERMET Corporation is a full-
service supplier of powertrain, chassis/suspension and structural components
to the worldwide automotive industry.  INTERMET also manufactures cranes and
specialty service vehicles.  The company has more than 8,000 employees at
facilities located in North America and Europe.