Roberto E. Perez to Head Pall Corporation Medical Products Manufacturing

Business Wire, Jan 6, 2000

Health/Medical Writers, Business Editors

EAST HILLS, N.Y.--(BW HealthWire)--Jan. 6, 2000

Roberto E. Perez has joined Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) as President of the Company's Medical Products Manufacturing Group and a Vice President of Pall Corporation.

Eric Krasnoff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pall Corporation said, "From his many years as President of Baxter Fenwal, Roberto Perez brings a wealth of general management expertise. With 25 years of medical device and pharmaceuticals experience, he is personally known and respected by customers, suppliers and the medical community throughout the world. In his new role, he will assume responsibility for all Pall medical products manufacturing worldwide."

Prior to joining Pall, Mr. Perez served as Corporate Vice President and President of Baxter International's Fenwal Division, which provides instruments and disposables for the collection, separation, storage and transfusion of blood components.

Pall's medical products are used extensively in blood centers and hospitals for patients requiring blood transfusions, open-heart surgery, organ transplants, dialysis, intravenous feeding and breathing therapy. Perez will draw upon his extensive medical device experience and industry savvy to meet Pall's customers' demands for diverse, high performance filtration products.

Pall reported fiscal 1999 sales of its medical products in excess of $270 million. The market for these products is estimated at $4.3 billion.

Perez holds a BS in Industrial Engineering. He has served on the Board of Trustees for the National Blood Foundation.

Pall Corporation, headquartered in East Hills, New York, is a specialty materials and engineering company with the broadest-based filtration, separations and purification capabilities in the world. Pall has been a leader in the filtration industry since 1946. The Company employs 8,600 people in about 30 countries. Annual sales exceed $1 billion (US). Pall's shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (PLL). Further information about Pall Corporation is available on the Company's Web site at: http://www.pall.com.