Hutchinson Technology to Present at Needham & Company Growth Conference

Business Wire, Jan 6, 2005

HUTCHINSON, Minn. -- Hutchinson Technology Incorporated (Nasdaq:HTCH) announced today that the company's chief executive officer Wayne M. Fortun and chief financial officer John A. Ingleman will make a presentation to institutional investors on Tuesday, January 11, 2005, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time as participants in Needham & Company's Seventh Annual Growth Conference to be held in New York City January 11 through 14.

Hutchinson Technology's presentation will be web cast live at http://www.wsw.com/webcast/needham10/htch/. The web cast can also be accessed through the investor relations portion of the Hutchinson Technology website at http://www.htch.com.

To listen to the presentation live on the Web, go to one of the links noted above at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start time and, if necessary, download and install audio software. A replay of the presentation will be available for approximately 30 days at the Hutchinson Technology website.

Hutchinson Technology is the leading worldwide supplier of suspension assemblies for disk drives. Hutchinson Technology's BioMeasurement Division provides health professionals with simple, accurate methods to measure the oxygen in tissue.