Press Release - Materion Implements Stature from Dyadem for Quality Risk Management

Toronto – April 14, 2011 – Dyadem today announced that it has been selected by Materion (NYSE: MTRN) to provide Quality Risk Management software solutions to support its commitment to superior product quality. Materion will use Dyadem’s Stature software to gain more visibility between departments and to more efficiently manage its quality risk assessment efforts, improve its process controls and to manage overall product quality.

The Stature platform is available in Australia and New Zealand via EnVizTec’s partner agreement with Dyadem International, the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions.

Stature is being deployed at Materion's Advanced Materials Technologies & Services (AMTS) business, an advanced materials products and services company that manufactures and produces everything from specialty metals and precision optical filters to inorganic chemicals and powders. Previously, Materion had been using a non-specialized spreadsheet software program to conduct risk assessments. As part of a global project initiated in 2010 to improve its process controls across all of its manufacturing operations, Materion has implemented Stature, and is now able to consolidate and standardize all risk assessments across departments, ensuring shared corporate knowledge and the capture of best practices and lessons learned. The focus for Materion’s global quality project is the development of several key quality tools, including Process Maps, FMEAs and Control Plans. Stature will enable Materion to develop these tools in a standardized format using a common application.

“As our organization moves forward in improving our Quality Systems through the use of tools such as Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA), Dyadem software solutions will allow us to implement these tools more efficiently,” said Matthew Rigerman, Director of Quality, Materion AMTS. “Stature allows our team to share information across our product lines and production facilities, ensuring that lessons learned are communicated across our entire organization.”

Stature, Dyadem’s enterprise risk management software solution, will help Materion conduct more efficient Design and Process FMEAs, and share information from one study to the next and across users. Stature is a Web-based enterprise risk and quality management system that links disconnected risk management processes across the organization. By helping companies identify and mitigate risks across a global organization, Stature enables companies to increase their operational effectiveness, comply with industry regulations and bring better quality products to market. Ensuring continuous communication and transparency throughout a program, project or process, Stature provides key performance indicators and visibility into an organization's top risks. With access to data from across risk assessments, knowledge libraries and managed through standardized templates, Stature will serve as the system of record for quality while ensuring corporate consistency across all past, present and future quality studies.

“The manufacturing industry as a whole faces a multitude of risks, in both engineering and production, and from across the entire supply chain," said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “With Stature, Materion is not only proving its commitment to product quality, but also its commitment to its stakeholders. With better visualization of quality risks, Materion will be able to identify potential issues early in the product lifecycle, and will be able to reduce the likelihood of bringing defective products to the market.”

About Dyadem

Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Automotive, Electronics and Aerospace and Defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About Materion

Brush Engineered Materials Inc. has officially changed its name to Materion Corporation and unified all of its businesses under the new Materion brand, Effective March 8, 2011. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Materion is a leading global producer of advanced materials and services providing enabling technology solutions for customers in the fastest growing segments of long-term global growth markets including consumer electronics, defense and science, industrial components and commercial aerospace, energy, automotive electronics, telecommunications infrastructure, medical and appliance. It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol: MTRN.

Materion Advanced Materials Technologies & Services, based in Buffalo, New York, manufactures and sells precious, non-precious, specialty metals; inorganic materials; specialty coatings and electronic packaging. For more information visit www.materion.com.