KEMET Receives the Digi-Key Exceptional Sales Performance Award for 2010


Greenville, South Carolina (Aug 11, 2010) - KEMET Corporation (NYSE Amex:
KEM), a leading manufacturer of tantalum, ceramic, aluminum, film, paper and electrolytic capacitors, today announced that it received the "Exceptional Sales Performance Award" for 2010 from Digi-Key President Mark Larson. Accepting the award on behalf of KEMET were John Drabik, Vice President of Sales for the Americas and Jim Bruorton, Vice President of Global Distribution Sales.

"The KEMET Team is honored to receive the 2010 'Exceptional Sales Performance Award' from Digi-Key, especially knowing that it was driven by the superior engagement between our two companies," said Bruorton. "For the past ten years, Digi-Key has been a vital link to our customers, offering our complete line of capacitance solutions globally."

About KEMET

KEMET's common stock is listed on the NYSE: Amex under the symbol "KEM." At the Investor Relations section of our web site at www.KEMET.com/IR, users may subscribe to KEMET news releases and find additional information about our Company. KEMET applies world class service and quality to deliver industry leading, high performance capacitance solutions to its customers around the world and offers the world's most complete line of surface mount and through-hole capacitor technologies across tantalum, ceramic, film, aluminum, electrolytic, and paper dielectrics. Additional information about KEMET can be found at www.kemet.com.

About Digi-Key Corporation

As one of the world's fastest growing distributors of electronic components, Digi-Key Corporation has earned its reputation as an industry leader through its total commitment to service and performance. Digi-Key is a full-service provider of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, offering more than 1.7 million products from over 440 quality name-brand manufacturers. A testament to Digi-Key's unparalleled commitment to service, North American design engineers have ranked Digi-Key #1 for Overall Performance for 18 consecutive years (EE Times Distribution Study/August 2009). Additional information and access to Digi-Key's broad product offering is available at www.digikey.com.

Contact:
Dean W. Dimke
Director of Corporate and Investor Communications
deandimke@KEMET.com
954.766.2806

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