FEI Company Announces Dates for Earnings Release and Investor Conference Participation

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Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:03pm EDT

HILLSBORO, Ore., July 18, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC)
announced that it will release its financial results for the second quarter of
2011 after the financial markets close on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. FEI's second
quarter ended on July 3, 2011.

A conference call and simultaneous webcast to discuss the second quarter results
will be held on Tuesday, August 2 at 2:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. EDT). Access to
the call will be available at 1-877-941-8631 (U.S., toll-free) or 1-480-629-9723
(international and toll), with the conference title: FEI Second Quarter Earnings
Call, Conference ID 4459281. A telephone replay of the call will be available at
1-800-406-7325 (U.S., toll-free) or 1-303-590-3030 (international and toll) with
the passcode: 4459281#.

The company also announced that Ray Link, executive vice president & CFO, will
speak at the Oppenheimer & Company Technology and Communications Conference at
1:55 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston.

Live and recorded audio webcasts of the earnings conference call and the
presentation on August 9 will be available at the investor relations section of
the company's web site at www.fei.com.

About FEI:

FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) is a leading diversified scientific instruments company. It is
a premier provider of electron and ion-beam microscopes and tools for nanoscale
applications globally and across many industries: industrial and academic
materials research, life sciences, semiconductors, data storage, natural
resources and more. With a history of over 60 years of technological innovation
and leadership, FEI has set the performance standard in transmission electron
microscopes (TEM), scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and DualBeams(TM), which
combine a SEM with a focused ion beam (FIB). FEI's imaging systems provide 3D
characterization, analysis and modification/prototyping with resolutions down to
the sub-Angstrom (one-tenth of a nanometer) level. FEI has over 1,800 employees
and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world.
More information can be found at: www.fei.com.

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CONTACT: Fletcher Chamberlin
         Treasurer & Communications Director
         fletcher.chamberlin@fei.com
         (503) 726-7710
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