Exhibit 99.1

FOR RELEASE: Immediately

Contact:
Richard K. Arter          Investor Relations             941-362-1200


            SUN HYDRAULICS BOARD ELECTS ALLEN CARLSON VICE PRESIDENT


SARASOTA, FLA, January 10, 2000 - Sun Hydraulics Corporation announces that its
Board of Directors has elected Allen Carlson to the position of vice president
of the Corporation. Mr. Carlson joined Sun Hydraulics in 1996. Before joining
Sun Hydraulics, Mr. Carlson spent the previous 23 years holding various
technical and management positions in the hydraulics industry. He received a
Mechanical Engineering degree from the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1979
and recently completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business
School.

Sun Hydraulics Corporation, with manufacturing and distribution facilities in
Sarasota and Manatee County, Florida, Coventry, England, Erkelenz, Germany and
Inchon, Korea, is a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance
screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves and manifolds for worldwide mobile and
industrial markets.