ISRI Elects New Executive Team to Lead Association

The board of directors for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI) has announced the election of a new leadership team. The team will direct ISRI over the next two years.

The new leadership team is composed of: John Sacco, chairman; Jerry Simms, chair-elect; Doug Kramer, vice chair; and Mark Lewon, secretary-treasurer.

Sacco is vice president of Sierra Recycling and Demolition, a company that operates two scrap processing facilities in California. The company also has divisions in demolition and environmental abatement.

Sacco has served in various ISRI’s leadership positions, including president of the Southwestern Chapter, chairman of the Members Services Committee and chairman of the Chapter Presidents.

Simms has been in the scrap recycling industry since 1978 when he joined Atlas Metal & Iron Corp. in Denver. For the last several years Simms has served as the company’s director of Environmental & Legislative Affairs as well as GM of Atlas Metal Sales, the company’s nonferrous service center. 

Simms has held a number of positions with ISRI, including chairman of the Government Relations Committee, chairman of the Image Task Force’s Membership Criteria Subgroup, chairman of the SREA Task Force, and chairman of the Mercury Task Force. Kramer is president of Kramer Metals, Inc., which operates three scrap metal recycling facilities in Los Angeles. He was appointed president of the company in 2000.

Lewon’s family has owned and operated Utah Metal Works since 1955. Lewon presently serves as president of the company.

Lewon has been active in ISRI since 1994. He was elected secretary/treasurer of the Rocky Mountain Chapter, and serves as convention chairman, non-ferrous division chair, and a member of the audit and executive committees.