JSW Steel names new CEO for US

India-based JSW Steel and its subsidiaries JSW Steel (USA) Inc. and JSW Steel USA Ohio Inc. have named Mark Bush as the new CEO of JSW operations in the United States. Bush succeeds John Hritz, who will continue serving on JSW company boards, according to the firm.

Bush joins JSW Steel USA from Sweden-based specialty steelmaker SSAB, where he was heading the southern business team for the company’s North America operations in Houston. At JSW Steel USA, he will be based in Houston and operate out of Baytown, Texas, says the firm.

Bush will lead business units that produce steel slabs, coils, pipe and plate at scrap-fed electric arc furnace (EAF) mills in Baytown, Texas and Mingo Junction, Ohio. The mill in Ohio is currently idle.

Parth Jindal, a director of JSW Steel USA, says Bush’s “in-depth understanding of two decades in both steelmaking and rolling mills will be leveraged to complete the EAF and caster upgrade in Mingo Junction, and [the] modernization of the plate and pipe mill at Baytown.”