Tube City IMS Corp., Glassport, Pa., has named Raymond Kalouche as chief operating officer (COO) of the company. He will continue as president and COO of the company’s Mill Services Group. Kalouche will report directly to President and CEO Joseph Curtin, who made the personnel announcement
Curtin has also announced that J. David Aronson has been named COO of the Raw Materials and Optimization Group. He will continue as president of that Group and also will report directly to Curtin.
David Aronson
“Ray and David have a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the industry,” says Curtin. “They are seasoned executives with strong track records of success. We have an outstanding team in place and I look forward to working not only with both of them, but with all Tube City IMS colleagues as we continue to create value for our customers, provide outstanding service and expand the company domestically and internationally.”
Kalouche joined the company’s IMS Group in 1989 and has held various management positions in technical services, surface conditioning, operations and marketing until he was promoted to president and CEO in 2004. After the merger with Tube City in late 2004, Kalouche was named president and COO of the Mill Services Group, Tube City IMS.
Aronson has worked in the scrap industry since 1989 and joined Tube City in 1991 as an account executive. In 1993, he was promoted to Midwest Region district manager, a position he held until he was named senior vice president in 1996 and subsequently promoted to executive vice president in 2004. He was named President of the Raw Materials and Optimization Group in 2008.
Raymond Kalouche
Tube City IMS LLC provides outsourced steel services, including raw materials procurement, scrap management, raw materials optimization, slag processing, metal recovery and surface conditioning to integrated steel mills, mini-mills and foundries. The company has operations at 75 plants throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, South America and Asia. More information on the company is available at www.tubecityims.com.
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