U.S. Steel Announces Changes to Tubular Products Business

U.S. Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, plans to relocate the administrative offices of its U.S. Steel Tubular Products Inc. subsidiary from Dallas to the company’s corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh. The relocation will take place gradually over the next several months.

“Moving our Tubular Products subsidiary’s administrative functions to our corporate headquarters will allow us to realize additional synergies and reduce costs through the elimination of duplicate services,” says Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer John H. Goodish.

U.S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc. will continue to maintain a significant presence in Texas through a sales office in Houston and other operating locations, the company says.

In addition to the sales office, U.S. Steel Tubular Products Inc. also has tubular products operating facilities in Bellville (Bellville Operations Division), Houston (Tubular Processing Services Division, Tubular Threading and Inspection Services Division, and Wheeling Machine Products), Hughes Springs (Wheeling Machine Products), and Lone Star (Star Tubular Services Division and Texas Operations Division).

Along with the relocation, U.S. Steel has also announced that its VP of tubular operations and president of the company’s U.S. Steel Tubular Products Inc., Joseph Alvarado, will retire from the company on Feb. 28, 2009.

The business unit will report directly to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer John H. Goodish until a permanent successor for Alvarado has been named.

“Joe’s experience in both the steelmaking and tubular products industries has been a great benefit to us since he joined U. S. Steel in 2007 to lead the integration of the operations of Lone Star with U. S. Steel’s Tubular Division,” said Goodish. “We thank Joe for his contributions to our company during the critical integration period and extend our best wishes to him.”

Alvarado graduated from the University of Notre Dame (Ind.) in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and earned a master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1976.