Worldsteel Elects New Officers

Association also welcomes new members during its annual conference.

World Steel Association (Worldsteel) board of directors has elected a new list of officers for the 2011/2012 year. The announcement was made during the Worldsteel’s 45th Annual Conference, held in Paris in October, 2011.
The new officers for 2011/2012 are:

  •     Chairman - Xiaogang Zhang, president, Anshan Iron & Steel Group Corp.
  •     Vice Chairman - Hajime Bada, president and CEO, JFE Holdings Inc.
  •     Vice Chairman- Alexey Mordashov, general director, Severstal JSC
  •     Treasurer - John Surma, chairman and CEO, United States Steel Corp.

“We welcome Xiaogang Zhang as the new chairman, Hajime Bada and Alexey Mordashov as vice chairmen and John Surma as treasurer. We are also delighted to welcome our new members on board,” Edwin Basson, Worldsteel director general, says.“We are particularly pleased to see the continued growing membership from emerging countries, whose economic development has generated remarkable growth in the global steel industry over the last two decades. Our growing new membership is able to access key best practices in the areas of safety and health, technology and environment."

Worldsteel’s board also elected the following to its executive committee for 2011/2012:

  •     Hajime Bada, JFE Steel Corp.
  •    Joon-Yang Chung, POSCO
  •     Daniel DiMicco, Nucor Corp.
  •     Wolfgang Eder, Voestalpine AG
  •     Heinrich Hiesinger, ThyssenKrupp
  •     Sajjan Jindal, JSW Steel Ltd
  •     André Gerdau Johannpeter, Gerdau SA
  •     Lakshmi Mittal, ArcelorMittal
  •     Alexey Mordashov, Severstal JSC
  •     Shoji Muneoka, Nippon Steel Corp.
  •     Paolo Rocca, Techint Group
  •     John Surma, United States Steel Corp.
  •     Lejiang Xu, Baosteel Group
  •     Xiaogang Zhang, Anshan Iron & Steel Group Corp.
  •     Edwin Basson, World Steel Association

The board also recognized the following companies as new Worldsteel members.


Associate Members (steel companies producing less than 2 million short tons per year):

  •     Compañia Siderurgica Huachipato S.A. (CAP ACERO), represented by Iván Flores, general manager;
  •     Iran Alloy Steel Co., represented by Eng. Mohammad Mehdi Faghieh Khorasani, managing director;
  •     Sahaviriya Steel Industries Public Company Ltd. (SSI), represented by Win Viriyaprapaikit; and
  •     Sunflag Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. (SISCO) represented by Vipul Jain, general manager

Worldsteel says it represents about 170 steel producers (including 18 of the world's 20 largest steel companies), national and regional steel industry associations, and steel research institutes.