August 29, 2008
US Steel announces more appointments in tubular business
United States Steel Corporation has announced the appointments of Mr Michael R Chaddick as GM of tubular services, joint ventures and president of Star Energy Group, Mr James R Massimino have been promoted to GM of metallurgy and quality assurance and Mr Jack A Rosa will continue in the role of president of Fintube Technologies Inc. All three positions report to Mr Joseph Alvarado VP of Tubular.
Mr Chaddick will be responsible for specialized tubular services and tubular joint ventures. He will also oversee three subsidiaries that were formerly part of Lone Star's Star Energy Group LLC, Delta Tubular International LP, Delta Tubular Processing LP and Wheeling Machine Products LP. Mr Chaddick began his career in 1969 as an inside sales order correspondent at US Steel's Dallas office. He progressed through positions in the Houston outside sales office before accepting the role of GM of tubular products at Wilson Industries in 1980. He was promoted to VP of tubular products in 1982 and president of the company in 1992.
Mr Massimino will manage product technology and quality assurance activities for US Steel's entire tubular business unit. He is a 30 year steel industry veteran who got his start at Bethlehem Steel in 1977 as a metallurgist in the welding engineering department. He joined US Steel in 1978 as a product metallurgist at the company's Duquesne Works near Pittsburgh.
Mr Rosa president of the US Steel subsidiary Fintube Technologies Inc will oversee operations in Tulsa, Okla, Monterrey, Mexico and Chonburi and Thailand. Mr Rosa began his career in Venezuela with Maraven in 1981 as an assistant to the operations superintendent on a natural gas drilling platform. Between 1984 and 1991, he progressed through increasingly responsible positions at Gulf and Western and the Wiedemann division of Warner & Swasey and Cross & Trecker before joining EPM Corporation as president and CEO. In 1994, he accepted the post of executive VP at Met Coil Corporation and one year later was named president of the company's Lockformer division.
