Tube City IMS announces executive management appointments

Joseph Curtin, president and CEO of Tube City IMS Corp., a provider of products and services to steel mills and foundries globally, today announced that Raymond Kalouche has been named chief operating officer of the company. He will continue as president and COO of the company's Mill Services Group. Kalouche will report directly to Curtin.

Curtin also announced that J. David Aronson has been named chief operating officer of the Raw Materials and Optimization Group. He will continue as president of that group. Aronson will continue to report directly to Curtin.

Kalouche joined the company's IMS Group in 1989 and held various management positions in Technical Services, Surface Conditioning, Operations and Marketing, until he was promoted to president and chief executive officer in 2004. After the merger with Tube City in December 2004, Kalouche was named president and COO of the Mill Services Group, Tube City IMS. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil and structural engineering from Ohio State University. He is based at the company's Horsham, Penn., office.

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. Aronson earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin. He is based at the company's Gary, Ind., office.