New Board of Directors at AEC

The results of the annual election of officers and directors of the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC; Wauconda, IL) were announced at the 66th Annual Meeting and Leadership Conference held in March in Palm Desert, CA.

Martin Bidwell, the chief executive officer of Magnode Corporation (Trenton, OH), was elected to serve a one-year term as the chairman of AEC. Rick Merluzzi, the chief executive officer of Pennex Aluminum Company (Wellsville, PA), was elected as the immediate past chairman. Rand Baldwin was re-elected to the non-voting position as the president of the council. Matt McMahon, the president of Pries Enterprises Inc. (Independence, IA), will remain on the board as the vice chairman for one year.

Three new members of the board were elected. Shayne Seever, the vice president for administration of Sierra Aluminum (Riverside, CA), was newly elected as an extruder director. Bonnie Cartwright, the president of EXCO Extrusion Tooling Solutions (Markham, ON), was newly elected as supplier director and Eric Pitz, the product director for Billets North America for Rio Tinto Alcan (Mayfield Heights, OH) was elected as an at-large member of the board of directors.

Re-elected as the extruder directors were R. Scott Kelly, the president and chief executive officer of Service Center Metals (Prince George, VA), and Scott Condreay, a senior manufacturing engineer for Sapa Extrusions North America (Portland, OR). Re-elected as producer director was Tom Leary, the marketing director for Alcoa Primary Metals (Knoxville, TN).

Those remaining on the board include the extruder directors Spencer Burt, human resources manager for Futura Industries (Clearfield, UT); Charles McEvoy, the executive vice president of Western Extrusions Corp. (Dallas, TX); and Mike Flynn, the president of APEL Extrusions Limited (Calgary, AB).

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