United Performance Metals Hires Business Analyst
Ben Stansel now works on pricing and contract management.
Posted: March 17, 2016
United Performance Metals (Hamilton, OH) is pleased to announce that Ben Stansel has joined the company as their business analyst. His primary responsibilities will focus on pricing and contract management for the specialty metals service center.
After graduating with honors from Miami University’s Farmer School of Business, he spent his next six years in Chicago gaining financial experience as an analyst with Huron Consulting Group then as a research associate for a value-focused hedge fund. Most recently, he assisted in the operational turnaround of an Illinois manufacturer of hydraulic machinery as the director of business systems. Drawing collectively from these experiences he is well positioned to support the company’s sales and marketing teams.
United Performance Metals is a global leader in the distribution of stainless steel, duplex stainless steel, nickel alloys and cobalt alloys. The company’s comprehensive inventory of high temperature, high strength and corrosion resistant alloys are supplied in the form of sheet, coil, strip, and plate that can be processed to customers’ exact specifications using its proprietary FIRSTCUT+® services. These services include precision shearing, hi-definition plasma cutting, slitting, edging, cut-to-length/leveling, water jet cutting, laser cutting, and precision sawing to further extend customer commitment.
Headquartered in Hamilton, they maintain branches in La Mirada, CA, and Houston, TX, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as sales and stocking locations worldwide. Specialty divisions of the company include Plus Ten Stainless located in Benicia, CA; Vulcanium located in Northbrook, IL; and Aerodyne Alloys located in South Windsor, CT, La Mirada, CA, and Greenville, SC.
O’Neal Industries, the largest family-owned group of metals service centers in the U.S., is the parent company of United Performance Metals. With sales of approximately $2.4 billion in 2015, O’Neal is based in Birmingham, AL, and has more than 80 specialized facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
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