LTV moves tubing managers into steel business

By Staff -- Purchasing, 4/5/2001

LTV Corp. has turned to the managers of its LTV Copperweld tubing division to rescue the troubled integrated steel business. John Turner now is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Cleveland-based LTV Corp., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last December. Turner, 55, still is president of LTV Copperweld in Pittsburgh, but now also has overall management responsibility for LTV Steel, LTV Copperweld and VP Buildings, the firm's metal-fabrication operation.

Turner got the nod, according to William H. Bricker, LTV's chairman and chief executive officer, because of the recent successful integration of Copperweld, Welded Tube Co. of America and LTV Steel Tubular Products into the new LTV Copperweld, the largest manufacturer of tubular steel products in North America and the world's largest producer of bimetallic wire products. "Turner's maintains high performance standards based on his core values of safety, integrity, trust, customer satisfaction, teamwork and continuous improvement," according to Bricker.

In other management moves:

• John Mang III, previously general manager of LTV Steel's Cleveland Works, has been promoted to senior vice president of steel operations.

• G. Basil Davies, formerly LTV Copperweld's senior vice president of marketing and sales, now is senior vice president, commercial, for integrated steel.

• David Carroll, LTV Copperweld's senior vice president and general manager of the pipe and conduit group, now also is vice president of industrial relations for LTV Steel.

• William Morgan, previously LTV Copperweld's vice president of information systems, now is vice president of information technology and chief information officer of LTV Corp.

• Linda Wiersema has been named to the newly created position of vice president of information technology for LTV Steel.

• James R. Baske, vice president of engineering, procurement, raw materials, and environmental control for LTV Steel also now has senior managerial responsibilities for the company's traffic functions.

As a result of the moves, three LTV Steel managers left the company: Richard Hipple, executive vice president of LTV Corp. and president of LTV Steel; James Haeck, executive vice president of LTV Corp. responsible for LTV Steel's commercial business; and Norman Vernon, LTV Steel's vice president of industrial relations. Meanwhile, David M. Gilchrist, Jr., will continue as an executive vice president of LTV Corp. and president of the VP Buildings subsidiary while Brian Attwood will continue as vice president of research for LTV Steel.