Brush Wellman Names Richard Hipple Vice President of Strip Products.Business Editors CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 2001 Brush Wellman Inc. has announced the appointment of Richard J. Hipple as Vice President of Strip Products. Hipple is responsible for the overall direction and strategic management of the strip products business. The strip products business serves the global telecommunications, computer, automotive electronics and appliance markets and is Brush Wellman's largest business. Hipple was most recently President of LTV LTV See: Loan-to-value ratio Steel, the nation's third largest steel producer. In his 26 years with this integrated steel producer, Hipple advanced from a plant project engineer to positions of increased responsibility, including strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , supply chain management, operations, sales and marketing, and executive management. "Dick Hipple brings a wealth of experience in supplying value-added products to highly competitive markets with very demanding customers," said William R. Seelbach, president, Brush Wellman Inc. "His expertise and broad management experience will be an excellent resource in the continuing growth of our strip products business, further promoting the competitive performance benefits that Brush Wellman's strip products bring to customers worldwide." Hipple is a graduate of Drexel University Drexel University, at Philadelphia, Pa.; coeducational; founded 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, opened 1892, chartered 1894 as Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. It was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936 and gained university status in 1970. with a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in engineering. Brush Wellman Inc. is a Brush Engineered Materials Brush Engineered Materials Inc. is a multinational company specializing in high performance engineered materials emphasizing the qualities of strength, reliability, miniaturization and weight savings, thermal dissipation, electrical conductivity and reflectivity. Inc. (NYSE-BW) company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Brush Engineered Materials Inc., supplies worldwide markets with beryllium beryllium (bərĭl`ēəm) [from beryl ], metallic chemical element; symbol Be; at. no. 4; at. wt. 9.01218; m.p. about 1,278°C;; b.p. 2,970°C; (estimated); sp. gr. 1.85 at 20°C;; valence +2. products, alloy products, electronic products, precious metal products and engineered materials systems. |
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