Carpenter's Dynamet Subsidiary Names New President.Business Editors/Mining & Metal Writers WYOMISSING, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2000 Dynamet Corporation, a Pittsburgh area subsidiary of Carpenter Technology Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CRS CRS Course CRS Certified Residential Specialist (real estate certification) CRS Central Reservation System CRS Can't Remember Stuff (polite form) CRS Cost Reduction Strategy CRS Consumer Relations Specialist ), has named Mark S. Kamon president. Kamon, 47, was most recently vice president, Operations for Bethlehem Lukens' Plate Division, responsible for plant operations in Burns Harbor, Ind., Coatesville, Pa. and Conshohocken, Pa. As president of Dynamet, Kamon will oversee the subsidiary's titanium titanium (tītā`nēəm, tĭ–) [from Titan], metallic chemical element; symbol Ti; at. no. 22; at. wt. 47.88; m.p. 1,675°C;; b.p. 3,260°C;; sp. gr. 4.54 at 20°C;; valence +2, +3, or +4. processing business. He will report to Robert J. Torcolini, senior vice president of Carpenter's Engineered Products Operations, and will be based in Washington, Pa. Kamon joined Lukens Steel in 1975 and held various manufacturing management, production control, and transportation positions in the 1980s. He served as the Coatesville plant's manager, Manufacturing, from 1991 to 1992, then served as general manager of the Conshohocken plant until 1997. In the early stages of the Bethlehem Steel The Bethlehem Steel Corporation (1857–2003), based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, once was the second largest steel producer in the United States (after Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based US Steel). acquisition of Lukens, Kamon was responsible for integrating five plate mills across Lukens and Bethlehem. As vice president, Operations, for the resulting plate division, he focused on enhancing profitability through cost control, improved throughput and delivery performance. Kamon holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. . Dynamet manufactures titanium bar, wire and shaped products, as well as powder alloys This is a list of alloys for which an article exists in Wikipedia (or is proposed but not yet written). They are grouped by base metal, in order of increasing atomic number. Within these headings they are in no particular order. . Carpenter, a leading manufacturer and distributor of specialty alloys and various engineered products, acquired Dynamet in 1997. Carpenter had sales of $1.1 billion in fiscal 2000 (ended June 30, 2000). More information about Carpenter and Dynamet is available at www.cartech.com. |
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