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GrassRoots Recycling Network

The GrassRoots Recycling Network, Athens, Ga., has elected new board officers and appointed an executive director at its May annual meeting.

• Ann Morse, was elected as president. She is the Recycling and Household Hazardous Waste Program Coordinator for Winona County Environmental Services, Winona, Minn.

•Rick Anthony was named vice president and secretary. He is a recycling consultant from San Diego.

•David Wood remains as treasurer. He is a senior associate at Center on Wisconsin Strategy, Madison.

•Bill Sheehan was appointed executive director.

City Scrap Metal

City Scrap Metal LLC, Lee’s Summit, Mo., has added Lou Rivera as venture manager. Among Rivera’s duties will be incorporating the newly-purchased J. Sandman & Sons facility in Chicago into City Scrap’s ongoing operations.

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc.

Houston-based Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America has named Tadashi Sotoike president. He has more than 30 years of experience in manufacturing with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).

Previously, he held management positions with MHI and was most recently general manager at MHI’s Sagamihara plant.

In Memoriam:

Noah Liff, former CEO of Steiner-Liff Iron & Metal Co., Nashville, Tenn., died in May. Liff is survived by his wife Judith Ocker Liff, five sons, one daughter and three grandchildren.

Liff rose to the top of the company that was named in part for his father Nathan, whose Nashville scrap business merged with the former Steiner and Lightman in 1954.

Under Noah Liff’s leadership, Steiner-Liff became one of the largest scrap companies not only in its region, but also in the United States. The company was sold to Philip Services Corp. in 1997.

At one time, Liff served as president of the Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel, one of ISRI’s predecessor organizations. He also traveled to the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s to forge business partnerships shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Liff twice appeared on the cover of Recycling Today, once in 1978 and again in December of 1990. In the 1990 story, he predicted that “scrap from Eastern Bloc activities will depress the markets for recycled scrap.”