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T.H. Glennon Co. Inc.

Kriem Michel has joined T. H. Glennon Co. Inc., Salisbury, Mass., as sales representative for the eastern region of the U.S.

Michel will represent the company’s line of landscape mulch colorants to the region, as well as the Mulch Color Jet equipment, which is used to inject colorants directly into the grinder.

She comes to T. H. Glennon from the Landscape Products Group of the Coatings and Colorants Division of Bayer Corp. She has extensive experience in the wood mulch industry and more than 10 years in sales representing Bayer’s line of colorants.

Kriem will work from an office in New Jersey.

Sierra International Machinery

Sierra International Machinery has added Natasha Scarborough as a marketing assistant at the company’s Keller, Texas, office. Scarborough, who will report to director of sales Richard Harris, will be the company’s contact for marketing initiatives, trade shows and advertising.

Sherbanuk Metals Marketing

Harold Goldblatt has been added to the staff of Sherbanuk Metals Marketing, Toronto, Canada, as a metals broker.

Goldblatt has more than 40 years of experience in the metal brokerage industry, having most recently served with Hagersville Recycling & Auto Wrecking Ltd.

“We look forward to working together with Harold in the future both to expand the range of our current brokerage division, as well as service our existing customers,” says S. J. Sherbanuk, president of the firm.

Sherbanuk Metals Marketing is a broker and processor of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal.

Kripke Enterprises

Kripke Enterprises Inc., Toledo, Ohio, has hired Marvin Finkelstein as a nonferrous scrap broker who will work out of a Florida office. The announcement was made by Kripke Enterprises principals Larry and Matt Kripke.

Finkelstein, formerly with Dominion Metals, has more than 15 years of scrap industry experience.

Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc.

Leonard Schnitzer is stepping down from his post as CEO of Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc., Portland, Ore., though he will continue to serve as chairman of the steelmaking and scrap recycling company.

“Leonard will continue an active role at the office every day, but this change will give him some flexibility and time to also travel and do things his business schedule hasn’t allowed time for,” says Schnitzer Steel president Robert W. Philip.

Under Leonard Schnitzer’s leadership, the company has grown from being a local scrap recycler to one of the nation’s largest scrap recycling businesses, a leading scrap exporter and an electric arc furnace steelmaker. Leonard started with the company 55 years ago, and has served as chairman since 1971 and CEO since 1973.

Robert Philip has assumed the title of CEO along with president.

Onondaga County, NY

Onondaga County, New York, has named Andrew Radin as Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency director of waste reduction and recycling. He has worked for the agency for 19 years.

 Radin told The Post Standard he plans to keep the county a leader in recycling. “ We will to continue to challenge residents to do a great job.”

Stanton A. Moss Inc.

The reintroduced Phoenix Award has been presented to Stanton Moss, founder and president of Stanton A. Moss Inc., Bryn Mawr, Pa.

The Phoenix Award was created in the late 1950s by the Philadelphia Metals Association (PMA) to honor a member of the regional metals community each year for lifetime achievement. The award has been revived and is being awarded annually by the PMA in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of ISRI.

Moss, who received the award in late 2001, started in the metals industry in the late 1950s. In 1974 he started his own company, operating as a broker of nonferrous metals, concentrating on aluminum. During his career, Moss has chaired ISRI’s nonferrous division, its aluminum committee and its convention committee. He has also served as president of the PMA and helped found the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Society of Die Casting Engineers.

Additionally, Moss participated in the first President’s Mission to Israel more than 25 years ago, and he and his wife Carole were honored by the State of Israel with the Independence Issue Award in 1999.

Granutech Saturn Systems

Granutech-Saturn Systems Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, has named John Melton as its new director of sales for the western U.S., western Canada and Mexico.

Melton, who has more than 16 years of industrial sales experience, says, “Long-term commitment to customer satisfaction is a philosophy that has served me well throughout my career and will continue to do so here at Granutech.”

Granutech-Saturn Systems Corp. makes size reduction and processing equipment used for several recycling applications, including plastics, scrap tires, ferrous and nonferrous metals and other materials.

NRC Recycling Awards

Lisa Skumatz, founder and principal of Skumatz Economic Research Associates, Seattle, has received the NRC Recycler of the Year-Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Recycling Coalition. The award was presented at the NRC’s Annual Convention in January in Seattle.

Skumatz has been conducting recycling-related research since 1987 and was an early advocate for bringing economic analysis, program evaluations and incentives into recycling programs.

She has helped formulate and popularize "pay as you throw" programs designed to pass on the costs of waste disposal directly to those generating the most waste.

Skumatz says she was "honored and overwhelmed" to win the award, and thanked the communities that had complimented her work by using her the findings from her studies.

Other award winners included:

• Southern California Edison, Valencia, Calif., for its
Waste-Not Program

• Eastern Carolina Vocational Center, Greenville, Ca
lif., for its commercial and industrial recycling program

• Betsy Rosenberg, San Francisco, for her "Trash
Talk" radio segments offering recycling and resource reduction tips

• The City of South Sioux City, Neb., winner of the
Outstanding Community Recycling Program Award

• The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., winner
of the Outstanding School Program

• Beloit Senior Center, Beloit, Wisc., for its Adopt-A
Cemetery Program

• Chelsea Center for Recycling & Economic Develop
ment, Chelsea, Mass., for its market development
research

• Richard S. Williams, Oberlin, Ohio, Winner of the
Outstanding Minority Award.