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North American Alloys has announced that Steven Meredith has joined the company as director of sales. Meredith previously worked for 11 years in the copper industry with Asarco Inc. and 16 years in the titanium industry with Sandvik Special Metals Corp. and Titanium Sports LLC.

Meredith, who has degrees in metallurgical engineering from the University of Washington and 27 years of experience in the metals industry, has published numerous technical papers on titanium, holds five U.S. patents on titanium-related inventions and co-authored the "Ti-3Al-2.5V Seamless Tubing Engineering Guide."

Additionally, Meredith has visited and worked with titanium mills throughout the world, including those in Russia, China and Sweden. He will work out of his current office in Kennewick, Wash., buying and selling titanium and nickel-based alloys.

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Inc., Washington, has tapped communications consultant Chuck Carr as its new managing director of communications.

"Chuck has been brought aboard to coordinate communications with members, the media and the general public to ensure both better coverage and a clear message of the importance of scrap recycling to the nation and the world economy," says ISRI President Robin Wiener.

Carr comes to the position with more than 20 years of experience in corporate, public, government and political communications. Previously, he has worked as a strategic consultant, managing the Washington office of a small public relations firm. Prior to that, he served as a congressional campaign manager and as communications director/press secretary for two members of Congress.

Before coming to Washington in 1988, he worked in video training and corporate communications for a corporation based in South Carolina.

Ronald McGrainor, senior vice president, Refco LLC, Hudson, Ohio, died in mid-September at age 70.

McGrainor had, for the past several years, hosted an annual copper industry forecast event in Cleveland. He was also a long-time member of the American Copper Council and helped establish hedging policies and procedures for the New York Mercantile Exchange. McGrainor spent parts of his career with Dean Witter and Merrill Lynch.

He is survived by his wife Margaret, two daughters and six grandchildren. His daughter Megan Hovey also works at Refco LLC’s Hudson office.