Stork's Steve Suess wins NACE's Distinguished Service Award

NEW BERLIN, WI - November 17, 2005

Every year NACE International (formerly the National Association of Corrosion Engineers) honors a small group of engineers and scientists based on their achievements and contributions to the professional society. According to the NACE website the Distinguished Service Award "recognizes distinguished service to NACE by a member in the duties and responsibilities of any elected or appointed office or assignment at the section, region, or association level." Last year, the five recipients included three U.S., one Canadian, and one British engineer, each having held many NACE offices during their long careers in the business and study of corrosion science.

This year, Stork is proud to announce Steve Suess, P.E., Senior Metallurgist for Stork Technimet of New Berlin, Wisconsin, will receive the 2006 NACE Distinguished Service Award in San Diego on March 15, 2006. The awards banquet will cap off Corrosion 2006, NACE's 61st annual conference and exposition, which begins on March 12 and for which Suess is presenting a paper titled, "Avoidance of Feature Misinterpretation in SCC Failures."

"Steve can take credit for a great deal of the Wisconsin section's success," said Steve's supervisor, Craig Brown, the Metallurgy Department Manager. "He puts in long hours and wears many hats to help this chapter of NACE run smoothly and grow stronger. They're lucky to have him, and so are we."

For more information about NACE, visit their website at www.nace.org. To learn more about Stork Technimet, contact info.technimet@stork.com. Click here for an abstract of Steve Suess' technical paper.