{"id":11409,"date":"2025-12-17T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steelorg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=11409"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:25:05","slug":"aisi-welcomes-johann-steiner-to-aisi-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steel.org\/2025\/12\/aisi-welcomes-johann-steiner-to-aisi-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"AISI Welcomes Johann Steiner to AISI Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 <\/strong>The American Iron and Steel Institute\u2019s (AISI) Board of Directors yesterday elected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outokumpu.com\/en\/about-outokumpu\/organization\/leadership-team\">Johann Steiner,<\/a> Outokumpu president, business area Americas, as a member of AISI\u2019s Board.<\/p>\n<p>AISI Chairman Lourenco Goncalves, chairman, president and CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs, said, \u201cAs a long-time leader in the stainless steel industry, Johann knows first-hand the critical policy issues facing American steel \u2015 particularly regarding global unfair foreign trade practices that have impacted all AISI members. We welcome him to the AISI Board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Dempsey, AISI president and CEO, said, \u201c Johann\u2019s expertise in the steel industry, particularly the stainless steel industry, brings an important perspective to our Board. We look forward to Johann\u2019s outstanding participation on the many critical issues facing steel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steiner has been with Outokumpu for more than a decade and was named to his current position at Outokumpu in October. Most recently, Steiner held the position of executive vice president for strategy, sustainability and people at Outokumpu. He is now based in Calvert, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">####<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact: Lisa Harrison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>202.452.7115 \/\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lharrison@steel.org\">lharrison@steel.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">AISI serves as the voice of the American steel industry in the public policy arena and advances the case for steel in the marketplace as the preferred material of choice. AISI\u2019s membership is comprised of integrated and electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmakers, steel pipe and tube manufacturers and steel processors and fabricators, reflecting the production and distribution of both carbon and stainless steels. These steels are critical to America\u2019s national and economic security, including roads and bridges, buildings, the electrical grid, cars and trucks and all clean energy technologies. AISI also represents associate members who are suppliers to or customers of the steel industry. For more news about steel and its applications, view AISI\u2019s website at\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steel.org\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">www.steel.org<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. 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AISI Chairman Lourenco Goncalves, chairman, president and CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs, said, \u201cAs a long-time leader in the stainless steel industry, Johann knows first-hand the critical policy issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-11409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AISI Welcomes Johann Steiner to AISI Board of Directors - American Iron and Steel Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AISI serves as the voice of the American steel industry in the public policy arena and advances the case for steel in the marketplace as the preferred material of choice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.steel.org\/2025\/12\/aisi-welcomes-johann-steiner-to-aisi-board-of-directors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AISI Welcomes Johann Steiner to AISI Board of Directors - 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