Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. has named Arthur C. Reardon, Ph.D., to the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer effective August 31, 2010. The position was created to strengthen the company's technical support to customers and to provide the metallurgical expertise needed for process improvement and product expansion.
As CTO, Dr. Reardon will lead metallurgical process development at Universal Stainless and will oversee all company laboratory capability testing and analysis.
Dr. Reardon, 46, holds a Ph.D. in Material Sciences and an M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences from the University of Rochester, and a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the State University of New York at Oswego. He most recently served as Director of Technology R&D for Newell-Rubbermaid Corp., where he established fundamental research efforts and developed breakthrough technologies to bring new products to market in the cutting and hand tool industry.
From 1995 to 2006, Dr. Reardon was Senior Process Metallurgist for Crucible Specialty Metals Corp. During that time, he also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, where he taught Materials, Properties and Processing in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. He is currently writing the second edition of a textbook on metallurgy for ASM International.
His other posts have included Senior Metallurgist for Bausch & Lomb, Materials Engineer for Bell Corp., and Research Engineer for Seagate Magnetics.
Dr. Reardon is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma – The Physics Honor Society, ASME, ASM International, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, the American Welding Society, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the American Physical Society, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and Mensa International.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., headquartered in Bridgeville, Pa., manufactures and markets semi-finished and finished specialty steels, including stainless steel, tool steel, and other alloyed steels, in a variety of grades, widths, and gauges to customer specifications. Its products are sold to rerollers, forgers, service centers, original equipment manufacturers, and wire redrawers for use in industries such as aerospace, power generation, petrochemical, and heavy equipment manufacturing.