Earle M. Jorgensen Co.’s board of directors elected Andrew G. Sharkey III to serve as a director of Earle M. Jorgensen Co. (EMJ) until the next annual meeting of stockholders. Sharkey will also serve as a member of the board’s Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Sharkey currently serves as Director, President and CEO of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), a non-profit association of North American companies engaged in the iron and steel industries, positions that he has held since he joined AISI in August 1993. Prior to that, Sharkey served for 12 years as President of the Steel Service Center Institute, the predecessor of Metals Service Center Institute.

Headquartered in Lynwood, EMJ is a leading distributor of metal bar and tubular products used by North American manufacturing companies. EMJ inventories more than 25,000 different metal products in large quantities from primary producers, including a broad mix of carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum bar. EMJ distributes its broad range of metal products and provides its customers value-added metal processing and inventory management services from its distribution network of 35 strategically located service and processing centers in the United States and Canada.