Ipsco Inc. and its employees have donated nearly $260,000 (USD) towards various United Way Campaigns in the communities in which it operates. Campaigns for the internationally recognized charity are conducted at each Ipsco site, with the company matching each dollar pledged by its employees.

Ipsco has supported the United Way by conducting workplace campaigns and a matching corporate pledge since the 1960s. Today, there are 2,400 employees working for the company in various operations located through the United States and Canada. Sutherland hopes employees will be even more involved in the future, and that they will continue to set record contribution levels.

This announcement reflects Ipsco’s ongoing annual commitment to the United Way and is in addition to other recent donations made by the company. This month, Ipsco and its employees donated $120,000 (USD) for South Asia tsunami relief efforts. This past September, the company and its employees also raised close to $60,000 (USD) to support those in Alabama most affected by Hurricane Ivan. “These contributions demonstrate both the generosity and character of Ipsco employees,” said Sutherland.

“I am very pleased with the employee participation in such a worthy cause,” said David Sutherland, Ipsco’s President and CEO. “We have always been a compassionate and community-minded corporation and this is clearly reinforced in a record contribution campaign from Ipsco this year.”

Ipsco operates steel mills at three locations and pipe mills at six locations in Canada and the United States. As a low cost North American steel producer, Ipsco has a combined annual steelmaking capacity of 3,500,000 tons. The company's tubular facilities produce a wide range of tubular products including line pipe, oil and gas well casing and tubing, standard pipe and hollow structurals. Steel can also be further processed at Ipsco's five temper leveling and coil processing facilities.