Ipsco Inc. announced the appointment of Patricia Kampling as Treasurer, effective immediately.

Ms. Kampling brings 20 years of financial and management experience to Ipsco. She has an extensive background in treasury, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, acquisitions, integration, strategic planning and SEC reporting. From 2000 to 2002 Ms. Kampling served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Exelon Enterprises, a business unit of Exelon Corp., one of the nation's largest electric utilities and generation companies. Prior to Exelon's formation through the merger of Unicom and PECo Energy, she was Treasurer of Unicom Corp. and ComEd. During her 21-year career with Exelon, she received numerous promotions in the finance, treasury and engineering functions.

Ms. Kampling earned her MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and her B.S. in Engineering and B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Ipsco's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Vicki Avril, is pleased to welcome Ms. Kampling to Ipsco. "Ms. Kampling's 20 years of broad financial experience in finance and treasury, combined with a mechanical engineering background, makes her a strong addition to the Ipsco financial and management team," stated Avril.

Ms. Kampling will be based at Ipsco's operational headquarters in Lisle, Ill., and will report directly to Ms. Avril.

Ipsco is a leading-edge electric furnace flat rolled steel producer with steelworks in Regina, Sask.; Montpelier, Iowa; and Mobile County, Ala., having a combined annual design capacity of 3,500,000 tons. Ipsco operates modern coil processing facilities in Regina, Sask.; Surrey, B.C.; St. Paul, Minn.; Toronto, Ont.; and Houston, Texas. As a leader in the development of high strength steel and pipe, Ipsco operates pipe mills at six locations in Canada and the United States producing a wide range of tubular products including oil and gas well casing and tubing, line pipe, standard pipe and hollow structural sections.