Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based TMS International Corporation, the parent company of Tube City IMS Corporation, a leading provider of outsourced industrial services to steel mills globally, announced that it has promoted Hideyuki Nishizawa to Executive Vice President-International Trade of the company's Raw Material and Optimization Group.
Nishizawa will be responsible for overseeing all of TMS International's raw materials activities outside of North America, including the management of the company's 14 international brokerage offices from which the company buys and sells raw materials.
Nishizawa joined TMS International in January 2006 and was promoted to Senior Vice President - International Trade based in Chicago in 2007 and then to his current position of Managing Director of Asia based in Singapore in 2008.
Prior to joining the company, Nishizawa was president of the Chicago branch of Sojitz Corp. of America, an international trading company. He was also General Manager of Sojitz Mineral Resources Department based in New York City.