Aleris Promotes Execs As It Reorganizes its Aluminum Recycling/Spec Alloys Unit

BEACHWOOD, Ohio, Dec 20, 2007 (PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network) - Aleris International, Inc. announced effective January 2, 2008, it will make several management promotions described below relating to the realignment of its Aluminum Recycling and Specification Alloy business units into a new business unit named Recycling & Specification Alloys - Americas. The business unit will operate 25 production facilities in the US, Mexico and Brazil.

Terrance J. Hogan will be promoted to Senior Vice President and General Manager and will lead the realigned business unit. Mr. Hogan joined Aleris in 2005 as a part of the acquisition of Alumitech where he had served as President for ten years. He has worked in the aluminum recycling industry since 1988. Mr. Hogan earned his bachelor's degree in Accounting from Alfred University, in Alfred, NY.

William Edwin Hoag (Ed) has been named Vice President, Global Metals Procurement, replacing Alan Dick who, as previously announced, has become the Senior Vice President Manufacturing, Rolled Products North America. Mr. Hoag has been leading Aleris's Specification Alloy business unit since June 1, 2005. He joined IMCO Recycling in 1996 as General Manager, Recycling United Kingdom and prior to the merger with Commonwealth, served as the Vice President Aluminum Division. Prior to joining IMCO, he held a number of positions with Alcoa, Inc. in the United States and internationally. Mr. Hoag earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Mount Union College.

Michael T. Keown has been promoted to Vice President, Scrap Metals Procurement - North America reporting to Mr. Hoag. Mr. Keown joined Commonwealth Industries in 1998 and has held a number of positions of increasing responsibilities. Since 2005, he has served as the Director, Materials North Plants for Global Metals Procurement at Aleris. Mr. Keown earned his bachelor's degree in Accounting from Oakland City University in Indiana.

Aleris International, Inc. is a global leader in aluminum rolled products and extrusions, aluminum recycling and specification alloy production. The company is also a recycler of zinc and a leading U.S. manufacturer of zinc metal and value-added zinc products that include zinc oxide and zinc dust. Headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the Company operates 55 production facilities in North America, Europe, South America and Asia, and employs approximately 9,100 employees. For more information about Aleris, please visit our Web site at http://www.aleris.com.

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