Manufacturing Industry

Inland merges Ryerson and Tull top guns. (Inland Steel Industries Inc., Joseph T. Ryerson & Son Inc., J.M. Tull Metals Co.)

Purchasing, February, 1990

Inland Steel Industries Inc. has realigned its service center and metal processing business segment, and shuffled top management. Robert J. Darnall, president of the parent company, who also is president of the Inland Steel Flat Products Co. and Inland Bar and Structural Co. subsidiaries, now is chairman of the distribution subsidiaries.

W. Gordon Kay now is president of both Joseph T. Ryerson & Son Inc. of Chicago, the nation's largest metals service center chain with 29 coast-to-coast locations, and J.M. Tull Metals Co. of Norcross, Ga., which operates 19 service centers in the South and Southeast under the Tull and AFCO Metals banners. Kay has been president of Tull Metals since 1984; at Ryerson, he succeeds John B. Foster, who retired after 37 years with...

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