Feb. 12, 2007 — Tube City IMS Corp. reports that the removal of mercury-containing devices from scrapped vehicles entering its Tube City Division, West Mifflin, Pa., processing plant is progressing well.

Removing the mercury-containing components before scrapped vehicles are processed and sent to meltshops helps prevent toxic mercury emissions from adversely impacting local air and water quality. Once removed, the mercury-containing devices are then sent to approved, certified processors for further recycling.

Although the Tube City Division began formal participation in Pennsylvania's new voluntary Mercury-Containing Automobile Switch Removal Program in the summer of 2006, the company had initiated a "Zero Mercury" program years earlier to train, notify suppliers and reject mercury-containing scrap.

"We are pleased with our progress at the West Mifflin operation, but we really plan to ramp up our efforts in 2007," said Joseph Curtin, President and Chief Operating Officer of Tube City IMS, Tube City Division. "We are proud to participate in this important effort by the state to remove mercury from the steel scrap supply. It's a great feeling to know that we are playing a vital role to ensure that all of us have a safe environment in which to live. Commitment to an important program such as this will reap dividends in the form of a cleaner environment tomorrow."

Tube City IMS Corp., through its Tube City and IMS Divisions, is a leading provider of outsourced steel services, including raw materials purchasing and sales worldwide, scrap management, scrap optimization, and slag processing and metal recovery services to integrated steel mills, mini-mills and foundries. Tube City IMS has operations at 67 plants throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. The company's Tube City Division is headquartered in Glassport, Pa., and its IMS Division is headquartered in Horsham, Pa.