TST Inc. (Fontana, CA) has hired Arnie Jackson as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for its Tandem Industries division. Based out of Fontana, CA, and reporting to the TST C.E.O., Jackson will be responsible for increasing Tandem's sales of cast and scalped aluminum billet. He is a 20 year veteran of the metals industry, most recently serving as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Vista Metals Corp. Previously Jackson was with ALCOA, as Regional Sales Manager in their AEP Division focused on Forging Stock and Aerospace Extrusions

TST, Inc. is pleased to announce an addition to our scrap purchasing staff.

Chisa Ueda will be joining us as Purchasing Account Manager. She will be responsible for acquiring and maintaining scrap raw material suppliers for the Fontana plant. Chisa will report to Jeff Arrow, Vice President Purchasing. She will begin working on August 21st.

Chisa was with Honda Trading America for the past 9 years. In her last position she was responsible for the Metals, Plastics and the Recycling Department. Some of the business's that came under her area were: Aluminum ingot and molten metal, aluminum sheet, ferrous and non-ferrous scrap, plastic, and silicon metal.

We are very excited to have Chisa join our team and look forward to new and creative ideas she will bring to TST.

Congratulations to Ed Robertson who is retiring from TST, Inc. after 29 years of dedicated service. Ed has been instrumental in the success of TST and his years of service are greatly appreciated.

Bob Stein, Ron Stein, and Bill Levine first met Ed who held the position of Assistant Production Manager at Apex Smelting in Carson, California. They interfaced with him in the late 60's and early 70's when they drove trucks into the Apex plant where they sold aluminum scrap.

When they built the first aluminum furnace at the TIMCO plant in Long Beach, Ed was their first choice to become Production Manager and they were able to bring him into the company shortly before the Apex plant closed in 1977. His tireless efforts and long hours contributed greatly to the Company's growth. When we entered into the billet casting business, Ed again was right there from the start working hand in hand with Dave Moline to turn out some of the best secondary billet known to the western states.

Again, when we acquired the US Reduction facility in Fontana, Ed agreed to relocate and help build this facility. He generously shared his knowledge of aluminum production and his protégés in are numerous. TST would not be the company it is without Ed Robertson.

I, along with the owners, would like to thank Ed for his dedication to TST and wish him the best in his retirement. May the years ahead bring him happiness.

Ed's last day is Friday, April 28, 2006, but he will continue to be available to upper management as a consultant.

Regards,

Andrew G. Stein, C.E.O.
TST, Inc.

FOR RELEASE AUG. 1, 2001

TST, Inc. of Fontana, CA, today announced that it has acquired a 46-acre site in Sweetwater, TX, for its new secondary aluminum alloy facility.

Company CEO Andrew Stein said that the location was strategically selected to provide an optimum combination of energy cost, scrap availability, labor and logistics to competitively serve customers in Mexico and US markets.
"We considered several other locations," Stein said. "The Sweetwater Enterprise for Economic Development provided a package of incentives that best serves the mutual interests of TST, our customers and the community."
The company said its new facilities will be constructed to comply with the EPA's Secondary MACT standard and will utilize state of the art furnaces.

TST, Inc. operates its TIMCO and Tandem divisions on a 20-acre site in Fontana, CA. TIMCO produces foundry and die-cast secondary aluminum alloy ingots and sow, while Tandem produces extrusion and forging billet in round sizes up to 43 inches.

The company also operates Standard Metals Recycling, a processor of non-ferrous scrap metals, in Long Beach, CA.