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Vipperman Elected to Board of Directors of Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation ROANOKE, Va., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Joseph H. Vipperman today was elected to the Board of Directors of Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation . Vipperman is a retired Executive Vice President of American Electric Power and former President/CEO of Appalachian Power Company in Roanoke. He lives at Smith Mountain Lake. A native of Stuart, Virginia, Vipperman serves on the Boards of Directors of Friendship Manor Retirement Community, Shenandoah Life Insurance Company, the Virginia Economic Bridge, the Reynolds Homestead Foundation and the Patrick County Educational Foundation. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Averett University and a member of the Advisory Board to the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation has steel manufacturing facilities in Roanoke, Virginia and Huntington, West Virginia, producing angles, rounds, flats, channels, beams, special sections andbillets, which are sold to steel service centers, fabricators, original equipment manufacturers and other steel producers. Five subsidiaries are involved in various steel-related activities, consisting of scrap processing and bar joist, reinforcing bar and truck trailer beam fabrication. DATASOURCE: Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation CONTACT: T. Joe Crawford of Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation, +1-540-342-1831 Web site: http://www.roanokesteel.com/

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