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Dr. Hasso Weiland Joins Scandium International Marketing Team
Reno, Nevada--(Newsfile Corp. - August 30, 2018) - Scandium International Mining Corp . ( TS...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Dr. Hasso Weiland Joins Scandium International Marketing TeamReno, Nevada--(Newsfile Corp. - August 30, 2018) - Scandium International Mining Corp. (TSX: SCY) (\"Scandium International\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that Dr. Hasso Weiland has joined the worldwide SCY marketing team, to help advance our efforts to market scandium products in advance of construction of the Nyngan Scandium Project in NSW, Australia.Dr. Weiland is a metallurgist with a 30-year technical career in aluminum alloys and products, both in research and in commercialization of new products with Alcoa Inc, and Arconic. Dr. Weiland joined Alcoa in 1989, and most recently held the role of Division Manager and Technical Fellow at Alcoa's (later Arconic's) corporate Technical Center in New Kensington, Pennsylvania.Dr. Weiland has extensive experience leading initiatives for Alcoa/Arconic in the commercialization of new aluminum products, and in reviewing emerging technologies in the aluminum manufacturing sector. He is a globally recognized expert in microstructure-property relationships, specifically in recrystallization and deformation mechanisms in metals. Most recently, Dr. Weiland led Arconic's efforts in the aluminum-air battery initiative, and in marketing advanced alloys direct to industry customers, specifically for global automotive and aerospace applications.Dr. Weiland holds a PhD. In Physical Metallurgy and an MS. in Physics from the University of Clausthal, in Germany (1989/1983), along with post-graduate executive course-work in marketing, finance, and strategy at MIT Sloan School of Management and Carnegie-Mellon School of Industrial Management. Dr. Weiland has also been a contributing Adjunct Associate Professor at both the University of Pittsburgh (1994-2003), and Pennsylvania State University (2006-2011), in each instance for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.George Putnam, CEO of Scandium International Mining Corp. commented:\"We are delighted to add Dr. Hasso Weiland to our marketing team, as his background is uniquely aligned with our efforts to define and demonstrate the value of aluminium-scandium alloys to waiting markets. Hasso brings valuable understanding of new alloy product design and customer-based marketing from an aluminium industry perspective, and he has the deep technical background to augment ...