Combined Metals
Jeff Simons has extensive experience in the metals industry. Jeff is currently serving as the President at Combined Metals. Prior to that, they worked as the Executive Vice President at NIM Group from 2021 to 2023. Before that, they held the position of President and CEO at Metalwest from 2019 to 2021. From 2014 to 2018, Jeff was the President and CEO at O'Neal Flat Rolled Metals. Jeff also served as the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at O'Neal Industries from 2012 to 2014. Jeff's career started at O'Neal Steel in 1987, where they held various roles including Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Regional General Manager, General Manager, Sales Manager, Major Account Manager, Outside Sales Representative, Inside Sales Representative, and Warehouse Worker.
Jeff Simons attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1982 to 1989. There, they pursued a Bachelor's degree in Communications with a focus on Advertising/Marketing. Later, in 2008 and 2009, they enrolled in the Strategic Metals Management Program at Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School, although it is not specified whether they completed a degree during this time.
Combined Metals
Combined Metals™ is the largest independent processor and distributor of specialty strip and wire in North America. With an integrated network of processing mills and service centers, Combined Metals™ supports thousands of customers worldwide in the Aerospace, Automotive, Chemical Processing, Consumer, Defense, Electronics, Medical, Oil/Gas, and Power Generation industries. We process stainless steel, specialty metals, cobalt alloys, and titanium. Fifty years of quality and reliability have made Combined Metals™ the preferred source for high-performance applications. Illinois & Michigan service centers offer precision slitting, custom buffing with coil to coil and custom wet and dry polishing. Another addition to our equipment and services is our precision strip corrective leveler and punch presses. Our three precision cold rolling mills in Illinois & Connecticut offer capabilities of strip down to .0008” and some widths up to 41”. The mills are supported with multiple bright annealing furnaces capable of producing annealing thicknesses as low as .002″ (.005cm) and multiple slitting units that process a wide range of coil widths and weights. Multiple tension levelers can ensure flatness measurements as low as one I unit on annealed or full-hard materials. In addition, the tension leveler can process coils as large as 900 PIW (16kg/mm) for long production runs. Sycamore location manufactures high quality wire, bar, straightened & cut lengths and shaped wire in an extensive range of Nickel and Cobalt based alloys and special stainless steel grades. Flexible custom manufacturing allows us to offer a few pounds to many thousands of pounds with short, reliable lead times.