Van R. Reiner
President, Bethlehem Lukens Plate Division
Bethlehem Steel Corporation

Armed with 24 years of steelmaking experience, Mr. Reiner will call on extensive steel operating and management skills to lead the newly formed Bethlehem Lukens Plate Division and help establish it as the premier carbon and alloy plate business.

Mr. Reiner’s career with Bethlehem Steel has included management responsibility for the coke ovens and slab mill/plate mills at the firm’s Burns Harbor Division in Indiana and at the Galvanized Products Division, an operating unit of Burns Harbor located in Lackawanna, N.Y. Prior to being selected as president of the Bethlehem Lukens Plate Division, he was senior manager of operations for the Burns Harbor Division.

Mr. Reiner joined Bethlehem in 1974, and spent the first ten years of his career as an engineer in the coke oven department at the firm’s former Lackawanna, N.Y., plant. In 1984 he was transferred to Burns Harbor as assistant superintendent of cokemaking operations. Four years later he was named assistant superintendent of the slab mill/plate mills department at Burns Harbor and in 1990 advanced to superintendent of that operation.

In 1995 Mr. Reiner was named superintendent of the Galvanized Products operation. Then, in August 1997, he was promoted to senior manager, operations, for the Burns Harbor Division.

A native of Lakewood, Ohio, Mr. Reiner holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Wittenberg University and a master’s degree in chemistry from Lehigh University. He has also completed executive education programs at Duke University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Reiner is a member of the American Chemical Society and has served on numerous committees of the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers. He also is a member and former director of the Western States Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Association.

Mr. Reiner has a long history of involvement in community activities. While working at Lackawanna, he served as president of the board of directors of the Lackawanna Community Development Corporation, as a board member of the Lackawanna Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the advisory board of the City of Lackawanna’s Economic Development Zone.

While at Burn’s Harbor, he has been an active member of First Presbyterian Church and has served on Valparaiso Community Schools’ broad-based planning and implementation committee for gifted and talented students.

Mr. Reiner and his wife, Shirley, are the parents of two sons and a daughter.

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