VNE Corporation is pleased to announce that Ken Kimbrel has joined our Company as Product Manager, Special Alloys. Ken is responsible for the long-term and short-term domestic sales and marketing, planning of the Special Alloys product line and will manage the product life cycle by strategic and tactical activities. He attended Tulsa Community College and has an extensive background in the engineering, equipment manufacturing, and is a NACE International Board-Certified Corrosion Technician. His expertise includes corrosion evaluation, material selection, surface finish evaluation, and rouge remediation.
Ken is the current Chair of the ASME BPE. He has served as inaugural chair of Sub Committee on Metallic Materials and as past Chair of the Surface Finish Sub Committee. He is a member of the Sub Committees on Accreditation, the Standards committee, Executive committee and author of several technical papers.
He is a member of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), ASM International (ASM), the International Metallographic Society (IMS), the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), Heat Treating Society (HTS), Failure Analysis Society (FAS).
Please welcome Ken to VNE with a friendly phone call or e-mail (417-827-2526, kkimbrel@vnecorp.com) and be sure to ask about our Special Alloys program.