Company Information
The Doe Run Company has a rich history of accomplishments and advancements. We are committed to continuous improvement at all of our operations, and we invite you to learn more about us here.
Timeline
1864 – St. Joseph Lead Company purchases a large tract of land in southeastern Missouri known for its lead deposits.
1890 – St. Joe begins construction on the Herculaneum smelter.
1892 – St. Joe begins operating its new smelter in nearby Herculaneum, Mo., on the banks of the Mississippi River. It consolidates all smelting activities there by 1920.
1950 – Decreasing mineral content after the WWII effort leads to the discovery of more favorable deposits 50 miles southwest of the Lead Belt in the “Viburnum Trend.”
1981 – Fluor Corporation acquires St. Joe.
1986 – St. Joe and Homestake Lead Company form The Doe Run Company, a Missouri partnership, with St. Joe owning 57.5 percent of the partnership. This partnership takes the name of a former subsidiary of St. Joe and joins with the St. Joe operations, the Buick Smelter and the Buick Mine and Mill.
1990 – Homestake sells its interest in the partnership to Fluor Corp.
1991 – St. Joe converts the primary lead smelter at Buick to a lead recycling facility, which over the next ten years grows to the largest single-site secondary smelter in the world.
1994 – The Renco Group Inc. acquires St. Joe from Fluor and renames the company The Doe Run Resources Corporation, registered to do business as The Doe Run Company.
1996 – Doe Run acquires Seafab Metals and creates Fabricated Products, Inc.
1997 – Doe Run more than doubles in size with its first venture outside the United States through the acquisition of the smelters and refineries in La Oroya, Peru. Shortly thereafter, Doe Run acquires the Cobriza copper mine, creating the subsidiary of Doe Run Peru.
1998 – Doe Run adds two mines and two mills and a smelter to its operations with the acquisition of the Missouri Lead Division operation of ASARCO Incorporated.
2003 – Glover smelter placed on care and maintenance.
2007 – Doe Run and Doe Run Peru forge a new relationship, transitioning to equal affiliate corporations.
Awards/Recognition
We are committed to environmental leadership and safety and are proud of the acknowledgements we have received for our efforts. Doe Run and its predecessors have earned the highest safety honor in the United States mining industry, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s Sentinels of Safety Award, more than 22 times.
Doe Run’s Herculaneum Smelter, Glover Smelter and Buick Recycling Division (BRRD) have also received recognition as ISO-certified organizations. Herculaneum smelter maintains ISO 9001: 2008 certification. BRRD maintain ISO 9001: 2000 certification, a nationally and internationally recognized symbol of a company’s dedication to superior quality, customer satisfaction and continuous improvement. In 2000, Glover attained the ISO 14001 environmental standard. ISO 14001 recognizes the facilities’ environmental safeguards, procedures and management systems.
Company Backgrounder
The Doe Run Company, based in St. Louis, Missouri, is a natural resource company focused on metals mining, smelting, recycling and fabrication. Doe Run is the largest integrated lead producer in the Western Hemisphere and the third largest total lead producer in the world. Additionally, the company retrieves and recycles more than 150,000 tons of lead annually from manufactured products such as batteries and telephone cables. Doe Run produces zinc and copper, along with valuable by-products.
Doe Run is organized into four divisions in the United States and operates facilities in Missouri, Washington and Arizona.
Doe Run facilities feature advanced technology and produce a consistently pure product. Doe Run’s mills offer state-of-the-art automation to maximize the recovery of metals from ore, and its recycling facility is the most technologically advanced, environmentally sound and safest of its kind in the world.
Profiles/Bios
A. Bruce Neil
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Doe Run Company
Drawing upon three decades of experience in the metals industry, A. Bruce Neil serves as president and chief executive officer of The Doe Run Company. Appointed president and chief executive officer of Doe Run in 2006, Neil is charting a new course for the company with an external focus, an eye on global demand and a strategic plan for future growth. Under Neil’s direction, the company is working to meet changing customer needs through workforce development, technology and product delivery, product expansion, and resource sourcing. Neil also helms an eight-member executive team responsible for managing Doe Run’s four focus areas, including mining, primary smelting, recycling and fabrication. Neil served as president of Doe Run Peru from February 2003 through March 2006
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Jerry L. Pyatt
Vice President, Domestic Operations and Chief Operating Officer
The Doe Run Company
President, Fabricated Products, Inc.
Jerry L. Pyatt serves as vice president of The Doe Run Company’s domestic operations; chief operating officer for The Doe Run Company; and president of Doe Run’s fabrication subsidiary, Fabricated Products, Inc. Pyatt brings more than 28 years in the metals and mining industry as he oversees Doe Run’s U.S. operations, including six mines, four mills, two primary lead smelters, the world’s largest single-site recycling facility and two lead fabrication sites in Arizona and Washington. Prior to becoming vice president, domestic operations and chief operating officer in 2001, and president of Fabricated Products, Inc., in 1998, Pyatt served as the general manager for Doe Run’s Buick Resource Recycling Division.
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Steve Batts
General Manager
Southeast Missouri Mining and Milling Division
Steve Batts is general manager of The Doe Run Company’s Southeast Missouri Mining and Milling Division (SEMO), overseeing operations at the division’s six underground mines and four mills. Batts also provides insights on companywide challenges as a member of Doe Run’s business diagnostics team. Prior to his current position, Batts served as maintenance manager at Doe Run’s primary smelter in Herculaneum, Mo., where he leveraged the organization’s behavioral-based safety program to reduce OSHA-recordable incidents throughout the plant by 66 percent over a three-year period. Batts began working with Doe Run in 1984 as a project engineer and served as general maintenance manager at the SEMO division from 2003-2008.
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Gary F. Hughes
General Manager, Herculaneum Smelter
The Doe Run Company
Gary F. Hughes serves as general manager for The Doe Run Company’s smelter in Herculaneum, Mo. With more than 24 years of experience in the mining industry from ASARCO and Kennecott Copper, Hughes contributes a unique combination of technical and leadership skills needed for the long-term success of the Herculaneum facility, known for its high purity lead and lead alloys. Hughes joined Doe Run in 2005 and assumed responsibility for all operations at the Herculaneum smelter. Hughes also guides the metallurgical team in the creation of a number of Doe Run’s lead alloys.
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Steve R. Arnold
General Manager, Buick Resource Recycling Division
The Doe Run Company
Steve R. Arnold is general manager of The Doe Run Company’s Buick Resource Recycling Division (BRRD) and is responsible for all operations at the largest secondary single-site lead recycling facility in the world. Prior to joining BRRD in March 2004, Arnold served as operations manager at Doe Run’s primary lead smelter in Herculaneum, Mo. Before 1996, Arnold held a variety of positions centered around pyro-metallurgical remediation of hazardous materials, including a role at the U.S. Bureau of Mines as a research engineer.
Aaron W. Miller
Vice President of Environmental Affairs
The Doe Run Company
Aaron Miller, vice president of environmental affairs at The Doe Run Company, supports environmental sustainability strategy and provides oversight to divisional work at Doe Run’s lead mining, milling, smelting and recycling facilities. Since joining Doe Run in 1998 as the manager for environmental safety, health and hygiene at the company’s smelter in Glover, Mo., Miller has managed the launch of Doe Run’s environmental stewardship program and has contributed to the development of the Environmental Task Management System (ETMS) to track overall performance of roughly 6,000 state environmental requirements.
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William Wold
General Manager
Fabricated Products, Inc.
As general manager of Fabricated Products, Inc. (FPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Doe Run Company, William Wold oversees the operations, sales, employees, production of lead oxide and creation of finished lead products at FPI’s locations in Vancouver, Wash., and Casa Grande, Ariz. Wold previously served as a global sales manager for The Doe Run Company. He has spent 37 years with Seafab Metals, the fabricated products division of FPI, where he served as general manager and held management positions in inventory, purchasing, distribution, plant management and sales. FPI produces sheet lead for roof flashings; lead shielding used to block sound waves, X-rays and nuclear radiation; plates for lead anodes in the copper refining process; raw and semi-finished bullet materials; plus specialty extruded shapes for the plating and pollution control industries. Wold is a decorated U.S. Marine who served in Vietnam. He resides in the Casa Grande area.