Karim Alshurafa

Background

About Karim Alshurafa

Karim Alshurafa is the President of Vollmer America Inc that is a Metals Industry gauges and control solutions provider. He has 20 years’ experience in OEM products and sensor technologies within the Metals industry with particular focus on launching new product technologies to the Metals Market. Alshurafa has served at SMS group Inc, the largest Metals OEM for Manufacturing equipment, where he has taken various responsibilities, starting as a Senior Proposal Engineer, Key Account Manager and then as General Manager of Sales and Marketing at SMS group Inc, where he was ultimately leading the Sales team for Sales and Marketing in the North America region. He got his first opportunity in technical sales as a Sales Engineer at Heraeus Electro-Nite Co. LLC in high temperature steelmaking sensors. His steel career started in 2004 as an EAF Process Engineer Intern at Gerdau Ameristeel Whitby in Canada where he was hooked to the industry after seeing the excitement of a scrap bucket charge in an electric arc furnace. Currently, He serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) and as the Vice Chair and co-founding member of the AIST MENA Chapter. He also served as past Chair the AIST Pittsburgh Chapter and past Chair of the Oxygen Steelmaking Technology Committee. Alshurafa has a B.Eng of Material Science and Engineering (2006) and a M.Eng in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2012) from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, Canada. Alshurafa is also a veteran of the Canadian Military.