---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-21-095417"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RS"
cik: "0000861884"
company_name: "RELIANCE, INC."
filed_at: "2021-07-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-30T03:06:42.152258+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Reliance Steel & Aluminum expands board to 11, appoints David W. Seeger as independent director

## Summary
- Board size increased from 10 to 11; Seeger's term effective July 20, 2021, expires at 2022 annual meeting.
- Seeger served as President of Zekelman Industries (2010-2016) and previously President of Atlas Tube.
- He brings 37 years of metals industry experience and is not appointed to any board committee initially.
- Seeger will receive standard non-employee director compensation and enter indemnification agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-095417
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RS
- cik: 0000861884
- company_name: RELIANCE, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-07-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/861884/000110465921095417/0001104659-21-095417-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/861884/000110465921095417/tm2123074d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-095417.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David W. Seeger was appointed as independent director at RELIANCE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: independent director
  source text: On July 23, 2021, Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (the “Company”) announced that it increased the size of its Board of Directors from ten to eleven directors and appointed David W. Seeger to serve as an independent director, effective July 20, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/861884/000110465921095417/0001104659-21-095417-index.htm

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