---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-008988"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRD"
cik: "0000039092"
company_name: "FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T07:08:10.862170+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Friedman Industries appoints Michael Hanson as director, increasing board size

## Summary
- Board increased size and appointed Michael Hanson as director effective March 19, 2025.
- Hanson retired in 2022 as VP of Sales & Marketing at North Star BlueScope Steel.
- Serves on boards of Adopt America Network and its foundation.
- Not appointed to any board committees initially; will receive pro rata director fees.
- Holds MBA from Eastern Michigan University and bachelor's in marketing from Univ of North Dakota.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-008988
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRD
- cik: 0000039092
- company_name: FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39092/000143774925008988/0001437749-25-008988-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39092/000143774925008988/frd20250324_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-008988.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Hanson was appointed as Director at FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Michael Hanson as a director of the Company to fill such newly created vacancy on March 19, 2025, effective immediately
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39092/000143774925008988/0001437749-25-008988-index.htm

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