---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-022655"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRD"
cik: "0000039092"
company_name: "FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T06:48:00.392775+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Friedman Industries appoints Gaurav Chhibbar as COO effective July 10, 2025

## Summary
- Gaurav Chhibbar appointed COO effective July 10, 2025.
- Base annual salary of $365,000; eligible for short-term incentive and equity-based LTIP.
- Previously a principal at Boston Consulting Group; prior metals-industry roles at Metal Edge Partners and Cargill.
- MBA from University of Chicago Booth School; MIB from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade; B.E. from Panjab University.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-022655
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRD
- cik: 0000039092
- company_name: FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39092/000143774925022655/0001437749-25-022655-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39092/000143774925022655/frd20250713_8k.htm

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