ClarkDietrich, the construction industry’s largest manufacturer of cold-formed steel framing products, announced the impending retirement of its president and CEO Jim Collins. Collins, who has been at the helm of ClarkDietrich since 2017, will step down March 31, 2025. Brian Panuccio, the company’s current chief commercial officer, has been tapped to take the reins upon Mr. Collins’s departure.
Collins has served in a variety of roles in his four decades of service, beginning as a management trainee with Dietrich Industries in 1983 after graduation from Hiram College earlier that same year. In 2011 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to become ClarkDietrich’s chief information officer. He was part of the team that brought two industry-leading firms together when ClarkWestern Building Systems and Dietrich Metal Framing were combined to form ClarkDietrich Building Systems following the challenges of the great financial crisis. Today, the company remains the nation’s top producer of steel framing materials that employs over 1,500 people across 17facilities throughout the USA and Canada.