Scandium International Mining Corp. announced that Dr. Hasso Weiland has joined the worldwide SCY marketing team, to help advance their efforts to market scandium products in advance of construction of the Nyngan Scandium Project in NSW, Australia. Dr. Weiland is a metallurgist with a 30-year technical career in aluminum alloys and products, both in research and in commercialization of new products with Alcoa Inc, and Arconic. Dr. Weiland joined Alcoa in 1989, and most recently held the role of Division Manager and Technical Fellow at Alcoa's (later Arconic's) corporate Technical Center in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Dr. Weiland has extensive experience leading initiatives for Alcoa/Arconic in the commercialization of new aluminum products, and in reviewing emerging technologies in the aluminum manufacturing sector. He is a globally recognized expert in microstructure-property relationships, specifically in recrystallization and deformation mechanisms in metals. Most recently, Dr. Weiland led Arconic's efforts in the aluminum-air battery initiative, and in marketing advanced alloys direct to industry customers, specifically for global automotive and aerospace applications.