Executive acknowledges and recognizes the highly competitive nature of the Company’s business and that access to the Company’s confidential records and proprietary information and exposure to customers, vendors, distributors and suppliers of the Company renders Executive special and unique within the Company’s industry. In consideration of Executive’s continued employment, any payment(s) by the Company to Executive of amounts that may hereafter be paid to Executive pursuant to this Agreement (including, without limitation, pursuant to Sections 3 and 4 hereof) and other obligations undertaken by the Company hereunder, Executive agrees that during Executive’s employment with the Company and for twelve (12) months following termination of Executive’s employment (the “Covered Time”), Executive shall not, directly or indirectly (whether through affiliates, relatives, or otherwise), engage (as owner, investor, partner, stockholder, employer, employee, consultant, advisor, director or otherwise) in any Competing Business in any Restricted Area (each as defined below), provided that the provisions of this Section 5(b) will not be deemed breached solely because Executive passively owns, without Executive’s active involvement, less than five percent (5%) of the outstanding common stock of a publicly-traded company.

During the term of Employee’s employment, Employer agrees to provide, and to continue to provide Employee, on a daily, weekly, monthly and continual basis, access to, and the use of, its “Confidential Information and Trade Secrets” concerning A.M. Castle’s Business, and Employer’s employees, Customers and Customer Representatives, Suppliers and Supplier Representatives and Employer’s transactional histories with all of them, as well as information about the logistics, details, revenues and expenses of A.M. Castle’s Business, in order to allow Employee to perform Employee’s duties under this Agreement, and to develop or continue to solidify relationships with Customers, Customer Representatives, Suppliers and Supplier Representatives. Employee acknowledges that new and additional Confidential Information and Trade Secrets regarding each of these matters is developed by Employer as a part of its continuing operations, and Employer hereby agrees to provide Employee access to and use of all such new, additional and continuing Confidential Information and Trade Secrets, and Employee acknowledges that access to such new, additional and continuing Confidential Information and Trade Secrets is essential for Employee to be able to perform, and to continue to perform, Employee’s duties under this Agreement. In addition, Employer agrees to provide, and to continue to provide, training, education, direction and development to Employee with respect to all of Employer’s business methods, processes, procedures, software and information, including newly developed and newly discovered

In view of Executive’s importance to the success of the Corporation, Executive and the Corporation agree that the Corporation would likely suffer significant harm from Executive’s competing with the Corporation during employment and for some period of time thereafter. Accordingly, Executive agrees that Executive shall not engage in competitive activities (except in Marginal Business Areas, as defined in Section 7(e)) either: # while employed by the Corporation; or # if Executive’s employment is terminated during the term of this Agreement, during the Restricted Period (as defined below). Executive shall be deemed to engage in competitive activities if Executive shall, without the prior written consent of the Corporation, # in Ottawa County, Kent County, or Allegan County, Michigan, or in any county contiguous thereto (including the municipalities therein), render services directly or indirectly, as an employee, officer, director, consultant, advisor, partner or otherwise, for any organization or enterprise which competes directly or indirectly with the business of the Corporation in providing financial products or services (including, without limitation, banking, insurance, trust or investment products or services) to consumers and businesses, or # directly or indirectly acquires any financial or beneficial interest in (except as provided in the next sentence) any organization which conducts or is otherwise engaged in a business or enterprise in Ottawa County, Kent County, or Allegan County, Michigan, or any of the counties contiguous thereto (including all municipalities) which competes directly or indirectly with the business of the Corporation in providing financial products or services (including, without limitation, banking, insurance, trust or investment products or services) to consumers and businesses. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, Executive shall not be prohibited from owning less than one percent (1%) of any class of publicly traded securities. For purposes of this Section 7 the term “Restricted Period” shall equal twenty-four months following the date of termination of Executive’s employment during the term of this Agreement. If Executive is in breach of Section 7,

Section # Noncompetition and Nonsolicitation.

Exclusive Employment; Noncompetition; Nonsolicitation; Nondisclosure of Proprietary Information; Surrender of Records; Inventions and Patents.

the breach by the Participant of any restrictive covenant (e.g., noncompetition or nonsolicitation) to which the Participant is subject;

Enclosures: Kingwood Holiday Schedule; Orion Benefits Handout; Confidentiality and Proprietary Rights Agreement; Noncompetition, Nonsolicitation, Nondisparagement Agreement; Conflict of Interest Agreement.

Nonsolicitation. Executive hereby agrees that for the duration of Executive’s employment with ​, and for the Restrictive Period, Executive will NOT, within the Restricted Territory, do any of the following:

Nonsolicitation. During the term of this Agreement, each Party agrees that neither it nor any of its Affiliates will knowingly recruit, solicit or induce, directly or indirectly, any employee of the other Party or any of its Affiliates directly involved in the Research, Development, Manufacture or Commercialization activities with respect to any Research Candidates, Development Candidates or Products to terminate his or her employment with the other Party or such Affiliate and become employed by or consult for such Party or any of its Affiliates. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, “recruit”, “solicit” or “induce” will not be deemed to mean # circumstances where an employee initiates contact with such Party or any of its Affiliates with regard to possible employment, or # general solicitations of employment not specifically targeted at employees of the other Party or any of its Affiliates, including responses to general advertisements.

Noncompetition. While engaged by the Company as a Consultant and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, the Consultant shall not directly or indirectly conduct, engage in, have an interest in, or aid or assist any person or entity in conducting, engaging or having an interest in (whether as an owner, principal, lender, stockholder, partner, employer, employee, consultant, officer, director or otherwise) any business or enterprise which performs services, or develops or sells products, similar to or competitive with those provided by or on behalf of the Company, or which may be contrary to the welfare, interest or benefit of the business of the Company, anywhere within the State of Idaho, or in any market in which the Company does business.