Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
August 28, 2015
It’s showtime!
Our 5th SMU Steel Summit Conference is locked, loaded and ready to go. We move into the sold out Marriott Gateway Hotel early tomorrow (Monday) afternoon where we will begin registration at 4 PM until 6 PM. We anticipate the bar area will be full of steel people on Monday evening so come join us in the lobby. On Tuesday, registration will begin at 7 AM in the lobby of the Georgia International Convention Center which is just a short (covered) walk from the hotel. The pre-Summit presentation will begin at 8 AM followed by the opening of the full conference at 9 AM.
Dress code is business casual – we encourage the wearing of company logo shirts.
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Our office will be closed on Monday afternoon, Tuesday and Wednesday. We will attempt to check messages but we will be essentially unavailable until later this week.
Tuesday evening’s newsletter will be published but it will be a shorter than normal version. We will catch up in a big way on Thursday before taking a break for Labor Day Weekend (no publication on Sunday).
Tomorrow (Monday) we will begin our early September flat rolled market survey. Please try to complete the questionnaire before leaving for the airport (or on the plane) if you are attending our conference.
Big week with the USW contract expiring at Midnight on September 1st. We expect that USS and ArcelorMittal will continue to work but, we have heard rumors that US Steel may be taking a more aggressive stance. Time will tell and we will be with a whole bunch of steel people should something happen.
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As always your business it truly appreciated by all of us here at Steel Market Update.
John Packard, Publisher
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