Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
November 10, 2017
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Registration is available for the March 2018 Steel 101 workshop, which will be held in Merrillville, Ind. (just outside of Chicago). We will tour the NLMK USA Portage steel mill. Details can be found on our website. The January 2018 workshop, which will be in Mobile, Ala., is sold out.
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