Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
February 18, 2019
I am chomping on the bit as today we managed to book a nationally known and widely recognized speaker who will (I hope) hold everyone in their seats until the end of our SMU Steel Summit Conference. When booking your travel to Atlanta for our conference, you will want to arrive as early Monday morning (Aug. 26) as possible as we expect a futures/hedging seminar to be held prior to our conference, which will officially kick off at 1 p.m. ET that day. The first program will feature Chris Houlden, Josh Spoores and me discussing some of the proprietary products we offer, along with the CRU steel price forecast for the balance of 2019 and all of 2020.
We will also have a program addressing transportation issues (specifically trucking and the railroad) and a very strong distribution/processing/coil coating panel with the CEOs of Ryerson, Russel Metals and the President/COO of Precoat Metals. Then we go right into the first networking gala hosted by Heidtman Steel.
Registration is way ahead of last year’s pace. We anticipate close to 1,000 executives at this year’s conference and, as I have said many times already, we will have one of the strongest lineups of speakers we have ever had. You can register online and find more information on our website: www.SteelMarketUpdate.com/events/steel-summit. My goal is to have the first draft of our conference schedule on our website by the end of this week. Stay tuned for more details.
I have heard from Ternium in Mexico that they would like to work with Steel Market Update and have us conduct one of our Steel 101 workshops in Monterrey, Mexico. I have been invited to visit them ASAP to review their training facility and to meet with their executives. I will have more details coming regarding our first foray into Mexico. Stay tuned.
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