Steel Products
SMU NexGen Leadership Award, SMU Steel Summit, Steel 101
Written by John Packard
July 19, 2019
Nine business days left for you to nominate a young person from your company for the 2019 SMU NexGen Leadership Award. The deadline is by the end of business on August 1, 2019. The benefits of receiving this award are huge for the person who ultimately wins. A mentorship day with SDI CEO Mark Millett, free registration for a future (2019 or 2020) Steel 101 or Steel 201 workshop, free registration to the SMU Steel Summit Conference (2019 and 2020), physical award for their work place, cocktail party at this year’s conference, video of them getting the award and more. Go to www.SMUAward.com for more details or contact us at Events@SteelMarketUpdate.com
Registrations continue for the 2019 SMU Steel Summit Conference. We are closing in on 900 registered attendees. Here are some of the latest companies to register executives: Steel and Pipe Supply, North American Stamping Group, PPG, J.P. Morgan, Nucor, Steel Dynamics, LSI Industries, AOC Metal Works and Nippon Steel Trading Americas. For more information about the conference and to register click here.
A special thank you to Metal Miner for allowing us to reprint the interview they did with CRU Analyst Josh Spoores. Josh will be one of our speakers opening the conference on Monday, August 26 at 1 PM.
For the first time at a SMU Steel Summit Conference I will be speaking about a couple of our proprietary indices, including our Service Center Inventories Indices on flat rolled and plate. If you are not a data provider, you will want to be there to learn more about how we got to here and where we will be going with our index. The index will be shared with PREMIUM level members beginning in September.
Steel 101 registrations are still open for the October 8-9 workshop in Cincinnati, Ohio with a tour of the Nucor Gallatin steel mill. Details can be found at www.SteelMarketUpdate.com/events/steel101
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John Packard, President & CEO
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