Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
April 1, 2020
Zooming – sounds like a new drug, doesn’t it?
We will be hosting another SMU Community Chat Webinar on Wednesday, April 22, at 11:00 a.m. ET (and I promise to hit the “start” button on time this week). Speaking with me will be Bernard Swiecki of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR). We will discuss how automotive has been affected by the coronavirus and how automotive demand will look when this is behind us (and how soon manufacturing plants will return). Every week I give a few insights into what I am hearing in the marketplace and/or what we are collecting from our surveys. You can register for this week’s webinar by clicking here.
All SMU Community Chat Webinars are free to anyone in the industry. So, invite your steel-related friends, suppliers, customers.
There are some important products provided to our Premium level customers. SMU conducts our flat rolled and plate market trends analysis every other week. The purpose of our questionnaire is to build a baseline of information about a whole host of subjects. This is done by canvassing manufacturing companies, service centers, steel mills, trading companies, toll processors and suppliers to those industries. We purposely focus our collection energies on two main groups: manufacturing companies and service centers/wholesalers.
Our Premium members can access a PowerPoint presentation of a large portion of the responses collected. The presentation is put into a historical perspective to give it more depth. If you would like to see what one of these PowerPoint presentations looks like, click here.
This week’s presentation has 46 slides, up from 41 in the past. We will be expanding this presentation for our Premium members as soon we add the steel mill responses to the package.
Each individual bi-weekly questionnaire has a time sensitive component to it. Last week we were looking for more information about demand, and what our respondents were anticipating for changes in their business through the end of this month. We shared a portion of the results with everyone this evening. However, there is much more, and we will provide article(s) to our Premium members on what else we discovered.
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John Packard, President & CEO
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