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Join SMU on Wednesday for a Community Chat with Steel Warehouse!

Written by Michael Cowden

September 12, 2024

Steel Warehouse Chief Commercial Officer Marc Lerman will join Steel Market Update for a Community Chat webinar on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 11 a.m. ET.

You can register here. The live webinar is free for all to attend. A recording will be available only for SMU members.

We’ll discuss the latest happenings at the multinational service center, how the company sees the current market developing, and more. We might even talk a little bit about hockey.

Recall that Steel Warehouse is based in South Bend, Ind. It has additional locations across the US, as well as facilities in Mexico and Brazil. Lerman will bring insights from across the company’s broad reach.

Editor’s note: You can see the full archive of our Community Chat webinars – dating back to April 2020 – here.

Michael Cowden

Michael Cowden is managing editor for Steel Market Update. Cowden has covered the steel industry since 2007. He has since 2014 specialized in flat-rolled steel but has previously reported on steel long products, steel pipe and tube as well as aluminum. Before joining SMU, Cowden held reporting jobs at Fastmarkets AMM in Chicago - where he was involved in launching AMM's daily hot-rolled coil index, the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, and the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. He has also worked as a copy editor and in marketing at the University of Chicago Press. Cowden has a BA in English from the University of Chicago and an MSJ journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Contact him at michael@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7872.

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