Final Thoughts

Our next flat rolled steel market trends analysis will begin on Monday morning. If you receive an invitation please click on the button contained in the invitation which will take you to our questionnaire hosted by SurveyMonkey.com.

Again, a note about our April Steel 101: Introduction to Steel Making & Market Fundamentals workshop is sold out and has a waiting list. We are in negotiations with a couple of mills regarding our next workshop which we anticipate being in late June into mid-July. We are also working on hosting another one in the late September/early October time frame. If you would like information stay tuned to our website or feel free to send us an email at info@SteelMarketUpdate.com.

I want to welcome a few companies who will be sponsoring and/or exhibiting their wares at our 7th SMU Steel Summit Conference at the end of August (28th-30th). Red Bud Industries will be joining us for the first time as a sponsor as will Majestic Steel. The Georgia Ports Authority will be returning as an exhibitor for the second year in a row.  We thank you very much for your support of our conference – don’t forget to tell your customers, suppliers and steel friends where you will be at the end of August…

Details about the SMU Steel Summit Conference can be found on our website. We have a large number of speakers committed and we should be loading them onto our website for you to review (I spoke with Brett and he promised to have them up on the website by Friday afternoon).

Registration is open and we encourage those going to make hotel reservations early as we were not able to block enough rooms to accommodate everyone at the $139 special rate at the Atlanta Airport Marriott Gateway hotel which is the HQ for the conference.

As always your business is truly appreciated by all of us here at Steel Market Update.

John Packard, Publisher