Final Thoughts

Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
November 10, 2017
We will begin conducting our mid-November flat rolled steel market survey on Monday. If you receive an invitation to participate, please take a few moments to click on the button in the message, which will take you to our questionnaire. The questionnaire shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to complete. If you would like to be invited to participate in one of our surveys, please send an email message to John@SteelMarketUpdate.com.
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Registration is available for the March 2018 Steel 101 workshop, which will be held in Merrillville, Ind. (just outside of Chicago). We will tour the NLMK USA Portage steel mill. Details can be found on our website. The January 2018 workshop, which will be in Mobile, Ala., is sold out.
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John Packard, Publisher

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