Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
February 2, 2018
It’s Super Bowl Sunday so my remarks will be very short this evening. Good luck to both teams and their fans.
We have a busy week coming up, which will begin at 8 AM tomorrow (Monday) morning with the invitations to our early February flat rolled steel market trends survey. If you receive an invitation, please answer the first question (or click on the button) to begin the survey process.
I will be in the office all week and can be reached at 800-432-3475 or by email at John@SteelMarketUpdate.com.
We will be busy taking registrations, filling the last few sponsor slots (I think there are now three left) and exhibitors (we have about 10 left) for the 2018 SMU Steel Summit Conference. You can get more details about the conference on our website: www.SteelMarketUpdate.com/events/steel-summit or you can contact us at info@SteelMarketUpdate.com with any questions you might have.
We also have about seven slots left for our March Steel 101: Introduction to Steel Making & Market Fundamentals workshop, which will be held just outside of Chicago on March 28-29. We will be touring the NLMK USA Portage, Ind., steel mill as part of our workshop.
Enjoy the game and we will be ready to serve you when it is over.
As always, your business is truly appreciated by all of us here at Steel Market Update.
John Packard, Publisher
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