Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
September 17, 2018
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My crazy schedule continues as I will be out of the office on Friday of this week. I will be in Minnesota on Monday (Sept. 24), then flying to Pittsburgh that evening where I will visit the CRU USA offices for a couple of days, returning to my office on Thursday of next week. After two full days in the office, I leave for Chicago where I will attend the CRU North American Steel Conference. The dates for the conference are Oct. 1-3 and it will be held at the Swissotel in downtown Chicago. If you would like to learn more, you can do so by clicking here.
But wait, my travel schedule does not end there. The following week I will be in Newport, Ky., to speak to the Association of Women in the Metal Industries (AWMI). I got a text from Joel Mazur who told me he will be there (heck, if he can make it, then maybe you can too!). You can find more information about the AWMI Oct. 18 event by clicking here.
The week of Oct. 22, I will be in Houston for the IPANA and RIPA conference on Oct. 24-26.
Then I come back and crash for a month.
We have already registered 50 percent of the available slots for the Dec. 11-12 Steel 101: Introduction to Steel Making & Market Fundamentals Workshop. I am expecting another full class with service centers, manufacturing companies, steel mills and others associated with the industry in attendance. You can find more details about the conference on our website: www.SteelMarketUpdate.com/Events/Steel101. We have added a new instructor for this conference, Roger Walburn, who is the General Manager of Specialty Products for NLMK USA. Roger has a metallurgical engineering background and has exposure to the educational side, having taught courses at Carnegie Mellon, NLMK, in customers’ facilities and at various steel industry training events.
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John Packard, President & CEO
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