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SMU Community Chat to Feature Ryerson CEO Eddie Lehner

Written by Michael Cowden

March 30, 2022

Ryerson president and CEO Eddie Lehner will be the featured speaker on our next SMU Community Chat.

The webinar is on Wednesday, April 6, at 10 ET (9 am CT). It’s free. You can register here.

Edward J. LehnerWhy should you listen? Lehner told me back in January that the selloff was overdone. That was not a mainstream view at the time. I had my doubts. It turned out he was right!

So what’s in store for the second quarter, 2H and looking out into 2023?

We’ll also talk about how to manage extreme price and supply chain volatility in the face of the latest Black Swan, the war in Ukraine.

All of this comes amid record prices for fuel, for labor – for just about everyone and everything. How does a business manage not just inventories but also recruiting and retaining talent in such unprecedented (sorry, the ‘u’ word again) times?

We don’t want this to be all sour grapes. So we’ll also get into some of the cool stuff the industry is doing now: additive manufacturing, automation, machine learning. And how do you change the culture of an organization to embrace cutting-edge technologies?

We’ll take your questions too.

As always, we’ll keep it to about 45 minutes. You can (virtually) drop in, learn something – and then get on with your day.

By Michael Cowden, Michael@SteelMarketUpdate.com

Michael Cowden

Michael Cowden is editor-in-chief for Steel Market Update. Cowden has covered the steel industry since 2007. He specializes in flat-rolled steel but has also reported on steel long products, steel pipe and tube, and aluminum. Before joining SMU, Cowden held reporting jobs at Fastmarkets AMM in Chicago, 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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