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    March 14, 2024

    Join SMU for a Community Chat with Barry Zekelman on March 20

    Written by Michael Cowden

    Join SMU’s next Community Chat webinar with Barry Zekelman, executive chairman and CEO of Zekelman Industries – the largest independent steel pipe and tube manufacturer in North America.

    The webinar will be on Wednesday, March 20, at 11 a.m. ET. It’s free for all to attend. A recording will be available to SMU members. You can register here.

    Zekelman is known for his straight talk and, because his company is one of the largest steel buyers in North America, his expertise in steel market trends.

    He’ll take your questions too. As usual, we’ll keep it to ~45 minutes, so you can learn a few things and then get on with your day.

    PS – Zekelman will also be a featured speaker at our Steel Summit conference on Aug. 26-28 at the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta. You can learn more about the event and register here.

    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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