Fresh off SMU Steel Summit 2026, we are already looking ahead to Tampa. Join industry peers on March 7–9, 2027, for the 38th annual Tampa Steel Conference in Tampa, Florida. The event brings together steel producers, distributors, service centers, ports, logistics providers, and market experts to connect, exchange perspectives, and take the pulse of the […]
The countdown is on! Steel Summit is less than a week away. Will you be in the room?
We’re just about three-and-a-half weeks away from the big dance. Have you punched your ticket to the can’t-miss flat-rolled steel gathering of 2026 yet?
We’re officially less than 30 days from the kick-off of SMU Steel Summit 2026 in Atlanta.
We’re just a few days away from initiating an official 30-day countdown until SMU Steel Summit 2026 in Atlanta.
Download the app today to start planning and networking before you arrive, and ensure you’re fully prepared to maximize every moment on site.
The 16th annual SMU Steel Summit is bringing together the industry’s top voices to examine the trends shaping the market ahead.
We’re less than 90 days out from North America’s largest gathering of the flat-rolled steel industry!
After another historic turnout in 2025, and on the heels of our best Tampa Steel Conference in February, the buzz around SMU’s Steel Summit 2026 is picking up.
We just wrapped up another Steel 101 workshop. But this time, we had the privilege to take the most hands-on industry workshop on steelmaking and market fundamentals abroad.
SMU sits down with JSW Steel USA CEO Rob Simon.
The final panel of last week’s Tampa Steel Conference brought together executives from three different service center, all of which were optimistic for 2026.
We just wrapped up another Steel 101 workshop, easily the most hands-on industry workshop on steelmaking and market fundamentals.
Steel Market Update is proud to celebrate its 17th birthday this month.
Anticipation leading up to SMU’s Steel Summit 2025 is already heating up after last year’s record-setting attendance!
With just two weeks to go, we have over 400 registered so far for the 36th annual Tampa Steel Conference. Join us and hundreds of industry executives at the JW Marriott Tampa Water Street from Sunday, February 2, through Tuesday, February 4.
The 36th annual Tampa Steel Conference is just four weeks away. We now have over 300 people registered to join us at the JW Marriott Tampa Water Street from Sunday, Feb. 2, through Tuesday, Feb. 4. Join us along with hundreds of industry participants in warm and sunny Florida!
We are less than two months away from the 36th annual Tampa Steel Conference! We hope you will join us there!
Durgesh Singh of Magswitch Technologies is the recipient of the 2024 SMU NexGen Leadership Award.
A look back at the evolution of the SMU Steel Summit conference through the eyes of long-time SMU employee Brett Linton.
When we last talked to Jared Rowe in May, he had just been appointed Reibus International's new CEO and chairman of the board. Now two months into the job, SMU caught up with him on our July 24 Community Chat for the latest on the online metals marketplace.
GrafTech cited a “challenging” part of the business cycle as its net loss widened in the second quarter.
SMU has heard from some larger buyers who have stepped back into the market to buy at prices that, if not at a bottom, they assess to be close to one. Is it enough to stretch out lead times and send prices upward again? Or do we continue to scrape along the mid-$600s per short ton (st) as we have been doing for most of the last month?
Galvanized prices have fallen precipitously from a month ago, though many market participants think a bottom is in sight.
Cleveland-Cliffs Chairman, President and CEO Lourenco Goncalves had some insightful things to say today about the steel market and about a conference we suspect might be Steel Summit.
Steel Dynamics Inc. executives provided further insight into operations at the company’s Sinton, Texas, flat-rolled steel mill on a second-quarter earnings conference call on Thursday morning. Despite a series of start-up woes, the company recently commissioned two new coating lines there, and the mill continues to ramp up production. The execs were also bullish on […]
There are just 40 days left until the 2024 SMU Steel Summit gets underway on Aug. 26 at the Georgia International Convention Center (GICC) in Atlanta. And I’m pleased to announce that it's official now: More than 1,000 people have registered to at attend! Another big development: The desktop version of the networking app for the event has officially launched!
Cleveland-Cliffs has been pursuing M&A opportunities for some time now and thinks it has found a solid partner with aligned interests in Stelco. The companies announced on Monday that Cliffs would acquire the integrated Canadian steelmaker. That same day, Cliffs held a conference call with analysts to discuss the acquisition. Lourenco Goncalves, Cliffs’ chairman, president, […]
Three steel trade groups and United Steelworkers (USW) union held an event on Capitol Hill urging action on strengthening legislation against unfair trade.
Radius Recycling continued to bleed red in its most recent quarterly report as it negotiated persistently challenging conditions in the recycled metals market.