Archives: Webinars

Trade attorney Lewis Leibowitz will be the next speaker for our SMU Community Chat webinar. The free webinar will be held at 11 AM ET on Wednesday, November 17.

SMU’s next Community Chat webinar will feature Mike Del Giudice, a principal with the Crowe consulting group. Del Giudice will share his expertise in cybersecurity. The free webinar begins at 11 a.m. ET (10 a.m. CT) on Wednesday, Nov. 3.

Steel Market Update is pleased to announce that Michael Lerman of Steel Warehouse will be the featured speaker during our next SMU Community Chat webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 11 a.m. ET (10 a.m. CT).

On Wednesday, Aug. 11 at 11 a.m. ET, SMU CEO John Packard and Paul Terry of the CRU Events Team will conduct a free SMU Community Chat Webinar focused on this year’s SMU Steel Summit Conference, which will be held on Aug. 23-25 in Atlanta.

Steel Market Update is pleased to announce that Bernard Swiecki of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) will be the featured speaker for our next SMU Community Chat Webinar on Wednesday, July 28, at 11 a.m. ET.

Steel Market Update is pleased to announce that Dan Sullivan, founder of Chicago-based Montrose Advisors, will be the featured speaker for our next Community Chat webinar on Wednesday, July 14 at 11 a.m. ET.

Don’t forget to tune into SMU’s next Community Chat webinar on Wednesday, June 23, at 11 a.m. ET with SSAB Americas President Charles Schmitt.

Steel Market Update is pleased to announce that Timna Tanners, metals and mining analyst at Bank of America, will be the featured speaker for our next Community Chat webinar on Wednesday, June 9, at 11 a.m. ET.

Bell will speak about the U.S. steel industry’s low carbon profile compared to steelmakers abroad – and its efforts to reduce carbon emissions even further. He will address new domestic capacity coming online over the next year, and why the market will need those additional tons. Bell will also speak about U.S.-EU efforts to address global overcapacity and what that initiative means for Section 232 tariffs.

Smith serves as liaison between AISI member companies from the American steel industry and the U.S. Congress and federal agencies. He is an infrastructure policy expert – which means his insights will be of interest as Congress debates a potential multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure package.

Priefert serves the agriculture and ranching industries, among others. Chris purchases more than 150,000 tons of steel each year. We will discuss solar projects, infrastructure, animal confinement, and more.

Olympic Steel CEO Rick Marabito will be the featured speaker at the next SMU Community Chat on Wednesday, April 14, at 11 a.m. ET. Marabito will bring a service center perspective to the current steel market in a one-on-one discussion with SMU.

Simonson will speak to the status of the residential, commercial and industrial construction markets and forecasts for construction in the coming months. He will also cover the most recent Data DIGest from the AGC and discuss what the trade group's members are predicting for future construction projects.

On Wednesday, March 17, Steel Market Update will host John Packard (SMU CEO) and Ryan Smith, Senior Analyst covering global steel costing and decarbonization for CRU. This will be a special program in that Ryan resides in Sydney, Australia, thus the 3:30 p.m. EDST time instead of our usual 11 a.m. start time.

Joining Rick will be SMU Senior Editor Michael Cowden. Rick and Michael will discuss the rebound in oil prices and what a reinvigorated energy sector might mean for steel demand.

Joining Michael will be SMU President & CEO John Packard. They will discuss current market conditions, steel prices and how we are seeing buyers and sellers of steel react to the present situation.

We welcome Spencer Johnson to Steel Market Update next week as the guest speaker for our SMU Community Chat. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 11 a.m. ET. The webinar is free to anyone who is interested in the flat rolled and plate steel markets.

Spoores and SMU President and Publisher John Packard will chat for about 30 minutes on CRU's steel sheet forecast for 2020-2021. We will discuss demand, production and steel prices with a special focus on when supply, demand and inventories are likely to line up and move sheet prices lower.

Our speaker will be election expert Dr. David Schultz, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at Hamline University. Dr. Schultz will analyze the upcoming election and forecast the presidential and Senate races.

This webinar will concentrate on the consolidation of the integrated steel producers with Cleveland-Cliffs announcing the acquisition of the ArcelorMittal USA steel mills and processing facilities in the United States (with the exception of AM/NS Calvert). When combined with AK Steel, the new Cliffs will be the largest flat rolled steel producer in North America.

PS – If you’d like to see past Community Chat webinars, you can find those here.

Gill will detail the impact of the coronavirus on the steel market and offer his forecast for the recovery of the U.S. economy and steel demand.

Goldenberg and Barnett will share their views on the challenges steel distributors and processors face as the coronavirus continues to take a toll on the economy, as well as their forecasts for the rest of the year.

PS – If you’d like to see past Community Chat webinars, you can find those here.

John will highlight the methodology and results from the proprietary research we conduct through our flat rolled and plate market trends surveys every other week. He will also share the results of our monthly analysis of service center shipments and inventories.

Crunch Risk is a price risk management and brokerage firm specializing in a suite of futures contracts in ferrous metals and base metals. Andre has over 25 years of commodity trading and financial risk management experience. He is also the instructor for Steel Market Update’s Managing Price Risk workshops.

Ferrous scrap prices began to trade this afternoon with obsolete grades dropping by $20 per gross ton, and prime grades (busheling, bundles) by as much as $40 per gross ton. McKinley will discuss trading volumes and scrap availability. He will also provide a forecast for what he thinks the scrap markets will look like in the coming months as well as out into the future when Big River Steel, Steel Dynamics and Nucor bring up new flat rolled and plate steel mills.

Steel Market Update will host the next SMU Community Chat webinar. Guest speaker will be Eddie Lehner, President & CEO of Ryerson, one of the largest flat rolled and plate service centers in North America.

Applied Value works on the buy side of the industry. We anticipate discussing the overall industry perspectives on production, consumption and pricing. We will cover the current negotiation situation with steel mills and service centers with end users. We will also cover what manufacturing companies (OEMs) are doing to cover supply issues and managing any shortages. Applied Value will discuss with SMU how OEMs are revaluing their supply chains and managing risks by reshoring parts back to North America.

Banker is well known to the SMU community as one of the key executives at NLMK USA. The NLMK steel mills produce hot rolled coils from scrap in their Portage, Ind., minimill. They have two mills in Pennsylvania, one which rolls hot rolled and cold rolled steels out of slabs, and the second is the former Winner Steel (which SMU President & CEO John Packard used to represent), now called NLMK Sharon Coatings, a galvanized coil producer.