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    Final Thoughts

    Final Thoughts

    Written by John Packard


    I am chomping on the bit as today we managed to book a nationally known and widely recognized speaker who will (I hope) hold everyone in their seats until the end of our SMU Steel Summit Conference. When booking your travel to Atlanta for our conference, you will want to arrive as early Monday morning (Aug. 26) as possible as we expect a futures/hedging seminar to be held prior to our conference, which will officially kick off at 1 p.m. ET that day. The first program will feature Chris Houlden, Josh Spoores and me discussing some of the proprietary products we offer, along with the CRU steel price forecast for the balance of 2019 and all of 2020.

    We will also have a program addressing transportation issues (specifically trucking and the railroad) and a very strong distribution/processing/coil coating panel with the CEOs of Ryerson, Russel Metals and the President/COO of Precoat Metals. Then we go right into the first networking gala hosted by Heidtman Steel.

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