Final Thoughts
October 5, 2020
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
I began writing Steel Market Update as a way to use my experience and relationships from my 31 years of sales and management within the steel industry in order to assist the industry to make better buy/sell decisions. I wanted SMU to be a source of quality information as we ask the targeted questions of active industry sources, produced proprietary data and analysis, and add insights based on what we are seeing and hearing from active steel buyers and sellers on a daily basis. It was never my intention to make decisions for those actively involved, but to be a provider of market intelligence from which you can add your own experiences, your own market intelligence as well as data from other trusted sources within the greater steel and economic communities.
Over the years SMU expanded our publications, added steel training classes on how steel is made and sold (Steel 101: Introduction to Steel Making & Market Fundamentals and Steel 201), on HRC and scrap futures trading, and we produced the SMU Steel Summit Conference. More recently we have added free SMU Community Chat Webinars in order to help keep everyone in the industry aware of pressing issues affecting the steel industry.
