North American Stainless & Special Alloys Conference 2022
Thursday, October 13 to Friday, October 14, 2022
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
The Westin Nashville
Stainless 2022: Battle of the Global Supply Chains
Stainless & Special Alloys Conference is back to North America 2022!
Organized by SMR Events in cooperation with World Steel Dynamics.
It's time to meet again with participants from the entire stainless steel and special alloys supply chain.
We will gather in Nashville, TN, USA, from Oct. 13 - 14, 2022 in order to discuss the current state of the global and North American stainless & special alloys industry and all relevant issues that will shape the business in 2023 and beyond.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Gold-Sponsors
Silver-Sponsors
Bronze-Sponsors
Supporting Organization
The following agenda is preliminary. Timing of sessions, speaker names, and presentation titles may be subject to change.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Brian Bishop, Executive Vice President, Commercial, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., USA
Roberto Bertin, Group Sales Director, Acciaierie Valbruna SpA, Italy
Roberto Bertin, Group Sales Director, Acciaierie Valbruna SpA, Italy
Thiery Crémailh, CEO, Swiss Steel International, Germany
Matthew Kouba, Managing Director, Böllinghaus Steel Americas Corp, USA
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Craig du Plessis, Vice President, Global Stainless Steel Inc., Canada
Craig du Plessis, Vice President, Global Stainless Steel Inc., Canada
Joey Johnson, Executive Vice President High Value Add Business, Kloeckner Metals Corporation, USA
Carol McSwain, Director Supply Chain - Non-Ferrous, NIM Group, USA
Seth Young, President, Amerinox Processing Inc., USA
Chairman: Wolfgang Lipp, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Carmen Pino, Senior Vice President Sales, Outokumpu Americas, USA
Peter Schaller, Vice President of Technical Services and Continuous Improvement, EMI Industries, LLC, USA
Rich Wrightington, Executive Sourcing Director, GE Appliances, USA
Andrew Littlefield, Commodity Manager, Norma Group, USA
Angel Ramirez, Global Commodity Director, Steel, Tube and Welding Wire, Faurecia Clean Mobility, Germany
Philip Lehr, General Sales Manager, Swepco Tube, USA
Mike Manning, Director - New Business & Special Programs, Finkl Steel, USA
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Mike Burbach, COO, Ryerson, USA
Cristobal Fuentes, President & CEO, NAS - North American Stainless, USA
Dennis Oates, Chairman, President & CEO, Universal Stainless & Alloys Products, Inc., USA
Geoff Pfeiffer, Senior Director Specialty Sales, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., USA
Friday, October 14, 2022
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Robin Haeberle, Chief Sales Officer, Metals Hub GmbH, Germany
Kevin Hülsmann, Senior Account Executive, Metals Hub GmbH, Germany
Victor Constant, Market Research Analyst, ICDA - International Chromium Development Association, France
Christy Gellert, Specialist, Marketing Analysis, Vale Canada Limited, Canada
Chris Gnann, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Climax Molybdenum Company, USA
Robin Haeberle, Chief Sales Officer, Metals Hub GmbH, Germany
Frank Santoro, President/CEO, Cronimet Corporation, USA
Mark Selby, Chairman, CEO & Director, Canada Nickel Company Inc., Canada
Chairman: Wolfgang Lipp, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Benedikt Blitz, Managing Director, SMR Premium - High Value Metals Market Research, Germany
Benedikt Blitz, Managing Director, SMR Premium - High Value Metals Market Research, Germany
Terry Engle, Vice President Global Sales, PCC Metals Group, USA
Don Hennon, Vice President Commercial - Stainless Steel, Combined Metals, USA
Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Thursday, October 13
Session 1: How can we keep the North American STS Supply Chain Competitive?Friday, October 14
Session 4: Raw MaterialsNorth American Stainless & Special Alloys Conference 2022 will take place in the following venue:
The Westin Nashville
807 Clark Place Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203
Unfortunately the group room block at Westin hotel is fully booked in the meantime. Please contact the hotel directly to check if there is any availability at market rates.
For further information and queries, please contact the hotel directly (Telephone +1 629 800 5213).
As the conference venue is located close to the city centre, many other hotels can be reached within walking distance. Please check booking platforms for a suitable choice.
Representatives from the following companies will attend the event (the list will be updated regularly):
- Aamor Inox
- A. Zahner Co.
- Amari Metals
- American Stainless
- Amerinox Processing, Inc.
- Antunes & Co
- Aperam Stainless Services & Solutions USA
- ASA Alloys
- ATI Specialty Rolled Products
- Basic Metals
- Böllinghaus Steel Americas Corp
- Canada Nickel Company Inc.
- Carlson Sales
- CFF Stainless Steels Inc.
- Chicago Stainless & Metal Exchange
- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.
- Climax Molybdenum Company
- Cogne Acciai Speciali Spa
- Cogne Speciality Steel USA, Inc
- Coilplus
- Combined Metals
- Cronimet Corporation
- Daido Steel (America) Inc.
- Dharma Empresarial
- Diversified Ulbrich
- DM Latin Express Corp
- Electralloy
- ELG Metals, Inc.
- Ellwood City Forge
- EMI Industries, LLC
- Excel Stainless USA
- Faurecia Clean Mobility
- Ferrous Processing & Trading
- Finkl Steel
- Fischer Canada
- Frisa
- Gautier Specialty Metals LLC
- GE Appliances
- G&L Tube
- Global Stainless Steel, Inc.
- Groditz
- Heat and Control, Inc
- ICDA - International Chromium Development Association
- IMA Inox Market America LLC
- Independent Stainless LLC
- Industeel USA LLC
- Inox Market Service SpA
- Jacquet Mid-Atlantic
- JeriPar
- Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
- Kloeckner Metals
- LE Commodities
- Magna Stainless
- Marcegaglia Specialties
- Marmon Keystone Corp
- Marubeni Itochu Steel Canada
- Metals Hub
- Metalwest
- Middleby
- Millennia Metals
- MISA
- NAS - North American Stainless
- Nesta Metals
- Nichol and Associates Inc.
- NIM Group
- Nippon Yakin America, Inc.
- NKS
- Norma Group
- Olbert Metal Sales Limited
- OMP
- Outokumpu Americas
- Palisades Holdings
- PCC Energy Group
- PCC Metals Group
- Phoenix Tube
- Powkat, LLC
- Purem by Eberspacher
- Quarto North America
- Reibus International
- RM Metals
- Rolled Alloys
- Rolled Metal Products
- Ryerson Inc.
- Sachin Steel Inc
- Samuel, Son & Co.
- Schnitzer Industries
- SIJ Americas
- SMR
- Solar Turbines
- Special Metals Corporation
- SPS Companies Inc.
- Stainless Steel Midwest
- Sumitomo Corporation of Americas
- Sun City Group
- Swepco Tube
- Swiss Steel International
- Synalloy (Bristol Metals)
- Ta Chen International, Inc
- Titanium Industries
- TW Metals
- Ulbrich
- United Scrap Metal
- Universal Stainless and Alloy Products Inc.
- Valbruna Group
- Vale Canada Limited
- Webco Industries
- WESTMET International
- World Steel Dynamics
- Yarde Metals
- Zapp Precision Strip
Gold-Sponsors
Global Stainless Steel Inc.
Global Stainless Steel Inc. is a Canadian based company selling stainless flat, long and aluminum flat products on 5 continents. They started in 1996 and they now have offices in Canada, USA, England, Italy, Australia and China. They are unique in that they run service centers, master distribution and trading divisions, giving them a broader understanding of the metals distribution business. Global stainless has stock of 12,000 tons in North America and processing equipment to deliver your needs. Its European business is centered around jit material in stainless flat products processed to size. Stocking programs, processing to size and financing are key offerings of Global's.
Silver-Sponsors
Canada Nickel Company Inc.
Canada Nickel is advancing its Crawford nickel sulphide project towards a construction decision in 2025 and will invest $35 million in 2024 to unlock the Timmins Nickel District and demonstrate its potential to be one of the world’s largest nickel sulphide districts. The Company also has a strong shareholder base with Agnico Eagle (11%), Samsung SDI (8.7%), and Anglo American (7.6%) as cornerstone investors.
Canada Nickel is currently focused on its 100% owned flagship Crawford Nickel Sulphide Project in the heart of the prolific Timmins, Ontario mining camp. Crawford is the world’s largest nickel sulphide discovery since the early 1970s, and the second largest nickel reserve and resource globally. We have also announced that we intend to develop NetZero Metals, a downstream nickel and stainless-steel processing facility in the Timmins region.
Cronimet Corporation
CRONIMET has been a supplier to the stainless steel producing industry for over four decades and is the world market leader in stainless steel recycling. As the conservation of resources is becoming increasingly important, the Group is striving to develop further in these future markets and to constantly improve through innovation and research.
CRONIMET is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap, ferroalloys and primary metals. Today, the family-owned company is active on six continents with around 70 locations in the global procurement markets for secondary raw materials.
The company is based on the pillars Recycling, Trading and Processing. A comprehensive range of products and services is built on this solid foundation. It ranges from processed stainless steel and scrap metal to special and superalloys. Whether pure or precisely recombined, CRONIMET guarantees its customers exact analyses of all materials. If required, all components are provided in chargeable form for the melting process.
In addition to focusing on solid scrap, CRONIMET is also working on other innovative ideas to keep valuable metallic raw materials in circulation. The subsidiary CRONIMET Envirotec uses innovative vacuum distillation technology to recover metal residues and filter dust from metal sludge, for example from production processes in the automotive sector, steelworks and foundries, in an environmentally friendly way. These can be returned to the melt in the form of metal briquettes.
The CRONIMET Group's newest company, Revomet, deals with the recycling of batteries from electric vehicles. From the end of 2024, the Bitterfeld site will have its own facility for shredding entire battery packs and then separating them into their various components. This will further advance CRONIMET's efforts to keep valuable metallic raw materials in the cycle.
Valbruna Group
Founded in 1925 and now employing more than 2500 people, Valbruna is a Private Fully Integrated Steel Mill and Depot with focus on direct mill production sales of long products of Alloy Steel, Stainless Steel & High Nickel Alloys globally.
With a long experience of over 95 years in the stainless steel production, Valbruna boasts 4 production plants and 42 subsidiaries that ensure constant direct contact with customers, wherever they may be located around the world.
The fourth facility, Valbruna ASW Inc. of Welland (ON-Canada), has been acquired in 2019 and produces approximately 100,000 annual tons of carbon, alloy and stainless steel in cc billets, ingots and blooms.
This new acquisition has strengthened the already deep-rooted 25-year presence of Valbruna in the North American Market, based on a widespread network of one production plant (Fort Wayne, IN) and 7 subsidiaries in Carol Stream (IL), Cincinnati (OH), Chino (CA), Houston (TX), Lawrenceville (GA), Pompton Lakes (NJ) and St. Petersburg (FL).
Valbruna’s production satisfies the needs of various industrial sectors. Markets such as: automotive, aerospace, building, energy, mechanical, medical, food and pharmaceutical, naval, oil & gas, weaponry & defense and power generation count on Valbruna for their consistency of production and quality in these highly demanding applications.
Bronze-Sponsors
Amerinox Processing, Inc.
Amerinox Processing has four cut to length lines in operation covering thickness’s from .012” through .500”, widths up to two meters, focusing on stainless steel and aluminum flat rolled products. The company has one coil polishing line 60” wide, one sheet/plate polishing line two meters wide, one plate polishing line with capacity of up to 6” thick, 10’ wide by 39’ long, and operates a non-directional super number 8 mirror line with 60” width capacity, maximum 20’ length.
Amerinox Texarkana LLC opened a new facility covering 125,000 square feet in December of 2020 and has one new cut to length line engineered specifically for the company’s needs to process stainless steel and aluminum. The line is 72” wide, has 2 inline levelers capable of thickness from .250” through .015”. Amerinox Texarkana is directly across the street from Texarkana Aluminum providing seamless transition from the mill to its facility and to the market. The company has six overhead cranes from 7 ½ to 20-ton capacity and will be expanding its processing capacities with additional values added services.
Amerinox is continually adding the right equipment to provide the most diverse range of value added processing at one location with of a combined 435,000 square feet committed to service the US, Canadian and Mexican markets.
Böllinghaus Steel GmbH
Founded in 1889, Böllinghaus Steel is a German-based specialist for stainless steel long products, carried on by its fifth generation. According to international standards, the company produces high-quality standard and custom-made stainless steel profiles. The portfolio includes stainless flat, square, and hexagonal profiles – hot-rolled and cold-drawn.
Today it is a highly specialised and globally active company with more than 250 employees in Germany, Portugal, the USA and Italy. Since 1996, Böllinghaus Steel has been producing in Portugal and supplying its customers worldwide from here. With its own production plant in Portugal, complex customer requirements can be implemented flexible and promptly.
Intensive quality controls, modern production methods and continuous process development ensure optimal solutions. Companies all over the world appreciate the uncomplicated and personal contact they have with Böllinghaus Steel.
Whether standard profiles or custom-made, Böllinghaus Steel manufactures precisely fitting products of the desired grades, dimensions and processing techniques, which are tailored to the individual needs of the customers.
Metals Hub GmbH
Metalshub is one of the pioneers of digital transformation in the metals industry. Founded in 2016, and based in Düsseldorf, Germany, Metalshub operates globally. It is a technology company that provides supply chain solutions for raw materials to promote more efficient workflows. Efficiency, transparency, and compliance are core values of the company. Metalshub is fully impartial and independent with no conflicts of interest.
Supporting Organization
World Steel Dynamics
The North American stainless and special alloys industry gathers in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, to discuss all relevant issues that will shape the business in 2023 and beyond:
- What is hot …. and what is not hot in 2022 and 2023?
- What damage is inflation doing to the North American stainless market?
- Are global supply chains still the strongest model for the future?
- Are sanctions against China thinkable, desirable and possible?
- Substitution: Is stainless becoming too expensive for many product segments?
- Will automotive ever recover to previous levels?
- Was Section 232 a success or failure for the N. American industry?
- Is sustainability (CO2) an issue in the USA … or is this an ‘European thing’
- How can the Western World secure competitive raw material sources?
- How can buyers mitigate compliance risks in global raw material sourcing through digitalization?
- Will the U.S. maintain its global advantage on Energy costs?
- What damage is the shortage of skilled labor doing in the fabrication industry?