North American Stainless & Special Alloys Conference 2025

Date:
Thursday, November 06, 2025 to Friday, November 07, 2025
(Welcome Reception Nov. 5, Conference Nov. 6 - 7)
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Venue:
The Westin Nashville
 
Motto:
Successfully maneuvering in a volatile market environment

The Stainless & Special Alloys Conference is returning to Nashville in 2025!

Organized by SMR Events in cooperation with World Steel Dynamics.

Following the successful events in Nashville in 2022, 2024 and 2024, which saw more than 300 participants from across the stainless steel and special alloys supply chain, we are excited to meet again at the same location in 2025.

Join us in Nashville, TN, USA, from November 6-7, 2025, to discuss the current state of the global and North American stainless steel and special alloys industry, along with the key issues that will shape the business in 2026 and beyond.

Gain insights from top industry experts on navigating the future landscape!


Gold-Sponsors


Silver-Sponsors


Bronze-Sponsors


Exhibitors

The following agenda is preliminary. Timing of sessions, speaker names, and presentation titles may be subject to change.

Welcome Reception
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
18:00
Networking Welcome Reception sponsored by North American Stainless (NAS)
Level 27 - Rooftop Lounge - please proceed to the 27th floor to register

Thursday, November 06, 2025
08:00
Registration desk opens
Networking Breakfast sponsored by Cronimet
Gulch Ballroom and Foyer Area
Session 1: Keynote Panel
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Vanderbilt Ballroom
09:00
Chairmans' Opening Remarks
09:15
Transforming Tomorrow: Growth, Innovation, and a New Vision
Chris Lyons, Vice President of Commercial, North American Stainless, USA
09:45
Stainless Steel in North America (a Slightly Biased Viewpoint in Four Slides)
Carmen Pino, Senior Vice President Commercial, Outokumpu Americas, USA
10:05
Panel Discussion
Jean-Paul Betemps, CEO, Cogne Specialty Steel, USA, Inc, USA
Matthew Kouba, CEO and Managing Director, Böllinghaus Steel Americas Corp, USA
Chris Lyons, Vice President of Commercial, North American Stainless, USA
Carmen Pino, Senior Vice President Commercial, Outokumpu Americas, USA
10:45
Networking Coffee Break
Gulch Ballroom and Foyer Area
Session 2: Focus on the Mexican Market
Chairman: Wolfgang Lipp, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Vanderbilt Ballroom
11:30
History of Stainless Steel in Mexico: Prominox
Ivette Autrique, CEO, Prominox - Grupo GIM, Mexico
11:45
Panel Discussion
Ivette Autrique, CEO, Prominox - Grupo GIM, Mexico
Mauricio Autrique Ruiz, Managing Director, Peasa, Mexico
Tanja Bevc, Managing Director, fischer Mexicana S.A. de C.V., Mexico
Carlos A. Muñoz Solis, CEO - Director General, Ideal Internacional S.A., Mexico
Carmen Pino, Senior Vice President Commercial, Outokumpu Americas, USA
12:30
Networking Lunch
Gulch Ballroom and Foyer Area
Session 3: Distribution & End Use
Chairman: Wolfgang Lipp, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Vanderbilt Ballroom
14:00
Evaluating AI in tactical planning: An OMP preview
Michael Walter, Senior Manager, OMP, Belgium
14:15
Amerinox Processing - Investing in Innovation to support the Distribution Supply Chain
Seth Young, President, Amerinox Processing Inc., USA
14:30
Driving Tomorrow: Exhaust Innovation and Stainless-Steel Impacts
Beth Boss, Senior Commodity Manager, Purem by Eberspaecher, USA
14:45
Panel Discussion
Jeff Craig, Vice President of Global Supply Chain, Middleby, USA
Scott Mossman, Supply Chain Manager, KES - Koch Engineered Solutions, USA
Mark Nucci, Chief Procurement Officer, Samuel, Son & Co., Ltd, USA
Peter Schaller, Vice President of Technical Services and Continuous Improvement, EMI Industries, LLC, USA
Andrew Wolfort, Vice President - Specialty Metals, Olympic Steel, USA
15:45
Networking Coffee Break
Gulch Ballroom and Foyer Area
16:15
Fireside Chat
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Clive Grannum, CEO, NAS - North American Stainless, USA
Johann Steiner, President, Outokumpu Americas, USA
Christopher M. Zimmer, President & CEO, Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., USA
Vanderbilt Ballroom
17:30
End of day 1
18:00
Shuttle Transport to Music Night (gathering in Westin Hotel Lobby)
Pickup location: 9th ave South entrance for Westin Nashville (5:30pm, 5:50pm, 6:10pm, 6:30pm)- drop off location: 3rd Ave. Entrance for Ole Red - It is a 0.7 mile walk (about 15 mins.) from The Westin Nashville to Ole Red on Broadway
18:30
Neworking Event - Nashville Music Night sponsored by Böllinghaus Steel Americas
Ole Red, Rooftop, 300 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37201 (pick up from Ole Red to Westin: 8:00pm, 8:30pm, 9:00pm)
Day 2
Friday, November 07, 2025
07:30
Networking Breakfast sponsored by Cronimet
Gulch Ballroom and Foyer Area
08:30
Session 4: Raw Materials
Chairman: Gerhard Pariser, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Vanderbilt Ballroom
08:30
Chairmans' Opening Remarks
08:40
Trends & Drivers for Stainless Raw Materials (Scrap, Ni, Cr, Mo)
Gerhard Pariser, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
08:55
Nickel Market Outlook: Delivering Value in a Changing Nickel Landscape
Christy Gellert, Specialist, Marketing Analysis, Vale Canada Limited, Canada
09:10
Canada Nickel – Advancing a Net Zero Carbon Alternative
Mark Selby, Chairman, CEO & Director, Canada Nickel Company Inc., Canada
09:25
Panel Discussion
Christy Gellert, Specialist, Marketing Analysis, Vale Canada Limited, Canada
Dave Miller, President, Cronimet Corporation, USA
Kevin Pritchett, Director of Marketing, Climax Molybdenum Company, USA
Mark Selby, Chairman, CEO & Director, Canada Nickel Company Inc., Canada
10:15
Networking Coffee Break
Gulch Ballroom and Foyer Area
Session 5: Specialty Stainless Steel and Nickel Alloys
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Vanderbilt Ballroom
11:00
Next-Generation Applications and Market Trends of High Performance Alloys in Aerospace, Power Gen, CPI and Emerging Technologies
Vinay Deodeshmukh, Sr. Director – Marketing and Business Development, Haynes International, USA
11:15
Using Artificial Intelligence to assist in Selecting Stainless Steel and Nickel Alloys
Gary Coates, Technical Manager, Nickel Institute, Canada
11:30
Forging the Future: Opportunities and Headwinds for Stainless Steel and Nickel Alloys in North America for 2026 and beyond
Wolfgang Lipp, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
12:00
Panel Discussion
Gary Coates, Technical Manager, Nickel Institute, Canada
Vinay Deodeshmukh, Sr. Director – Marketing and Business Development, Haynes International, USA
Ryan Mitchell, Sr. Supply Chain Manager, Forgings and Raw Material, Solar Turbines, Inc., USA
Peter Zimm, Principal, Charles Edwards Management Consulting, USA
12:30
Networking Lunch
Gulch Ballroom and Foyer Area
13:30
End of Conference

Thursday, November 6

Session 1: Keynote Panel Session 2: Focus on the Mexican Market Session 3: Distribution & End Use Fireside Chat

Friday, November 7

Session 4: Raw Materials Session 5: Specialty Stainless Steel and Nickel Alloys

North American Stainless & Special Alloys Conference 2025 will take place in the following venue:

The Westin Nashville
807 Clark Place Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203

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 in 2025 (the list will be updated regularly):

  • AA Metals, Inc
  • Alliance Laundry Systems
  • Allied Alloys
  • AMARI Metals
  • A. M. Castle
  • Amerinox Processing
  • Andritz Metals USA
  • Aperam Stainless Services & Solutions USA, LLC    
  • Arinox SPA
  • Arbon Steel and Service
  • Armour Alloys
  • A S Engineering Works Corporation
  • Associated Tube Group (Samuel)
  • ATI Specialty Rolled Products
  • Basic Metals
  • Berlin Metals    
  • Boeing
  • Bollinghaus Steel Americas
  • Boyd Metals
  • Canada Nickel Company, Inc.
  • Carlson Sales
  • CBMM North America    
  • Central Wire Industries
  • Charles Edwards Management Consulting
  • Cleveland Cliffs
  • Climax Molybdenum Co.
  • Cogne Specialty Steel USA
  • Coilplus, Inc.    
  • Combined Metals Company
  • Corrosion Materials
  • Cronimet Corporation
  • Daido Steel (America) Inc.
  • Diehl Tool Steel    
  • Diversified Speciality Metals
  • Dniprospetsstal (DSS Ukraine)
  • Dover Tubular Alloys
  • DS Alloyd Pvt. Ltd.
  • Eagle Metals
  • EBNER Furnaces, Inc.    
  • ELG Metals Inc
  • Elgiloy Specialty Metals
  • Ellwood Quality Steels
  • EMI Industries
  • Encore Metals    
  • Excel Stainless USA LLC
  • Felker Brothers Corporation
  • Ferrous Processing & Trading
  • Fidelity PAC
  • First Atlantic Nickel
  • fischer group
  • Fives Group
  • Florida Turbine Technologies
  • Forvia
  • Gambek Metals
  • Gautier Specialty Metals LLC
  • GE Appliances
  • Gibbs/Interwire
  • Green Ferro Alloys
  • Guy Metals
  • Hanwa American Corp
  • Haynes International Inc
  • Hertha Metals    
  • Howco Group
  • Ideal Clamp Products
  • Ideal Internacional S.A.
  • Independent Stainless
  • Industeel
  • Integrity Stainless
  • Jacquet Metals
  • Jindal Stainless Limited    
  • Joy Reap Metal PTE Ltd.
  • JXF Global Limited
  • Kanematsu Corporation
  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
  • KES - Koch Engineered Solutions
  • Kloeckner Metals
  • Koch Engineered Solutions
  • Laxcon Steels
  • LOTRA Trade Inc
  • Lynch Metals
  • Magellan Corp    
  • Main Steel
  • Marcegaglia Stainless Richburg LLC
  • Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc.
  • Maryland Metals Processing Inc.
  • Merit Brass Co
  • Metal Edge Partners
  • Metals USA
  • Middleby
  • Mill Steel Company
  • Mitsui & Co. USA
  • NASG
  • NAS - North American Stainless
  • NetZero Metals Inc
  • Nickel Institute
  • Nickelman
  • Nippon Steel North America Inc
  • Nippon Yakin America, Inc.    
  • Norfolk Iron & Metal
  • Nova Alloys Inc
  • Olbert Metal Sales
  • Olympic Steel
  • OMP
  • Ospraie Management
  • Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC
  • Palisades Holdings Inc.
  • Peasa
  • Penn Stainless Products Inc
  • Phoenix Metals
  • Pridgeon & Clay
  • Prominox
  • Promotora Industrial GIM
  • Purem Novi Inc
  • Quarto North America, LLC
  • Raajratna Ventures Ltd
  • Rab Inc    
  • Radical AI
  • RathGibson
  • Reliance Metals Canada    
  • RM METALS    
  • Rolark Stainless Steel
  • Rolled Alloys
  • Rolled Metal Products
  • Ryerson
  • Sachin Steel Inc
  • Samsung C&T America
  • Samuel Son & Co. Inc
  • Sandmeyer Steel Company
  • Shyam Seland Power Ltd
  • SIJ Americas
  • SMR – Steel & Metals Market Research
  • Solar Turbines Inc.
  • Special Metals Corp    
  • Stainless Steel Midwest
  • Steel Summit Holdings, Summit Global Trading    
  • Steel Inc
  • Sumiden Wire Products Corporation
  • Sumitomo Corporation of Americas
  • Sun Mark Stainless Inc
  • Sun Metalon    
  • Swiss Steel USA
  • Ta Chen
  • Tenova
  • Tiger Global
  • Toyota Tsusho America, Inc
  • TSA Processing
  • Tsingshan
  • Tubacex America
  • Tubeway Inc.
  • Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc.
  • Universal Stainless
  • Valbruna Stainless
  • Vale Canada Ltd.    
  • VDM Metals USA, LLC
  • Walzwerke Einsal
  • Webco Tube, Inc.    
  • Wirebelt Company of America
  • World Steel Dynamics
  • Yarde Metals    
  • Zhejiang Jiuli Hi-Tech Metals Co Ltd

Gold-Sponsors

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.

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NAS - North American Stainless

North American Stainless (NAS), is the largest Stainless Steel Producer in the U.S. with a fully integrated Mill located in Kentucky that produces a full range of both flat and long products.

Our one site location enhances the efficiency of our production processes enabling us to fully control all aspects of production without having to deal with the inefficiencies inherent in multiple site production facilities.

Our full range of products, both flat and long, gives NAS the ability to become a one stop shop for the stainless steel requirements of both Service Centers and industry as a whole.

As a member of the Acerinox Group, NAS benefits from a unique position as the premier Stainless Steel Mill in the U.S. while having the support of a large international network for both purchasing and sales.

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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.

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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.

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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 has ordered and is expecting two additional polishing lines to be delivered in Q3/25.

Amerinox is continually adding the right equipment to provide the most diverse range of value added processing at one location with 435,000 square feet committed to service the US, Canadian and Mexican markets.

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Arinox S.p.A.

Arinox, one of the companies of the Arvedi Group, was founded in 1990 for the production and marketing of stainless steel thin and ultrathin rolled strip.

With an annual capacity of over 65,000 tonnes and industrial plants using highly advanced technology, the Sestri Levante works is currently the only Italian producer, and one of the largest at an international level, of precision-rolled stainless steel, titanium and nickel alloy strip for the automotive sector, precision mechanical and plant engineering, components and electronic applications.

It is the only one able to supply precision-rolled strip in widths up to 1570 mm and gauges down to 0.07 mm.

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OMP

OMP helps companies facing complex planning challenges to excel, grow and thrive by offering the best digitized supply chain planning solution on the market. Hundreds of customers in a wide range of industries - spanning consumer goods, life sciences, chemicals, metals, paper and packaging - benefit from using OMP’s unique Unison PlanningTM concept.

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Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC

Outokumpu is the global leader in sustainable stainless steel. Our business is based on the circular economy: our products are made from 95% recycled materials, which we then turn into fully recyclable stainless steel. This steel is utilized in various applications across society, including infrastructure, mobility, and household appliances. We are committed to 1.5°C target to mitigate climate change, and with up to 75% lower carbon footprint than the industry average, we support our customers to reduce their emissions. Together, we are working towards a world that lasts forever. Outokumpu Corporation employs approximately 8,500 professionals in close to 30 countries, with headquarters in Helsinki, Finland and shares listed in Nasdaq Helsinki. Outokumpu’s business area Americas is headquartered in Calvert, Alabama, where it has one of the most technically-advanced stainless steel mills in the region. The Americas team has built on Outokumpu’s legacy of steel making and added the expertise of its diverse workforce to serve the Americas market with an unmatched passion for producing high quality stainless steel.

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Exhibitors

CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.

Cleveland-Cliffs is the largest flat-rolled steel producer in North America. Founded in 1847 as a mine operator, Cliffs also is the largest manufacturer of iron ore pellets in North America. The Company is vertically integrated from mined raw materials, direct reduced iron, and ferrous scrap to primary steelmaking and downstream finishing, stamping, tooling, and tubing. Cleveland-Cliffs is the largest supplier of steel to the automotive industry in North America and serves a diverse range of other markets due to its comprehensive offering of flat-rolled steel products. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland-Cliffs employs approximately 27,000 people across its operations in the United States and Canada.

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Mill Steel Company

Founded in 1959 by Harry Samrick, Mill Steel Co. is one of North America's largest steel and aluminum suppliers. The company is third-generation, family-owned, and nationally certified as a Women Owned Business Enterprise. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Mill Steel now operates seven production facilities nationwide. Mill Steel is renowned for its steadfast dedication to superior quality, timely delivery, and performance, serving some of the world’s most demanding industries. For more information about Mill Steel Co., visit www.millsteel.com.

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Join us for two dynamic days of insight, strategy, and networking as we address:

✔️ How the North American supply chain can adapt to shifting geopolitical realities
✔️ What’s needed to enhance long-term competitiveness
✔️ The key market trends shaping the future of stainless and special steels

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