North American Stainless & Special Alloys Conference 2026

Date:
Thursday, November 05, 2026 to Friday, November 06, 2026
(Welcome Reception Nov. 4, Conference Nov. 5 - 6)
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Venue:
The Westin Nashville
 
Motto:

Save the Date!

The Stainless & Special Alloys Conference returns to Nashville in November 2026 for the 5th edition of this must-attend industry event.

Organized by SMR Events in cooperation with World Steel Dynamics, the conference brings together decision-makers from across the stainless steel and special alloys supply chain to exchange market intelligence, discuss the North American and global outlook, and address the issues shaping the business in 2026 and beyond.

After strong editions in 2022–2024, our 2025 conference set a new benchmark with around 350 delegates from 165 companies, and we are excited to build on that momentum in 2026.

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North American Stainless & Special Alloys Conference 2026 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 (the list will be updated regularly):

  • Amerinox Processing, Inc.
  • Combined Metals Company, LLC
  • Cronimet Corporation
  • EBNER Furnaces, Inc.
  • Electralloy — a G. O. Carlson Inc. Co.
  • Haynes International Inc.
  • Jindal Stainless Ltd.
  • Kaiser Enterprise
  • Merit Brass
  • Middleby
  • NAS – North American Stainless
  • OMP
  • Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC
  • PCC Metals Group
  • Primus/Bristol Pipe & Tube
  • Purem
  • Quarto North America
  • RM Metals
  • Samsung C&T America
  • Samuel
  • Sandmeyer Steel Company
  • Steel Inc
  • Sumiden Wire
  • Swiss Steel
  • Ta Chen International, Inc.
  • Technoform North America
  • Toyota Tsusho America, Inc
  • Ulbrich Stainless Steel
  • Universal Stainless
  • Walzwerke Einsal

Gold-Sponsors

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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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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Silver-Sponsors

Jindal Stainless Ltd.

Jindal Stainless, India’s leading stainless steel manufacturer, has a consolidated annual turnover of USD 4.7 billion in FY24 and is ramping up its facilities to reach 4.2 million tonnes of annual melt capacity by 2026. The company’s product range includes stainless steel slabs, blooms, coils, plates, sheets, precision strips, wire rods, rebars, blade steel, and coin blanks. Jindal Stainless remains focused on a greener, sustainable future, fuelled by environmental responsibility. The company aims to reduce carbon emission intensity by 50% well before FY35 and achieve Net Zero by 2050.

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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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Combined Metals Company, LLC

The Combined Metals Company, LLC (formerly Combined Metals of Chicago ) processes and distributes over 75 alloys of precision strip, wire, sheet, and blanks. Our precision rolling mills, drawing mills, and extensive network of independent North American service centers, support thousands of customers in many industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Chemical, Consumer, Defense, Electronics, Medical, Oil/Gas, and Power Generation, worldwide. Decades of quality and reliability have made our companies the preferred source for consumer and mission-critical applications.

The Combined Metals Company solves customers’ challenges through three businesses:

Elgiloy Specialty Metals (ESM) is a processor of over 75 high-performance stainless, nickel, specialty metals, titanium, and cobalt alloys, including our own Elgiloy® alloy. ESM provides precision strip, foil, and drawn wire products distributed globally for high performance and mission-critical applications.

Combined Service Centers (CSC) brings global sourcing to a group of service centers distributing precision strip, custom slit coil, sheet, blanks, stamped circles, and coil-to-coil polishing/buffing, in stainless steel and other specialty alloys.

Gibbs Interwire (GIW) is a distributor of spring wire, specialty wire, and a processor and distributor of precision strip in stainless, carbon, and specialty alloys. GIW provides deep expertise in spring applications, precision slitting, edging, and oscillate winding.

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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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  1st Delegate 2nd Delegate 3rd Delegate
Super Early Bird Rate
(Valid between April and June 2026)
USD 1,499 USD 1,150 USD 1,000
Early Bird Rate
(Valid July and August 2026)
USD 1,779 USD 1,320 USD 1,100
Final Rate
(valid after September 1, 2026)
USD 2,099 USD 1,550 USD 1,200
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