List of Sponsors

Crowe

Crowe is one of the largest public accounting, consulting, and technology firms in the United States. With decades of experience in the metals industry, we provide metals-specific accelerators, analytics tools, and productivity apps to help your business get the most out of its technology and ERP platforms. We invest in tomorrow because we know smart decisions build lasting value for our clients, people, and profession.

Fifth Third Bank

Fifth Third Bank, National Association, is a diversified financial services company that has $207 billion in assets and operates four main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, and Wealth & Asset Management. With over 160 years of experience, Fifth Third has the expertise, leadership and innovative technologies to help your organization succeed in a rapidly changing marketplace. Member FDIC.

Heidtman Steel

Headquartered in Toledo, OH, Heidtman Steel is a solution driven flat rolled steel service center network. Serving a vast array of markets, Heidtman operates 8 wholly owned or joint venture steel processing facilities, with most of them adjacent to steel mills. Long known for expertise in the application of high strength steels, Heidtman also markets Advance High Strength Steels. Capitalizing on diverse captive capabilities, and innovative risk management programs, Heidtman provides customers the ultimate in cost effective solutions.

Heidtman Capabilities:
Pickling
Slitting
Edging
Temper Pass
One Pass
Stretcher Levelling
Galvanizing
First Operation Blanking
Pipe and Tubing

J. Benjamin Recruitment, LLC

J. Benjamin Recruitment is an agency recruitment firm that specializes in the recruitment of Metals Industry professionals. The Founder, Ben Snyder, is highly trained in Professional Recruitment, educated in Psychology, and experienced solely in Metals. Ben has interviewed 7000+ Metals professionals and has been onsite at 100+ companies’ facilities. The JBR belief is that cultural match is just as important as technical fit, and that people perform their best when they are surrounded by diverse yet like-minded professionals. Give Ben a call today to discover how he can represent your company in the best light possible and secure your ideal candidate.

Ranger Steel

Founded in 1958, Ranger Steel is the largest independently owned steel plate distributor in the United States. Headquartered in Houston, Ranger operates a distribution center at the Port of Houston and warehouses in Tulsa, Los Angeles Basin, and Fort Worth area. Ranger Steel services Mexico, Central and South America, and other international destinations as well as all U.S. markets. Ranger Steel’s strategic locations help it meet the needs of its customers fast and efficiently in a wide variety of industries, including ship building, energy, transportation, vessel and heat exchanger, heavy plate fabrication, commercial and industrial construction, and storage tanks. For over half a century, Ranger has been recognized for its quality product and customer service, vast and varied inventory, and on-demand delivery at competitive prices. Hundreds of tons of steel plate move through Ranger Steel facilities daily by rail, ship and truck.

Mill Steel Company

Founded in 1959 by Harry Samrick, Mill Steel Co. is one of North America’s premier flat-rolled steel suppliers. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI, Mill Steel operates five service center locations including; Grand Rapids and Melvindale, MI, Jeffersonville, IN, Birmingham, AL, and Houston, TX. Mill Steel excels at serving some of the world’s most demanding industries with its steadfast dedication to superior quality, delivery, and performance. The company continues to grow by consistently operating with integrity, while putting its customers and associates first. With excellent customer service and rapid turnaround times, Mill Steel is your one-stop-shop! For more information, visit www.millsteel.com.

Bank of America

In uncertain times, one thing is certain. Bank of America Business Capital is by your side with the resources, solutions and vision to see you through. Drawing on experience gained over nearly a century, we offer clients in the United States, Canada and Europe services ranging from working capital and turnaround financing, to recapitalizations and restructurings. Delivering smart solutions that make it easier to do business, and the expertise to help you take on what’s next.

BMO Harris Bank

BMO Harris Bank, part of BMO Financial Group and based in North America, is a highly diversified capital and financial services provider with a long-standing history in the metals space. As the 7th largest bank in North America with over $760 billion in assets, BMO maintains an established Metals team within BMO Harris Bank and BMO Capital Markets, as a capital provider and investment bank/advisory firm, respectively. As one of the largest asset-based lenders and metals lenders in North America, BMO can provide flexible senior credit facilities of $10 million or more to domestic and global concerns with a focus on the mills/producers, metal service centers, scrap and recyclers, importers/exporters, and metal fabricators. To learn more about BMO Harris Bank, please contact Andrew.Pappas@bmo.com.

CME Group

As the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals.  The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform.  In addition, it operates one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.  With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.

Felux

Felux is a b2b marketplace and supply chain platform for steel & aluminum, connecting the supply chain on a single platform with a mission to make commerce better for everyone. We are transparent with who buyers and sellers are and it’s our goal to enhance the relationships they’ve built into better digital experiences for both parties. Our community contains a deep ecosystem of mills, service centers and manufacturers. The platform allows these members to search quickly and instantly discover opportunities, communicate in real time, transact and use Felux as an operating system to manage their buying and selling.

Flack Global Metals

Flack Global Metals (FGM) was founded with the mission to reinvent how metal is bought and sold. We’ve created a service center like no other – combining expertise in merging physical supply chains with financial tools. FGM is the first and only steel company to embed the CME HRC futures contract into every facet of our business. As a supply chain management company operating as a metals service center, we provide a wide range of flat-rolled products including aluminum, carbon steel, stainless, and pre-painted metals. We also offer customized fixed-pricing programs that enable customers to profitably manage both margin and timing of physical raw material.

Interlake Maritime Services

Interlake Maritime Services is a family of companies with nearly 300 years of collective service on the Great Lakes. A family-owned and -led company in its second generation, Interlake Maritime and its more than 50 shoreside employees manage The Interlake Steamship Company, Interlake Logistics Solutions, Lake Michigan Car ferry and Interlake Port Services. The group corporate headquarters is in Middleburg Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and the company maintains additional regional offices in Duluth, Minn., and Ludington, Mich. Interlake’s commercial fleet moves more than 20 million tons of cargo annually, including iron ore, pig iron, coils, slag, scrap, finished steel, coal, aggregate and project cargos.

Nucor

Nucor Corporation and its affiliates manufacture steel and steel products at more than 300 operating facilities primarily in North America.  Nucor is the largest steel producer in the United States, operating 25 scrap-based steel mills that have an annual production capacity of more than 27,000,000 tons.  Nucor is also North America’s largest recycler.  Nucor’s steel mills recycled approximately 20 million tons of scrap steel last year.  Nucor, through The David J. Joseph Company, also brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron and HBI/DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap. Nucor’s headquarters are located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the company employs more than 27,000 teammates.

Priefert Steel

Family-owned and operated since 1964, Priefert is headquartered in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Considered a leading innovator in the industry, what began with the launch of a single headgate, has since grown into one of the world’s largest rodeo and ranch equipment manufacturing facilities. Given their volume of consumption and history of steel fabrication, Priefert has also expanded into the steel market, specializing in supplying a variety of steel products to manufacturers, service centers, and other volume buyers. A true testament to the American Dream, Priefert is proud to produce a quality product that is made in the USA.

SMA (Steel Manufacturers Association)

SMA is the largest steel industry trade association in the United States and is the primary trade association representing American EAF steel producers. Accounting for over 70 percent of domestic steelmaking production, EAF producers are the most sustainable steelmakers in the world. By using an innovative, 21st century production process that is less energy-intensive, domestic steelmakers have up to 75 percent lower carbon emissions than traditional steelmakers. SMA’s 24 producer members have operations in 35 states. For more information check out our website at www.steelnet.org or our Facebook page.

StoneX Group Inc.

The StoneX Global Metals Team helps customers manage market risk by providing access to futures, options and OTC trading on ferrous, base and precious metals, physical trading for select precious metals, and award-winning market intelligence. Working across the global subsidiary companies of StoneX Group Inc. (formerly INTL FCStone Inc.), including StoneX Financial Inc., its expert professionals provide customers with fast, efficient and transparent pricing and access to state-of-the-art electronic user platforms. StoneX Group Inc. (NASDAQ:SNEX) and its 2,950 employees serve 32,000+ commercial and institutional clients, and 330,000 active retail accounts, from more than 70 offices across six continents.