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Forging the future of scrap & steel: navigating change, innovation, and sustainability together.
Speakers
George Adams
CEO & President
SA Recycling
George Adams is CEO & President of SA Recycling, located in Anaheim, California. He has been in the scrap metal business since 1977. Originally started by George’s father 50 years ago as a single scrap metal facility in Anaheim, Adams Steel merged with Sims Metal Management in September of 2007 to form SA Recycling. SA Recycling now has over 130 locations in sixteen states with over 3,000 employees, 25 shredders, and will process 5 million tons of recycled metals annually. Mr. Adams is an attorney who earned his Juris Doctor degree from Western State University in 1984. He is a member of the American, California, and Orange County Bar Associations. George Adams served as Chairman of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI) from April 2008 until May of 2010. The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI) is the private, non-profit trade association that is the "Voice of the Recycling Industry." Based in Washington, D.C., ISRI represents more than 1,600 private, for-profit companies that process, broker, and industrially consume scrap commodities, including ferrous and nonferrous metals, paper, electronics, rubber, plastics, glass, and textiles. Among its services, ISRI provides education, training, advocacy, and compliance guidance and promotes public awareness of the value and importance of recycling to the production of the world's goods and services. George is author of the book Create the Connection: 25 Surefire Strategies for Success in Leadership and Life. The book is based on his 40 years of discovering what works and what doesn’t, George Adams shares the practical wisdom, personal philosophies, and life lessons that have helped him build a small family scrap yard into the largest scrap company in the country. George resides in Orange, California with his wife Joan. They have five boys, one girl ranging in ages from 23 to 39 years old and six grandchildren. George is also very active in local politics and is a major supporter of business, social, and charitable programs. He is an Eagle Scout and two of his sons are Eagle Scouts. Inhis spare time enjoys snow skiing, waterskiing, boating, and camping.
Raju Daswani
CEO
Fastmarkets
Raju Daswani is the CEO of Fastmarkets – an independent global cross-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA). Fastmarkets, which incorporates the businesses formerly known as Metal Bulletin, AMM and RISI, is headquartered in London but has over 550 employees located across 14 global locations, including London, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Kyiv, Brussels, Boston & New York. The business has expanded rapidly since 2014 through organic growth and a number of important M&A deals that have been transacted successfully. Fastmarkets publishes over 5,500 commodity price benchmarks for the metals, mining and forest products markets, many of which are used as financial benchmarks for derivative contracts on the world’s largest exchanges, including the SGX, Nasdaq and the CME. Fastmarkets prices are supported by its highly-regarded market commentary, forecasts, research, and a portfolio of over 25 leading industry conferences each year, including events for the global grain and coal markets. Raju joined Fastmarkets (Metal Bulletin) in 1995 as a commodities economist prior to which he spent three years at British Alcan (now Rio Tinto) as a business and marketing analyst. He graduated in 1991 with a B.Sc. in Economics with Accounting & Finance from the London School of Economics.
John Wiesbrock
Executive Vice President
Waupaca Foundry, Inc.
John Wiesbrock has 35 years of manufacturing experience in machining and iron foundry operations. As Executive Vice President at Waupaca Foundry, where he’s worked since 2002, he is responsible for developing new business strategies and growing relationships with customers. During this tenure, Wiesbrock also has been responsible for establishing processes, leading continuous improvement in, and ensuring a globally competitive and sustainable supply chain. Wiesbrock has held senior leadership positions in sales and marketing and supply chain. In addition to his operational duties, he is mentoring the next generation of leadership for Waupaca Foundry
Dhaval Trivedi
VP of Supply Chain
Borusan
Dhaval Trivedi is currently working as VP of Supply Chain for Borusan Pipe USA. With more than 15 years of experience working for welded carbon steel pipe manufacturing companies, Dhaval Trivedi holds master’s degree in engineering management and bachelor’s in mechanical engineering. In his current role, Dhaval Trivedi is responsible for overall procurement and logistics for Borusan’s Baytown TX operations including nearly 300,000 tons of Hot Roll Steel procurement annually. Dhaval Trivedi has previously presented and participated in multiple AMM’s Pipe and Tube Conferences as well as Scrap, DRI and Minimills conferences.
Samir Kapadia
Managing Principal
Vogel Group
Kim Leppold
Head of Research – Steel
Connect with your peers and meet the decision-makers changing the US steel production market landscape. Catch up face-to-face and build relationships to propel your business to the next level.
Explore the significant trade dynamics and complexities between the United States and Mexico – and understand the evolving trade dynamics, policies and opportunities in the Mexican steel market
2023 will see more steel content on the agenda, including new and emerging demand centers for steel; ESG considerations and technology; pig iron, DRI and HBI in steel production; and industry consolidation.
Make better business decisions and learn what’s on the horizon for carbon-free steel production, including green hydrogen, prime scrap consumption and the importance of investing in DRI.
We’re assembling a stellar line-up that will provide transparency on an opaque market, from President of SA Recycling George Adams, through to Fastmarkets internal experts. Delve into the hottest topics and pose your questions to industry leaders.
You’ll receive new editions of the Scrap Shredders and Steel Producers printed maps, produced with the latest market data by the Fastmarkets editorial and analytics teams.
Alongside the event, a CEO Summit will pull together industry heavyweights to address some of the challenges and opportunities facing the market. Houston will be hosting the who’s who of steel in January, and you won’t want to miss it.
Interested in sponsoring and increasing your brand exposure?
Find out about branding and sponsorship opportunities from Jessica Kelliher on jessica.kelliher@fastmarkets.com
Gold Sponsor
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading independent investment bank and financial advisory firm focused on the global middle market. The firm advises private and public corporations and private equity groups on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, capital markets, financial restructurings, valuations and opinions, real estate, and other strategic matters. BGL has investment banking offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and New York, and real estate offices in Chicago, Cleveland, and San Antonio. The firm is also a founding member of Global M&A Partners, enabling BGL to service clients in more than 35 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.bglco.com.
Silver Sponsors
As the only deepwater seaport located directly on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Port of Brownsville is strategically positioned to efficiently serve and connect industries across North America and beyond. This logistical advantage has catapulted the Port of Brownsville as the major gateway for steel into Mexico, moving more than 5 million tons of steel commodities in 2023. The movement of cargo across the border is made easy thanks to the port’s direct connectivity to USMCA interstate corridors, offering a fast route to non-congested international bridge crossings. The Port of Brownsville also claims conceptual ownership of Texas’ first overweight corridor, allowing trucks crossing the border in either direction to load to the legal weight limits of Mexico – 125,000 pounds – (45,000 pounds heavier than domestic limits). The port’s foreign trade zone remains a leader in exports, ranking second in the nation with exported goods valued at over $8.2 billion. The FTZ has consistently placed in the top three for exports out of 193 FTZs nationwide since 2012.
Founded in 2016, Metalshub has become the leading provider of software solutions for procurement and sales of raw materials in the metals & mining industry. Metalshub is providing a negotiation and auction solution that is specifically designed for trading of raw materials, such as metals, minerals, chemicals, and consumables.With over 1,500 companies using Metalshub and over several billion US$ in negotiated transactions/contracts, Metalshub has extensive experience in creating successful sales/procurement events. Building strong relationships with Metalshub’s client base its software solutions have been co-developed with customers and continuously improved. As a result, the implementation and roll-out of Metalshub is fast and efficient.
Bronze Sponsor
BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO) is one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with nearly $1 trillion in total assets as at September 30, 2023. BMO is a top 10 US Bank and the 5th largest commercial lender in North America. BMO provides commercial banking (asset based and cash flow), equipment financing, commodity financing and capital market solutions for companies of all sizes to support organic growth, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, re-financings, turnarounds, and seasonal or growth working capital requirements. BMO is a long-standing provider of debt and equity capital provider and equity research coverage to the metals space, including to mills/producers, metal service centers, scrap metal recyclers, metal trading companies, metal fabricators and specialty metals companies. Our global team of professionals are dedicated to the metals sector and excited about the prospects for the industry. To learn more, visit www.commercial.bmo.com/metals
Media partners
Steel Times International is a must-read for anyone working within the global steel industry. An English language journal, each issue contains a digest of global news, events, statistics, and stockholding news, as well as more detailed technical articles, company and country profiles, conference reports and regular regional economic briefings. The target readership are managers and CEOs in the steel industry, but it is also widely read by stockholders, members of research organisations, technical consultants and business consultants.
The recycling of obsolete and discarded materials is nearly as old as humankind itself. While Recycling Today does not go back quite that far, our commitment to the recycling industry dates back to 1963 and the founding of Secondary Raw Materials magazine. Recycling Today provides broad coverage of the recycling industry and offers a depth of market and commodity information along with news, industry developments and company profiles of recyclers. With a twice-weekly e-newsletter, specialty newsletters targeting the fastest growing segments of the industry and a website that is constantly updated with information, news and tools, Recycling Today has a depth of coverage that taps into decades of experience while also recognizing the continual evolution of the industry. www.RecyclingToday.com