Sponsors | CRU SMU Steel Summit 2024

List of Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

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.

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 9 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

Mill Steel Company

Founded in 1959 by Harry Samrick, Mill Steel Co. is one of North America’s premier flat-rolled steel and aluminum suppliers. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI, Mill Steel operates six service center locations including: Grand Rapids and Melvindale, MI, Mansfield, OH, 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.

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.

Ternium

We are a leading company in the Americas that manufactures and processes a wide range of steel products using the most advanced technology. With 18 production centers in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, United States, Guatemala and Mexico, we manufacture high-complexity steel products that supply the main industries and markets in the region. We have an efficient, fully-integrated production system. Our facilities feature the whole manufacturing process of steelmaking, from the mining of iron ore to the production of high value added products for the most demanding industries.

With excellence as our primary goal, we provide the best products and services to our customers.

The Ternium trademark is your assurance of quality.

United States Steel Corporation

Founded in 1901, United States Steel Corporation is a leading steel producer. With an unwavering focus on safety, the company’s customer-centric Best for All® strategy is advancing a more secure, sustainable future for U. S. Steel and its stakeholders. With a renewed emphasis on innovation, U. S. Steel serves the automotive, construction, appliance, energy, containers, and packaging industries with high value-added steel products such as U. S. Steel’s proprietary XG3® advanced high-strength steel. The company also maintains competitively advantaged iron ore production and has an annual raw steelmaking capability of 22.4 million net tons. U. S. Steel is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with world-class operations across the United States and in Central Europe. For more information, please visit www.ussteel.com.

Silver Sponsors

BMO

BMO Financial Group is the eighth largest bank in North America by assets, with total assets of $1.4 trillion as of April 30, 2024. Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a diverse team of highly engaged employees providing a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management, global markets and investment banking products and services to 13 million customers across Canada, the United States, and in select markets globally. BMO is a long-standing capital provider in the Metals space, including the steel and aluminum mills, metal service centers, wire rod, scrap metal recyclers, importers, trading companies and metal fabricators. BMO can provide Commercial Banking services for companies of all sizes with Senior Credit Facilities ranging from $10 million to $1 billion to support acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancings, turnarounds, and seasonal or growth working capital requirements.

Felux

Felux is where steel buying and selling is made easy. Build a company profile, upload material for sale, post an RFQ and search the community. Felux provides users a marketplace to connect, transact, share content and manage their business with real-time data and analytics. Go to Felux.com to get started.

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.

PSI Metals

PSI Metals is the leading provider of innovative production management software for the metals industry, by combining Supply Chain Management, Advance Planning Scheduling and Manufacturing Execution System within one Service Platform (SP). Our solutions supports all processes such as planning, production, quality, and logistics. Our end-to-end solutions enables aluminum and steel producers to stay competitive by delivering tailored and configurable solutions. We also specialize in business consulting studies that provide strategic information services. PSI Metals is a subsidiary of PSI Software SE, a publicly traded company that focuses on software for energy, mobility and production management. We have a global presence in four continents and 10 countries, with our headquarters in Dusseldorf and North American office in Pittsburgh, PA.

Reibus

Reibus is the leading digital marketplace for the metals industry. We help companies buy, sell, move, and finance steel, aluminum, and other metals. We combine technology with deep industry expertise to solve supply chain challenges and take the hassle out of buying and selling. Thousands of companies across the globe use Reibus to sell excess metal and procure hard-to-find materials. Many companies also work with Reibus to improve their liquidity and cash flow. For more information, visit Reibus at www.reibus.com.

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., including StoneX Financial Inc. and StoneX Markets LLC, 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 3,600+ employees serve 54,000+ commercial and institutional clients, and 400,000 active retail accounts, from more than 80 offices across six continents.

Bronze Sponsors

American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AISI serves as the voice of the American steel industry in the public policy arena and advances the case for steel in the marketplace as the preferred material of choice. AISI also plays a lead role in the development and application of new steels and steelmaking technology. AISI’s membership is comprised of integrated and electric arc furnace steelmakers, and associate members who are suppliers to or customers of the steel industry. For more news about steel and its applications, visit AISI’s website at www.steel.org. You can also follow AISI on Twitter (@AISISteel), and LinkedIn

AkzoNobel Coatings Inc.

Beyond Performance. It is what makes us different. Built on over 200 years of experience. Whatever we do, we achieve the highest standards. Creating products of tested, proven and enduring quality. Working in partnership to best serve our customers. Delivering genuine added value. Protecting reputations as much as surfaces. Simply being trusted to do all this, and more, like nobody else can. Quality, Service, Trusted Partner. AkzoNobel Coil and Extrusion Coatings.

Alliance Steel

Alliance Steel is a full-service flat-rolled steel supplier, coil processor, and material distributor dedicated to supporting various manufacturing needs across many industrial sectors.

We offer hot-rolled, cold-rolled, coated, pre-painted, and stainless steel products in a wide range of gauges and grades processed to your specifications.
Our service capabilities include slitting, blanking, cut-to-length, stretcher leveling, fabrication, manufacturing, metallurgical support, logistics, and structural and mechanical tubing.

As an ISO 9001:2015-certified company, Alliance Steel is committed to providing quality products on time and at competitive prices.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

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 REACH Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions, enabling BGL to service clients in 30 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.bglco.com

Modern Metals

For more than 75 years, Modern Metals magazine has served metal service centers, producers, fabricators and OEM/end-users with accurate and trustworthy reporting on a variety of issues/challenges facing the metalworking industry. Our audience of C-level executives, plant/design engineers, and purchasing agents have come to rely on Modern Metals for in-depth coverage of company operations, market reports, processing technologies, case studies, industry/people news and market trends. For more information, visit www.modernmetals.com.

GEORG North America Inc.

The GEORG North America Inc. operation in Roanoke, Virginia, offers sales, engineering, manufacturing and service for the entire Georg product portfolio.

Our slitting, cut-to-length, recoiling and inspection lines for steel and non-ferrous metals, are focused on high productivity, precision and quality.

Paragon Steel

Paragon Steel is an ISO 9001-2015 flat rolled steel distributor and processor with two state-of-the-art facilities on the campus of Steel Dynamics, Inc. in Butler, IN. We offer supply chain program management, daily inbound and outbound rail shipments, storage options, in-house lab services, custom packaging and more. Paragon features four slitting lines and a shape correcting cut-to-length line, providing consistently high-quality products with first class service. At Paragon, trust has always been at the core of what we do and who we are. We invite you to visit Paragon-Steel.com to see why our customers, vendors and employees “Trust the Process”.

Steel Dynamics Inc

Founded in 1993, Steel Dynamics (SDI) is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metals recyclers in North America, based on estimated annual steelmaking and metals recycling capability, with facilities located throughout the United States, and in Mexico.

SDI produces steel products, including hot roll, cold roll, and metallic-coated / painted / digitally-printed sheet steel, structural steel beams and shapes, rail, engineered special-bar-quality steel, cold finished steel, merchant bar products, specialty steel sections, and steel joists and deck. In addition, the company produces liquid pig iron and processes and sells ferrous and nonferrous scrap.

In 2025, a subsidiary of SDI (Aluminum Dynamics LLC) is expected to begin production of aluminum sheet products, serving segments including Automotive, Beverage Packaging and other industrial applications