Nikhil Shah

Nikhil Shah is responsible for primary nickel analysis at CRU. Prior to this he has gained extensive experience in aluminium and through leadership of CRU’s research on alumina, bauxite, carbon and energy. He has previously been responsible for CRU’s aluminium analysis and contributed to the development of cost models. He also contributes to CRU’s single client work and regularly presents at major industry gatherings. He holds a Masters degree from University of London in Business Economics.

Agenda Title: Nickel market outlook
Agenda Time: 11:30 - 11:50
Agenda Day: 8 June 2022

Panos Kotseras

Panos Kotseras is CRU’s lead stainless steel market analyst and Editor of Stainless Steel Flat Products Market Outlook and Stainless Steel Flat Products Monitor. Panos started his career in commercial roles with copper and aluminium fabricators in the 2000s. He joined CRU in 2008 as a copper demand and wire & cable analyst. Panos moved to CRU’s NiSSSA team (Nickel, Stainless Steel and Special Alloys) in 2011, assuming the lead analyst role for cobalt and molybdenum. In 2015, Panos moved on to Rio Tinto Copper focusing on marketing intelligence analysis in the space of copper by-products, especially molybdenum. He rejoined CRU in 2018. Panos holds a first degree in Economics, an MSc in Finance and Commodities, and an MBA.

Agenda Title: Stainless steel market outlook
Agenda Time: 09:35 - 10:00
Agenda Day: 8 June 2022

Victor Constant

Victor Constant joined the International Chromium Development Association in 2017 as Market Research Analyst. Today, as Senior Market Analyst, he is in charge of market intelligence and analysis for the association. He produces annual and quarterly market analyses as well as expert reports for the chromium industry and presents regularly at major ferroalloys conferences about chromium and related markets. After a cursus in political science at McGill University and Paris 2 –Assas university, he graduated from the School of Economic Warfare (Ecole de Guerre Economique) in Paris, France, with an expertise in economic intelligence and strategy.

Agenda Title: Ferrochrome and chrome ore market outlook
Agenda Time: 11:50 - 12:30
Agenda Day: 8 June 2022

Fabrizio Serra

Fabrizio Serra has a Master of Science in Business Administration with specialization in Financial Markets and International Economy.He has been working in Raw Materials Trading for 11 years. After some years in Central and Eastern Europe, he joined Eusider Group and founded the Raw Materials Trading desk in 2015.Today he handles 500.000-700.000 tons per year of Raw Materials purchased and sold globally. In particular, he deals in the Steel Industry with Metallics (Pig Iron, HBI), Ferroalloys (FeSi, FeMn, FeCr), Foundry Coke, Consumables and, in the Agrocommodities with Milling and Durum Wheat for flour and pasta production. 

Agenda Title: Bulk ferroalloys and steel making raw materials
Agenda Time: 10:00 - 10:25
Agenda Day: 8 June 2022

Gorkem Kavcak

Gorkem Kavcak has served as Market Research Director at Yilmaden Holding for the last 10 years. His main areas of focus are chrome ore and ferrochrome markets along with other related commodities. He is also involved in Yilmaden’s commodity market strategies.Previously, Mr. Kavcak worked for Euromoney’s CEIC service for 5 years as an economist, covering Turkey and emerging economies. He also worked for HSBC in the Treasury Department in Istanbul and Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik, a Turkish insurance company, in the Investment Management Department.Mr. Kavcak holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and master’s degree in Insurance.

Agenda Title: Ferrochrome and chrome ore market outlook
Agenda Time: 11:50 - 12:30
Agenda Day: 8 June 2022

Benoit Fecamp

Benoit Fecamp is Solar Turbines EAME Market development manager. He has been working in the energy business for 20 years holding various positions in R&D, Systems engineering, process improvement and business development. He holds a master’s degree in Energy engineering from National Institute of Applied Sciences in Rouen, France and an executive MBA from the SDA Bocconi school of management in Milan, Italy. His expertise is in decarbonization strategies, hydrogen, renewable and process off-gas utilization

Agenda Title: Evaluation of Industrial Gas turbine with Ferrochrome and Ilmenite smelters off-gas
Agenda Time: 14:50 - 15:15
Agenda Day: 8 June 2022

Martin Jackson

As a senior analyst in the Base Metals Analysis team, Martin is the lead for the molybdenum service at CRU. Prior to joining in 2018, Martin worked as a geological consultant for the mining and mineral exploration industry throughout Africa and the Middle East for before obtaining an MSc (Eng) in Mineral Economics at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Martin also holds a BSc in Economic Geology.

Agenda Title: Demand from oil investment, military spend and electric vehicles – will primary Mo producers fill the supply gap?
Agenda Time: 14:25 - 14:50
Agenda Day: 8 June 2022

Patrick Schols

Patrick Schols has over 30 years of experience in the logistics industry. Patrick: “Since 1997 I fell in love with Ferro Alloys and Non Ferro Metals when I started to work for Euro-Rijn. I am an experienced logistics person that knows my way around in all modalities; whether it is shipped in bulk or packed, by containers, or by vessels/barges. Or if warehousing and processing get involved it does not matter to me. Metals and Ferro Alloys especially are running through my veins!” Since 2011 Patrick Schols holds the position of Commercial Manager within Euro-Rijn Global Logistics BV. At that moment he also joined the management team of Euro-Rijn.Patrick will give us an update about the current logistics situation and challenges that we all have been faced with.

Agenda Title: Logistics update
Agenda Time: 12:30 - 13:00
Agenda Day: 8 June 2022

Filipe Costa

Dr. Filipe Manjolinho Costa studied chemistry at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Master of Science and PhD) and completed the Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Stellenbosch Business School. He started his career at Carbon Clean Tech as R&D Manager. Dr. Costa then became Product Manager Polymers before being Director R&D. Today, he is CEO of CRONIMET Envirotec GmbH. The company based in Bitterfeld-Wolfen is part of the CRONIMET group and specialized in recycling metal soft scrap, contaminated spent catalysts and drilling muds. Since his start at CRONIMET Envirotec in 2015, Filipe has managed to position the company as a technology leader in thermal desorption treatment of metal sludges. Filipe possesses valuable insights about the global stainless steel scrap market and innovative, sustainable recycling processes.

Dr. Filipe Manjolinho Costa studied chemistry at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Master of Science and PhD) and completed the Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Stellenbosch Business School. He started his career at Carbon Clean Tech as R&D Manager. Dr. Costa then became Product Manager Polymers before being Director R&D. Today, he is CEO of CRONIMET Envirotec GmbH. The company based in Bitterfeld-Wolfen is part of the CRONIMET group and specialized in recycling metal soft scrap, contaminated spent catalysts and drilling muds. Since his start at CRONIMET Envirotec in 2015, Filipe has managed to position the company as a technology leader in thermal desorption treatment of metal sludges. Filipe possesses valuable insights about the global stainless steel scrap market and innovative, sustainable recycling processes.

Agenda Title: Metallic by product recycling
Agenda Time: 15:15 - 15:40
Agenda Day: 8 June 2022