Sponsors | CRU SMU Steel Summit 2025

List of Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Red Bud Industries

Red Bud Industries is a world leader in the manufacturing of Coil Processing Equipment. Today, their equipment can be found in operation in all the major world markets processing materials of all types. Throughout the industry, Red Bud Industries is known for pioneering, developing, and producing state of the art Slitting Lines, Cut-To-Length/Multi-Blanking Lines, Heavy Gage Plate Lines, Stretcher Levelers, and other Coil Processing Equipment. With a modern manufacturing complex of over 250,000 square feet, Red Bud Industries possesses the manufacturing capacity and prowess to produce some of the most advanced Coil Processing Systems available anywhere in the world.

Gold 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.

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

Reibus

Reibus is the most trusted partner in open deck logistics, leveraging our unmatched expertise in metals transport and leading-edge technology to deliver exceptional service and innovative solutions.

KORE Machinery

KORE MACHINERY IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED SUPPLIER OF COIL PROCESSING EQUIPMENT FOR THE METALS INDUSTRY.

Our equipment can be found operating in a multitude of industries ranging from automotive to HVAC to agriculture to aerospace. With a strong focus on technology, KORE Machinery is well known for manufacturing the most automated equipment available on the market today. We stand behind our equipment and our commitment to providing our customers with unparalleled support after the sale.

Friedman Industries

Founded in 1965, Friedman Industries is a manufacturer and processor of steel products. Friedman operates six flat-rolled coil processing facilities capable of producing sheet and plate ranging from 16 gauge to 1” thick in widths ranging from 36” wide to 96” wide. The Hickman, AR, Granite City IL and East Chicago IN facilities operate temper mills and cut-to-length lines. The Decatur AL and Sinton TX facilities operate stretcher leveler cut-to-length lines. The tubular division, located in Lone Star TX, operates two American Petroleum Institute (“API”) licensed electric resistance welded pipe mills. For more information, please visit www.friedmanindustries.com

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. In 2024, Ranger acquired Nance Steel Sales thereby expanding its product offerings along with its geographic locations. Headquartered in Houston, Ranger operates a distribution center at the Port of Houston and a dozen warehouses strategically located across the Midwest and West Coast. Besides the U. S. and Canadian markets, Ranger Steel services Mexico as well as Central and South America. 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, bridge building, commercial and industrial construction, and storage tanks. With the acquisition of Nance Steel Sales, Ranger/Nance can meet the needs of customers in the automotive, machine tool, and die set & press industries. 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 Founded in 1901, U. S. Steel delivers profitable and sustainable steel solutions. Propelled by its talented employees and an unwavering focus on safety, U. S. Steel serves the automotive, construction, appliance, energy, containers, and packaging industries with high value-added steel products. Steel production begins with our competitively advantaged iron ore production capabilities which fuel our integrated steelmaking facilities and investments in electric arc furnaces. To help our customers create the best products with the fewest emissions, we are committed to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. U. S. Steel is at the forefront of creating steels that are stronger, lighter, and better for the environment. This includes our proprietary XG3® advanced high-strength steel, verdeX® steel produced with 70-80% lower CO2 emissions with a recycled content of up to 90%, and ultra-thin lightweight InduX™ steel for electric vehicles, generators, and transformers. U. S. Steel maintains operations across the United States and in Central Europe and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit www.ussteel.com and follow U. S. Steel on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and X.

Silver Sponsors

North Star Bluescope

Pacesetter

Pacesetter Steel Service has been a trusted partner in the steel industry since 1977, built on integrity, strong relationships, and a spirit of innovation. Now, as part of Flack Global Metals’ platform, Pacesetter combines steel distribution and processing with market intelligence and risk management—delivering value and resilience in a dynamic market. Headquartered near Atlanta, with service centers in Atlanta and Chicago and a joint venture in Houston, NSPS Metals, Pacesetter provides tailored solutions with services like slitting, cut-to-length, and blanking—executed with precision, expertise, and a commitment to helping customers succeed.

BMO

BMO has been serving customers for over 200 years and is currently the 7th largest bank in North America by assets, with over $1.4 billion in total assets as of April 30, 2025. BMO is comprised of a diverse team of engaged employees providing a broad range of personal and commercial banking, global markets and investment banking services to 13 million customers. Within the metals space, BMO is a financial partner who understands the complexity and constant changing dynamics of the industry. From corporate advisory and capital raising solutions to customized financing structures addressing working capital, growth, M&A, recapitalizations and restructurings, BMO has the metals experience and flexible credit solutions to meet client needs while also supporting their long-term vision.

Magic Coil Products LLC

Magic Coil Products LLC is a steel service center located on campus with Steel Dynamics Corporation in Butler, Indiana. Magic Coil Products has the ability to process hot roll, cold roll, hot dip galvanized, galvaneal and pre-paint. MCP has the following processing equipment: Two Braner slitters with the ability to process material with a gauge range of .012 – ¼” with a max coil width of 72”. MCP also operates a Red Bud Multi-blanking line with a gauge range of .020 to .140 and a max master coil max width of 72”. The MBL has the ability to produce sheets as well as take four in-line cuts to produce tight tolerance precision blanks.

MCP offers the following services:

Toll Processing
Material Storage
Customized inventory programs
Inside sales and logistics management

Please visit our web-site at www.magiccoilproducts.com or call 260.868.COIL (2645) for inquires or additional information on Magic Coil Products.

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 Software SE.

PSI Software SE is a leading software company that develops software products for optimizing the flow of energy and materials for utilities and industry. Our innovative industry products and solutions can be operated on premise or in the cloud. The Business Unit Process Industries & Metals offers production management solutions for the metals industry through its PSImetals software, which combines Supply Chain Management, Advanced Planning Scheduling and Manufacturing Execution System within one Service Platform. To support all processes such as planning, production, quality and logistics, the PSImetals Service Platform allows highly integrated solutions. Our end-to-end solutions can be configured to meet the requirements of producers, thereby helping them stay competitive. While integrating AI and decarbonization into our IT service offerings, we at PSI deliver production management solutions today for generations to come.

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 LinkedIn profile.

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.

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

Steel Dynamics is a leading industrial metals solutions company, with facilities located throughout the United States, and in Mexico. The company operates using a circular manufacturing model, producing lower-carbon-emission, quality products with recycled scrap as the primary input. Steel Dynamics is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metal recyclers in North America, combined with a meaningful downstream steel fabrication platform. The company is also currently investing in aluminum operations to further diversify its product offerings, with plans to supply aluminum flat rolled products with high recycled content to the countercyclical sustainable beverage can industry, in addition to the automotive and industrial sectors. Steel Dynamics is committed to operating with the highest integrity and to being the safest, most efficient producer of high-quality broadly diversified, value-added metal products.

Bronze Sponsors

Bank of America

Whatever you need to thrive and grow, 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 acquisition financing, to recapitalizations and turnarounds. Delivering smart solutions that make it easier to do business, and the expertise to help you take on what’s next.
business.bofa.com/businesscapital

Reliance, Inc.

Founded in 1939, Reliance, Inc. (NYSE: RS) is a leading global diversified metal solutions provider and the largest metals service center company in North America. Through a network of 320 locations in 41 states and 10 countries outside of the United States, Reliance provides value-added metals processing services and distributes a full-line of over 100,000 metal products to more than 125,000 customers in a broad range of industries.

Ratner Steel Supply Company

Ratner Steel is a service center specializing in flat rolled only. We typically carry upwards of 80k tons between our locations in MN, IN and our newest facility, Osceola, AR. With the most modern technology in stretch leveling in our plants we can meet your flat rolled needs!

Hans Weber

Hans Weber is a 100-year-old German engineering company and well-respected supplier of grinding/deburring/sanding/brushing machines and metal surface finishing systems based on continuous line and innovative tooling solutions. Weber technology has been the gold-standard equipment choice in the global metal industry.
WEBER machines push the boundaries of traditional sheet metal processing and significantly increase the user's productivity. Their unique combination of planetary heads, flexible bolts and double-rotating brushes simply opens a new dimension in high-precision heavy plate processing. Slag and scale are easily and completely removed, edges are perfectly deburred and rounded, surfaces are flawlessly ground. And all in a single pass from above and below.
The advantages of WEBER machines for coil stamped applications and heavy plate processing include:
· Efficient, problem-free processing of heavily distorted thick sheet metal parts
· Compensation for distortions of up to 10 millimeters
· Unique combination of floating tools
· No prior straightening of the workpiece
· Complete processing in a single pass
· Highly precise results

TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies is a global integrated energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. Our more than 100,000 employees are committed to provide as many people as possible with energy that is more reliable, more affordable and more sustainable. Active in about 120 countries, TotalEnergies places sustainability at the heart of its strategy, its projects and its operations.

Acero Prime

Acero Prime is one of the most comprehensive steel service centers in Mexico. In addition to our steel processing services—which include slitting, cut-to-length, multi-blanking, and high-precision coil-fed laser blanking—we offer a complete logistics solution (by truck and rail), temporary import programs, warehousing services, just-in-time deliveries, port handling for vessel unloading, EDI communication systems, and fully customized supply chain management designed to meet specialized requirements. We act as an integrator between steel producers, distributors, and end customers.
With facilities located in San Luis Potosí, Ramos Arizpe, Toluca, and Monterrey, we manage over 800,000 net tons of steel per year. We are equipped with systems and tools that provide real-time information on inventory, processing, and shipments to each of our clients.
Our firm commitment is to help our customers get what they need in the most efficient way—making their job easier and exceeding expectations, delivering maximum quality in our processes and value-added services.

Coface

As a global leading player in trade credit risk management, Coface leverages its unique expertise and cutting-edge technology for 100,000 clients across some 200 markets. For almost 80 years, we’ve been supporting the growth of companies, helping them navigate in an uncertain and volatile environment. At Coface, we act for trade.

American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)

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’s membership is comprised of integrated and electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmakers, steel pipe and tube manufacturers and steel processors and fabricators, reflecting the production and distribution of both carbon and stainless steels. These steels are critical to America’s national and economic security, including roads and bridges, buildings, the electrical grid, cars and trucks and all clean energy technologies. AISI also represents associate members who are suppliers to or customers of the steel industry. For more news about steel and its applications, view AISI’s website at www.steel.org. Follow AISI on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter (@AISISteel) or Instagram.

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 Family of Companies

Alliance Family of Companies is a full-service flat-rolled steel supplier, coil processor, and material distributor supporting diverse manufacturing needs across multiple 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 exact specifications.

Our service capabilities include slitting, blanking, cut-to-length, stretcher leveling, fabrication, manufacturing, logistics, and structural and mechanical tubing.
As an ISO 9001:2015 certified company, we’re committed to delivering 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

Fifth Third Bank

Fifth Third Bank has the expertise, leadership and innovative technologies to help your organization succeed in a rapidly changing global marketplace. Our list of firsts is extensive, and it’s one that continues to expand as we explore the intersection of tech-driven innovation, dedicated people and focused community impact.

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.

For more than 4 decades we have been actively present on the Northamerican market. Our USA hub in Roanoke is the home of our engineering/design and production facilities. From our base in Alpharetta an experienced team cares for our Northamerican customers: sales, service and a quick provision of spare parts for all GEORG product. Our slitting, cut-to-length, recoiling and inspection lines for steel an non-ferrous metals, are focused on high productivity, precision and quality. This includes our new state-of-the-art, demand-driven base line, which is tailored to the needs of the service center market and is based on a modular, expandable system.

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”.

Target Steel

Target Steel has been serving the Midwest for over 30 years. We are a full-service steel service center that delivers a variety of steel products to customers, from a single customized steel sheet, to multiple shipments of tons of steel coil. When you do business with Target Steel, you can always expect competitive rates, quick decisions, speedy deliveries, and personal, courteous attention.