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23-25 March 2010, Maritim Jolie Ville,
Royal Peninsula Hotel & Resort
A new decade brings new challenges. How will China's influence on global raw material and finished steel markets evolve and where are the next hot-spots for world steel?
Why attend CRU’s 16th World Steel Conference?
- Hear CRU's predictions on demand and supply for 2010 and beyond
- Identify key challenges in order to plan your company strategies
- Understand restraints and opportunities due to recent market collapse
● Gain a good general insight into the worldwide steel industry by
learning about key aspects including raw materials, steel mills, finished
products, end-users, pricing and risks, and developing markets
● Network with senior level delegates from around the world.
Look who is coming!
Heaf of global Wind Tower Procurement, Siemens
President and CEO, SHFE
Zinc Gen. commercial manager, Votorantim GmbH
Head of strategy, ArcelorMittal
Steel Analyst, EFG Hermes
Steel Processing & Distribution, Essar Steel
Senior Advisor, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
Chief Analyst, EvrazHolding LLC
VP, Equity Research, Metals and Mining, Exane BNP Paribas
Senior buyer, Indesit Company
CEO, Jubail Energy Services Company
Managing Director, LKAB
CEO, Miller Mathis & co, LLC
VIEW FULL LIST OF REGISTERED DELEGATES HERE


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4 simple ways to register:
1) Online
2) Call us on: +44 20 7903 2410
3) Email us with your full contact details
4) Fax the registration form to +44 20 7903 2432
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23 March 2010
08:00 Field Trip to Ezz Steel Dekheila -
See social events for details
17:00 Registration desk opens
18:00 Welcome reception
24 March 2010
09:00 Chairperson’s opening address
Keynote Session - Regional Outlooks
09:10 Analyzing the Middle East steel industry and Ezz Steel’s
strategy
George Matta, Chief Marketing Officer, Ezz Steel, EGYPT
09:30 Exploring Arcelor Mittal strategy
Bill Scotting, Executive Vice President, Head of Strategy, Arcelor
Mittal, UK*
09:50 The growth of steel futures and the Chinese steel market
Yang Maijun, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Shanghai
Futures Exchange, CHINA
10:10 Russian steel industry outlook for 2010-2011
Kirill Zhilyaev, Chief Analyst, Evraz Holding, RUSSIA
10:30 Challenges and constraints for Indian steel makers in the domestic
and international markets
Senior Executive, Essar Steel, INDIA
10:50 Questions and Answers – Keynote Session
11:00 Refreshment and networking break
Long Products
11:30 Exploring the Middle East long products market – what is
the outlook in 2010 and beyond?
Gregor Munstermann, Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Steel
Industries, UAE
11:50 Analysing the MENA construction market – a contractor’s
perspective
Speaker to be announced
12:10 CRU outlook – global long products market analysis
John Kovacs, Principal Consultant, Steel, CRU Analysis, UK
12:30 Questions and Answers – Long Products
Carbon Abatement and the Steel Industry
12:35 After Copenhagen: challenges and opportunities for the steel
industry
Christopher Beauman, Senior Adviser, European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, UK
12:55 Questions and Answers – Carbon Abatement
13:00 Lunch
Flat Products
14:25 Supply and demand outlook in the steel plate market – traditional
and nascent markets
Dr. Günter Luxenburger, Director Sales & Marketing, Dillinger Hütte,
GERMANY
14:45 Emerging market – focus on Turkey’s domestic fl at product supply
and demand
Semih Elmaagaeli, General Manager, Assan Steel Co Inc, TURKEY
15:05 CRU’s outlook – global fl at product market analysis
Chris Houlden, Principal Consultant - Steel, CRU Analysis, UK
15:25 Automotive markets – developed vs. developing world market
outlook
Pete Kelly, Senior Director, European Forecasting, J.D. Power and
Associates, UK
15:50 Questions and Answers – Flat Products
16:00 Refreshment and networking break
16:30 Analysing the galvanised steel markets in the Middle East
Abu Bucker Husain, Chief Operating Officer, Al Ghurair Iron & Steel
LLC, ABU DHABI
Tube and Pipe
16:50 OCTG and line pipe markets
Duncan Pell, Commercial Director, Interpipe, UKRAINE
17:10 Middle East OCTG demand fundamentals and new projects
Khalil Al Gannas, Chairman, Jubail Energy Services Company, SAUDI
ARABIA
John Blomberg, Senior Trader, Duferco, SWITZERLAND
17:30 Questions and Answers – Tube and Pipe
17:40 Close of day 1
18:30 Gala dinner hosted by Ezz Steel
25 March 2010
Keynote Session – Investment, Consolidation and Outlook
09:00 Chairperson’s opening remarks
09:10 Decoupled from the global economy? MENA growth in an uncertain
2010
Simon Kitchen, Senior Economist, EFG Hermes, EGYPT
09:35 OECD steel market outlook
Anthony de Carvalho, Administrator, Steel Unit, OECD Directorate for
Science, Technology and Industry, FRANCE
10:00 Project finance in the current environment
Stephen Pope, Chief Financial Officer, Emirates Steel Industries, UAE
10:25 The impact of the economic crisis on project finance and M&A in
the steel industry and what this has meant to steel companies and
investors
Robert M Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Miller Mathis & Co, USA
10:50 Steel industry consolidation in the MENA region
Philip Tomlinson, Managing Consultant, CRU Strategies, UK
11:10 Questions and Answers – Keynote Session
11:20 Refreshment break
Raw Materials and Steel Making Costs
11:50 Analysing the iron ore market
Jose Luiz Amarante, Head of Marketing Intelligence & Customer
Development Iron Ore, Anglo American, BRAZIL
12:10 CRU’s outlook – iron ore and coking coal
Andrew Todd, Senior Consultant, Steel Raw Materials, CRU Analysis,
UK
12:30 Steel industry production costs
Ming He, Senior Consultant, Steel Costs, CRU Analysis, CHINA
12:50 Exploring the DRI market
Thomas M. Scarnati, Manager, Marketing & Sales, Tenova HYL,
MEXICO
13:10 Questions and Answers – Raw Materials
13:20 Lunch followed by close of conference
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Comments on last year's event:
"Is always the best event of the year in my opinion"
Rodrigo Caldas Nunes, Manager - BNDES, Brazil
"One of the best conferences every attended due to the broad variety of presentations giving both the analyst's view as well as the industry's view."
Robert Reisetbauer, Vice President Market & Customer Management - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies, Austria


Tuesday 23 March
Field trip to Ezz Steel complex in Alexandria
Schedule:
07:20 Meeting point at the main entrance of Maritim Jolie Ville Hotel.
07:30 Buses to transport delegates to Sharm El-Sheikh airport
07:45 Check-in and boarding
08:25 Fly to Alexandria (Nozha airport) with a private jet
09:45 Buses to transport delegates to Ezz Steel complex
10:15 Welcome drinks
10:45 Tour of complex facilities and plants
13:25 Lunch on site
14:55 Buses to transport delegates to Nozha airport, Alexandria
15:25 Check-in and boarding
16:05 Fly back to Sharm El-Sheikh airport
17:45 Buses to transport delegates to Maritim Jolie Ville Hotel
18:00 Arrival back to Maritim Jolie Ville Hotel
Wednesday 24 March
Gala dinner hosted by EZZSTEEL
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Upon registering delegates will be sent a link outlining preferential rates that we have negotiated for conference attendees.


Upon registering delegates will be sent information on how to apply
for a visa


For programme speaking opportunities:
Please contact Dominic Halahan, Senior Conference Producer, CRU Events, on tel: +44 20 7903 2263 or email him direct on:
dominic.halahan@crugroup.com
For sponsorship & exhibition opportunities:
By sponsoring or exhibiting at this CRU Event, you will raise your
company profile and gain unparalleled access to the key decision makers
in this industry. You can choose from various sponsorship packages,
which include exhibition space, additional events and conference packs.
For sponsorship & exhibition opportunities contact:
Michelle Fisk
Sponsorship and Exhibition Manager
Tel: +44 20 7903 2159
Email: michelle.fisk@crugroup.com
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Registration fees:
£850/ USD $1570/ €1190 - By 8 January 2010
£960/ USD $1775/ €1345 - By 12 February 2010
£1075/ USD $1985/ €1495 - After 12 February 2010
Four simple ways to register:
1) Online
2) Call us on: +44 20 7903 2410
3) Email us with your full contact details
4) Fax the registration form to +44 20 7903 2432
Arrange a Group Booking and Receive up to 25% Discount
3rd and 4th delegate – 20% discount
5th delegate plus – 25% discount
Payment for registrations must be received before deadline dates to
qualify for specific fees. Late payments made after the conference will
be subject to an additional administration fee of £80/$165/€110. Please
note dollar & euro fees are subject to change with exchange rates.


For more information on this conference, please contact:
Sandra Napientek, CRU Events,
31 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AD, UK
Tel: +44 20 7903 2410
Fax: +44 20 7903 2432
Email: sandra.napientek@crugroup.com
Terms of booking
Payment policy
Registrations can only be confirmed upon receipt of payment or proof of
payment and discounted fees will only apply when payment is received
within the offer period. If payment is not received before the conference,
delegates will be asked to guarantee payment at registration with a
personal credit card. Late payments made after the conference will be
subject to an additional administration fee of GBP £60.00 /
USD $130.00* / EURO €90.00*.
Cancellation policy
Cancellations must be received in writing prior to 19 February 2009 to
qualify for a full refund less GBP £60.00 / USD $130.00* / EURO €90.00*
administration fee. It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control
of the organisers to alter content, timing and venue. In the unlikely event
of the conference being cancelled or curtailed due to any reasons
beyond the control of CRU Events, or it is necessary or advisable to
relocate or change the date and/or location of the event, neither CRU
Events, nor its employees will be held liable for refunds, damages
and/or additional expenses which may be incurred by delegates. We
therefore recommend prospective delegates to arrange appropriate
insurance cover.
Disclaimer
This conference is an open forum and the content of papers and
presentations given by guest authors and speakers from companies
other than CRU and its subsidiaries and any opinions expressed therein
are the responsibility of the authors and speakers concerned and are not
endorsed by CRU Events. CRU Events disclaims all liability for any tort or
damage arising out of any statement or opinion made in any paper or
presentation by any guest author or speaker.