TPT March 2013

Made in Steel Focus

Made in Steel reveals first stars THE conference section of Made in Steel has been revealed. The full agenda of conferences that will make up the three days devoted to Italian and international steel industry features many speakers who have already confirmed their presence. scenarios that form the current steel market. For this reason, within a world class context, also speaking will be Juergen Nusser, managing director of Eurometal – the European association of distributors– GianpietroBenedetti,chair- man of the Danieli Group and Gordon Moffat, director general of Eurofer.

strategic sectors for your business, in an exclusive and prestigious setting. If you are looking for a simple and intuitive way for knowing in advance who will visit your stand or who will participate in Made in Steel with you, “Match making” is what you need. The organisation of the conference and exhibition will make available to exhibitors an exhaustive list of the visitors who are present, thus providing a precious opportunity to get in touch with the professionals you are most interested in meeting and getting to know. Customised meetings can also be planned through this “steel” database. the three days of conferences there will also be the traditional market analyses provided by the Steel Market Outlook and by the Stainless Steel Market Outlook. Achille Fornasini, chief analyst of Siderweb, Alain Le Grix, vice president of ArcelorMittal, and Dmitrij Scuka, CEO of Evraz will be among the speakers of the first meeting. The focus dedicated to stainless steel will feature Markus Moll, managing director of SMR, Antonio Marcegaglia, CEO of the Marcegaglia Group, Thomas Pauly, managing director of Euro Inox, and Susanne Peiricks, CEO of SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH Europe.

Among the illustrious speakers of the opening conference that will be held on 3 April – therefore during the first day of the exhibition – there will be Antonio Gozzi, president of Federacciai, who will represent Italian producers. Thursday 4 April will start with the conference dedicated to the analysis of global

On the following day, Friday 5 April, Martin Lindqvist, president of the Swedish multinational company SSAB, and Roberto Vavassori, business development director of Brembo, will be present at the conference dedicated to the transportation industry. During

Relationships above all Exhibiting at Made in Steel offers opportunities not to be missed. If your target is making your company international, you cannot miss the chance to reserve your B2B meeting with the representatives of the Italian Chambers of Commerce in India, Brazil, Turkey, UnitedArab Emirates, Sweden, Germany and Switzerland. Delegates from these countries will be available to understand and provide concrete answers for all your business needs, providing data, prospects, investments and valuable suggestions to guide you and accompany you in your projects. Made in Steel will make an agenda available, where you can reserve your personal interview during the three days of the exhibition. If you are looking for the most effective solution to send fundamental messages on your organisation to your – historic or potential – customers or partners, reserve your private conference in the “Speaker Corner”. An equipped conference room in Hall 2 with a floor space 80m 2 , a minimum capacity of 50 people up to a maximum of 70, laid out for all your communication needs, at time slots of 50 minutes each, will be available for Made in Steel exhibitors. A unique way of gathering around your company and your products an audience of professionals in

Exhibitor demand increases Made in Steel increases its exhibition area. The high number of companies that reserved their own area led to the decision to increase Hall 4 by a further 790m 2 . This increase proves the ever higher appeal that the conference and exhibition of steel is exercising on the operators of the steel industry and of the three lines on which the 2013 event will focus: power & utilities, automotive and building. In October, there were more than 20 new reservations. Among producers,

the following will be present at Made in Steel 2013: Marcegaglia, Duferco Italia Holding, Stefana and Acciaierie Venete. An exhibition area has already been reserved by producer of steel plants Tenova, and by refractory producer Rosmetallkomplekt Jcs and by stainless steel connection units Bercellesi Berinox. Logistics will be also represented by Tipes, Kamag Transporttechnik and by Industrie Cometto, while DB Schenker Rail Italia will be present for railway goods transportation and Giori Ricambi among distributors of earth moving machines. Packaging specialists Praim and Antalis Packaging Italia have already confirmed their participation just like, among service centres, Commit Siderurgica and Siderurgica Tocchet, the latter also a producer of open sections. And also Giotta – a company specialised in the trade of metals and scrap recovery – with purchasing groups Iron Group and

Asa Group, trader Stemcor, producer of packaging tips Trafileria Punteria Ghezzi, publisher of specialist magazines RTS, Fae, a company specialised in automation and diagnostic systems, the producer of systems for forging presses Oilgear Towler.

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