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Day one,
Tuesday, 23rd March
08:00 Field Trip to Ezz Steel Dekheila
17:00 Registration desk opens
18:00 Welcome reception
Day Two,
Wednesday, 24th March
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, Ezz Steel, EGYPT
09:30 Exploring Arcelor Mittal strategy, Bill Scotting, Head of
Strategy, ArcelorMittal, UK
09:50 The growth of steel futures and the Chinese steel market
Yang Maijun, 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, 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, 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, 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, GM, 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
outlookm Pete Kelly, 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, Al Ghurair Iron & Steel, ABU DHABI |
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Day Two,
Wednesday, 24th March
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, Jubail Energy Services Company,
SAUDI ARABIA / John Blomberg, Duferco, SWITZERLAND
17:30 Questions and Answers – Tube and Pipe
17:40 Close of conference
18:30 Gala dinner hosted by Ezz Steel
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Three, Thursday, 25th March
Keynote Session – Investment, Consolidation & 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, CEO, 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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