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Platinum Sponsors

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders — empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage and drive positive societal impact. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

The Systems Group is family owned and has been taking care of our customers for over 50 years. We are 100% focused on the steel industry. Our mission is to provide engineered solutions for a safer, more productive steel industry. Our divisions include Systems Plant Services, which provides steel mills with craft labor to maintain, repair and keep your plant running. Systems Contracting builds new steel mills and capital expansions — as a self-performing contractor, we install process piping, steel erection and equipment setting. Systems Spray-Cooled brings meltshops around the world a safer alternative to pressurized water cooling. Systems Fab & Machine supplies your structural steel, plate work, custom steel, machining and pipe fabrication needs. Systems Engineering creates in-house designs for process piping and steel structures to ensure accurate fabrication and speedy installation for each project’s unique requirements. Systems Clean Air ensures clean air to all your critical spaces.

Gold Sponsors

Danieli designs, manufactures, and installs metal-producing plants and equipment worldwide, either on a turnkey basis or supplied as individual units, covering, with company-owned technologies, the whole process cycle, from ore and scrap processing to finished flat, long, tube, and extruded products, for ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Danieli plants are run by Danieli Automation process control, power and instrumentation systems, and include DIGI&MET smart manufacturing solutions (Industry 4.0). Sustainable production is guaranteed by energy-saving processes and Danieli Environment ecological solutions. With more than 9,000 people, the group operates in 28 countries and across five continents.

Gecko transforms how the world builds, operates, and maintains its most critical infrastructure for a more reliable and sustainable future for all. As the pioneer of AIR technology, fusing artificial intelligence and robotics, we uncover unprecedented visibility into asset health to drive confident decision-making at scale. Our Cantilever® solution provides actionable data that empowers leading energy, manufacturing and defense organizations to achieve operational excellence.

Midrex is a global leader in delivering innovative direct reduction technologies and reliable solutions for the iron and steel industry. As the exclusive technology provider for the MIDREX® Process, we specialize in designing direct reduced iron (DRI) plants. Our comprehensive services encompass engineering, proprietary equipment supply and project development. Beyond the commissioning phase, our commitment extends through ongoing support from Midrex Global Solutions, dedicated to aftermarket equipment and services. MIDREX plants span 21 countries, comprising nearly 100 modules and contributing to 80% of the world's low-CO2 DRI.

Headquartered in London, U.K., with offices and service workshops in 15 U.S. locations, Primetals Technologies is a world-leading pioneer in the fields of engineering, plant building and the provision of life cycle services. Our technology, product, and services portfolio covers every step of the iron and steel production chain — from raw materials to the finished product. Our latest focus areas include new solutions for even greener steel production, the digitalization of all production-related processes, advanced automation as summed up by the term “Industry 4.0,” future-oriented designs for linked casting and rolling, as well as advanced process analysis and optimization. With thousands of plant-building references and numerous service partnerships, we support our customers in setting new targets and shaping their future in the metals business. Primetals Technologies is a Group Company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with around 7,000 employees worldwide and more than 1,000 in the United States 

Russula is a global engineering firm specialized in rolling mills and water treatment solutions. The company offers a wide variety of services ranging from comprehensive plant building, mill upgrades, digital solutions, and technical assistance to consulting and process troubleshooting. The firm has operated in over 100 steel plants situated across 35 countries worldwide and has developed projects for major U.S. steel producers including United States Steel Corporation, Nucor Corp., Gerdau, CMC and BlueScope. Excellence, reliability, innovation and sustainability are the four core values guiding Russula. These values have enabled the company to establish a strong foundation, positioning them as a trusted partner. Russula assists clients in discovering the best engineering solutions for the most complex challenges within the steel sector, equipping them with the necessary tools to transform, scale and build high-performance businesses. With over three decades of experience in the steel sector, the firm has evolved into a global enterprise across four continents. Russula embraces a digital DNA, focused on data, technology and innovation, aiming for a more sustainable, efficient and safe industry. Russula is committed to leading technological advancements, driving the industrial revolution and shaping a brighter future for younger generations.

TMEIC drives industry around the world through a comprehensive offering of unique systems solutions including variable frequency drives, motors, photovoltaic inverters and advanced automation systems for a wide range of industrial applications. Established in 2003, Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp. (TMEIC) resulted from the integration of Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric Corp.’s industrial systems divisions. Our committed approach to collaborative solutions development ensures every industry throughout the globe can benefit from the world’s brightest minds. As a result of this powerful combination of resources, TMEIC is positioned to develop innovative technologies, quickly respond to industry trends and apply solutions to a wide variety of industrial market segments around the world. TMEIC’s success is directly tied to our clients’ achievements. From concept to installation, our experienced team of engineers develop lasting relationships by working hand in hand with our partners to ensure challenges are met and business goals exceeded. TMEIC delivers life cycle support services — from the introduction of the most appropriate systems, through its maintenance and support, to its eventual modernization as technologies advance. At TMEIC, we recognize that our customers’ capacity to safely and efficiently produce exceptional final products is the driving force behind a thriving society and we are committed to seeing our partners succeed.

Silver Sponsors

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA, 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 both integrated and electric arc furnace steelmakers, including producers of carbon, alloy and stainless steel, and associate members who are suppliers to or customers of the steel industry. For more news about steel and its applications, visit AISI's website at www.steel.org. You can also follow AISI on Twitter (@AISISteel), LinkedIn and Facebook.

ANDRITZ designs and builds equipment for the processing of carbon steel, stainless steel, and non-ferrous metal, including pickling lines, coating lines, levelers, cut-to-length lines, slitting lines, as well as continuous or batch furnaces for reheating slabs, blooms, billets, and structural shapes. ANDRITZ also specializes in supplying parts and services for rolling mills and strip processors to meet any and all needs. Our knowledge of metals equipment allows us to supply, inspect and recondition all types of rolls, knives, bearings and other parts. We also provide a wide range of mechanical and electrical components for ANDRITZ equipment as well as for many other brands in the industry. ANDRITZ offers mechanical, electrical, automation and safety rebuilds, and retrofits to make your old equipment better and safer than new. We have extensive experience working on equipment at mills, service centers, processors and fabricators.

Morgan Engineering challenges the possibilities of today by thinking differently. For over 150 years, Morgan has created the innovations that move manufacturing. Through the design, production, and servicing of large-scale industrial overhead and gantry cranes and mill equipment, we continue to provide the solutions to our clients’ most complex material handling needs.

SMS group is renowned worldwide for its forward-thinking technologies and outstanding services in the metals industry. We apply our 150 years of experience and digital know-how to continuously innovate products and processes inside and outside our industry. As a partner for the most demanding projects, SMS accompanies its customers throughout the entire life cycle of their plants, thus enabling profitable and resource-saving value chains. Our mission is to turn metals green and to advance climate-neutral and sustainable metals production. As a global player with German roots and a family of over 14,000 employees, we take our responsibility for our industry and for society as a whole seriously.

SSAB is a Nordic and U.S.-based steel company that builds a stronger, lighter and more sustainable world through value-added steel products and services. Working with our partners, SSAB has developed SSAB Fossil-free™ steel and plans to reinvent the value chain from the mine to the end customer, largely eliminating carbon dioxide emissions from our own operations. We produce SSAB Zero™, a carbon emission-free steel based on recycled steel, further strengthening SSAB’s leadership position and our comprehensive, sustainable offering independent of the raw material. SSAB’s specialty steels portfolio includes several brands and product lines, each with unique characteristics and target applications. These products include Docol®, a lightweight high-strength automotive steel; Hardox®, the leading brand of abrasion-resistant wear steel; and Strenx®, a high-strength structural steel. SSAB has employees in over 50 countries and steel production facilities in Sweden, Finland and the U.S.

YOGIJI DIGI provides world-class, technically superior, highly efficient and affordable flat steel solutions to set up cold rolling mills, continuous galvanizing lines, Galvalume® lines, color coating lines, pickling lines, slitting lines, cut-to-length lines, tube mills, automatic gauge control, automatic flatness control and high-level industrial automation. The out-of-the-box design concepts and relentless efforts in the last decade have allowed YOGIJI-DIGI to become a market leader. Equipment supplied by us has offered our customers the freedom to focus on their core competence and compete with reputed brands across multiple applications. YD also upgrades, revamps and resolves issues in existing lines. We have successfully revamped many old mills/lines for quality, quantity and equipment uptime enhancement. We also undertake upgrades from old DC motors to new AC motors and drives and modernization of the automation systems with custom-built report generation. YD specializes in cold rolling and has developed the Green Cold Rolling Mill®, with annual savings of 3–4 million liters of water on each mill, using the innovative roll design of 4-high and 6-high cold rolling mills. Thicknesses as low as 0.076 mm are rolled on our mills. YD provides single-source 360° solutions to optimize metal yield, minimize energy consumption and enhance output performance. The Digi Impact AGC is the most advanced automatic gauge controller in the world with 3 times more performance to competition offering maximum yield and help them gain market share against competition.