Metals Service Center Institute

What kind of customer demand can you expect in 2025? Find out at MSCI’s 2024 Economic Summit    Join us Sept. 23-24, 2024 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel in Schaumburg, Ill. Do not wait because you can save $300 by registering by Aug. 16, 2024. This summit is the ONLY PLACE where you can get forecasts for END-USE METALS MARKETS, including aerospace, defense, energy, residential and commercial construction, and more. Additionally, your company can generate new leads and build on your relationships within the metals supply chain by sponsoring MSCI’s 2024 Economic Summit. Contact Kathy Spellman at kspellman@msci.org or Julie Thane at jthane@msci.org for opportunities. View the agenda and register here: https://lnkd.in/ee9nn-Ax #industrialmetals #MetalMatters #metals #steel #aluminum

A message from our President and CEO Bob Weidner: I am delighted to share with our members some very exciting announcements about MSCI’s team. First, on July 1 Ann Zastrow returned to our team. She succeeds Monique Combs as our Vice President of Knowledge and Learning.    Many of you may remember Ann, who served MSCI in a similar capacity a decade ago. Among Ann’s many accomplishments at MSCI were the launch of MetalLearn® and our 20-year-old proprietary Strategic Metals Management, which is now accepting registrations for January 2025 and Cohort XVII.    Ann began her career in the steel industry with Inland Steel in labor relations. For the past decade, she has held positions in executive education and professional development at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the College of Lake County. She is a seasoned human resource and education professional with more than 30 years of experience. Ann earned an M.Ed. in adult education and training and has held leadership positions in employee relations, retention, professional development, executive education, compensation and benefits, high-performance organizations, and labor relations. She will work closely with MSCI’s account management team to reach out to HR departments and CHROs as MSCI continues to be a resource for member companies when it comes to human capital management. Ann will leverage her experiences to both enhance our open enrollment programs and grow our dedicated company Knowledge and Learning offerings.    In addition to her Knowledge and Learning responsibilities, Ann will be the liaison to the Tubular Council and to the Central New York, St. Louis, and New York Chapters.    Second, Darci Bertoncello has been promoted to the new position of Director of Chapter Ambassadors and Strategic Reporting. For more than 10 years Darci has served as my executive assistant. Her performance has been exemplary. Darci is totally committed to delivering value to our members and has demonstrated a strong work ethic, innovative spirit, and positive attitude to her work from day one. She has a curious mind, takes on additional responsibilities without hesitation, is a consummate team player, and has exceptional communication and organizational skills.    In this new capacity, Darci will execute the biannual Chapter Leadership Symposium, overhaul our Chapter leadership Manual, develop reporting tools for Chapter Leadership engagement in our thought leadership webinar series, create best practices to help Chapters increase scholarship fundraising, improve programming content, and ensure good governance. She will continue to be a member of our accounting team in the development and upkeep of our board strategic reports and other managerial reports as deemed needed by the President and CEO. Darci also will serve as liaison to the Canadian, Southern California, and Arizona Chapters.    Join me in welcoming back Ann and congratulating Darci.    Cheers!    Sincerely, Bob Weidner

No matter your product line or your position in the industrial metals industry, we all are encountering similar challenges. Gaining insight from industry CEOs will help you minimize risk and maximize opportunity, so join our July 2024 CEO Huddle. On July 30 at 1 p.m. CT, MSCI will welcome JSW Steel (USA) Inc. CEO Rob Simon and Friedman Industries Inc, Inc. President and CEO Mike Taylor for a discussion moderated by MSCI’s own President and CEO Bob Weidner. Among the topics the trio could discuss are how to deal with ongoing supply chain disruptions, how to move the industry to a zero-harm environment, capital investment, and human capital management. Invite your teammates to register! All they need is a company email address to create an account with MSCI. Not sure you can make on July 11? Remember that MSCI’s webinars are recorded. You can listen to this content when you want, where you want, how you want…On DEMAND. Register and you will receive a link to join the live as well as a link to the recorded session. Register NOW: https://shorturl.at/459zz #industrialmetals #MetalMatters #CEOHuddle

Ensuring the safety of your workforce while planning for future challenges is not easy, but it is essential. How can you do it? Start by joining our FREE WEBINAR on July 11 at 11 a.m. CT where you can discover how optimized automated solutions can address safety concerns from the receiving of raw materials to the shipping of finished goods, covering all points of movement in between. CareGo Tek Inc. Chief Commercial Officer Kurt Fowler will discuss: - What it mean to implement optimized automation in a facility - Which product movements can be optimized and automated - What the safety features and benefits of optimized automation are Safety, operations, finance, information technology, engineering, and quality personnel all should attend, but this webinar is relevant for any MSCI member company employees dedicated to safeguarding their employees while optimizing operations. Sign up now: https://shorturl.at/tJKJj #MetalMatters #SafetyMatters #industrialmetals #safety

Are you a member of the Millennial or Gen Z generation working in the industrial metals community? Then we have a FREE event just for YOU! Join MSCI's Forge Ahead movement in Texas for two days of fun, growth and learning focused on forging a championship-level team.    This two-day event, set for August 23-24, 2024 in Dallas, is complimentary and brought to you by MSCI and its generous supporters. Come to all events or the ones that fit in your schedule. The agenda includes: - Networking and learning with tours at Gerdau Midlothian and Delta Steel Technologies - Insights from the playbooks of industry professionals and how to have a Superbowl career in the metals industry - Friday night cocktails and classic bar games - A tailgate party before watching the Cowboys take on the Chargers from a suite at AT&T Stadium Register early! There are capacity limits at each event. Want your company logo featured on event promotions, MSCI communications, and social media channels before, during, and after the event? Contact Kathy Spellman at 847-485-3018 or Julie Thane at 847-485-3014. Just registering? Do so here: https://lnkd.in/emMEdfRF #industrialmetals #metals #MetalMatters

Know your team’s worth! Guessing at fair or even competitive compensation is a lose-lose situation. Information helps improve negotiations, allowing employers and employees to arrive at an agreeable rate more quickly. MSCI's Compensation Surveys provide a clear, complete picture of industry salaries and wages. From retirement benefits to time off, get a comprehensive and exclusive view of industry-wide compensation-related statistics in our latest survey, which looks at compensation for sales, administrative, management, and other professional roles. The report includes breakdowns by annual sales and region. In addition to providing aggregate data on participating MSCI member companies, a total of companies in the warehouse/distribution sector participated in the survey. Find it here: https://shorturl.at/eEWgw #compensation #hiringnegotiations #industrialmetals #MetalMatters

MSCI is excited to welcome two new members to our industrial metals community. Joining us recently are: - High Strength Plates & Profiles Inc., which was founded in 1985, is one of Canada’s top suppliers of high-strength and abrasion-resistant steel products. Its product specialization and years of experience have allowed the company to pioneer and implement value-added solutions for all its clients’ steel needs. - Northlake Steel Corporation, which was founded in 1977, has more than 150,000 square feet of production and inventory space that holds more than 12 million pounds of steel on hand. Committed to quality, the company’s goal is to continue growing its business by providing our customers with world-class products and services. Want to learn more about our community and how MSCI helps strengthen it? Visit www.msci.org for info. #industrialmetals #MetalMatters #metals #MembershipMatters

REMINDER: APPLICATIONS FOR MSCI'S SAFETY INNOVATION AND CULTURE IMPROVEMENT AWARDS IS JULY 15! The Safety Innovation and Culture Improvement Awards are open to ALL MSCI members — service centers, mills, and affiliates. These prestigious awards recognize companies that, over the last year, have demonstrated the type of continuous improvement needed to foster a zero-harm environment. - The Safety Innovation Award, which is given to companies that have implemented a new tool, process, or device that has kept employees out of harm’s way or reduced occupational risk or exposure. - The Culture Improvement Award, which is given to companies that have undertaken the rigorous work needed to affect a true change in an organization’s mindset around safety. These awards provide inspiration to the whole industry and, we believe, also will drive deeper engagement between you and your teams by giving them the recognition they deserve for working toward a SAFETY ALWAYS culture. Apply now: https://shorturl.at/cgJMW #safety #SafetyMatters #MetalMatters #industrialmetals

MSCI's Metals Activity Report (MAR) for May 2024 determined steel and aluminum shipments fell across the board from May 2023 to May 2024. Log on to our website to download the latest report and get additional details across all tracked product categories. Don’t get MAR yet? You're missing out! With accurate, reliable data, the MAR is an indispensable monthly analysis of metals service center shipments and inventories for intelligent strategic and tactical planning. The report’s accuracy and timeliness are respected and widely used throughout the industry as well as by analysts at major banks and the Federal Reserve. Data packages may be available to you based on your company’s membership status and type. The MAR is available to MSCI members and some categories of non-members. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gRuHmATf #industrialmetals #steel #aluminum #servicecenters #MetalsActivityReport #MetalMatters

The Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) joined the Alliance to Fight for Health Care and nearly 70 other business organizations, employers, labor unions, patient and disease advocacy groups, and healthcare stakeholders to send a letter reminding members of Congress about the value of employer-provided healthcare coverage and explaining why it should remain tax-free. The letter comes after several legislative proposals have been offered or considered in the U.S. House and Senate that would tax employer-provided healthcare coverage even though employee-sponsored healthcare coverage has never been recognized as income to the employee and would result in increased taxes on millions of American families. The letter argued, “In addition to broad societal benefits and underpinning the stability of our healthcare system, the current tax-favored treatment of employer-provided health coverage delivers critical value for employers, workers and their families, and the federal government itself.” Taxing benefits would not lower the cost healthcare, the letter said, but would reduce healthcare access. For workers and their families, employer-sponsored healthcare promotes healthcare access and ensures they are treated equitably wherever they live or work. Indeed, the cost of healthcare services often varies significantly based on location. If employees were taxed on the cost of their healthcare coverage, there would be a disproportionate impact on Americans who live in areas of the country where costs are higher. The letter also noted U.S. workers values these benefits. Polling has indicated 96 percent of workers view their employer-provided health insurance as important to them. Employees also are satisfied with the coverage they receive from their employers. The Alliance to Fight for Health Care is a broad-based coalition comprised of businesses, patient advocates, employer organizations, labor unions, healthcare companies, consumer groups, and other stakeholders that support employer-provided health coverage. The Alliance works to ensure employer-provided coverage remains an available and affordable option for working Americans and their families. Read the letter here: https://lnkd.in/gutebk93 #industrialmetals #healthcare #healthinsurance #MetalMatters #HealthMatters #AdvocacyMatters