Metals Service Center Institute, American Iron and Steel Institute Conduct Annual Meetings in San Diego Next Week

The Metals Service Center Institute, representing largely North American steel distributors, and American Iron & Steel Institute, representing steelmakers, conduct overlapping annual and general meetings in San Diego May 4-6. The bulk of programming that might be of interest to the press occurs on Monday, May 5, and Tuesday, May 6. All sessions will be held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel, One Market Place, San Diego, Calif.

  MSCI highlights from those days include:

  -- Monday, 8:30 a.m., panel on changing parameters of steel production
     and distribution, featuring Daniel R. DiMicco, CEO of Nucor Corp.,
     Maurice S. "Sandy" Nelson, Jr., CEO of Earle M. Jorgensen Company
     (Brea, California), Peter D. Southwick, CEO, Ispat Inland
  -- Monday, 10:15 a.m., panel on the future of North American
     manufacturing, featuring Michael F. Baroody, executive vice president,
     National Association of Manufacturers; Douglas Oberhelman, group
     president, Caterpillar, Inc.; Alex P. Ver, vice president, Advanced
     Manufacturing, Ford Motor Company; John F. Wood, CEO, W.C. Wood
     Company; Vincent J. Buonanno, CEO, Tempel Steel; Alan Tonelson, U.S.
     Business & Industrial Council
  -- Monday, 12:15 luncheon, speaker Dr. John Hillen, military affairs and
     international security commentator and analyst (frequently seen on ABC
     News programs), speaks on "New World Coming:  The shape of the Future
     Political and Economic Environment"
  -- Monday, 3:15 p.m., panel on China and its influence on U.S.
     manufacturing, featuring Peter Marcus, managing partner, World Steel
     Dynamics; Dr. Joseph A. Massey, director, Center for Asia and the
     Emerging Economies, Dartmouth University; John Nolan, vice president,
     Steel Dynamics, Inc.
  -- Tuesday, 10:30 a.m., keynote speaker Wilbur L. Ross, chairman of
     International Steel Group (a major force in consolidation of the U.S.
     steel industry), and chairman and CEO of WL Ross & Co. LLC

Individual news organizations may also find additional subjects of interest elsewhere in the program.

Founded in 1907, the Metals Service Center Institute has more than 400 members operating from about 1,200 locations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and elsewhere around the world. Together, MSCI members constitute the largest single group of metals purchasers in North America, amounting each year to more than 50 million tons of steel, aluminum and other metals, with about 300,000 manufacturers and fabricators as customers. Metals service centers distribute metals and provide first-stage fabrication services.

For more information in advance of this weekend, please see the respective web sites of the two organizations, www.msci.org or www.steel.org .

PRNewswire -- April 30