Invitation To Join Indian steel Market conference on March 21

Be part of the second edition of Indian Steel Market Conference on Wednesday 21st & Thursday 22nd March 2012 at the Hotel Leela Kempinski in Gurgaon Delhi NCR

As only 7 days are left, you are requested to understand the takeaways from this unique event to assess what you would gain by joining the same

The conference is designed to understand critical issues before the Indian steel sector by addressing the ground realities in several regions like China, CIS, and Europe etc as well as in depth analysis of steel user segments like Infrastructure, Auto, and Power etc in India.

YOU CAN INTERACT WITH CAPTAINS OF INDIAN STEEL SECTOR

The event will start with opening address from Mr S Machendranathan, Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor to the Ministry of Steel. The captains of Indian steel mills including Mr AP Chaudhary CMD of RINL, Mr Dilip Oommen MD & CEO of Essar Steel, Mr Jayant Acharya Director Sales & Marketing of JSW, Mr VR Sharma Deputy MD & CEO Steel Business of JSPL and Mr NK Nanda Chairman of NMDC would share their vision on "Indian Growth Story - Progress, Impediments and Future." SAIL chairman and VP TATA Steel are also expected to join this panel. You will get a chance not only to hear them but also interact with them to find answers to your queries

YOU CAN UNDERSTAND GROUND REALITIES IN DIFFERENT REGIONS

In the post lunch session on Day 1, you would have the chance to understand the region specific developments in last 4-5 years, current situation, critical issues and outlook for coming years. Dr Edwin Basson Director General of Brussels based World Steel Association would chair this session, where Mr VB Garg Head Export Network & Sales of ArcelorMittal International would present the global scenario, Mr Wu Wenzhang President of Shanghai SteelHome Chinese scenario, Mr Manoj Mohata Head of CRISIL Research Indian scenario and Mr Udino Giannini former CEO of ArcelorMittal Italy would talk about European situation. This would be followed by similar presentations on CIS by Mr Dmitriy Sorokin Head of Strategic Planning Department of Severstal Group, on MEA by Dr Hilal Hussein Tuwairqi Chairman of Al-Tuwairqi Group & Chairman Director of Arab Iron and Steel Union, on SEA by Mr Fazwar Bujang Chairman of Indonesian steel mill PT Karkatau & Chairman of South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute and on Latin America by noted expert by Prof Germano Mendes de Paula Professor of Economics at Federal University of Uberlandia in Brazil.

STEEL DEMAND DRIVERS IN INDIA - VIEW FROM USER SEGMENTS

The Day 2 will cover the steel demand drivers deciding the health of Indian steel sector. A senior person from Planning Commission is invited to share the overall plans for next 4-5 years as the government vision & investments will propel the steel demand in India.

Than most part of Day 2 shall be spent in understanding some of the important steel user segments as their health and growth would outline the prospects for Indian steel. You would agree that it is essential to look deeply in the current situation as well as outlook for important steel user segments to gauge the prospects for steel demand in India.

Some of the prominent and noted experts like Mr VK Mehta Director Sales & Marketing of JSPL, Mr Shoeb Ahmed Former Director Commercial of SAIL & Chairman of Impetus and Dr AS Firoz Chief Economist of Economic Research Unit of Steel Ministry would chair these sessions for meaningful outcome. The plan is to cover following user segments, subject to confirmation from few speakers who have been invited

1. Construction, Infrastructure & Housing

Mr SM Roy, CEO Construction, Lanco Infra (I)

Mr Kishore Mohanty CEO, Gammon Infra (I)

2. Auto

Mr SK Gupta, GM, Supply Chain, Maruti Suzuki (C)

Mr ND Joshi, TATA Motors (C)

ACAMA (I)

3. Capital Goods & Machinery

IMTMA (C)

4. Power & Power Transmission

Mr Trilok Singh, DGM Corporate Planning, NTPC (C)

Mr BS Pandey, Executive Director, HVDC, QA&I, PGCIL (C)

5. Railways

Railways Board (I)

Mr Sunil Rishi, MD, Braithwaite (C)

6. Pipeline (I)

7. Prefabricated Steel Structures

Mr Anshul Singhal, Director, JSW Severfield Structurals Ltd (C)

8. Packaging

Mr Sanjay Bhatia, Managing Director, Hindustan Tin Works Ltd (C)

9. High Strength Steels

Mr Jitendra Patel, Consultant & Managing Director, CBMM (C)

10. Special Steel

Mr Jayant Sathe, ED, JSW Salem Works (C)

11. Stainless Steel

Mr Yatinder Pal Singh Suri, Country Head, Outokumpu India Pvt Ltd (C)

YOU CAN GET EXPERT VIEW ON CRITICAL ISSUES & CHALLANGES

The conference would end with a session "Critical Issues & New Challenges" Indian steel sector is facing with Mr UK Mittal Former Director of SAIL as session chairman. While Mr Sushim Banerjee Director General of INSDAG would address how to increase "Consumption in Rural Areas", Mr AK Pandey ED CRMG SAIL would talk about "Raw Material Security". A noted expert has also been invited to outline the hurdles in "Project Implementation".

YOU WOULD GET TO NETWORK WITH

A&T Mineral Exports Co

ABCO Steel International Pvt Ltd

ACAMA

Acerinox India Pvt Ltd

ACG Worldwide

AK Multi Metals

Al Tuwarqi Holding Company

All India Induction Furnaces Association

Anglo American Service (India) Pvt Ltd

Arab Iron and Steel Union

ArcelorMittal India

ArcelorMittal International

Ashok Steel Tubes

Balaji Bright Engg

Bhagyalaxmi Rolling Mill Pvt Ltd

BHEL

Bhushan Steel Limited

Braithwaite

Builders Association of India

CARE

CBMM

CBMM Technology Suisse and International Metallurgy Ltd

Concast Group

Coutinho & Ferrostaal GmbH

CRISIL Research

Dhamm Steel Service Pvt Ltd

Digi Drive

Dinesh Trading Company

Dongbu India Pvt Ltd

Eclat Energy Pvt Ltd

EMR India

Ernst and Young

ERU Ministry of Steel

Essar Steel

Execution Noble

Far Eastern Group

Federal University of Uberlandia

Ferro Tech India

Gammon India

Gaurishankar Electrocastings (P) Ltd

Glencore India Pvt Ltd

Global Impex Company

Global Supply Chain Guru

Godrej & Boyce

Hindustan Tin Works Ltd

Hinustan Steel Construction Limited

Impetus Exim Pvt Ltd

Indian Steel & Metal Corporation

INSDAG

Interfer Steel and Commodities Pvt Ltd

Iron Steel Scrap & Shipbreakers Assn

ITI India

J G Steelk Ind

Jamna Auto Industries

JCO Gas Pipe Limited

JP Morgan

JSPL

JSW Ispat

JSW Severfield Structurals Ltd

JSW Steel

Kalpataru Limited

Kalyani Carpenter Special Steels Ltd

KazStroyService Infrastructure India

Khandelwal Agencies

Kibar Dis Ticaret

Kirby Building Systems India Limited

Kobelco Trading India Pvt Ltd

Lakhotia Brothers

Macsteel International

Manaksia Limited

Marathwada Auto Components Pvt Ltd

Marubeni Itochu Steel India Pvt Ltd

Maruti Suzuki

Mather and Platt Pumps Ltd

Mayur Steels

Metal Expert Group

Metinvest Group

Metso Minerals India Pvt Ltd

Minera Steel and Power Private Limited

Monnet Ispat & Energy Limited

Motilal Oswal Securities

Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone

Narendra Chaudhary Consultancy

Narindra and Narindra steel Corporation

National Steel and Agro Industries

NCDEX

Neeraj Jain & Co

NMDC

Outokumpu India Pvt Ltd

Paul Wurth

Planning Commission

Power Grid Corporation Of India

Radhey Raman Steel Supplier

Radial Europe Ltd

Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd

RINL

S & S Network System

Safin Gulf SZCO

SAIL

SAIL BSP

Samarco

Samshi

Sapna Traders

Saurabh Poly Pipe pvt ltd (jsw)

Seven Seas Ispat

Severstal Group

Severstal International

Shanghai SteelHome

Shenzhen Sunrich Machinery Co Ltd

South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute

SSS Loha Marketing Pvt Ltd

Standard Chartered

Steel Grace India Pvt Ltd

Steel Services india

Steelcom India Pvt Ltd

Steelcom S A M Monaco

Stemcor

Strategic Analysis India Pvt Ltd

SunCoke Energy

TATA International Limited

Tata Johnson Controls Automotive Ltd

TATA Steel

TATA Steel Processing and Distribution

Team Steel

Tempel Precision Metals Products Pvt Ltd

Topworth Group Of Companies

Trafigura India Pvt Ltd

Traxis India

Vikas Projects Pvt ltd

Worldsteel Association

Wudpools Export

YOU CAN REGISTER AS DELEGATE NOW!!!!

You pay only Rs 18,000 to join this mega event.

You are illegible for group discount

Registration fee includes Conference Documentation, Lunches, Cocktails & Dinner and Refreshments only. It also includes ST.

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Source - Global Business Connect

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