Sunday 4 November 2007
18:30-20:00 Welcome Cocktail Reception at the Garden International Hotel, Taiyuan hosted by Tisco and CRU Events
Monday 5 November 2007
Riding the Dragon - Exciting Futures
08:00 Registration
Welcome by Lynette Northey, CEO, CRU Events
Chairman - WELCOME ADDRESS
Pekka Erkilä, EVP – Production Operations, Outokumpu Oyj
Session 1: Stainless in China –
Today and Tomorrow and the Global Outlook
WELCOME SPEECH
Chuanping Chen, Chairman, TISCO
PRESENTATION – TAIYUAN AREA
Governor tbc
STAINLESS GLOBAL OVERVIEW
Jason Kaplan, Senior Consultant, CRU
Coffee Break
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - KEY ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE SOLVED FOR THE CHINESE STAINLESS STEEL SECTOR IN THE FUTURE
Li Cheng, Professor, Executive President, Stainless Steel Council,
China Special Steel Enterprises Association
HOW TO OBTAIN RAW MATERIALS TO PRODUCE STAINLESS STEEL
Liu An, President, Stainless Steel Branch, Baosteel
ANALYSIS OF HEAD PLATE SECTOR TO FORECAST CHINESE STAINLESS STEEL CONSUMPTION
Wang Jian, President, Yixing Beihai Co.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - MOVING TOWARDS MORE FERRITICS
Philippe Richard, Head of Core Business Project, ArcelorMittal Paris Stainless Europe
Luncheon hosted by BHP Billiton -
Presentation on the Ravenscroft project
Session 2: Working in and with China
ROLE OF TISCO IN INTERNATIONAL STAINLESS STEEL TRADE
Xiaobo Li, President, TISCO
PUSHING THE LIMITS IN STAINLESS STEEL MAKING WITH INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
Dr Yuyou Zhai, General Manager MT IS, Siemens China
PRESENTATION
Jiang Li, Country Manager - China, DHL Industrial Projects
RUSSIAN STAINLESS STEEL MARKET AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES FOR COOPERATION WITH CHINESE PRODUCERS
Victor Kovshevny, CEO, Rusmet Group
PRESENTATION
Tony Lockley, Managing Director, Lockley Stainless
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
Brad Beauchamp, Vice-President, Global Stainless Corp.
Afternoon Tea
Networking Meetings Session
16.15 - Hedging Workshop: How to use commodity exchanges to control metal price risk and protect profit margins
Presented by Christopher Stobart, Managing Consultant, CRU Strategies
Recent experience in the nickel market has reminded us that metal prices can fluctuate violently and unpredictably. The nickel price has ranged from $4.00/lb up to $24.00/lb and back to $11.00/lb in the past five years. Fluctuations in price on this scale have a major impact on the profit margins of nickel producers, stainless steel producers and other consumers of nickel. Forward contracts on metal exchanges (such as the London Metal Exchange) can be used to control this risk, and secure profit margins.
This workshop will provide an introduction to the use of forward contracts on commodity exchanges, and show how nickel and stainless steel producers can use these contracts to protect themselves against price risk.
For further information on this free Hedging Workshop please contact CRU Events on tel: +44 20 7903 2402 or email: crumetalsevents@crugroup.com
Evening Reception and Dinner at the Jinci Hotel, Jinci Temple
hosted by TISCO
Tuesday 6 November 2007
Riding the Dragon - Exciting Futures
09:0 Chairman - OPENING ADDRESS
Vanessa Davidson, Managing Consultant – Nickel & Chrome Group,
CRU
Session 3: Raw Materials
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF STAINLESS STEEL INDUSTRY - LEADERSHIP MOVING TO ASIA
Nirmal Mathur, Director, Jindal Stainless, and President, Indian
Stainless Steel Association
PRESENTATION
Tu Kun, General Manager, Ferroalloy Dept, Minmetals
AN INVESTOR'S VIEW OF THE NICKEL & STAINLESS STEEL MARKETS
Austin T Brown, Touradji Capital Management LP
PRESENTATION - MOLYBDENUM
Tony Warwick-Ching, Principal Consultant, Stainless & Alloy Steel,
CRU
Coffee Break
NICKEL - THE BULL MARKET AND THE SUPPLY SIDE RESPONSE
David Wilson, Senior Economist, Norilsk Nickel
CHINESE STAINLESS STEEL DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS AND YANTAI ORIENTAL'S LONG TERM PROSPECTS
Zhao Lei, Vice President,
Yantai Oriental Stainless Steel Industry Co., Ltd.
Luncheon
Session 4: End-Users
STAINLESS STEEL DUST RECYCLING - A CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE
Asier Zarraonandia Ayo/Ulf Helgeson/Marc Wauters, Managing Directors, Befesa Zinc Group
EXPECTATIONS FROM THE KITCHEN APPLICATIONS SECTOR
Li Xiaobo, General Manager, China Cookware Co. Ltd
CONSOLIDATION IN THE STAINLESS INDUSTRY
Philip Tomlinson, Managing Consultant, CRU Strategies
Afternoon Tea
Close of Conference
Networking Meetings Session
15:50 TISCO Plant Visit at their HR hot/cold rolling mill in Taiyuan
(10 minutes drive from Garden International Hotel, the visit will last for 1-1.5 hours)
Wednesday 7 November 2007
Social networking tour to Datong Yungang Grottoes - from 07.30 to 18.30