Regional Metal and Steel Trading Conference to open in St. Petersburg

Regional Metal and Steel Trading’2010, 3d All-Russian Conference organized by Metal Supply and Sales has opened today in St. Petersburg. The conference has gathered together more than 100 top managers and specialists from 60 steel producing and trading companies.
The conference will cover:
• Summing up results of 2009;
• Forecasts and prospects of development of regional metal and steel markets in 2010. Will 2010 see the recovery of the economy and the demand in the domestic market?
• Crisis management recipes of leading Russian metal and steel trading companies;
• Trade policy of producers in 2010;
• Peculiarities of metal and steel products consumption in the regions in the nearest future;
• Changes in the geography of regional metal and steel trading.
On the first day, 10 February representatives of Severstal, OMK-Steel, TMK, Metinvert-Eurasia, Petrostal, Inprom, Comtech etc. will speak at Sokos Hotel Olimpic Garden. On the second day, 11 February the delegates of the conference will visit Severstal Steel Service Center-Kolpino, Izhora Pipe Works, Agis-Nevsky, and Inprom-St. Peterburg facilities.