Noon

Opening Remarks — Alyssa van Delden

Appoint Minute-Taker— Alyssa van Delden

Membership and Attendance — Anna Voss

Review Previous Minutes — Alyssa van Delden

AIST Staff Announcements — Anna Voss

Present Technology Committee Awards — Alyssa van Delden

Charles W. Briggs Award

“Optimization of Fe Feedstocks for EAF Steelmaking”; Mark Trapp; CIX LLC., Jeremy Jones, CIX LLC., Heiner Guschall, SICON GmbH, Dan Pflaum, Gamma-Tech, LLC

John Bell Award

Mike J. Strelbisky; Tallman Technologies Inc.

Review and approve or amend mission statement— Alyssa van Delden

Vote to approve or amend mission statement

To serve and support the ESTC members and the iron/steel industry by providing forums for technical information exchange, personal development and networking. The Electric Steelmaking Technology Committee will accomplish this Vision by driving industry excellence during our technical training seminar, AISTech annual conference and technically focused committee meetings.

Discuss nominations for Board of Director Level Awards—Distinguished Member and Fellow, Sendzimir Award, Fairless Award and Steelmaker of the Year nominations — Alyssa van Delden

Develop committee objectives for next year — Alyssa van Delden

Meetings & Locations

Monday 31 August 2026 Myrtle Beach, SC
Co-located with the Globetrotters Annual Meeting

Wednesday 3 February 2027 Memphis, TN
Co-located with the Modern Electric Steelmaking training, should this meeting be in the morning 8-noon or should it be in the afternoon while the participants are on the tour?

Technical Topic to be discussed and possible presenters 

Modern Electric Steelmaking—A Practical Training Seminar

1-5 February 2027 Memphis, TN
Tours of either Big River Steel 2 or Hybar

Elect New Officers — Alyssa van Delden

Chair— Justin Zwick, CMC Arizona

Vice Chair— Bob LaRoy, SDI Butler

Papers Chair— Dan Bourlotos, Carbide Industries

Membership Chair— Garrett Trafzer, Nucor Steel-South Carolina

Education Chairs—Alex England, Tokai Carbon & Arun Chockalingam, Nucor Steel Decatur

Roundup Chair— Rachel Schmidt, Berry Metal & Lou Valentas, Systems Group 

Young Professional Chair—Leena Yejin Shin; Nucor Steel-South Carolina & Mike Clark; HWI

Decarbonization Liaison—Kyle Vanover, SDI Butler

Justin Zwick to present Chair Plaque to Alyssa Van Delden for her year of service to the committee

Discussion Items

Any other items to discuss please contact the committee chair Alyssa van Delden

Next Meeting— Justin Zwick

Monday 31 August 2026 Myrtle Beach, SC

Co-located with the Globetrotters Annual Meeting

Closing Remarks— Justin Zwick

1:30 p.m.

Adjourn