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9–12 September 2023Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnete Creek • Orlando, Fla., USA

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Host Mill: Nucor Steel Florida
Golf Course: Disney's Lake Buena Vista Course

 

Saturday, 9 September

4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.    

Registration and Welcome Reception

Sunday, 10 September

7:30–8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.–Noon

Technical Exchange Meetings – Meltshop and Rolling Mill
Operators Only

Noon–1:30 p.m.

Lunch for Morning Participants

1:30–4:30 p.m. 

Rolling Mill and Meltshop Focus Groups
All registered delegates welcome.

Monday, 11 September

8–9 a.m.

Continental Breakfast      

8:30 a.m.–Noon

Technical Presentations

Noon–1 p.m.

Lunch

12:00 p.m.

First Bus Departs for Plant Tour of Nucor Steel Florida (boxed lunch provided)

1:15 p.m.

Second Bus Departs for Plant Tour of Nucor Steel Florida

Meltshop Presentations

9 a.m.

Modernized Billet Caster at Nucor Steel Kankakee: Lessons Learned
Eric Collins, Nucor Steel Kankakee

9:30 a.m.

Safety Walking Surfaces
Garrett Page, Steel Dynamics Inc. – Flat Roll Group – Butler

10 a.m.

NSSC VTD Shop Upgrade
Dylan Clark, Nucor Steel-South Carolina

10:30 a.m. 

Networking Break

11 a.m.  

Overview and Update on Mega Mill #2
TBD, Big River Steel
 

11:30 a.m. 

TBD
 

Rolling Mill Presentations

8 a.m.

Safety at Our Greenfields
Alacyia Fields, Nucor Steel Lexington

9 a.m.

Roughing Mill Octagon Pass Conversion
Shane Hirst, Nucor Steel Florida

9:30 a.m.

Rolling Mill Multistage Modernizatin
Ryan Neskar, Gerdau Manitoba Mill

10 a.m.

Networking Break

10:30 a.m.

Phase II Mill Upgrade
Scott Heath, Commercial Metals Company – Alabama

11 a.m.

Improvement Facilitator
Jeff Roemer, Gerdau Midlothian Mill

11:30 a.m. 

Smart Guide Process
Rex Walters, Nucor Steel Sedalia

Tuesday, 12 September

6:30 a.m.

First bus departs for golf outing at Disney's Lake Buena Vista Golf Course

6:45 a.m.

Second bus departs for golf outing at Disney's Lake Buena Vista Golf Course

7:00 a.m. 

Beakfast and Arrival for Golf Outing
Disney's Lake Buena Vista Golf Course

8 a.m.

Golf Outing Shotgun Start

1–2 p.m.

Lunch
Hilton Signia Orlando Bonnet Creek

Joint Presentations

2 p.m.

Regional and Global Economic Trends in the Steel Industry
Chris Kuehl, Armada Corporate Intelligence

3 p.m. 

Virtual Tour of Nucor Steel Florida
Darciso Castilho, Nucor Steel Florida

6 p.m.

Reception

6:30 p.m.

Fellowship Dinner
Keynote Speaker: Drew Wilcox, Vice President/General Manager, Nucor Steel Florida

   

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