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Study Group: Stainless Steel Experts(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 93

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on topics such as aerospace & defense, building materials, chemicals, construction, oil & gas, timber & forest products, utilities & power generation, mining, agriculture, industrial equipment and transportation, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Craig Cates
Consultant
CRAIG CATES

Craig Cates is an independent consultant in the airlines and aerospace industry. Prior, Mr. Cates was General Manager of Supply Chain at Delta Airlines. He oversaw a supply chain budget of $500M and was responsible for sourcing raw materials, finished goods, technology, outsourced activities, services,...

James May
Managing Director
May Commodity Associates

James May is the Managing Director of May Commodity Associates, a firm providing strategic advice to clients in the steel, steel raw materials, metals, and industrial minerals sectors. Prior, Mr. May was Director of Steel Research Metal Bulletin. He has extensive contacts within the global steel industry,...

Gerard Buhrer
Owner
Spectrum International Sourcing

Gerard Buhrer is the Owner of Spectrum International Sourcing, an independent consultancy firm providing consultancy services for the manufacturing of aerospace engine parts. Mr. Buhrer has more than 38 years of experience in providing technical assistance to international suppliers and selecting suppliers...

Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLCJack Lifton
Managing Director
Jack Lifton, LLC

Jack Lifton is an Independent consultant, focusing on the sourcing of nonferrous strategic metals. His work includes exploration and mining, and the recovery of metal values by the recycling of not only metals and their alloys but also of metal-based chemicals used as raw materials for component manufacturing....

Roy Berlin, President and Chief Executive Officer , Berlin Metals LLCRoy Berlin
President and Chief Executive Officer
Berlin Metals LLC

Roy Berlin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Berlin Metals, a privately held, Chicago based metal service center engaged in the value added processing and distribution of flat rolled carbon steel and stainless steel products in slit coil form. Berlin Metals was founded in 1967 and its...

Joshua Kalter, President, Network Metals LLCJoshua Kalter
President
Network Metals LLC

Joshua Kalter is the President and Owner of Network Metals; a metals, ores, and alloys import and distribution company based in New York. Mr. Kalter has more than 22 years of experience in trading metals, ores, and alloys in international trading firms. Specifically he has trade expertise in the non-ferrous...

James King, Independent Consultant, James KingJames King
Independent Consultant
James King

James King is an independent consultant and economic advisor to industrial metals and raw materials industries. Mr. King started his consultancy on a part-time basis in 1981, specializing in aluminum and steel, and it has since become a full-time occupation. The main clients for these services are metal...

Gene Plavnik, President, Heat Technologies Inc Gene Plavnik
President
Heat Technologies Inc

Gene Plavnik is the President at Heat Technologies. Mr. Plavnik has more than 25 years of experience in managing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), boilers, water heaters,commercial and residential appliances, heat pumps, standby generators, lawn mowers,engine driven pumps, small engines...

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Recalls: The True Costs of Outsouricng Both The Part And The Quality Control | 09-01-2008
Analysis of: GM recalling 944,000 vehicles | www.forbes.com
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

The Detroit Three followed the lead of Jacques Nasser at Ford in the early 1990s and began to eliminate internal supplier quality management and PPAP, production parts approval processes. After internal engineering supplier monitoring had been made into a supplier self approval regime came the outsourcing...

Bob Lutz Seems to Have Learned Doublespeak From George Orwell. Failure is Success, Says Lutz. | 08-29-2008
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

On what basis do OEM American carmakers deserve federal loan guarantees? Is it because their legacy costs weren't their own fault? Is it because they made lower quality vehicles than their foreign competitors? Is it because they sent American jobs overseas so that the unemployed workers they created...

Minor Metals Markets Are Not Transparent And Hedging Non Exchange Traded Metals Requires Great Skill | 08-26-2008
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

End users of minor metals for critical purposes, i.e., for purposes that are not economically or technologically possible without a particular minor metal, can hedge the required supply of metal by financing the producer's output, through offtake agreements, for example, and by being the buyer of last...

Have Chrysler's Cereberus Accountants Uncovered Systemic Fraud In The OEM Automotive Supplier Cost-Cutting Agenda, Or Is It Just Hypocrisy They Have "Found"? | 08-20-2008
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

In just this year Cerberus' accountants may have inadvertently exposed the seamy side of cost cutting in the American OEM automtoive industry: 1. Overcharging by non-competitive politically correct suppliers, 2. Underbidding by suppliers desparate to keep their own factories open, and now 3. Short-weighting...

Is Palladium Overpriced Even At Less Than $300/Ounce? | 08-18-2008
Analysis of: Timminco CEO Blamed For Norilsk Woes | www.financialpost.com
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

If we believe the news out of Russia then there must be palladium aplenty residing in the vaults of, or under the control of, Norilsk, the world's largest palladium producer.

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