BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Singapore (20 - 22 May 2019)

Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Committee: latest market insights by SMR Group analyst

The Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Committee meeting on Monday, 20 May at 13.30 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore will feature a senior market analyst from the well known SMR Group.

Robert Messmer joined the SMR team in 2013. His professional career in the steel industry dates back to the year 2000, when he started an apprenticeship as a machining technician at the worldwide leading powder metallurgy company PLANSEE, Austria. In his 10-year career at PLANSEE, Robert worked in several departments of the company and gained expertise in mechanical processing of refractory metals. Before joining SMR, Robert studied Business and Management with a focus on marketing & sales and human resources at the Management Center Innsbruck in Austria and pursued a part of his studies at the University of San Francisco in the USA. Robert conducts stainless steel seminars for industry freshmen and publishes regular reports on the European stainless steel industry. He is also responsible for raw material issues and consulting projects for the stainless and specialty steel industry on a global scale.

SMR is an independent market research company which provides market intelligence for the specialty steel industries. Market studies, market reports and the organisation of conferences & seminars are their core competences. The results of their research projects are based on a vast scale data-collection, comprising present and historical information about the supply side (production), trade (exports and imports) and demand side (consumption) of the specific steel products in question.