Become a Member of MSCI
Membership Features & Benefits
MSCI offers three classes of membership that, together, make the institute accessible to almost any company in the metals value chain. There are many reasons to join.
Active Members
Active members operate metals service centers, or facilities that inventory metals, provide first-stage fabrication services (cut-to-length, slitting, etc.), and distribute metals to a wide range of manufacturing customers, further processors, or smaller service centers.
Associate Members
Associate members are companies that produce metals – steel, aluminum, stainless steel, alloys, copper, brass, nickel and more. Some associate members also produce metal in semi-finished form, such as tubes, perforated metals products, or special grades.
Affiliate Members
Affiliate members are companies that provide goods and services to metals service centers, such as manufacturers of processing equipment, trucks, racks, buildings, computers, or software, as well as companies that provide services, such as IT, financial, or human resources services.
International members
MSCI also offers Active, Associate, and Affiliate membership to companies that are located outside of North America.
Top 10 Reasons to Join the Metals Service Center Institute
1. MSCI is leading the charge to save North American manufacturing.
More than 2,500 people, numerous Members of Congress, members, customers and others have attended the MSCI Town Hall Meetings on manufacturing since we launched our campaign to support North American manufacturing in 2003.
With MSCI aggressively championing the cause of manufacturing, the Bush administration has directly confronted our Asian trading partners on the need for free and fair global markets and an end to currency manipulation. We were a founding member of the China Currency Coalition, which filed a Section 301 petition seeking a WTO investigation of China’s currency policies.The pro-manufacturing charge continues in 2005 – good for every company in the manufacturing value chain.
2. MSCI publishes the industry’s best thought leadership publication, Forward magazine.
Published six times a year, Forward focuses on issues, information, insight and innovation or the metals industry and its leadership. It’s free to MSCI members and their customers.
3. MSCI provides the industry’s best and most efficient networking.
MSCI is committed to programs with robust business agendas and ample opportunity for cost-effective interaction between suppliers, customers and others. With 30 chapters, product division meetings, special conferences for CFOs and HR executives, and premier events such as the Economic Summit and Annual Meeting, all members benefit from the forums MSCI provides.
4. MSCI education programs are topical, timely and cost effective.
MSCI offers industry-specific education and training programs, including a series of workshops that can be conducted at your company site. Through a special arrangement with the Olin School of Business at Washington University, MSCI also offers top-level executive education seminars tailored to the metals industry. Whether your interest is operations, finance, sales, or general management, whether your markets are local or global, MSCI has an education program for you.
5. MSCI research is the industry’s best – predictive, comprehensive and based on real metals industry operations.
MSCI proprietary research, most of it available to members only, is the single most authoritative resource on metals shipments, inventories, the market outlook and critically important benchmarking data on all facets of metals and service center businesses. www.MSCI.org has become the single most important portal for metals-related data, from producers through all major end-user markets.
6. MSCI members are the industry’s leaders.
Chances are that you already know our members, from the top aluminum and steel producers in the U.S. and Canada to the leaders, large and small, in metals distribution. These are the companies and business leaders that you and your people can learn from and associate with through your MSCI membership
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7. MSCI is a catalyst for industry growth and cooperation.
MSCI focuses on the common interests of companies and groups throughout the manufacturing value chain, and not just the interests of one type of metal or processor. That’s why members of the former National Association of Aluminum Distributors found it attraction to merge NAAD into MSCI. Through MSCI, we form a common front on vitally important issues that affect us all.
8. MSCI is financially secure.
In the last three years, MSCI has restructured, reorganized and refocused on programs that can make a real difference in public policy, metals markets and the well being of its members. In 2003 and 2004, MSCI added to member equity in the best back-to-back years in its history..
9. MSCI has a membership option for just about everyone.
We offer three membership types, in domestic and international flavors – Active, for traditional metals service centers; Associate, for companies that make steel, aluminum and other industrial metals; and Affiliate, for companies that provide products and services to the metals industry. If you are involved with the metals industry, we have a place for you.
10. Be part of the energetic, century-new MSCI.
MSCI is nearly 100 years old, but in spirit and direction, it’s all new. We invite you to be part of our fresh energy, outstanding programs, high-return industry research and spirit of innovation. It’s time to join a great trade association.
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