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Current Exhibitors

4GL SOLUTIONS is a family owned, privately held company in business since 1984. We're as much about steel as we are about software - which is one reason why we've become a leading producer of Enterprise Resource Management software specifically designed for today's metals industry. STEEL MANAGER III has been molded by the industry - for the industry. It's the culmination of all our learning and the key to our customer's success.

ADS LOGISTICS, LLC is the premier North American provider of integrated logistics and supply chain solutions to the metals industry.  ADS serves metals producers, traders, processors and consumers by providing customers the opportunity to reduce supply chain operating and transaction costs and increase logistics service quality.  ADS facilitates metals supply chain management by providing customers physical and management services, systems, and expertise. The Company's supply chain management system, LoMaS®, is an application suite that pulls together the various components of supply chain information creating a "glass-pipeline" to all members of the supply chain.  LoMaS®, along with its electronic data interchange functionality, offers customers a comprehensive approach to managing all aspects of their supply chain.

AMERICAN METAL MARKET (AMM) provides daily news and pricing information for the steel, nonferrous and scrap industries. Since 1882, AMM has been the publication of record for the North American metals industry. Industry leaders, decision-makers and purchasing executives at primary metal producers, service centers, metals-consuming end-users, OEM's, manufacturers and recyclers worldwide rely on the publication to assist them through the critical day-to-day decision-making process.

AUTOMATION and CONTROL TECHNOLOGY, INC.  From rising costs to increased competition, Metals Service Center operations face more challenges than ever in today’s marketplace. To stay profitable, they have to make smart decisions. ACT provides on-line thickness and coat weight measurement and control solutions for continuous web process industries using a basic approach: we put our customers first. By listening closely to what our customers need, we can be responsive to each of their individual requirements.

AXIS COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC. (AXIS), a business unit of Made2Manage Systems, is the leading supplier of enterprise software solutions for metals producers, processors, and service centers. AXIS specializes in helping companies leverage information technology to increase revenues, reduce costs, and enable profitable growth. Our AXIOM Enterprise Management System provides comprehensive industry-specific support for all key aspects of the business, from sales, production, quality, and financial management, to integrated web-based customer service, advanced planning and scheduling, and decision support.

BRANER USA is a custom designer and builder of coil slitting, packaging, cut to length and multi-blanking lines ranging in size from 100,000 pounds x 100 inches wide x 5/8 inches thick down to 3,000 pounds x 12 inches wide x .006 inches thick processing high strength steels to dead soft aluminum. With over 600 installations, Braner is the leading choice in high performance coil processing lines.

ENMARK'S Command Center System, dedicated to the Metal Service Industry for over twenty years, automates all facets of a Metal Service Center's business. It is a completely integrated computer system for Metal Service Centers that distribute, process, toll process, or warehouse metal of any kind. The system automates: purchasing, material receiving, sales quotations, sales order entry, shop-floor processing, bar coding, tag tracking, material certification and scanning, production and scheduling, work orders with cutting, integrated multing, scrap and remnant control, coil processing, inventory control/planning, bills of lading, invoicing, sales analysis, production costing/cost of goods sold, accounts receivable and payable, bank reconciliations, general ledger and financial statements.

HE&M SAW manufactures over 70 different models of production band saws for the metal working industry including vertical, horizontal plate, and double column saws with capacities ranging from 12" x 12" to 80" x 80". Material Handling Systems and other time saving features are also available. HE&M Saws are American designed, engineered and manufactured with quality.

The metals appraisal specialty practice of HILCO APPRAISAL SERVICES, LLC, provides reliable gross and net liquidation values, with clear and accurate exit strategies, on metals inventory, production machinery and equipment, real estates and total enterprises. Hilco offers the three most important attributes you can have in a metals valuation: (1) experience garnered over hundres of metals industry valuations for producers, resellers and fabricators; (2) validation of our values through Hilco's own asset disposition groups; and (3) meaningful user-defined appraisal reports, delivered on time.

INDUSTRIAL GALVANIZERS. With 5 plants conveniently located throughout the southeastern United States, Industrial Galvanizers provides high-quality galvanizing, quick-turns and responsive customer service.

INTEROCEAN FINANCIAL GROUP LLC is an investment bank for the metals sector. Mergers and Acquisitions Capital Sourcing Senior advisors with over 50 years experience Serving producers and distributors.

INVERA is the first and largest software company dedicated exclusively to the metal distribution and processing industry. For over two decades, we have been providing our customers with a unique and competitive edge with comprehensive, industry-specific enterprises (ERP) software that maximizes profitability and productivity with minimum implementation costs and balance sheet risk. Our commitment to the industry is endorsed at over 500 locations and over 12,000 users in the US, Canada, Mexico, England, Ireland, France, Italy, Austria, South Africa and South East Asia.

KASTO is the world leader in Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) for bar stock and sheet metal, as well as the premier manufacturer of metal sawing machines. With over 10,000 saws in operation in the United States and over 1,000 ASRS worldwide, KASTO is the single source for all sawing and ASRS requirements.

MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL (MSI) is a designer and manufacturer of industrial weighing and process control solutions. MSI specializes in overhead crane scales and crane weighing systems featuring wireless technology for the Metals Industry.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN offers unique solutions tailored to the metal producing, steel service center, and toll processing market. Our applications are eSolutions; web based and capable  running your business or managing the supply chain. These products include SteelPartner, OpenTrac Director, OpenTrac Enterprise and OpenTrac ManagerTM. IT outsourcing and EDI translation services are also available to lower your costs and maximize profits.

VERTICENT specializes in providing integrated enterprise application software to the metals industry. Incorporating enterprise resource planning (ERP), sales force automation (SFA) and customer relationship management (CRM), internet e-business, and business intelligence solution. Verticent provides a comprehensive yet affordable enterprise business system called ERP Plus designed for the unique needs of metal service centers. Leveraging industry-specific knowledge and functionality, ERP Plus streamlines operations, improves utilization of key assets, increases productivity, and delivers a rapid return on investment.

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