ISRI Announces Copper/Brass Panelists

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) has announced the panelists for the organization’s Sept. 14, 2006, Copper/Brass Roundtable at the Commodities Roundtable Forum in Chicago.

Michael Friedman of Scrap and Waste LLC will serve as moderator, while the following have been confirmed as panelists:

• David Threlkeld of Resolved Inc., a trader in nonferrous metals, currency and debt instruments and an advisor on hedging and trading;
• Warren Gelman of Kataman Metals Inc., who brings 49 years of management experience in the metals industry, including executive positions at leading metals companies;
• Daniel Schwab of Metallic Recovery Group, who has been involved in the secondary copper refining and trading business for nearly 30 years as a consumer, trader and processor of all different types of copper bearing related material; and
• Bill O’Neill of LOGIC Advisors, who has more than 30 years of experience in commodities research. He has made more than 500 appearances on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg and the major networks and is frequently quoted financial publications.

The afternoon session “Funds and Fundamentals: Copper’s Conundrum” will look at the copper industry “in the context of its global and regional supply/demand picture and the influence of market speculators and institutional investors on the industry in the second half of 2006,” according to a press release from ISRI.

The Copper/Brass Roundtable will be from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 14 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare.

The Commodities Roundtable Forum will also include an Electronics Roundtable, “Mining the Precious Metals from Electronic Scrap: Hype or Hope?” Wednesday afternoon. Before the Copper/Brass Roundtable Thursday will be the Ferrous Roundtable, “Global and Domestic Steel: Stronger Longer?” The forum concludes Friday with the Aluminum Roundtable, “Funds and Fundamentals: Anxious Aluminum.”

Registration, lodging and schedule information is available at www.isri.org/commodities.