2024 Agenda
Indoor Exhibit Hall Hours
Tuesday, September 17th - 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday, September 18th - 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Outdoor Exhibition and Live Demo Hours
Tuesday, September 17th - 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, September 18th - 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Times, sessions and speakers are subject to change.
7:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Registration Open
North Wing Foyer
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Welcome Networking Refreshments
North Wing - Exhibit Hall
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Indoor Exhibits Open
North Wing - Exhibit Hall
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
The Benefits of Using an Auto Dismantler
Session Room A
Learn the advantages of automated auto dismantling with the Kobelco auto dismantler. Discover how this powerful tool can revolutionize your operations by efficiently recycling valuable vehicle parts, reducing costs, and generating new revenue streams.
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Digital Payments: Maximize Profits, Minimize Risk
Session Room B
The most important part of your business - paying & getting paid - is inefficient, risky, and expensive. Join GreenSpark Software's CEO Gordon Driscoll to understand how digital payments can reduce risk and maximize profits for your operation.
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Material Handler Maintenance
Session Room A
This informative session shares why material handlers need proper maintenance. Includes important topics as maintenance intervals, daily maintenance checks, no maintenance results and more will be covered.
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Creating Value for a Metals Recycling Business
Session Room B
This unique session will examine how owners of metals recycling companies can maximize the value of their company, whether planning to sell, build or build by acquisition for future generations. Hear from a distinguished panel of experts and bankers.
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Outdoor Exhibition and Demo Area Open
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Networking Lunch
North Wing - Exhibit Hall
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Steel Mill Focus: The Changing Steel Landscape
Main Stage
This roundtable discussion looks at the steel industry's efforts to decarbonize and the future of green steel.
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Scrap Supply Focus: The Changing Steel Landscape
Main Stage
This discussion will follow a steel industry session discussing the industry’s movement towards carbon reduction and green steel and how the metals recycling supply chain plays an important role in their evolution.
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM
Opening Networking Reception
North Wing - Exhibit Hall
8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Bourbon Tasting Reception (RSVP Required)
Churchill Downs
RSVP is required, space is limited. Click here for more information.
7:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Registration Open
North Wing Foyer
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Indoor Exhibits and Outdoor Exhibition and Demo Area Open
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Welcome Networking Refreshments
North Wing - Exhibit Hall
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
New Frontiers to Drive Growth
Session Room A
This unique session will look at innovative ways to capture growth for companies in the metals recycling industry. It will share how you can leverage sustainability and ESG initiatives to become more valuable to companies that are generating the scrap materials we recycle.
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Nonferrous Recovery and Refinement
Session Room B
Explore advanced nonferrous metal recovery and refinement techniques with STEINERT. Covering two key stages: recovery, utilizing sizing equipment, eddy currents, air systems, and sensor sorters; and refinement, employing XRT for density-based separation and XRF for intrinsic separation of heavy metals. STEINERT examines how these technologies work together to maximize recovery rates, improve product purity, and meet industry specifications, highlighting the importance of proper sizing and multi-stage separation in extracting value from nonferrous metal waste streams.
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Drive Down Operating Costs!
Session Room A
John Sacco of Sierra shares insights on how to protect your machinery investment, drive up productivity and decrease operating costs with this informative session. He’ll discuss shears, balers on yard operations.
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Mobile Shears: Beyond the Basics
Session Room B
Optimize the performance of your excavator mounted mobile shear.
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Networking Lunch
North Wing - Exhibit Hall
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Aluminum Focus: A Changing Landscape For Production and Supply
Main Stage
Hear melt shop owners talk about their investments in capacity growth and how they will affect the aluminum metal packages they buy and learn how to be a preferred supplier.
