CRU Golf Outing

CRU will be hosting a shot gun golf outing at the Pete Dye designed Ruffled Feathers Golf Course. As the only Dye-designed golf course in Illinois, this premium golf jewel has been hailed with Best New Course honors from Golf Digest and Golfweek magazines. The genius of this must-play course is evident in the holes themselves; exquisitely sculpted fairways, strategically placed bunkers and water, and beautifully framed and contoured greens. If you love playing a championship caliber on a well-conditioned golf course, you will want to play at Ruffled Feathers. The shot gun start will begin at 1:30 PM. Players may choose their own foursomes. Beverage carts and box lunches will be provided.

Registration & Opening Reception (Wyndham Drake Hotel)

Trends in Renewable Energy

Opportunities will be presented for renewable energy technologies including the potential for use of copper products. Renewable energy technologies include solar, wind, hydropower, biomass, geothermal and ocean energy. The discussion will include current and projected electricity generation capacities as well as the hurdles that must overcome to expand market share.

Trends in Automotive Electronic and Electrical Applications

Driving is an very difficult and complex task, but Americans seem to be doing a better and better job at it. Now come gadgets, construction zones, wife, e-mail, telephone, WI-FI, OnStar, Lane-Keeping, Adaptive Cruise Control, Travel Nanny, and Officer Radar. All they want is a few neurons of your brain-time. You read this morning (with the paper on your knee so you can read it and keep it below, you hope, the eye-level of Officer Radar) that help is on the way. The last wave of gadgets—the ones that were “just what I needed”—fell short of their promises. But, there is a new wave that is coming, and it is the Big One. Sign me up.

BREAK (The Terrace)

The Impact of Emerging Markets on Global Copper Supply and Demand

The presentation will provide an overview of the current and future copper supply and demand situation in two of the most important emerging copper markets, India and China. It will bring together information from current statistical work of the ICSG Secretariat and two recently finalized major market studies commissioned by the ICSG.

Development and trends in raw material supply, mining and metal production, semis production, semis capacity, and major end use areas will be highlighted. While providing insights into sectoral patterns and anticipated growth, the information will provide the basis for comparing structure and output of the copper sectors in the two Asian countries.

The Chinese Century

The rise of China represents both an opportunity and a threat to the US firms. What is behind “The China Price”, what are the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese model, and what does it all mean to US manufacturing?

LUNCHEON (Three Oaks Room)

Challenges in Marketing Antimicrobial Copper Alloys

An examination of the challenges to: comply with U.S. EPA requirements, identify the most important products for the marketplace, assure manufacturers that copper alloy products have significant market and profit potential, convince healthcare facility decision-makers of the need for antimicrobial copper alloy products, develop positive perceptions regarding appearance and maintenance.

Material Usage in Building Products, Trends in the Commercial and Residential Construction Markets

In this presentation, the major trends in residential and commercial construction will be discussed. This will include type of materials being used, why the industry has selected them, and what changes are likely to occur over the next several years. The talk will then discuss the ramifications of these trends for the copper industry.

BREAK (The Terrace)

The Global Interconnect Market

Growth in the global connector industry will be analyzed by region and product category. The Top 10 worldwide manufacturers will be reviewed and a forecast for worldwide shipments by market sector. Copper-based alloys utilized by North American connector manufacturers will be covered in detail. In addition major trends affecting the connector industry will be discussed, including: shift of connector production to China, trends toward high density of smaller pin pitch connectors, the effects of price erosion on the industry and vertical integration into subsystems by U.S. connector manufacturers.

Advancing Energy Efficient Vehicles

What’s the big fuss about fuel for vehicles? Is it limited resources, lack of diversity, susceptibility to disruption from terrorists or natural hazards, or something else? Are there options or is this end of our culture as we know it? Dr. Farrington will speak about our present transportation situation and future transportation options.

RECEPTION (The Terrace and Patio)

How We Compete

What will it take to make globalization work for Americans?  Suzanne Berger,  MIT professor and author of How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing To Make It in Today's Global Economy will present results of a study on outsourcing and off-shoring carried out in 500 companies in North America, Japan, China, and Europe. From the front lines of globalization, the talk provides a concrete approach to the future of jobs, industries, and innovation in the United States.

Inflation, Inflation Expectations and Monetary Policy

Sandra Pianalto, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and a voting member on the Federal Open Market Committee, will discuss the crucial role that inflation expectations play in the success of monetary policy. She will explain the difference between inflation and relative price increases and will discuss why keeping inflation expectations anchored is vital to our nation's prosperity. Finally, she will outline a number of measures that are used to gauge inflation expectations.

BREAK (The Terrace)

Substitution and Economization in the Global Copper Market

This presentation will look at current examples of substitution and economisation in use in selected copper product applications in different regional markets. Where is the evidence, what is the impact and which end use applications are most at threat? What are the effects of $3/lb copper on the global fabricating industry, and what does this mean for the future.

“The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can Too,”

The Triple Bottom Line is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement. Andrew Savitz chronicles both the real problems that companies face and the innovative solutions that can come from sustainability. His is a hard-line approach to bottom-line fundamentals that is re-making companies around the globe.