Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading independent investment bank and financial advisory firm focused on the global middle market. The firm advises private and public corporations and private equity groups on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, capital markets, financial restructurings, valuations and opinions, real estate, and other strategic matters. BGL has investment banking offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and New York, and real estate offices in Chicago, Cleveland, and San Antonio. The firm is also a founding member of Global M&A Partners, enabling BGL to service clients in more than 35 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.bglco.com.

As the only deepwater seaport located directly on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Port of Brownsville is strategically positioned to efficiently serve and connect industries across North America and beyond. This logistical advantage has catapulted the Port of Brownsville as the major gateway for steel into Mexico, moving more than 5 million tons of steel commodities in 2023. The movement of cargo across the border is made easy thanks to the port’s direct connectivity to USMCA interstate corridors, offering a fast route to non-congested international bridge crossings. The Port of Brownsville also claims conceptual ownership of Texas’ first overweight corridor, allowing trucks crossing the border in either direction to load to the legal weight limits of Mexico – 125,000 pounds – (45,000 pounds heavier than domestic limits). The port’s foreign trade zone remains a leader in exports, ranking second in the nation with exported goods valued at over $8.2 billion. The FTZ has consistently placed in the top three for exports out of 193 FTZs nationwide since 2012.

Founded in 2016, Metalshub has become the leading provider of software solutions for procurement and sales of raw materials in the metals & mining industry. Metalshub is providing a negotiation and auction solution that is specifically designed for trading of raw materials, such as metals, minerals, chemicals, and consumables.

With over 1,500 companies using Metalshub and over several billion US$ in negotiated transactions/contracts, Metalshub has extensive experience in creating successful sales/procurement events. Building strong relationships with Metalshub’s client base its software solutions have been co-developed with customers and continuously improved. As a result, the implementation and roll-out of Metalshub is fast and efficient.

BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO) is one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with nearly $1 trillion in total assets as at September 30, 2023. BMO is a top 10 US Bank and the 5th largest commercial lender in North America.  BMO provides commercial banking (asset based and cash flow), equipment financing, commodity financing and capital market solutions for companies of all sizes to support organic growth, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, re-financings, turnarounds, and seasonal or growth working capital requirements.  BMO is a long-standing provider of debt and equity capital provider and equity research coverage to the metals space, including to mills/producers, metal service centers, scrap metal recyclers, metal trading companies, metal fabricators and specialty metals companies.  Our global team of professionals are dedicated to the metals sector and excited about the prospects for the industry.  
To learn more, visit www.commercial.bmo.com/metals

The recycling of obsolete and discarded materials is nearly as old as humankind itself. While Recycling Today does not go back quite that far, our commitment to the recycling industry dates back to 1963 and the founding of Secondary Raw Materials magazine. Recycling Today provides broad coverage of the recycling industry and offers a depth of market and commodity information along with news, industry developments and company profiles of recyclers. With a twice-weekly e-newsletter, specialty newsletters targeting the fastest growing segments of the industry and a website that is constantly updated with information, news and tools, Recycling Today has a depth of coverage that taps into decades of experience while also recognizing the continual evolution of the industry. www.RecyclingToday.com

Steel Times International is a must-read for anyone working within the global steel industry. An English language journal, each issue contains a digest of global news, events, statistics, and stockholding news, as well as more detailed technical articles, company and country profiles, conference reports and regular regional economic briefings. The target readership are managers and CEOs in the steel industry, but it is also widely read by stockholders, members of research organisations, technical consultants and business consultants.