FARO Meeting: Ferrari’s prancing horse salutes the leading players in the automotive supply chain
The 41st Meeting of FARO, the International Commodities Club, will be staged in Maranello (Modena, Italy) at the Museo Ferrari between Thursday, March 26th; and Friday, March 27th. Works are instead about to open on Thursday at 8,30 am.
The automotive markets’ performance and their impact on the supply chain are expected to dominate the panelists’ speeches. Following Founder Paolo Kauffmann’s and Antonio Ghini (Director of Museo Ferrari) Opening and welcoming remarks, Fonderie Zanardi Spa’s honorary chairman Franco Zanardi will discuss of Innovation in the automotive foundry business from a market leader’s perspective. Two different Panel discussions will take place before lunch (at 1,30 pm). The first one is to be anchored by Goran Djukanovic, Aluminium market analyst and columnist for the British magazine Aluminium Times together with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) Chief marketing officer Walid Al Attar; and with Mark White, Chief engineer - Advanced body, at Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. The debate is expected to focus on the issue Automotive sector: new products and projects that drive the metals demand. «The automobile producers», as Goran Djukanovic commented, «are diligently working to satisfy regulatory requirements aimed at 2017 and beyond, where the concern for greenhouse gas emissions has caused fleet-wide Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) targets to double from 2012 to 2025. It is clear that vehicle light-weighting will play a critical role in meeting these requirements».
The second panel is going to face such subjects as Risk management activities for metals consumers in the automotive industry thanks to the London Metal Exchange’s Head of business development Matthew Chamberlain. FARO Club founder will be back at 2,30 pm with its traditional Live intermarket analysis about Commodities markets and stock exchanges: technical analysis and correlations, preceding the Non-ferrous metals and Steel and raw materials Outlooks respectively held by Robin Bhar (Head of metals research at Société générale Corporate and investment banking) and Emanuele Norsa, Managing editor at Platts Sbb. After the coffee break and the one-to-one meetings session, scheduled at 4 pm, works will continue with the usual Kerb Time, a panel discussion aimed to express the market situation of the industry, presented by the members of the FARO Board and focused on industrial commodities (copper and alloys, zinc and lead, primary and secondary aluminum, steel and scrap) as well as on energy. FACE, the Federation of aluminum consumers in Europe, will close the first day in Maranello introducing Luiss University (Rome) recent study of EU downstream sector. On Friday, March 27th, works will open at 9,00 am with TLSG International Advisors President Arrigo Sadun’s presentation about The international economic scene: Europe - America - Asia - China. Currencies: the volatility’s impact on the importexport activities of manufacturers. Risk and opportunities related to a new methodology for trading on Forex market: examples and best practices is the title of FARO’s final session, under the patronage of AITI - Associazione italiana tesorieri d’impresa and with the participation of Davide Giovanelli (Corporate treasury manager at KME Group and AITI President); Andrea Guarneri - Trader, Kommodities Partners Sa – and, last but not least, Fabio Montelatici, an AITI Council member and Treasurer at Bracco Imaging Spa.
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