Event: The 9th Asian Stainless Steel Conference
	Time: 4 - 5 June, 2014
	Address: The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong
	International Commerce Centre, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
	 
	The conference will cover areas from basic industrial (like 
stainless steel) to downstream value add products and innovation. Key questions to be answered:
 
	Will the government act against the overcapacity in the stainless steel industry?         
	State owned versus Private mills - will we see privatizations in China?            
	How will the Chinese production costs (energy, labor, currency, environmental, etc.) develop in the near term?            
	How will the price gap - Chinese vs. World - develop in 2014?            
	Will the government focus move from basic industrial (like steel) to downstream value add products and innovation?          
	Will the government act against nickel pig iron as a polluting product?             
	After dumping duties in Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam: Will Asia become the most protectionist market in the world?           
	When will the industry consolidation in Asia begin?           
	China exports 2.5 mill t of stainless steel and products approx. 3 mill t of stainless steel today which is more than 1/3 of the production. When and where will these volumes peak?