The Iron & Steel Society's 42nd Mechanical Working and Steel Processing (MWSP) conference was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 22-25, 2000. ISS President Alan Cramb welcomed more than 360 persons. Eleven committee meetings were held at this year's event preceded by a conference short course on non-destructive evaluation techniques in the steel mill and related industries.A special feature of the conference was the Paul Repas Memorial Symposium. The symposium, composed of the four product metallurgy sessions, was held in honour of the late Repas, who worked as a research fellow at U.S. Steel from 1965 to 1998. Sessions included a review of Repas' life work, which involved structural property relationships in high strength steels.Out of 364 registrations, there were 186 international conference attendees. In the technical sessions, U.S. presenters accounted for 30 papers, while international presenters accounted for 68 papers.Successful and well-attended tours to the DoSol Galva continuous hot dipped galvanized and galvanneal line, the operation of which was unfortunately interrupted, and the hot strip mill/roll shop at Dofasco Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, wrapped up the conference.Next year's Mechanical Working & Steel Processing Conference will be held in Charlotte, N.C., October 28-31, 2001.
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