Why Do These People Attend?

Through a sustained, wide-ranging, yearlong campaign, TMS alerts the global metals and materials community to the coming of the TMS 2004 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. The marketing initiatives of TMS support your promotional efforts through:

Print Publications

• JOM, the official publication of the TMS Annual Meeting, which reaches an estimated 30,000 readers each month
• Industry and regionally directed news releases
• Advertisements in leading industry and trade publications.
• Pre-meeting distribution of the exhibition "pre-show" directory.

E-marketing

• A comprehensive event web site with on line registration
• Virtual exhibition spotlighting your products and linking to your website.
• Electronic program and Personal Conference Scheduler
• Monthly promotion in TMS e-News
• Listings and information posted to meeting and trade show web sites outside of TMS.

Direct Mail

• Meeting call for papers mailed to more than 20,000 professionals worldwide; thousands more will access it via the World Wide Web.
• TMS 2004 Annual Meeting & Exhibition advance brochure mailed to more than 38,000 prospects.
• Complimentary exhibit passes to invite your customers and prospects.

Featured Technologies

A comprehensive program focus on these featured technical tracks:

• Advanced Materials
• Electronic Materials
• Extraction & Processing
• Light Metals
• Micro- and Nanoscale Technologies
• Physical Metallurgy
• HOT-TOPIC TRACK: Building MSE Synergies

These tracks will create the perfect audience interested in viewing:

• Air Pollution Control Equipment
• Alloy, rare earth, precious metals, minerals & chemical producers and suppliers
• Aluminum production technology and equipment
• Automation
• Carbon Technology and Supplies
• Casting
• Clothing--Protective
• Coatings, Thin Films and Surface Modification
• Combusion/Furnace Technology
• Corrosive/Surface Treatment
• Engineering, Consulting, Contractors
• Grain Refiners/Hardeners
• HF Measurement Systems--Pot Rooms/Stacks
• Industrial Gases
• Industrial Process Control
• Instrumentation, Measurement, Microscopy Equipment:
  • Electron Backscatter Diffraction
  • Grain Boundary
  • Materials Analysis/Characterizaion
  • Metallographic preparation
  • Nano-mechanical testing
  • Spectoscopy
• Surface Analysis
• Thermophysical properties temperature
  • X-ray Fluorescense
• Lithium processing and applications
• Magnesium production, processes and properties
• Molten Metal Filtration, Pumps
• National laboratories
• Publishers
• Recycling/Scrap Processing
  • Dross Handling
  • Secondary Smelting & Refining
• Refractory & Insulating Products
• Software/Computer:
  • Design
  • Materials Information
  • Modeling
  • Phase diagram
  • Process simulation
  • Thermodynamic calculation
• Titanium production and processing technology