Behind the Booth: ReMA 2025 Roundtables Sponsor Previews

From Wednesday, September 10, to Friday, September 12, traders, processors, and consumers across the U.S. and abroad will congregate in Chicago for the ReMA 2025 Roundtables. This two-and-a-half-day event features massive networking opportunities in tandem with expert market analysis.

Are you excited to explore the ReMA 2025 Roundtables but not sure where to start? No problem. ReMA News spoke with several of the event’s top sponsors for a sneak peek at what attendees can expect from their presence at Roundtables and how to find out what these companies are looking forward to at the event.

Joel Kahn – Senior Vice President, Traxys

What can Roundtable attendees look forward to from Traxys at the event?

We’re coming to Roundtables with an array of product lines for the aluminum industry. We own and operate a production site in Mississippi that produces hardeners—manganese aluminum, chrome aluminum, iron aluminum brickettes, so there’s a presence with the aluminum sector through our hardener business. We have an aluminum trading desk that deals with primary aluminum, they’ll be meeting with customers and business partners related to that product line.

There’s also the Pure Aluminum project in Michigan, which is a greenfield project onshoring domestic production. Our involvement with the project is exciting. It’s a green, onshoring initiative, and we’ll be getting into the recycled materials space. The goal to supply critical materials to sectors including the steel, aluminum die casting, and primary aluminum industries, with a focus on producing Secondary Aluminum Spec Alloys, Recycled Secondary Ingot (RSI), Wrought Alloys, and Aluminum Deoxidizers.

Under the terms of the partnership, Traxys will manage global sourcing and finance, marketing, logistics, sales, and customer relationships, while Pure Aluminum will operate its state-of-the-art production facility in Saranac, Michigan.

We’re selling magnesium, manganese, and other feedstocks. Diecasting is the third output from Pure Aluminum and that one is newer to us so we’re working to build a robust team and presence in the diecast sector.

We’re very excited about the project and have been welcomed by consumers with open arms. I believe there’s a place for Pure Aluminum in the market and I’m very excited about it.

What is your role at Traxys?

Within Traxys I oversee see some of the businesses I mentioned earlier and informing the partnerships. Regarding the partnership I oversee the Traxys side to ensure that we’re living up to the partnership whereby we establish relationships with vendors who deal with recycled materials (scrap vendors), onboard them properly, and get credit lines established to them using the balance sheet and the funding from Traxys to buy the recycled materials in the best way possible, so the individual units of recycled material get negotiated and all the purchases will go through my review.

I also will oversee the sale side and onboarding to get the customers to properly recoup the funding for the recycled materials as they get processed at Pure Aluminum. It will be sold under Traxys to end users so overseeing the selling and marketing and the pricing.

What are you looking forward to at Roundtables?

I’m looking forward to meeting with consumers of the products I mentioned earlier. We’re scheduling a lot of face time with folks and taking advantage of the conference rooms at the venue and scheduling as many meetings as possible. I’m looking forward to seeing customers and getting to talk about whatever they want whether they’re consuming magnesium or looking for demand on the manganese side or on the RSI side or what have you. Our team that deals with recycled materials will also be at Roundtables and we’re excited to see the market for those recycled products.

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