Aperam South America
| Aperam South America SA
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1944 |
| Seat | Belo Horizonte |
| management | Carl Landuydt |
| sales | 2.1 billion reals (approx. 600 million EUR ) |
| Branch | Mining industry |
| Website | brasil.aperam.com/en/ |
Aperam South America is a Brazilian steel producer based in Belo Horizonte . The company is the market leader for stainless flat steels in Latin America and belongs to Aperam SA from Luxembourg
history
On October 31, 1944, Athos de Lemos Rache, Amyntas Jacques de Moraes and Persival Farquhar founded the Companhia de Aços Especiais Itabira (Acesita) in Itabira . The aim was to supply the growing Brazilian market with steel due to the increasing industrialization of the country , which had to struggle with import problems at the beginning of the Second World War . In 1965, Acesita first came up with the idea of producing stainless steel . To this end, the German engineer , Heinrich Hellbrügge, was taken under contract.
In 1998 the French steel manufacturer Usinor took over Acesita. After the takeover by Arcelor Mittal in 2007, the company name was changed to ArcelorMittal Inox Brazil . In 2009 net sales were 2.1 billion reals and the company controls 78% of the Brazilian stainless steel market. In 2011 the company was renamed Aperam South America .
activities
Products are mainly stainless steel (2006: 371kT) and silicon steels (GO / GNO) (2006: 187kT). The only plant is located in Timóteo in the state of Minas Gerais . In addition, the company owns (126,000 ha) eucalyptus plantations for the production of charcoal, which is used in the blast furnace process, as well as several service centers such as in São Paulo . Aperam is the market leader for flat stainless steel in Latin America and exports 31% of its production to Asia , Europe and North America .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Our History. (No longer available online.) Aperam, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Antiga Acesita passa por nova mudança e vai se chamar Aperam. In: polox.com. January 26, 2011, accessed November 2, 2016 .
