Votorantim Metais – Steel Business Unit has significant share in the market, ranking among the country’s three largest producers of long steel for civil construction and the industry. Its production plant, located in Barra Mansa, in the sate of Rio de Janeiro, started operating in 1937 at an initial capacity of 3.6 thousand tonnes/year of pig iron.

Over the following years, the company made investments in quality and production, increasing this capacity to 250 thousand tonnes/year by 1970.

The Steel Business Unit of Votorantim Metais has always sought to anticipate the market through innovation. Following a sustainable development model, it came to use, as from 1995, recycled steel as its main raw material – a process that contributes for the preservation of natural resources.

In 2002, the company finished the modernization process of its wire and bars laminator, equipment responsible for more than 75% of the plant’s productive capacity, which is currently of 450 thousand tonnes/year of finished products.

In 2003, the company built a new continuous teeming line, thus taking an important step in its modernization process. In the following year, Votorantim Metais announced investments of US$ 200 million to increase its production to 850 thousand tonnes/year by 2007.

Barra Mansa Unit
Avenida Homero Leite, 1051
Barra Mansa - RJ - ZC 27313 191
Phone: 55 24 3324-9655
www.votorantim-metais.com.br