The country's steel park began the 90's
with 42 state and private companies, five of them coke-integrated,
nine vegetable coal, two integrated for direct reduction
and 27 semi-integrated, along with independent producers
of pig iron and vegetable coal, totaling 120 blast furnaces.
The establishment of these production units was concentrated
mostly in the State of Minas Gerais and in the Rio-São
Paulo axis, due to the proximity to regions plentiful
of raw materials used for producing steel, or to locations
with high consuming potential.
