Gerdau (NYSE: GGB) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Gerdau is a global steel producer specializing in long steel and iron ore, with a strong focus on innovation and sustainability.
Gerdau
Gerdau is a Brazilian multinational steel producer and one of the largest manufacturers of long steel in the Americas. The company operates industrial plants across North America and South America, converting recycled scrap metal and iron ore into crude steel and finished steel products. Its operations encompass mini-mills, integrated steelworks, downstream processing units, and scrap recycling facilities. Its product portfolio serves key sectors including civil construction, manufacturing, automotive, energy, agriculture, and infrastructure. Headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the business produces merchant bars, structural shapes, rebar, special bar quality steel, and semi-finished steel items for domestic and international markets.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Gerdau
- Long Steel and Rebar Products: Production of steel reinforcing bars, merchant bars, structural shapes, and wire rods used in civil construction, commercial real estate, and infrastructure projects across South America and North America.
- Special Bar Quality Steel: Manufacturing of engineered special bar quality steel products designed for demanding automotive, industrial equipment, energy, and defense applications requiring high performance, heat treatment, and precision metallurgical standards.
- Structural Steel and Piling: Fabrication and rolling of heavy structural steel beams, channels, wide-flange shapes, and steel sheet piling utilized in bridge construction, heavy infrastructure, marine structures, and high-rise commercial buildings.
- Semi-Finished Steel Products: Supply of steel billets, blooms, and slabs produced in electric arc furnace mini-mills and integrated blast furnace facilities for downstream rolling operations and external industrial re-rollers.
- Metals Recycling Operations: Collection, processing, and recycling of ferrous scrap metal through dedicated processing yards to supply iron feedstocks for electric arc furnace steelmaking operations and sustainable manufacturing.
- Special and Value-Added Steel Solutions: Provision of fabricated rebar, coiled products, mining grinding balls, pipe, tubing, and customized downstream steel processing services designed for specialized industrial and agricultural end users.
Gerdau executive team
- Mr. Gustavo Werneck Da CunhaMember of Board of Executive Officers, CEO & Director
- Mr. Claudio Gerdau JohannpeterIndependent Vice Chairman of the Board
- Mr. Marcos Eduardo Faraco WahrhaftigExecutive VP of Strategy, VP & Member of Board of Executive Officers
- Mr. Rafael Dorneles JapurMember of Board of Executive Officers, VP, CFO & Director of Investor Relations
- Mr. Cesar Obino da Rosa PeresMember of Board of Executive Officers & Commercial Officer of Gerdau Steel Brasil
- Mr. Wendel Gomes da SilvaMember of Board of Executive Officers and Director of Mining & Raw Materials
- Flavia Dias da Silva de SouzaMember of Board of Executive Officers
- Mr. Carlos Eduardo Vieira da SilvaMember of Board of Executive Officers
- Mauricio MetzMember of Board of Executive Officers & VP
- Mr. Clemir UhleinAccounting Director