Gerdau is the leading company in the production of long steels in the Americas and one of the major suppliers of specialty long steel in the world. It started to expand its operations more than a century ago and now has an industrial presence in 14 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.Gerdau company has operations in nearly all Brazilian states, producing long and specialty steel. The products, marketed and sold across five continents, supply the civil construction, industry and the farming and livestock sectors. These products are present in our everyday lives in a variety of different formats: they serve as the structural basis of houses, shopping centers, hospitals, bridges and hydroelectric plants; they make up part of power and telephone transmission towers, are used as raw materials in car parts and are also utilized in farming activities.With shares listed on the São Paulo, New York, Toronto, Madrid and Lima stock exchanges, Gerdau seeks efficiency and growth with maintained profitability, while remaining permanently committed to sustainable development.