CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

  The new configuration of the Gerdau Group in North America will allow it to take advantage of operational synergies between the units, with the rationalization of the product mix and the programming of the industrial units. As a result, significant benefits will be achieved in terms of the costs of downstream operations and logistics and the improved quality of services to customers.

  The operation as a whole registered a reduction of 20% in the number of bars lost in the rolling mills.