Special Steels - Gerdau

About Gerdau Sidenor
Gerdau Sidenor is a company, leader in the european steel
industry for the production of special steel long products and
one of the main producers of forged and cast pieces. It is also
an important supplier of cold finished products in the European
market.
The company, part of Gerdau, one of the mayor producers of
steel in the world, has production plants in Spain (in the Basque
Country, Cantabria, Madrid and Cataluña).
Our steel production capacity is around one million tonnes/
year, mainly for the automotive industry, machines and capital
equipment, shipbuilding, civil, defence, energy, mining and
petrochemical sectors.
In addition, Gerdau Sidenor has one of the largest R & D centres
in the steel industry in Europe; it undertakes technological
developments to optimize processes and products, in our facilities
as well as in those of our customers.
Environment
Environmental Management System
A big area of concern for Gerdau is in its performance in the
environment area. This concern is reflected in its daily practices,
in the investments to upgrade equipment and in the programmes
to stimulate environmental awareness.
Following these principles, all the Company´s plants adopt
an Environmental Management System (EMS, prepared in
accordance with ISO14.001, audited annually by an external
organisation, that establishes the analysis of hundreds of
industrial activities).
The aim is to guarantee the monitoring of the process
throughout, from the use of raw materials through the industrial
process and product distribution to the correct destination of
waste/co-products generated in the process.
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