Gerdau S.a. GGB

What this company does

Gerdau S.A. produces and sells steel products through mills located in Brazil, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay, and through a joint venture in Mexico. It operates steel mills that produce steel in blast furnaces and in electric arc furnaces. The product mix includes crude steel sold to rolling plants; finished products for the construction industry, such as rebar, wire rods, structural shapes, hot-rolled coils and heavy plates; finished industrial products, such as commercial rolled-steel bars, light profiles and wires; and agricultural products, such as stakes, smooth wire and barbed wire. The company has a total of 29 steel producing facilities globally. As of December 31, 2025, its total consolidated installed annual capacity, excluding investments in joint ventures and associate companies, was approximately 15.7 million tonnes of crude steel and 15.0 million tonnes of rolled steel products. Results are disclosed through three geographic business segments: Brazil, North America and South America. Gerdau also has two mines producing iron ore, Várzea do Lopes and Miguel Burnier, located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

Written from the business description in GERDAU S.A.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 13 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.