Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement and Votorantim Metals take part in the 44th Brazilian Geology Congress, to be held between October 26 and 31, at Estação Embratel Convention Center, in the City of Curitiba (State of Paraná).

At Brazil's main event in the industry, Votorantim Metals will present mineral exploration projects, an important work front in the Company, which receives R$150 million investments in 2008. This amount is 50% higher than that invested in 2007.
 
Currently, Votorantim Metals has Mineral Exploration offices located in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, in addition to consultants in Argentina, Mexico and Canada. In all, there are nearly 110 employees operating in these countries. The Company’s portfolio totals 68 projects in different development stages for zinc and nickel, out of which 14 are joint ventures of mineral exploration with many companies.
 
Votorantim Metals' highlights in the Congress will be the Brazilian projects of Aripuanã and Montes Claros de Goiás, and of Bongará, in Peru. Visitors will have contact with the material collected during the survey for the Aripuanã (State of Mato Grosso) project and observe 3D images of areas researched in Vazante (State of Minas Gerais).
 
Votorantim Cement will present, during the event, its Extraction area. The Company has 18 mines located in the national territory, which supply its production plants. In addition to limestone for cement, Votorantim Cement also produces lime, agricultural limestone and aggregates. Abroad, it has six limestone mines in Canada and the United States.
 
In addition, Votorantim Cement will select, at its own stand, résumés of Geology professionals to operate in its activities. With the construction and reactivation of new plants – within the Company’s capacity expansion plan – nearly 5,000 direct and indirect jobs will be generated throughout the Country, part of them in this area. There will be an area reserved for professionals to register and apply for positions in the Group.

Data: 10/24/2008

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Metals' mineral exploration projects and job opportunities at Votorantim Cement are highlights in the biggest event of the industry. The Congress will be held between October 26 and 31.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Votorantim Metais;Brasil;Cimento;Exploração Mineral;Projetos;Peru

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement informs that – from this Monday, September 22nd, the Itaú de Minas factory, located in southern Minas Gerais, resumes its maximum capacity operation. The unit, which accounts for provisioning the northern region of the state of São Paulo, had been producing at partial pace in the past weeks due to a scheduled stoppage for mill maintenance. From today on, it resumes full production in three shifts, seven days a week, totalizing 7,500 tons of cement/day.

To meet the huge internal demand for the product in this region and throughout the country, Votorantim Cement has taken some steps:

• Export cement shipments have been called off, prioritizing national provisioning;
• Regulating stock have been considerably reduced, distributing all of the existing production at the cement factories to its customers (these regulating stocks aim to keep market provisioned in the case of factory maintenance);
• Operational logistics has been re-adequated aiming to improve product distribution efficiency and send cement from a factory to production-distant consuming regions.
   
  It is worth pointing out that – in spite of the increase in demand - Votorantim Cement has kept prices unchanged at the plant gate, keeping the same values as in April, 2008. The price increases which occurred in some cases were seen at the distribution chain due to higher demand.
   
  In addition to these immediate-effected actions, the company has announced the biggest investment plan in the Country’s cement industry history: R$ 3.2 billion are being applied in 12 new factories and mills, re-activations, and modernization of existing plants. Altogether, Votorantim Cement will have a 60% increase in its production capacity in Brazil by 2011, leaping from 25 to 39 million tons a year.
   
  The expansion plan has so far comprised reactivations of the factories in Pinheiro Machado/RS, Cocalzinho/GO, and Poty Paulista/PE. The inaugurations of mills in Barcarena/PA and Pecém/CE, the factory modernizations in Santa Helena/SP, Itaú de Minas/MG, Sobradinho/DF, and Rio Branco do Sul/PR – in addition to the beginning of the construction works for the factories in Xambioá/TO, Vidal Ramos/SC, Sepetiba/RJ, Porto Velho/RO, and Baraúna-RN, and production line expansion at the Salto/SP and Nobres/MT units.

Data: 9/22/2008

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement informs that – from this Monday, September 22nd, the Itaú de Minas factory, located in southern Minas Gerais, resumes its maximum capacity operation. The unit, which accounts for provisioning the northern region of the state of São Paulo, had been producing at partial pace in the past weeks due to a scheduled stoppage for mill maintenance. From today on, it resumes full production in three shifts, seven days a week, totalizing 7,500 tons of cement/day.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement, national leader in the sector with a 40% market share, launched yesterday (September 18) the cornerstone of the Vidal Ramos unit, in the countryside of Santa Catarina State. The event counted on the attendance of the Santa Catarina State Governor, Luiz Henrique da Silveira, acting Mayor Zenir Schmitz Boing, Votorantim Group shareholder Fabio Ermírio de Moraes, Votorantim Cement CEO Walter Schalka, and other authorities in the region.
 
The plant, which will start to be immediately built, will begin operations in 2010, with annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons of cement. The estimate is that the new unit will generate 1,200 jobs during works and 600 direct and indirect jobs when fully operating.

In addition to the plant, Santa Catarina State will also count on a mill to be built in Imbituba, on the seacoast, with capacity to produce 300,000 tons of cement per year and add another 180 new direct and indirect jobs. Both operations will require investments higher than R$360 million.
 
The new undertaking is part of the company’s daring investment plan in Brazil, which amounts to R$3.2 billion to the construction, up to 2011, of four new integrated plants, four new production lines already existing, five new mills, in addition to updating, and reactivations of various units. This expansion plan sets forth the increase in the country’s production capacity in more than 60%, increasing from current 25 to 39 million tons per year.
 
Other projects
In addition to Vidal Ramos, Votorantim Cement carries out other big projects. The Xambioá plant, in Tocantins State, has works in progress, with forecast start of full operation in September 2009. The Porto Velho plant, in Rondônia State, and Baraúna plant, in Rio Grande do Norte State, still await license for implementation to start works, which shall begin soon. The conclusion of these plants is forecast for 2009 and 2010, respectively. The four new production lines in the Salto de Pirapora (São Paulo State), Rio Branco do Sul (Paraná State), Nobres (Mato do Grosso State) and Sobradinho (Federal State) plants will be ready between 2010 and 2011.

Among the mills, the Barcarena (Pará State) and Pecém (Ceará State) plants are already operating. Up to the end of the year, the Araty mill (Bahia State) will start operations. The Sepetiba mill, forecast to operate next year, is being built inside CSA – Companhia Siderúrgica do Atlântico, located in the Rio de Janeiro State, with the purpose to use the dregs resulting from the production process of the plant to manufacture cement. Lastly, the Imbituba mill, in the countryside of Santa Catarina State, will begin operations in 2010.
 
Finally, the Cocalzinho plant (Goiás State) is fully operating – it had been inactive for more than ten years – and the main furnace of the Pinheiro Machado plant (Rio Grande do Sul State). The Itaú de Minas (Minas Gerais State), Salto de Pirapora (São Paulo State), Sobradinho (Federal District), Sobral (Ceará State) and Esteio (Rio Grande do Sul State) plants have also undergone modernization, improvement or equipment renovation.
 
Compensatory measure benefits community
The construction of the most modern educational center of the Alto Vale do Itajaí region was the main compensatory measure of Votorantim Cement for the installation of the plant in the city. The Educational Center, comprised of a day care center, basic school, APAE (Association of Parents and Friends of People with Disabilities) school, refectory and sheltered sports court, was delivered to the community of Vidal Ramos at a ceremony also held on September 18.
 
Projected, built and equipped according to edification and installation rules of the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), new Centro Educacional Antônio Goedert – named after a former mayor – has 15,000 square meters among built areas, gardens and children’s parks. The new area, with capacity for more than 300 children considering all edifications: 185 students at school, 60 at the day care center and 40 at APAE.
 
All units have been equipped with the most modern and efficient equipment among educational institutions in Brazil. Multimedia classrooms with home theaters, computers, music rooms, library and convenience area, among other resources. Concerning the APAE school, there are six theme rooms – air, fire, earth and water – with hydrotherapy area, arts workshop, occupational therapy rooms, music and computer room, in addition to the refectory. The furniture has also been developed according to the accessibility rules. For instance, all the tables have special measures, with rounded corners, fixed legs and arm rests, in order to facilitate the access of physically disabled people.

Data: 9/19/2008

Chamada Noticia: With R$360 million investments and conclusion forecast for 2010, new plant will be built in Santa Catarina State, with capacity to produce 1.5 million tons of cement/year.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento;Expansões;Investimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement and Votorantim Institute promote on next 8th. (Monday) the opening class of the Project "Motorista Cidadão" (Citizen Driver) in São Paulo.

The class marks the start of the three first program groups with a total of 60 students. The objective of the course is to qualify young drivers to get the national driver’s license in category D (heavy and load vehicles) and will be divided into two parts: three-month theoretical classes given at Senai Mariano Ferraz (Vila Leopoldina, São Paulo); and two months of practical classes in order to get the license. Subjects such as personal experience, computer, mechanics, building, service, product, excellence, planning and defensive driving will be covered by the course modules.

After the course, the students will be assessed and may be hired by Engemix, Votorantim Cement’s company engaged in the field of concrete. Students who are not selected will get referrals for eventual job opportunities in customers, suppliers, business partners and even competitors of the company.

The selection process took place in the months of July and August and its criteria was based upon academic transcript evaluation, having a National Driver’s License in category B (passenger automobiles) for at least 18 months, and evidence of a monthly family income lower than 2.5 minimum wages. In addition, young people aging between 18 and 29 years will take a theoretical test with Portuguese and mathematics questions, redaction and a group dynamics.

The Program "Motorista Cidadão" has the support of the Secretaria Municipal de Participação e Parceria de São Paulo (Youth Coordination of the Municipal Secretary of Participation and Partnership of São Paulo).

About the Project "Motorista Cidadão"

The "Motorista Cidadão" is a project developed by Engemix, Votorantim Cement’s mark in Concrete Business dedicated to providing professional education and income generation opportunity to young people living in the communities located around the company units. The major objective is to provide young people in the age range of 18 to 29 years with professional qualification to work as concrete mixer’s drivers, thus enabling effective introduction in the labor market. Providing knowledge to enable civically conscious and ethical attitudes, besides encouraging individual and collective social-environmental responsibility are the project drivers.

Data: 9/7/2008

Chamada Noticia: After the course, young people will get a driver’s license for driving heavy vehicles and a job opportunity in the company.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento;Educação;Instituto Votorantim;Responsabilidade Social

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement, leader in the national cement market, is one of the exhibitors of Feiron 2008 (Fair of the Industry of the State of Rondônia) that takes place on 28 and 31 August, in Porto Velho/RO.

During the event, the company will present the project of the cement factory of Porto Velho, that will start operating in 2009. The investment of R$ 110 million in the new unit was announced in 2007 and it is part of the plans of the company for increasing the production capacity – in the whole are being injected R$ 3.2 billion for the construction, enlargement and modernization of factories in the whole national territory.

The unit will have capacity to produce 750 thousand tons of cement a year and it will be responsible for supplying the markets of Rondônia, Acre and Amazon, in addition to supplying cement for the works of the hydroelectric power stations that will be built in Rio Madeira. The new unit will generate 750 workstations during the works and 250 direct and indirect jobs when operating.

Co-processing

The new cement production unit that will be built in Porto Velho will count with an environmental technology related to the use of industrial garbage as secondary source for powering the factory. It is the co-processing, an internationally consecrated technology that makes possible the destruction of industrial residues (mainly old tires) under high temperatures in cement ovens properly licentiates for this end. The technology is used by Votorantim Cement since 1990 to reduce the dependence on fossil fuel (bun of petroleum, in the case of Votorantim Cement) and for the preservation of non renewable natural resources. It is considered a friendlier environmental alternative for the responsible industries, since that it allows for significant reduction in gas emissions arising from the greenhouse effect.

That procedure is practiced in accordance with the regulation Conama 264/99, a law that defines the strict control of the atmospheric emissions in such a way to not commit the quality of the produced cement nor the health of the employees working in the factories and the contour population. According to the legislation, residues can be processed from practically all the industrial segments, such as metallurgy, petro-chemistry, automobile, metal, paint, packing, paper and tires.

Nowadays, 10 factories of Votorantim Cement carry through the co-processing: Rio Branco do Sul (PR), Cantagalo (RJ), Sobral (CE), Nobres (MT), Itaú de Minas (MG), Sobradinho (DF), Cipasa (PB), Pinheiro Machado (RS), Corumbá (MS) and Salto (SP). Just in 2007, the company achieved a record volume of about 400 thousand tons, practically the half of the mean co-processed volume in Brazil of approximately 800 thousand tons (that, in its turn, is equal to 30% of the total of industrial garbage produced annually in the Country).

The activity is part of Votorantim Cements' commitment with the sustainable development of its businesses. The company is recognized in Brazil and abroad for the investments in environmental programs and development of new technologies for reducing carbon gas emissions.

New factory Porto Velho (Rondônia)
Target Market: Rondônia, Acre e Amazon
Sum of the investment: R$ 110 million
Production capacity: 750 thousand tons/year (full capacity in 2009)
Direct and indirect jobs: 750 in the works and 250 in the operation
Onset of operation: 2009

Data: 8/26/2008

Chamada Noticia: Unit will have technology to carry through co-processing and to take advantage of industrial garbage as fuel. Production capacity will be of 750 thousand tons of cement to supply the area and the works of the hydroelectric power stations.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento;Expansões;Investimentos;Meio Ambiente;Projetos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cimentos and Instituto Votorantim will accomplished next Wednesday, August 13, the inaugural class of the bricklayers' course of the Program Future in Our Hands in Osasco, in the region of Great São Paulo.

With partnership of SindusconSP (Construction Trade Union of São Paulo), of NGO A CASA É SUA and Senai (National Service of Industrial Learning), Votorantim Cimentos intends to qualify, altogether, 50 new bricklayers with age group between 18 and 29 years. The course will have a 200 hs duration, divided in theoretical and practical classes for technical qualification. After the conclusion, the students will receive direcion for beginning to work in civil construction companies.

The Program Future In Our Hands is focused on the youth insert in the labor market through professional training. It started to count with Instituto Votorantim's support in 2005, two years after being created by Votorantim Cimentos. Since its beginning, the Program already qualified more than 8-thousand professionals and, along 2008, it should qualify more one thousand young bricklayers in the whole Country.

The event will count with the presence of the partners of the program and executives of Votorantim Cimentos.

Future in Our Hands
Convicted that the investment in the youth's transforming power in the present assures the future, Votorantim Cimentos invests more than R$ 7 million a year in social actions intended towards education and the insertion of youths with low income in the labor market. For the Program Future in Our Hands will be destined in 2008 more than R$ 1.8 million.

Future in Our Hands qualifies youths as between 18 and 29-years old as professionals for the labor market of the civil construction. The program results from the strategic cooperation between Votorantim Cimentos and Instituto Votorantim. It exists since 2003, and it has already qualified more than 8 thousand people in all the regions of the Country.
The objective of the Program is the professional qualification with support to the youths ingression in the labor market.

Through partnerships, Votorantim Cimentos hopes to collaborate for the placement of at least 50% of the students in the labor market. The youths also take part in activities that handle themes, such as: ethics, citizenship, rights and duties, work and venture capability, a fact that provide them with additional preparation for the challenges of the labor market. These contents are part of the module called Common Nucleus, with workload of 32 hours.

Since 2007, the practical part of the course is accomplished in the community itself where the recruited youths live. The students have the opportunity to work initially in small reforms, such as the one of a day-care or a classroom.

The registrations can be made in the municipal districts where the Program is accomplished, with the partner technical schools. They are the ones that are also in charge for the student selection, in partnership with NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) and local Trade Unions. Each group is made up by 25 students.

In addition to the professional qualification, the Program foresees the delivery, at the end of the course, of a kit with the basic tools (safety glasses, PVC gloves, plumb line, bubble level, aluminum bricklayer's square, bricklayer's trowel, mortar board and measuring tape) in order to make easier the ingression of these young professionals in the market.

Data: 8/8/2008

Chamada Noticia: The Program Future in Our Hands offers technical training and professional direction for youths for the labor market of the civil construction.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento;Instituto Votorantim;Responsabilidade Social;Trabalho

Conteúdo:

The Votorantim Group was one of the 25 that were paid tribute to in the ceremony held yesterday (July 07), in celebration of the 35 years of Exame’s [magazine of Editora Abril publishing house] Biggest and Best ranking. Those tributes were delivered to the companies for standing out along the years in which the award was granted. In the event, the Best and Biggest of 2007 were also announced in the main sectors of the economy.

In the special edition of the magazine, delivered at the ceremony, Votorantim published an announcement with focus on the Group’s innovative profile.

The companies Votorantim Cements, Votorantim Metals, Votorantim Pulp and Paper and CBA also figured in Revista Exame’s Biggest and Best ranking.

The magazine starts to circulate on July 10, containing a retrospective on the financial performance of the country’s biggest companies.

Data: 7/8/2008

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Group was among those paid tribute to in the ceremony that celebrated the 35 years of the Biggest and Best award, by Revista Exame [Exame Magazine]. The mention was delivered to the corporate groups that stood out along the years.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Brasil;Corporativo;Alumínio;Celulose;Cimento;Papel;Prêmios e Reconhecimentos;Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement inaugurated – on June 26th – its new Distribution Center (DC) in Campinas. The enterprise – considered the company's largest and most complete DC received a R$ 6-million investment, and replaces the former one located in the downtown area. The New Distribution Center, located at the Campinas Industrial Center, on a street parallel to Rodovia dos Bandeirantes (Bandeirantes Highway), will have an annual 336-thousand-ton moving capacity for such products as cement, mortar, and lime. Cement is provisioned by the Salto de Pirapora and Santa Helena's Plants, located in the Sorocaba region. Other products, such as mortar, grouting, and lime are originally from other units of the company, such as Itupeva, Barueri, and Cajamar. The new DC will chiefly serve the Campinas region, as well as nearly 50 other cities up to 150 kilometers away from the location.

The Campinas DC now encompasses the new distribution model by using a new freight carrier with new, trucks with logo, and a delivery team  its own. The objective is to ensure – in addition to speed – efficiency and quality at serving the customers throughout the region. With this new structure, Votorantim Cementos plans to optimize product distribution to this important market.

The constructed area is 4 thousand m², located in a 25-thousand-m² terrain, with a storage shed for 5 thousand tons and capacity for loading more than 1.5 thousand trucks a month, with an average 18-ton-a-month shipping. The DC patio will count on a 15-thousand-m² green area near the Casa do Caminhoneiro (Truck Driver's Home), a specific living space for cargo vehicle drivers offering men's and ladies' rooms with hot-water shower, diaper room, TV room, recreation room, and snack bar.

Votorantim Cimentos currently operates with 68 product shipping points to serve construction retailers all over the Country. By the end of the year, the company must inaugurate new Distribution and Trading Centers aiming to bring the brand closer and closer to both sales channels and end consumers.

Campinas Distribution Center – Votorantim Cimentos
Products: Cimentos Votoran; Basic Mortars, Votomassa, Maxi Cola,  White Maxi Cola, Gluing Mortar for Coatings and Sealing; Grouting of all colors, Cal Votoran  and Cal Itaú, and White Cimento Votoran.
Provisioning Market: City of Campinas and those up to 150 km away from the location
Investment amount: R$ 6 million
Volume moved: 336 thousand tons/year
Operation start: May, 2008

Data: 6/30/2008

Chamada Noticia: The new DC is located in Campinas (SP) and will have an annual 336-thousand-ton moving capacity for such products as cement, mortar, and lime. The enterprise received a R$ 6-million investment.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento;Expansões;Investimentos

Conteúdo:

A cement national market leader, Votorantim announces the building of a new production line in Nobres/MT, where it has already kept a plant since 1991. With a R$ 300 million investment, and a two-year deadline to complete works, the mew line will double the Mato Grosso unit production capacity – which will be from one to two million tons of cement a year. In addition, the company invested R$ 80 million for the new pozzolan oven, with a 320 ton/y production capacity for this input, with estimated operation start for the end of this year.

"We are investing to increase production and meet the growing demand for cement in the States of Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre. We understand that the civil construction industry has been going through a new sustainable growth cycle in Brazil, and our commitment is to be close to customers and consumers, believing in the Country's future", states Marcelo Chamma, Commercial Director at Votorantim Cement.

This project is added to the record-expansion plan announced by Votorantim Cement in August, 2007, comprising investments amounting R$ 1.7 billion until 2010 to build four new cement integrated plants, five new mills, besides reactivations, expansion and modernization reforms for some cement and mortar units. The objective is to have a 30% increase in the company's production capacity, leaping from 25 to 33 million tons/y, meet a growth trend, cement consumption regionalization and decentralization in Brazil, besides positioning the company geographically closer to the consuming markets.

Cement sales grow 15% this year
Preliminary industry data and market estimates, SNIC (Cement Industry National Union)-consolidated, indicate that Brazilian internal market cement sales – last-12-month-accumulated (Jun/07 -May/08) reached 47.3 million tons, with a 13.7% increase over an equal previous period (Jun/06-May/07).

In the January-May-2008 accumulated period, 20 million tons of cement were sold, 19.7 million of which in the internal market, standing for a 15.0% increase over an equal period in 2007.

In May, 2008 4.2 million tons of cement were sold in the internal market. Sales per working day presented a 4% increase over April this year, and 20.3% compared to May, 2007.

Data: 6/17/2008

Chamada Noticia: New production line at the Nobres (MT) plant will double cement production capacity – currently 1 million ton/y. This work is part of the company's expansion plan, with an estimated R$ 1.7 billion investment until 2010.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento;Expansões;Investimentos

Conteúdo:

With its focus on fitting the young into the labor market – Programa Futuro em Nossas Mãos [The Future-in-Our-Hands Program] offered by Votorantim Cement and Votorantim Institute – having started last June 4th in Rio de Janeiro, can already rely on the partnership between companies Brascan Imobiliária and Navele Engenharia, which will hire course-formed bricklayers.

Votorantim Cement, the Votorantim Institute, and partners SindusconRJ (Construction Union of Rio de Janeiro), SECONCI (Construction Industry Social Service), Community Action NGO, and SENAI expect to count on the adherence of other constructors in their partner network until course completion by the two groups (of 25 students each) taking the course in Rio. For adherence, companies must fill in a registration form on website www.futuroemnossasmaos.com.br.

The bricklayer course will last three months. It is 200 hours divided into theoretical and practical classes to be taught at Vila do João Community, in the Complexo da Maré (Tide Complex), Northern Zone of Rio.

Seeking professional formation of young people between 18 and 24 years old, the course allows developing skills and competences required by civil construction, in addition to Labor Quality and Safety norms and procedures. In addition to technical guidance, students also receive labor market directioning and differentiated contents on citizenship and enterprising.

Future in Our Hands
Convinced that investing in the young's transformation power today guarantees the future, Votorantim Cement invests more than R$ 6 million a year in social actions targeting educating and fitting the social-vulnerability-situation young into the labor market. For the Future in Our Hands Program more than R$ 1.8 million will be destined in 2008.

Future in Our Hands professionally qualifies young people between 18 and 24 years old for the civil construction labor market. The program is a result of the strategic cooperation between Votorantim Cement and the Votorantim Institute. The initiative has existed since 2003, having already formed more than 8 thousand young people in all of the country's regions.

The Program's main objective is professional qualification by means of partnerships with internationally renowned entities (such as SENAI and CEFET), also allowing recognition and legitimacy for autonomous work. In addition to the professional formation, the program supplies a basic-tool kit (safety glasses, PVC gloves, plummet, bubble leveling, aluminum square, planer, and tape measure) to be used during training and make it easy for these young people to enter the market.

Through partnerships, Votorantim Cement expects to collaborate to place at least 50% of the students in the labor market. They also participate in activities approaching such themes as ethics, citizenship, rights & duties, work, and enterprising, which grant them additional preparation for the challenges the labor market offers. Such contents are part of the module called Common Core, with a 32-hour load.

Since 2007, the course's practical share is carried out at the community where the young recruited students. They have the opportunity to develop practical training contributing the development of a social work to their own community (nursery school or classroom reform), a change-of-life opportunity history with professional qualification.

Registrations for the program are made by the partner NGOs' (Non-Governmental Organizations') articulators active in these communities, with proven experience in social projects targeting the young at this age range. The responsible NGO, the region's SENAI, and Votorantim Cement make the final young people final selection together. Each group is formed by 25 students.

Data: 6/11/2008

Chamada Noticia: Future in Our Hands, a professional qualification program, relies on partner network’s increasing employment chances for the young at civil construction.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Instituto Votorantim;Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Responsabilidade Social;Trabalho

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement, through the Cimento Itaú brand, has been sponsoring São Carlos Futebol Clube.

The contract was signed in May, and will remain effective for three months, yielding its brand exposure during the matches.

The Cimento Itaú logo had already been printed on the players' uniforms during the Paulista 3-A-series Championship, which finished last month. The brand can also be visualized on the team’s shirts during the under-20 state cup.

The Itaú brand will also be present on the team's website, on eight pitcher signs, and on the tickets for São Carlos Futebol Clube’s matches, in addition to the press-room banner during the interviews with the athletes.

This is the first time Cimento Itaú has supported a soccer team. Votorantim Cement’s objective is so to strengthen its relationship policy with the communities where it is active – whether with social responsibility actions or with the encouragement for actions benefiting society as a whole.

Data: 6/11/2008

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement, through the Cimento Itaú brand [Itaú Cement], has been sponsoring São Carlos Futebol Clube. The contract was signed in May, and will remain effective for three months, yielding its brand exposure during the matches.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento;Esporte

Conteúdo:

It will be the two first classes of bricklayer in the city. Altogether, 50 young students between 18 and 24 years old will receive a technical formation and orientation for the labor market at Senai. The course will have a 200-hour length time, divided in theoretical and practical classes, which will be ministered in the Vila do João Community, in the Complexo da Maré, North Area of Rio.

The focus is on the human formation of the young and on his/her technical capacity as a bricklayer, making the skills and competencies development demanded by the civil construction possible, as well as the standards and procedures of Quality and safety of the work.

The inaugural class will have the participation of the partners of the Program, among them SindusconRJ (Construction Syndicate of Rio de Janeiro), SECONCI (Social Service of the Construction Industry), ONG Ação Comunitária do Brasil [Communal Action of Brazil Non-Governmental Organization] and Senai.

Erika Correia (social assistant and national coordinator of the Program Futuro em Nossas Mãos) Francisco Carlos Silveira (Planning and Program manager), Rogério Garcia (commercial manager of the Southeast Area), Manoel Barbosa Cavalcante (commercial manager of ENGEMIX) and other executives of Votorantim Cements will represent the company during this ceremony.

The Program Futuro em Nossas Mãos has a focus on the insertion of the young in the labor market through a professional capacity. It has now the support of the Institute Votorantim since 2005, two years after it has been created by Votorantim Cement. Since its beginning, the Program has already graduated more than 8 thousand professionals and, in the course of 2008, it must graduate a thousand more young bricklayers in the whole country.

Inaugural Class Futuro em Nossas Mãos
Place
Hotel Guanabara - Av. Presidente Vargas, 392, Centro - Rio de Janeiro/RJ
Date
June 04, 2008 (Wednesday)
Time
03:00 p.m.

Futuro em Nossas Mãos
Convinced that the investment in the transformer power of the youth in the present guarantees the future, Votorantim Cement invests more than R$ 6 million per year in social actions directed to education and the insertion of the low-income youth at the labor market. For the Program Futuro em Nossas Mãos, more than R$ 1.8 million will be intended in 2008.

Futuro em Nossas Mãos professionally qualifies young between 18 and 24 years old for the labor market of the civil construction. The program is a result of the strategic cooperation between Votorantim Cement and the Institute Votorantim. It exists since 2003, and has already graduated more than 8 thousand in the whole country.

The purpose of the Program is in the professional capacity through partnerships with nationally know entities (such as SENAI and CEFET), also allowing for the acknowledgement and legitimacy for the work as an autonomous. Besides the professional formation, the Program provides a kit with the basic tools (goggles, PVC gloves, plumb, bubble level, aluminum square, bricklayer spoon, evener, and measuring tape) for the usage during the training and to facilitate the entrance of these professional young in the market.

Through the partnerships, Votorantim Cements hopes to cooperate to the placement of at least 50% of the students in the labor market. The young also participate in activities that deal with themes such as: ethics, citizenship, rights and duties, work and entrepreneurism, what grants them an additional preparation for the challenges of the job market. These contents make part of a module called Common Nucleus, with a working load of up to 32 hours.

Since 2007, the practical part of the course is performed in the community itself, where the young recruited dwell. The students have the opportunity to develop the practical training, contributing to the construction of a social work for their own community (doing up the day care center or the class), a historic mark of the opportunity of changing their lives with a professional capacity.

The enrollments at the Program will be done by the people in charge of the partners ONGs (Non-Governmental Organizations) that actuate in these Communities, with a proofed experience in social projects directed to young in this age group. The ONG responsible, SENAI of the region and Votorantim Cement makes together the final selection of the enrolled. Each class is composed of 25 students.

Data: 6/2/2008

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement and the Votorantim Institute make, in June 04 (Wednesday), an inaugural class about the Program Futuro em Nossas Mãos, which will be offered in Rio de Janeiro, capital city.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Instituto Votorantim;Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Responsabilidade Social;Trabalho

Conteúdo:

As of May 2008, Votorantim Cement makes available to the market a new tracking system to all packages of cement, mortar and lime produced by the Company – inkjet identifier of Klabin Sacos Industriais, a number which identifies the manufacturing date, the lot number, the machine and the time of production.

The new identification will allow increasing safety levels for all lots of any product even more. "Votorantim Cement is committed to supplying the market. This includes delivering products with the Company’s acknowledged quality", says Marcelo Chamma, Commercial Director of Votorantim Cement.

The packages with the inkjet identification will be available all over Brazil, both for products sold in retailers and for products sold to building companies. The tracker will allow consumers of Votorantim Cement’s products to track not only products but also the packages used to keep them, allowing agility when correcting possible mistakes which might occur during the production chain.

Data: 5/13/2008

Chamada Noticia: Cement, mortar and lime packers will have an identification number with the manufacturing date, the lot number, the machine number and the time or production. The system makes it easier to locate packages and increases safety levels.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement gathered, for the first time in a single event, leaders from all sectors and units of the Company. There were more than 800 leaders and employees from the following areas: Commercial, Logistics, Operations, Finances and Human and Organizational Development at the 1st Integrated Convention – 2008. The event was held last week, in Costa do Sauípe - BA.

The purpose was to align leaders to the strategic guidance and new challenges of Votorantim Cement and the group, at a moment deemed as unique, with concrete opportunities in the Brazilian construction market, strong worldwide demand for cement and advanced growth plans, involving the construction of new plants and millings.

Data: 5/20/2008

Chamada Noticia: Goal was to align the tem for strategic guidance of the Company at a moment of strong growth and new market challenges.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento;Corporativo

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement’s Corumbá Plant celebrates 56 years of operations and contributions to the development of the Mato Grosso do Sul State. Built between 1952 and 1955, during many years it was the only plant in the state. The inauguration party of the plant counted on the participation of former President Juscelino Kubitschek.

At its 56th anniversary celebration, the Plant offered breakfast to guests and brought the Moinho Cultural Orchestra, formed by youngsters from the community.

The Corumbá Plant currently produces nearly 25,000 tons of cement per month and counts on 170 employees.

Data: 11/12/2008

Chamada Noticia: VC’s cement plant was the first industrial investment of Mato Grosso do Sul State and significantly contributed to the development of the state. The celebration counted on the participation of an orchestra comprised of youngsters in the region.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento

Conteúdo:

The participation of the company reflects the need found in the building productive chain of thinking new strategies for C and D classes. "We are living an important moment in terms of growth for Brazil, with the benefits that the real estate market is providing for the bottom of the pyramid. The meeting is extremely important in order the building Industry can collaborate with this virtuous cycle", says Walter Schalka, president of Votorantim Cement, who will be present in the meeting.

With investments around R$ 1.7 billion announced in the last year for new plants and 30% increasing in production until 2010, Votorantim Cement directs its efforts to the market growth. "Cement industry is making its part, and intends to assure the market supplying by investing in capacity growth, besides supporting initiatives that may generate new opportunities to everyone."

Promoted by Cytec incorporator, a company specialized in this segment, the event will take place on May 14th (tomorrow) at 8:15 AM, in São Paulo. The event will bring together around 60 executives and representatives of universities and class associations.

Service
First Productive Chain Meeting
Date: May 14th
Time: 8:15 AM
Place: Auditório do Edifício e-Tower [e-Tower Building Auditorium] - Rua Funchal, 418 - Vila Olímpia

Program

08:15 AM - Breakfast
9:00 AM – Opening and exhibition of event’s concept and work group
9:30 AM – Lecture "Perspectives of rating and implications, risks and opportunities for the civil construction sector." Presented by Regina Nunes, president of Standard & Poors in Brazil
10:00 AM – Round table. Participants: Walter Schalka, president of Votorantim-Cement, Elio Martins, president of Eternit, Danilo Talanskas, president of Elevadores Otis, and Yorki Estefan, director of Cytec+. Mediation by Roberto de Souza, engineering master and doctor degree by Escola Politécnica da USP, enterprise consultant and director of the Building Technology Center (CTE).

The round table will be followed by a discussion about products development and partnerships. A letter of intentions related to the discussion will be signed.

11:30 AM – Closing works. By Yorki Estefan, Cytec+ director.

Delivery of participation certificates.

About Cytec+
Cytec+ arose from the partnership between two well-known and recognized companies in the market: Cyrela and Tecnum.  One, the largest company of the Brazilian real estate market in incorporation of residential enterprises; the other, modern and dynamical, is the first Brazilian building company to obtain an Integrated Management System (IMS) certification [1], recognized for investing in sustainable building, new technologies, transparency in its clients relations and socially responsible actuation.
Cytec+ is headquartered in São Paulo, having regional offices in Ribeirão Preto and Rio de Janeiro.

Quality is the brand and motto of this new company: not only in terms of construction and professionals, but also regarding to excellence in relations with clients, suppliers and communities. The company is specialized in residential enterprises intended for low-income dwellers, offering economic-size (up to 72m²) and super-economic size (up to 55m²) real estates.

It is important to highlight that a multidisciplinary team was composed to conceive the standard project, which obtained expressive results regarding to products specification, constructive methods and suppliers development. The conception of our enterprises aims to a rational use of water and power, which, besides being an input for environmental preservation, provides lesser operational costs to the final user.

[1] The System covers the following certifications: ISO 9001:2000 – Quality System; ISO 14001 – Environmental Management System; OHSAS 18001 – Security and Occupational Health System; - International Certificate of Quality Management and other important certifications and awards.

Data: 5/13/2008

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement will attend, tomorrow (14), Cytec+, a meeting that will join presidents of civil construction companies to discuss and propose innovations for the low cost habitation market.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Brasil;Cimento;Expansões;Investimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement promoted, on April 24, another graduation ceremony of Futuro em Nossas Mãos Program, in the City of Aparecida de Goiânia (State of Goiás). The company has qualified 33 young masons for the civil construction market, in an initiative created in 2003 and which has since 2005 counted on the technical support of Votorantim Institute.

Since the beginning, Futuro em Nossas Mãos has already qualified more than 7,900 professionals. During 2008, it should qualify another 1,000 professional youngsters throughout Brazil.

The Program lasts 250 class hours. The classes are divided into various modules, and the longest is the Technical one. Futuro em Nossas Mãos also offers theoretical and practical classes focused on the specific abilities and skills of civil construction, and qualification in Quality and Safety rules and procedures.

Futuro em Nossas Mãos
Certain that the investment in youngsters' changing power guarantees the future, Votorantim Cement invests more than R$ 6 million per year in social actions focused on education and inclusion of low-income youngsters in the job market. More than R$1.8 million will be allocated to the Futuro em Nossas Mãos Program in 2008.

Futuro em Nossas Mãos qualifies youngsters between 18 and 24 years of age professionally to the civil construction job market. The program is a result of the strategic cooperation between Votorantim Cement and Votorantim Institute. It has existed since 2003, and it has already qualified more than 7,000 people in all the regions of Brazil.

The Program's goal is the professional qualification with support to the inclusion of youngsters in the job market.

By means of partnerships, Votorantim Cement expects to cooperate for the inclusion of at least 50% of students in the job market. Youngsters also participate of activities which focus on themes such as: ethics, citizenship, rights and duties, work and entrepreneurship, which grants them additional preparation to the job market. These contents are part of the module called Núcleo Comum ("Common Center"), with a 32-hour load.

Enrollments can be made in the cities where the Program takes place, jointly with partner technical schools, which are also responsible for selecting students in a partnership entered into with NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) and local Unions. Each group has 25 students.

In addition to the professional qualification, the Program sets forth the handing, at the end of the course, of a kit with basic tools (safety glasses, PVC gloves, plummet, level, aluminum set square, masonry trowel, planer and measuring tape) to facilitate the inclusion of these young professionals in the job market.

Data: 4/25/2008

Chamada Noticia: Company forms group with 33 young masons in the City of Aparecida de Goiânia (State of Goiás).The initiative is part of Futuro em Nossas Mãos ("Future in Our Hands") project which, since 2003, has already qualified more than 7,900 professionals.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement, one of the top ten largest global companies of cement, concrete and aggregates concluded on April 15 the purchase of 15.2% of Cementos Bío Bío S.A., leader in the cement and concrete industry in Chile. The investment in the interest in the Chilean company was higher than US$ 100 million.

“We are giving another significant step in the South American market with the acquisition of this holding, in addition to the international expansion strategy adopted by Votorantim Cement, started in 2001 with the acquisition of cement company St. Marys in Canada,” says Walter Schalka, the company’s CEO.

Votorantim Cement operates in Bolivia and considers Cementos Bío Bío as an important player in the South American industry, which joins low operating costs with a safe business environment. “Above all, we trust the efficient management of Bío Bío, a company which has for 50 years been among the top three manufacturers of cement, concrete and aggregates in Chile,” highlights Schalka.

Cementos Bío Bío S.A.’s sales result was US$682 million in fiscal year 2007. Its two main areas of operation are cement and ceramics. In the cement area, which comprises cement, concrete, lime and aggregate businesses, Bío Bío has a installed capacity of 2.25 million tons per year and holds a nearly 35% share in the Chilean market. The company also leads concrete production with a sales volume of 2.5 million cubic meters in 2007. In the lime area, the company sold 550,000 tons in 2007.

In the ceramics area, with plants located in Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile and the USA, Bío Bío produced, in 2007, more than 6.8 million ceramic parts. The company counts on nearly 5,000 employees at its corporate and production units.

Data: 4/17/2008

Chamada Noticia: The goal is to strengthen the company’s operation in the international market of cement, concrete and aggregates.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cimentos has concluded the acquisition of a plant from Qualimat, a basic mortar unit of Parex Group, a French multinational company of the civil construction segment. The plant that was acquired by Votorantim Cimentos is located in Cajamar, São Paulo State countryside. With this acquisition, the company adds 10 thousand tons of monthly production to its portfolio to meet the clients demand, mainly in Great São Paulo area, Jundiaí, Campinas and Baixada Santista.

For more than 10 years, Votorantim Cimentos is producing and selling a complete mortar line in the whole country under Votomassa brand. Leader in the basic mortar segment, the company has a yearly production capacity of 1.5 million tons of products ranging from basic mortar for laying floor tiles, subfloor and civil construction coatings to adhesive and grouting line for application of ceramic coatings and ornamental stones. With the Cajamar unit, Votorantim Cimentos will increase approximately 10% its production capacity.

Five mortar production units are located in Barueri (SP), Curitiba (PR), Itaú de Minas (MG), Sobradinho (DF) and Caapora (PB). In 2008, new plants will start operation, besides this recently acquired unit in Cajamar. It is worth to highlight that Votorantim Cimentos has a Research Center that constantly develops products suited to the market needs.

Mortar Business
Votorantim Cimentos strongly invests to develop the mortar business through new manufacturing units. “We believe that, when we offer industrialized mortar, we add value to the civil construction chain due to the rationality and productivity provided by this system“ emphatizes Marcelo Lass, general manager for mortar business.

The Votomassa mortar line is focused on civil construction products market. The company’s target for this segment is to provide quality that adds productivity at construction sites. The products and services from Votomassa are offered bagged and bulk (in silos), formulated and suited for all kind of use in each construction and application.

The initiative of new acquisitions, in addition to the opening of new distribution centers and production units near to clients, it is part of the Votorantim Cimentos’ strategy to invest in the expansion of products availability for civil construction, allowing the strengthening of its brands and  bringing it even closer to its clients and partners.

Data: 4/11/2008

Chamada Noticia: The company has increased its annual production capacity of mortar in 120 thousand tons to meet the clients demand, mainly in Great São Paulo area, Jundiaí, Campinas and Baixada Santista.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement announced – in Barcarena, on March 18th – partnership formalization with the Child and Teenager Rights City Council (CMDCA/CTRCC) to support to the Projeto Crianças e Adolescentes: Prioridade Absoluta (Children and Teenagers Project: Absolute Priority).

Through the Via Votorantim - a program by Votorantim supporting the Child and Teenager Statute –  R$ 160,780.00 will be sent to Abaetetuba Diocese’s Social Works for the Project, which promotes complementary educational activities for more than 520 7-to-15-year-old children and teenagers.

The Crianças e Adolescentes: Prioridade Absoluta Project offers school reinforcement, arts & crafts workshops, sports & recreation, and psychosocial support aiming to reduce family fragility and infant-and-youth drug vulnerability, and sexual exploitation and abuse, domestic violence, early pregnancy, child labor, and school jubilation and dropout.

Via Votorantim
Resources for Projects like these have been destined – since 2004 – by Votorantim Group’s Companies to the Child and Teenage Rights Fund (FIA). To integrate all contributions, from 2006 on, the Via Votorantim has been developed – a program guiding and supporting the Company’s business units so they can dedicate such funds, always supported by the Votorantim Institute.

The great program differential is the investment in following up supported Projects, with qualification workshops for qualifying professionals from the entities accounting for performing the Projects and Child and Teenager Rights City Council (CMDCA/CTRCC) members. The objective is to strengthen the child-and-teenager protection network in the cities served. In addition, the program directly involves Votorantim workers in the supported Projects follow-up through visits and monitoring reports.

Check out the information about all projects encompassed by the VIA in 2008:

Barcarena/PA
Project: Children and Teenagers: Absolute Priority
Performing entity: Abaetetuba Diocese Social Works Association
Target: 520 7-to15-year-old children and teenagers
Project Activity Area: complementary education
Resource to be provided in 2008: R$ 160,780.00

Sobral/CE
Project: Vida que te Quero Viva / Life, I want you Living
Performing entity: Sobral City Social Action Foundation
Target: 2.500 10-to-19-year-old children and teenagers Project Activity Area: attendance network strengthening
Resource dedicated in 2007: R$ 172,477.57
Resource to be provided in 2008: R$ 270,022.53

Corumbá/MS
Project: Teenager Shelter Building
Performing entity: Social Assistance City Secretariat
Target: children and teenagers between 12 and 17 years of age
Project Activity Area: shelter
Resource to be provided in 2008: R$ 218,460.00

Trindade/PE
Project: Land Role
Performing entity: Labor, Citizenship, Inclusion, and Social Development Secretaria
Target: 150 10-to-18-year-old children and teenagers
Project Activity Area: complementary and professionalizing education
Resource dedicated in 2007: R$ 119,419.50
Resource to be provided in 2008: R$ 110,515.60

Paulista/PE
Project: Building Up Citizenship
Performing entities: Dom Helder Câmara Arts and Crafts Educational Institute; Santa Clara Association; Community School of Paulista; Ação Comunitária Social Integration Center; Tio Manuel Vieira Nursery School
Target: 150 12-to-18-year-old teenagers
Project Activity Area: complementary and professionalizing education
Resource dedicated in 2007: R$ 250,000.00
Resource to be provided in 2008: R$ 200,000.00

Aracajú/SE
Project: Communication and Citizenship
Performing entity: Recriando Institute
Target: 300 14-and-18-year-old teenagers and youth
Project Activity Area: educommunication
Resource to be provided in 2008: R$ 266,666.75

Data: 3/20/2008

Chamada Noticia: Investing R$ 160 thousand in the Children and Teenagers Project: Absolute Priority will feasibilize social development for young people between 7 and 15 years of age. The initiative counts on the partnership with the Child and Teenager Rights City Council.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement is enhancing the Veja Bem (Watch Out) advertising campaign created by the Talent Agency and broadcast throughout Brazil in 2007. For 2008, the company chose the radio and TV soccer program sponsoring strategy in marketplaces regarded as commercial poles in the Southeaster, Southern, Middle-Northern, and Northeastern regions.

The campaign is part of the company’s strategy to consolidate the Votorantim Cement brand and highlight its products quality. Its main character is a clumsy professional who is questioned about choosing products which are not by Votorantim Cement. The Veja Bem motto starts the character’s explanation which is never accepted by the work contractor, and the “Cement: you either buy it well, or Watch Out” signature is common to all pieces, which present the different Votorantim Cement regional brands – Votoran, Poty, Itaú, and Tocantins – According to the disclosure place.

This year, the Veja Bem campaign will be on the air on Rede Globo in Blumenau, Florianópolis, Chapecó, Campinas, São José dos Campos, São Carlos, Recife, Caruaru, Recôncavo Baiano, João Pessoa, and Rio de Janeiro. Such marketplaces cover 747 cities – in all the cities, the commercial will be on air on the Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays soccer programming and with additional insertions in the Esporte Espetacular program of Sorocaba, Goiânia, and Brasília aerials with an advertisement on Sundays. On Rede Bandeirantes, the participation quota includes Campinas, Goiânia, and Brasília, with Wednesday and Sunday insertions. In the Great São Paulo region, the Compacto soccer program sponsoring by Rede Bandeirantes has been acquired.

In the cities of São Paulo, Recife, and Florianópolis, the company sponsors the sporting journey (covering the main regional and national soccer championships) on Band, Rádio Jornal, and CBN Diário radio stations.

The campaign goes on the air from the second fortnight of March.

Veja Bem – technical card
Titles: Veja Bem / Translation / Wall / cousin / Alas – 30”
Advertiser / Product: Votorantim Cement / Cement
Agency: Talent Propaganda S/A
Creation: João Livi, Philippe Degen, Fábio Astolpho
Creation Director: João Livi
RTVC: Maria Hermínia Weinstock / Tato Freire
Attendance: Rogério Dezembro / Camila Mancebo
Customer Approval: Fábio Rossini / Marcelo Chamma
Producer: O2 Films
Directed by: Heitor Dhalia
Photography Direction by: Ricardo Della Rosa
Art Direction by: Cássio Amarnate
Producer Attendance: Rejane Bicca / Chica Mauger
Executive Producers: Carlos Betti / Rafael Fortes
Assemblage: Jair Peres Jr.
Finalization: Pos O2 Films
Finalization Coordination: Tamis Lustre
Sound Producer: A voz do Brasil

Data: 3/19/2008

Chamada Noticia: End-consumer focused, the company highlights quality importance when choosing cement. This year, the campaign will be on the air in marketplaces regarded as business poles in the Southeastern, Southern, Middle-Western, and Northeastern regions.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement has been acknowledged as the Best Intermodal Operator in Brazil by Prêmio Revista Ferroviária 2008. The merit belong to the company factory railway terminal located in the city of Sobral (Unidade Cearense), which exports more than 500 mil ton of cement a year.

The award has been given on January 28, in an event that gathered businessmen of the logistics sector and politics.

Votorantim Cement

Headquartered in Sao Paulo, Votorantim Cement is one of the ten leading cement companies, concrete, and aggregate in the world. It has 34 production units (26 plants in Brazil, 7 in North America and 1 in Bolivia), also managing 60 distribution terminals and 105 concrete facilities in the country and more than 60 concrete facilities and cement distribution terminals in North America. There are more than 8 thousand partners and 71 years of history.

National market leader, the company markets more than 40 products, with brands Votoran, Itaú, Poty, Tocantins, and Aratu standing out.

Is pioneer in Brazil in the use of co-processing, productive technology that cost-effectively and environmentally friendly eliminates industrial waste in the cement furnace. In 2006, it reached a record volume of 350,000 tons of residual co-processing in 9 plants, especially used tires, chemical solvents, oils and unworthy matter. In the field of corporate social responsibility, the company invests more than R$ 6 millions annually in projects for insertion of youngsters in the job market.

Votorantim Cement is an integral part of Votorantim Group, one of the largest corporate conglomerate in Latin America, with marked performance in industrial, financial and new business areas.

Data: 3/11/2008

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement has been acknowledged as the Best Intermodal Operator in Brazil by Prêmio Revista Ferroviária 2008. The merit belong to railway terminal of Unidade Cearense, in Sobral, which exports more than 500 mil Ton/year cement.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cimentos participates, from tomorrow (11/3), in the Expo Revestir 2008 (Coverings International Fair) with the most recent news in mortar, in addition to presenting its complete line of cement. The event occurs until next Friday (14/3) at Transamérica Expocenter, in Sao Paulo.

The company will present Votomassa Glass Blocks and will launch two new joint colors, black and suede, also exhibiting Maxi Gray Glue and Maxi White Glue, products indicated for settings.

Civil construction industry is approaching more and more the end user due to the positive scenery of the market and good real estate business timing. Votorantim Cimentos main goal in participating in Expo Revestir is to interact with the audience connected with indoor design, directly related to retail client.

“Expo Revestir is an excellent opportunity to present the company’s innovations and broaden our knowledge of the overlay market’s needs”, says Marcelo Lass, responsible for the Votorantim Cimentos Complementary Products Area.

Votomassa – Glass Blocks

Features: High level of adhesion and flexibility; ready for setting and joint.
Applications: Votomassa for glass blocks has easy application in indoor and outdoor areas, in plain or curve walls. It is indicated to living rooms, bars, indoor rooms, facades, restrooms and kitchens, besides being used in partition walls assembly, windowsills and gap closures.
Where it can be found: Construction materials stores and home centers all over Brazil.

Maxi Glue

Applications: Votomassa Maxi Glue is available in gray and white. It allows you to lay porcellanato, slate, granite, and ceramic on ceramic in indoor and outdoor environments.
Where it can be found: Construction materials stores and home centers all over Brazil.

Votorantim Cimentos at Expo Revestir 2008
Date: March 11 - 14 (Tuesday to Friday)
Time: 10h to 19h
Address: Transamérica Expocenter – Av. Dr. Mário Vilas Boas Rodrigues, 387.
Santo Amaro Sao Paulo – SP
(access through Ponte Transamérica)

Data: 3/10/2008

Chamada Noticia: Company intends to come near the design and architecture sector with Votomassa Glass Blocks and new joint colors, among other types.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo: Votorantim Cement inaugurates today, at 4:00 pm, a new Distribution Center (CD) in Aparecida de Goiânia, satellite city of Goiânia, substituting the former unit located in the capital city.
 
The CD will mainly serve the metropolitan region and cities within a radius of up to 100 km from the place. The unit will handle approximately 240,000 tons of cement per year, and it will be supplied by the plants in Sobradinho, in the Federal District, with cement and mortar, and in the City of Itaú de Minas, supplying calcium oxides and grouts.
 
The new structure, which has been operating since last month, the company intends to perfect the distribution of products, counting on a physical structure of almost 13,000 m² and 2,900 m² of built area. The CD also has a parking lot and a specific convenience area for cargo vehicle drivers, named Casa do Caminhoneiro (“Truck Driver’s Place”).
 
The inauguration event will be attended by officers of Votorantim Cement Marcelo Chamma, of the Commercial department, and Fred Fernandes, of the Integrated Logistics department, in addition to local authorities.
 
Votorantim Cement currently operates with 68 Distribution Centers to provide services to construction retailers throughout Brazil. Up to the end of the year, the company should inaugurate new distribution and trading units in strategic points in Brazil, aiming at bringing the brand even closer to both sales channels and end consumers.
 
Goiânia CD Inauguration
 
Date: February 27, 2008
Time: 4 pm
Adress: Goiânia CD – Rua 18, S/N° – Complement: Quadra 21, Módulo 37/38, Bairro/Distrito: Pólo Empresarial Goiás – Aparecida de Goiânia – Goiás
 
Goiânia Distribution Center – Votorantim Cement
 
Products: Cimentos CPIV e CPV ARI Tocantins (CPIV and CPV ARI Tocantins Cements); Maxi Cola e Maxi Cola Branca (Maxi Glue and White Maxi Glue); Cal Pintura (Paint Calcium Oxide) and Cal Hidratada CHIII (CHIII Hydrated Calcium Oxide); Argamassas Básica (Basic Dry Mortars), ACI and ACII.
Supply market: Metropolitan Region of the City of Goiânia and cities within a radius of 100 km from the place
Investment value: R$ 3 million
Volume handled: 240,000 tons a year
Start of operation: January 2008

Data: 2/27/2008

Chamada Noticia: With a R$3 million investment, the new undertaking will serve customers in the region in the construction market more efficiently and promptly.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo: Votorantim Cement will inaugurate tomorrow, at 7:00 p.m., a new Distribution Center (CD) in Marituba, satellite city of Belém, substituting the former unit located in the City of Ananindeua.
 
The new CD will mainly serve the metropolitan region and the northwestern area of the State of Pará. The unit will handle approximately 420,000 tons of cement per year, and it will be supplied by the plants in Barbacena (PA - State of Pará), with 70% of the volume, and in Sobral (CE - State of Ceará), with the remaining 30%.
 
With the new unit, which has been operating since last month, the company intends to perfect the distribution of the company’s products, counting on a physical structure of 7,000 m² and 3,600 m² of built area. It has a parking lot and a specific convenience area for cargo vehicle drivers, named Casa do Caminhoneiro [“Truck Driver’s Place”].
 
The inauguration event will be attended by officers of Votorantim Cement: Marcelo Chamma, of the Commercial department, and Fred Fernandes, of the Integrated Logistics department, in addition to local authorities.
 
Votorantim Cement currently operates with 68 Distribution Centers to provide services to construction retailers throughout Brazil. Up to the end of the year, the company should inaugurate new distribution and trading units in strategic points in Brazil, aiming at bringing the brand even closer to both sales channels and end consumers.
 
 
Belém CD Inauguration
 
Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Adress: Belém CD – Rodovia Alça Viária – km 2 – Bairro São João – Marituba – PA
 
Belém Distribution Center – Votorantim Cement
 
Products: Cimento Poty CPII and CP III [Poty CPII and CPIII Cements]; Cimentos Brancos CPB 40 Estrutural Votoran [CPB 40 Structural White Cements] and Irajazinho Não-Estrutural [Non-Structural Irajazinho), in addition to Votomassa Colante ACI [ACI Adherent Votomassa].
Supply market: Metropolitan Region of the City of Belém and northwestern area of the State of Pará
Investment value: R$2 million
Volume handled: 420,000 tons a year
Start of operation: January 2008

Data: 2/25/2008

Chamada Noticia: With a R$2 million investment, the new undertaking will serve customers in the region in the construction market more efficiently and promptly.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo: Votorantim Cement empowers 50 young bricklayers today for the civil construction market, by means of the Future in Our Hands Program, offered in Guarulhos (SP). It is worth pointing out that, from the 50 youngsters being empowered today, 25 are already employed and 19 are taking part in selection processes for new opportunities.
Such program was set up in 2003 at Votorantim Cement and, in 2005, it started to rely on the technical support of Instituto Votorantim. Above 7.9 thousand professionals have been empowered since the beginning of the program. The Futuro em Nossas Mãos (Future in Our Hands) Program will, over 2008, empower another one thousand young professionals throughout the Country.
 
The Program will have a 250-hour duration, that is, 58 hours more than the program basic grid, which offers 192 hours/class. The classes are divided into various modules, of which the Technical module is the longest one. The Program still provides theoretical and practical hands-on classes focused on the specific skills and competencies of the civil construction, and the empowerment in Quality and Safety standards and procedures.
 
Futuro em Nossas Mãos
 
Votorantim Cement is convinced that the investment in the transforming power of the youth today ensures their future, and invests above R$ 6 million a year in social actions directed to the education and insertion of low-income youngsters in the labor market. In 2008, above R$ 1.8 million will be allocated to the Futuro em Nossas Mãos Program.
 
The Futuro em Nossas Mãos professionally qualifies youngsters aged between 18 and 24 years for the civil construction labor market. The program results from the strategic cooperation between Votorantim Cement and Instituto Votorantim (Votorantim Institute). This exists since 2003, and has already educated above 7 thousand people in all of the Country’s regions.
 
The purpose of the Program is to provide professional education for, and to assist, the youngsters in entering the labor market.
 
Votorantim Cement expects to contribute – through partnerships – to placing at least 50% of the students in the labor market. The youngsters also participate in activities dealing with subject matters such as: ethics, citizenship, rights and duties, work and entrepreneurship, what confers upon them an additional preparation for the labor market challenges. These contents are a constituent part of the module called Common Core, with a workload of 32 hours.
 
Registrations can be made in the municipalities where the Program is performed, with the partnering technical schools. These are also responsible for the student selection, in association with NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), and local labor unions. Each group contains 25 students.
 
In addition to the professional education the program also contemplates - upon the course completion - handing a basic tool kit (safety goggles, PVC gloves, plumb, bubble level, aluminum square, trowel, mason’s float, and measuring tape) in order to make it easier for these professional youngsters to enter the labor market.

Data: 2/13/2008

Chamada Noticia: Altogether, there are 50 young people, empowered by the “Futuro em Nossas Mãos” program, which has already educated above 7.9 thousand professionals throughout Brazil.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo: Votorantim Cement merges the operations of another company in the United States and intensifies its international activities. The company announces the acquisition of Prairie, one of the largest concrete and aggregate companies in the Middle West of the United State, whose sales result was US$483 million and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) was U$44 million in 2007.
 
Headquartered in Chicago, Prairie operates in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin in the Greak Lakes region, with 81 concrete centers and 17 mines of aggregates, in addition to deposits and trucks for transporting materials. In 2007, the company produced and traded, in the United States, 5 million m3 of concrete and 6.5 million tons of aggregates. It has nearly 1,800 employees and more than 1,150 concrete mixer trucks.
 
The company is already a customer of Votorantim Cement and purchases more than 60% of the cement produced at the Dixon unit (Illinois). Prairie’s activities will be merged to the assets of the company’s subsidiary in North America, VCNA – Votorantim Cement North America, and operated jointly with St Marys Cement, company headquartered in Toronto (Canada) and acquired by Votorantim Cement in 2001, year which market the beginning of Votorantim Group’s internationalization.
 
Votorantim Cement’s CEO Walter Schalka says that merging Prairie’s assets represents a strategic step to the consolidation of Votorantim Cement in the North-American market. “The Great Lakes are a strategic region for the company. With such an acquisition, our leading position in the market shall be strengthened – we currently have a nearly 30% market share. The acquisition also means extending the company’s operations in the entire production chain of the industry of cement, concrete and aggregates in the region, bringing synergies and gains of scale”, says the officer.
 
Currently, Votorantim owns six cement production plants in the region: St Marys and Bowmanville, in Ontario, Canada; Charlevoix (Michigan), Detroit (Michigan), Dixon (Illinois) and Badger (Wisconsin). The company also controls many concrete centers and aggregate operations, in addition to managing a logistics system with six ships and 12 cement terminals. With such a structure, the company holds a nearly 30% share in the cement, concrete and aggregate market in the Great Lakes. Votorantim Cement’s businesses in Florida – a cement plant (Suwannee, in Branford) and concrete operations (Trinity Materials and Prestige, the latter acquired in October 2007), in addition to a new plant under construction (Sumter) – represent a 15% share in the local market. Votorantim Cement also announces the construction of a new cement unit in Houston (Georgia), which should be ready in 2010. The plant’s production capacity will be 900,000 tons per year.
 
“Currently, international businesses already account for 30% of Votorantim Cement’s sales results. Our goal is to increase the global share by means of new clusters in strategic regions and the verticalization of operations, focusing on operating on the entire chain of basic building material. The strategy is to pursue the balance of assets among developed and emerging markets, minimizing impacts both from exchange variations and regional volatilities”, concludes Schalka.
 
Prairie
Year of foundation: 1948
2007 sales results: US$483 million (estimate)
EBITDA in 2007: US$44 million (estimate)
Market share: Leader in the Middle West of the United States
Production: Concrete – 5 million m3/year
                  Aggregates – 6.5 million tons/year
Operations: 81 concrete centers and 17 aggregate mines
Markets: States of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin
Employees: Approximately 1,800 peoples
Assets: More than 1,150 concrete mixer trucks

Data: 2/7/2008

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement strengthens its global performance and merges operations of another company in the United States, Prairie, leader in the concrete and aggregate business in the Great Lakes region.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo: Votorantim Cement’ Evoluir Program (Evolution Program) will reach out to new towns starting in 2008. The company will invest R$ 1.3 million to start training young people in mechanics, electricity and electroelectronics in Itaú de Minas (MG), Baraúna (RN), Cantagalo (RJ) and Vidal Ramos (SC), besides a new group to be established at Xambioá (TO). In 2008, expectations are to train another 98 youngsters out of the groups started in 2007
 
The courses, offered together with the Votorantim Institute and Professional training institutions, usually take one year and a half, with a total of 1,232 hours/classes split into two training nuclei. Besides the technical nucleus, dedicated to Mechanical and Electric Industrial Maintenance, there is also the citizenship nucleus, with socio-educative activities geared to the personal, community, professional and ethical development of the young participants.
 
To take part, the young must live in the communities where the company operates; they must have time availability for the classes; they must be high school graduates; they should not be enrolled with or have concluded college or another course of a technical level; they must be 18 to 24 years old; and they must prove a family income of up to one minimum wage per head.
 
With the program, while Votorantim Cement offers the young the chance of Professional training and access to the first job, it also tries to solve the hurdle arising from hiring professionals in regions with precarious infrastructures in which it has productive units. The company strategy in this case is to set up the project even before the plants start working.
 
When a Votorantim Cement unit is established in a Brazilian town, many things change around it. The first one is the wish that life in the community will evolve with the company. A good example of this is the new Xambioá (TO) plant, expected to start operating in 2009. When it is in full gear, the Xambioá unit will have 32 Electronics professionals from the program concluded in 2008. Moreover, the new plant may have another group of 25 young with a Mechanics grade that is scheduled to start in February 2008 and whose screening process is set for January.
 
In the municipality of Cantagalo (RJ), the first step of the Evoluir Program will start next year. Together with the Cenecista Santa Mônica College, two 25-student groups will start a technical training in Mechanics and Electricity. Once they graduate, they may work in the local plant.
 
With more than 20 years of existence, the Evoluir Program is a successful initiative. In 2007 alone, 167 young people graduated in the units of Sobradinho (DF), Nobres (MT) and Corumbá (MS). The towns that are now being the object of actions for the first time are Xamioá (TO), Laranjeiras (SE) and Caaporã (PB).
 
Social Investment
Convinced that investing in the transformation power of the young in the present guarantees the future, Votorantim Cement is pouring another R$ 6 million a year in social actions geared to the education and inclusion of low-income young people in the labor market.
 
Among corporate programs, it is worth mentioning Future in Our Hands, which professionally qualifies people from 18 to 24 years old for the civil architecture market. Over the last four years, this program has already trained in excess of seven thousand people in all regions of the country.

Data: 12/19/2007

Chamada Noticia: The company was acknowledged in the Best Management category. Unedited award honored companies with most advanced policies to reduce greenhouse gas emission.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Prêmios e Reconhecimentos;Meio Ambiente

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement achieved the 1st Época Award of Mudanças Climáticas in the Best Management category. The unprecedented honor highlighted companies with most advanced environmental policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to Votorantim Cement, Natura won in the Best Strategy category.

 
In order to define winners, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (Época magazine’s partnership in the award) consulting company analyzed companies’ reduction plans which, jointly, contribute with 10% of national emissions of pollutant gases. VC was awarded for having the inventory of gases which cause the greenhouse effect. In addition, the company submits this process to external audits and makes data public.

The latest Época Magazine issue, published on Saturday (December 13) brings the profile of winning companies.

Data: 12/16/2008

Chamada Noticia: The company was acknowledged in the Best Management category. Unedited award honored companies with most advanced policies to reduce greenhouse gas emission.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Prêmios e Reconhecimentos

Conteúdo:

São Paulo, 21 de Setiembre de 2007 – Votorantim Cementos anuncia una inversión de R$ 4 millones en la construcción de un nuevo Centro de Distribución (CD) en Araraquara para atender cerca de 40 ciudades del interior de São Paulo – en un radio de 100 km en la región, incluyendo São Carlos, Araras, Rio Claro, Brotas y Matão. La previsión es que el CD entre en operación incluso este año, a mediados de diciembre.

“El objetivo de este proyecto es optimizar la distribución de cemento, argamasa, cal y rejunte en la región de Araraquara, reduciendo el plazo de entrega de los productos y propiciando una mejor planificación de las existencias de las tiendas de material de construcción”, comenta Fred Fernandes, director de logística de Votorantim Cementos.

El CD moverá 11 mil toneladas por mes y garantirá abastecimiento para cuatro días de consumo de la región para todos los productos, que serán suministrados por la fábrica de Itaú de Minas, localizada al sur de Minas Gerais.

En un área de 93 mil m², adquirida de la Planta Maringá, será construido un depósito de 1.500 m² para el almacenamiento de los productos, incluyendo estacionamiento para diversos vehículos y un espacio de convivencia específico para los conductores de los vehículos de carga – la “Casa do Caminhoneiro” (Casa del Camionero). El CD estará localizado en la SP 255, a la altura del km 73,5 que une la ciudad de Araraquara a Ribeirão Preto, próximo al futuro desvío ferroviario.

Actualmente Votorantim Cementos, opera con 60 Centros de Distribución para atender a los minoristas de la construcción en todo el País. Hasta el final del año, la empresa aún deberá inaugurar nuevas unidades de distribución y comercialización en puntos estratégicos de Brasil, con la finalidad de aproximar aún más la marca tanto de sus canales de venta así como de sus consumidores finales.

Centro de Distribución Araraquara – Votorantim Cementos

Productos: cimiento, argamasa, cal y rejunte
Mercado para abastecimiento: 40 ciudades – interior de São Paulo en un radio de 100 km alrededor de Araquarara
Valor de la inversión: R$ 4 millones
Movimiento: 11 mil toneladas/mes
Inicio de la operación: Diciembre de 2007

Data: 9/26/2007

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cementos anuncia una inversión de R$ 4 millones en la construcción de un nuevo Centro de Distribución (CD) en Araraquara para atender cerca de 40 ciudades del interior de São Paulo.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement launches Votomassa Maxi Cola Branca, a white gluey grout, during INTERCON – Fair and International Congress of Technology, Equipment, Construction and Finishing Materials, which is taking place in Joinville (SC), from September 25th to 29th.

This product has several applications and meets simultaneously the markets of ornament rocks, ceramic and porcelain coatings.

At ornament rocks, Maxi Cola Branca aims for applications of value added product. At ceramic coating, it has followed trend for floor over floor and tile over tile and at porcelain coating, there is a market potential, as well as high value added.

Advantages from such products remains at three kind of applications, which facilitates choice and productivity outcome, because it has a varied timing at the moment user can do his work at a bigger area, getting more agility when executing the work, besides the appearance which shows a conspicuously whiteness, allowing excellence at application finishing.

Maxi Cola Branca has been developed to meet users from sawmills, marble shops, Home Center, specialized finishing stores, retail in general, architects, work engineers and buyers in general.

Initially, such product from Votorantim Cement will be marketed in Federal District, in the states of Goiás, Ceará, Paraíba, Bahia, Pernambuco, in the cities of Campinas, Ribeirão Preto and Metropolitan Areas of São Paulo, Curitiba, Florianópolis and Porto Alegre.

Environmental Responsibility
When the issue is the environment, Votorantim Cement adopts the sustainable development concept in its excellence policy. Our company invests in clean technologies and carries out waste co-processing. This pioneer initiative at Brazilian cement industry uses process ovens from cement facilities for the destruction of several industrial wastes in a safe and definitive way.

Tires, chemical solvents, used oils, painting dregs, plastics, contaminated soils can be co-processed, among others. Such wastes are transformed in energy or raw material, adding ash mass from combustion, which is added to clinquer.

Votorantim Cement was one of pioneer companies to adopt co-processing. It started on 1990 at Rio Branco (PR) unit. Such process carried out by Votorantim Cement has already eliminated more than 2 million of tires and was the winner of CNI Award, at Ecology category.
 
More information:

FSB Comunicações (11) 3061-9596
Carolina Stefanini– e-mail: carolina.stefanini@fsb.com.br

Data: 9/26/2007

Chamada Noticia: Votomassa Maxi Cola Branca, the new product is ideal for more sophisticated applications and differentiated decoration.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement announces a R$4 million investment in the construction of a new Distribution Center (DC) in the City of Araraquara, in order to serve nearly 40 cities in the countryside of São Paulo – in a 100-km radius in the region, including the Cities of São Carlos, Araras, Rio Claro, Brotas and Matão.

The DC is expected to be operating this year, in mid-December.

“The purpose of this project is to optimize the distribution of cement, mortar, lime and spackle in the region of Araraquara, reducing product delivery period and offering better inventory planning at the hardware stores”, says Fred Fernandes, logistics director of Votorantim Cement.

The DC will move 11,000 tons per month and will ensure supply for four days of the region’s consumption concerning all products, which will be supplied by the plant in Itaú de Minas, located in the southern region of the State of Minas Gerais.

In a 93,000-m² area, acquired from the Maringá Plant, a 1,500-m² shed will be built for storing products, including a parking lot for many vehicles and a common area for the load vehicle drivers – “Casa do Caminhoneiro” (“Trucker’s Place”). The DC will be located on SP 255 road, at km 73.5, which links the Cities of Araraquara and Ribeirão Preto, near the future road detour.

Currently, Votorantim Cement operates with 60 Distribution Centers to serve construction retailers throughout Brazil. Up to the end of the year, the company should also inaugurate new distribution and trading units located at strategic points in Brazil, aiming at improving even more the brand of its sales channels and of its end consumers.

Araraquara Distribution Center – Votorantim Cement

Products: cement, mortar, lime and spackle
Supply market: 40 cities – countryside of São Paulo in a 100-km radius around the City of Araquarara
Investment value: R$4 million
Handling: 11,000 tons/month
Start of operation: December 2007 

Data: 9/26/2007

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement announces a R$4 million investment in the construction of a new Distribution Center (DC) in the City of Araraquara, in order to serve nearly 40 cities in the countryside of São Paulo.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

São Paulo, September 5, 2007 – As of this month, TV and radio stations will broadcast the advertising campaign “Veja Bem [Well, You See]”, created by Talent for Votorantim Cement. The campaign is part of a strategy by the company to reinforce the brand’s solidity, which has 70 years of tradition.

The partnership with Talent, started this year, brought as a first result a good-humored campaign, showing that the choice of Votorantim Cement’s brands does not need explanations. It was from this concept that the character “Veja Bem” was created, protagonist of the adverts.

As a national campaign, the adverts include films, ads and sales outlet materials, made according to the region of broadcast. The reason for this decision is in Votorantim Cement’s model of operation in Brazil, which is according to regional brands. They are: Votoran (South and Southeast regions), Itaú (Midwest region, interior of São Paulo and Minas Gerais), Tocantins (Goiás, Federal District and Tocantins) and Poty (Northeast region).

The “Veja Bem” campaign

In the first stage of the campaign, “Veja Bem” is a clumsy “professional”, famous for trying to justify himself each time he is asked why he does not choose Votorantim Cement’s products. He then talks with the foreman, always using the “well, you see” rationale to try to justify the wrong choice.

The concept “Cement: ou você compra bem ou veja bem... [you either buy well or well, you see…]” will be common to all the adverts, with focus on the regional brand according to the broadcasting location or brand exhibition.

With this strategy, Votorantim Cement explores the differentials of its product: quality and reliability. “We are always investing in surveys to understand the needs of our customers and consumers, and thus provide a quality product, with differentiated services and attendance”, states Marcelo Chamma, Commercial Director of Votorantim Cement.

The campaign foresees the creation of several films, always with the idea of the character “Veja Bem” interacting with the people involved in the construction world, be it the bricklayer, storekeeper or final consumer.

The films are scheduled to be broadcast on the following TV stations: Rede Globo, Rede TV! And Rede Bandeirantes. Spots will be broadcast in more than 300 radio stations. There will be a sales outlet work in stores throughout Brazil, with the aim of bringing the character closer to the public.

TECHNICAL FILE

TITLES:  TRANSLATION -  30” / MURO [WALL] – 30” / VEJA BEM – 30” / PRIMO [COUSIN] – 30” / AI,AI,AI – 30” PRODUCT:  CEMENTS       
CUSTOMER: VOTORANTIM CIMENTOS LTDA
BRANCH: TALENT PROPAGANDA S/A                
CREATION DIRECTION:  JOÃO LIVI
CREATION: JOÃO LIVI / PHILIPPE DEGEN / FÁBIO ASTOLPHO
PRODUCER BRANCH/RTVC:  MARIA HERMINIA WEINSTOCK / TATO FREIRE
BRANCH ATTENDANCE: ROGERIO DEZEMBRO/ CAMILA MANCEBO
CUSTOMER APPROVAL: FÁBIO ROSSINI / MARCELO CHAMMA
FILM PRODUCER: 02 FILMES
DIRECTOR: HEITOR DHALIA
PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR: RICARDO DELLA ROSA
ART DIRECTOR: CÁSSIO AMARNATE
PRODUCER ATTENDANCE: REJANE BICCA / CHICA MAUGER  
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: CARLOS BETTI / RAFAEL FORTES
SET UP: JAIR PERES JR.
POST-PRODUCTION/FINALIZATION: POST 02 FILMES
FINALIZATION COORDINATION: TAMIS LUSTRE
SOUND PRODUCER: A VOZ DO BRASIL

Further Information | FSB Comunicações 

            
Votorantim Cement
Carolina Stefanini
11 – 3061-9596
carolina.stefanini@fsb.com.br

Talent
Carla Tassini
11 - 3704-1921
carlatassini@talent.com.br

Data: 9/12/2007

Chamada Noticia: Campaign that reinforces the quality of the company’s cement brands in being broadcast throughout Brazil.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement invests R$ 1.6 billion in the expansion of plants throughout Brazil.

Votorantim Cement announced an investment plan for the construction of new cement plants and modernization of some already existing plants.

By the end of 2010, these investments will allow increasing the cement production capacity by 30%.

Know the new Units and projects:

• New Integrated Plants - Xambioá (Tocantins), Baraúna (Rio Grande do Norte) and Vidal Ramos (Santa Catarina);

• New mills - Barcarena (Pará), Pecém (Ceará), Aratu (Bahia), Sepetiba (Rio de Janeiro) and on the coast of Santa Catarina;

• Reactivation of the Cocalzinho plant (Goiás); 

• Mortar Operations - Pecém (Ceará), Aratu (Bahia), Goiânia (Goiás), Esteio (Rio Grande do Sul) and São Paulo (São Paulo);
 
• Expansion of the Salto/Santa Helena (São Paulo) and Nobres Units (Mato Grosso).

The first to enter into operation will be Barcarena in September of this year.

The initiative will create about 3,300 direct and indirect new jobs in the localities involved, in addition to approximately 10 thousand jobs during construction or modernization of the Units.

“Votorantim Cement's production expansion project, with new integrated plants and mills, in addition to modernization of already existing plants, is in line with the strategy to maintain the historical growth standard of the Votorantim Group and keep up with a new growth cycle of civil construction in Brazil", states Walter Schalka, president of the company.

Data: 8/10/2007

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement announced an investment plan of more than R$ 1.6 billion to expand plants throughout Brazil. Cement production capacity should increase by 30% in 2010.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Developed by Votorantim Cement, votomassa maxifachada is a pioneer in the Northeastern market. The new mortar waives the traditional mixture of cement, sand and lime, and can receive painting and ceramics directly, which implies in cost reduction of the works. 

The product, especially created for the façade of buildings, will be supplied in 50-kilo bags and simplifies the operation of preparation and transporting the mortar in the worksite.

Another benefit found is the ease in managing stocks and controlling the service by the construction companies, resulting in better organization in the works. According to Marcelo Lass, responsible for Votorantim Cement’s mortar business unit, the civil construction market is evolving rapidly toward an industrialized construction, demanding goods that provide maximum productivity in the worksites and with adequate technology for each type of use.

To meet the demand, VC focuses the research investments in expanding the Votomassa line. Votomassa maxifachada spent four months in the development phase in the company’s research center, underwent field tests and is being produced by Cipasa, VC industrial unit in Paraíba.

The idea of Votorantim Cement is to extend the sale of votomassa maxifachada to other regions of the country where the brand is already sold. Initially, the product will be available in the states of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba. In Brazil, use of the industrialized mortar is greater in the states in the Southern and Southeastern regions.

Executives from the Votorantim Group analyze, however, that the consumption is still small when compared to other countries of Europe and North America. For them, the new line of mortars will bring changes in the management of the production of construction companies due to the quality and cost reductions.

Data: 3/30/2007

Chamada Noticia: Developed by Votorantim Cement, votomassa maxifachada is a pioneer in the Northeastern market.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

The Technical Board of Votorantim Cements carries out the 2nd VC Co-Processing and Environment Workshop, on March 28th and 29th, at the Blue Tree Towers – Berrini Premium, in São Paulo.

With the accomplishment by The Technical Board of Votorantim Cements, the 2nd VC Co-Processing and Environment Workshop is taking place on March 28th and 29th, at the Blue Tree Towers – Berrini Premium, in São Paulo. For participation or more information about the event, contact Fernando Henrique Gadelha by phone (041) 3355-1038 or e-mail fernando.gadelha@votoran.com.br.

Workshop Objectives

• Co-processing Corporate Standards Communication:

o Residue Market
o VC Strategic Planning VC
o Health and Safety
o Results 2006 and expectations 2007
o Votorantim Guidelines : Co-processing KPIs, cost center, Release Monitoring, utilization of residue and raw materials according to the guidelines of the Cement Sustainability Initiative
o Standard Facilities for Residue: Liquid residue facility Safety
o Co-processing Internal and External Communication
o Training Module for co-processing standard
o Introduction to the Cement Sustainability Initiative.
o VC Sustainability Report.
o Environmental Performance Indicator.
o Environmental Licensing.
o Carbon Strategic Management at VC
o Residue Data Base

• Experience Exchange and Better Practices

o How to avoid negative impacts (product quality, oven operation, etc.)
o Fuel Mix Optimization
o Flexible Facility Projects for Co-processing

• Mini-Courses targeting the business

o Liquids Facility Safety – SERVMAR
o Atmospheric Releases – SICK MAIHAK
o Dangerous Product Transport- SUATRANS
o Residue Sampling – ALFA LABORATÓRIOS
o Environmental Licensing – WALTER LAZZARINI CONSULTING
o Carbon Market- Ecoinvest
o ABCP- ABCP Lecture
o Mine and Plant Decommissioning Plan – USP
o Worker Health and Safety – René Mendes Consultoria

Expectations

• Learning about the best practices of co-processing, projects, and operation facilities.
• Exchanging experience with fellows from other plants.
• Establishing a communication network between the fellows from other plants and the technical area of Votorantim Cements.
• Significantly improving the co-processing indicators of the Votorantim Cements plants.

Target Public

• Collaborators (workers and third party) directly working on the following areas:

o Clinkerization Ovens
o Co-processing
o The Environment
o Licensing
o Health (Labor Physicians)
o Health, Safety, and Environment Systems (SISMA)
o Projects
o Quality Control
o Communication
o Training

Place: Blue Tree Towers – Berrini Premium
Rua Quintana , 1012- Broklin Novo- São Paulo- SP
Phone: (011) 5508-5000

More information:
Fernando Henrique Gadelha
Phone: (041) 3355-1038
E-mail fernando.gadelha@votoran.com.br

Data: 3/23/2007

Chamada Noticia: The Technical Board of Votorantim Cements carries out the 2nd VC Co-Processing and Environment Workshop, on March 28th and 29th, at the Blue Tree Towers – Berrini Premium, in São Paulo.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement, in partnership with Canal Futura [TV Channel] and the Sobral Education Secretariat (CE), has launched Revista Olhares [magazine]. The publication has articles elaborated by students and teachers who are part of the Amigos do Futuro [Friends of the Future] Project, launched little more than a year ago in the municipality.

The magazine is the result of monthly actions by youngsters and teachers from 26 local schools, whose aim is to work on themes related to citizenship, identity and local heritage, environment and others suggested by the group. Each youngster, for example, chose a type of material or immaterial heritage from Sobral to research and develop his or her article. While the theme of the teachers was according to the projects developed in the schools taking part in the Friends of the Future Project.

To elaborate these articles, both youngsters and teachers had a communication consultant at their disposal to guide them, in addition to the mobilization team from Futura TV Channel. The meetings were held collectively in shared audiences and also with individual attendances, in the Friends of the Future hall, at the Sobral Municipal Public Library.

The purpose of the Friends of the Future Project is to contribute toward the educational and social development of the community, improving quality of life and encouraging citizenship in the cities where there is a Votorantim Cement unit.

Another publication

The Votorantim Group also supports other magazines. Onda Jovem [Young Wave] is a social community project launched in March 2005 that focuses on the youth segment, in the perspective of those who deal with the youngster – teachers, professionals from various social sectors, experts and researchers, and of the youngster himself or herself who wishes to influence the manner in which he or she is perceived by the society. The publication is sponsored by the Votorantim Institute.

Data: 1/5/2007

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement, in partnership with Canal Futura [TV Channel] and the Sobral Education Secretariat (CE), has launched Revista Olhares [magazine].

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Instituto Votorantim

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Memory Project and Jornal do Pedreiro [Bricklayer’s Journal], of Votorantim Cements, win the country’s foremost communication award.

Votorantim wins two categories of the 2006 Brazil Aberje Award

Two projects of the Votorantim Group were recognized in the 2006 Brazil Aberje Award.
The Votorantim Memory Project won in the Historical Responsibility and Corporate Memory category and the Jornal do Pedreiro [Bricklayer’s Journal], of Votorantim Cements, in the External Journal category. The Brazilian Corporate Communication Association (Aberje) annually awards the best corporate communication works in 23 categories. The awarding ceremony took place on Thursday, December 7, in São Paulo.

This was the 32nd edition of the award and had 1,033 works enrolled by companies from all over Brazil, being that 125 arrived at the final. All the finalists were winners in the regional states (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, South, Northeast and Midwest/Mideast). To win the national award, the projects underwent to Public Hearings, phases in which they were evaluated by a qualified jury. All procedures related to the initiative were audited by BDO Trevisan Auditores Independentes, giving greater transparency to the award.

Data: 12/8/2006

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Memory Project and Jornal do Pedreiro [Bricklayer’s Journal], of Votorantim Cements, win the country’s foremost communication award.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement will, as of December, take over the share control and management of the plant, set up in Ribeirão Grande municipality, in Vale do Ribeira (São Paulo State).

CCRG’s shares were purchased for the blanket price of about R$ 425 million, amount to be paid during the course of six years. According to the president of Votorantim Cement, Walter Schalka, the purchase meets the need of the company to expand its production capacity in view of the perspective of growth in the economy. “The cement market in Brazil must always be evaluated in the medium and long term. In this context, the Votorantim group believes in the growth of this industry and it believes that the economic scenario and government drives are favorable, especially in the Southeast region. In light of this, the Votorantim Group saw CCRG’s purchase as an excellent investment opportunity”, states Schalka.

CCRG will enable Votorantim Cement to expand its production by 900 thousand tons/year. Today, Votorantim Cement’s production capacity is 30.4 million tons/year of cement.

This purchase is the result of negotiations started in the end of August 2006, when the Votorantim Group manifested its interest to acquire CCRG’s control.

Data: 12/5/2006

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement will, as of December, take over the share control and management of the plant, set up in Ribeirão Grande municipality, in Vale do Ribeira (São Paulo State).

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim’s Local Memory exhibition will be taking place next Wednesday, the 6th of December, at Aquário Cultural Claudir Calixto Mainardi. The exhibition will bring to the public illustrations and texts made by children, youngsters and teachers who researched the history of the municipality through the Memória Local na Escola [Local Memory in School] project. The project, an initiative of Votorantim Cement, in partnership with Instituto Museu da Pessoa and support from Instituto Avisa Lá, was developed with the Votorantim Municipal Government through the Municipal Education Secretariat in municipal public schools.

The project aims at recovering the municipality’s history through the oral memory of the oldest dwellers, in addition to encouraging the practice of reading and writing, and supporting digital inclusion of the children and youngsters who took part in the project. The opening ceremony will take place at 2 pm, with the presence of Marcelo Monteiro (manager of the Santa Helena/Salto plant), Carlos Augusto Pivetta (secretary of education of Itapeva), Cisele Ortiz (Coordinator of Museu da Pessoa’s projects) and Jair Cassola (Mayor of Votorantim).

The exhibition, which will be free of charge and open to the entire community, will take place between the 6th and 15th of December, from 2 pm to 5 pm, at Aquário Cultural Claudir Calixto Mainardi, Rua Moacir Oseas Guitte, No. 41 [address]. Visitors will be able to appreciate the exhibition, which portrays the history of Votorantim through narrations by the region’s dwellers.

“We were very satisfied with the project’s results, which allows the region’s youngsters to understand the importance of recovering the city’s history”, explains Marcelo Monteiro, manager of the Salto and Santa Helena Units. “The exhibition will be able to take to the entire community the result of this initiative, which values the local culture, in addition to contributing toward the professional training of the region’s youngsters”, concludes the executive.

The Local Memory in School project, which lasted nine months, involved 15 municipal elementary schools. In all, 44 teachers and 840 youngsters aged 8 and 10 years took part in the project. The initiative was also supported by Museu da Pessoa, specialized in historical documentation of companies and regions and by Instituto Avisa Lá, which was responsible for the pedagogical development of the program.

The project consists of the holding of theoretical and practical classes on historical documentation, in which the students learn and conduct surveys, interview sources, organize files, write texts for recording, take and catalogue photographs, among other activities.

At the end of the work, three products will be created to disseminate Votorantim’s history among the other dwellers: itinerant exhibition of materials gathered from the region’s schools and publics spaces; books or albums with the written and photographic record of the municipality; and a book developed by the teachers working in the project, which will narrate the pedagogic part and processes of the work used, as a way of making eternal and disseminating the knowledge acquired with Museu da Pessoa and Instituto Avisa Lá.

With this initiative, Votorantim seeks to contribute toward developing the local memory of the Votorantim (São Paulo State) and Itapeva (São Paulo State) and São Miguel Paulista communities (São Paulo district home to the Votorantim Cement, Votorantim Metals, Votorantim Chemicals and Votorantim Pulp and Paper Units).

Services
Local Memory in School Exhibition
Date: 6th of December 2 pm Aquário Cultural Claudir Calixto Mainardi
Rua Moacir Oseas Guitte, No. 41 [address]

Further information:
CDN - Companhia de Notícias
Sandra Polo – Phone (11) 3643-2821
sandra-polo@cdn.com.br]
Claudia Alves  - Phone (11) 3643-2738  claudia@cdn.com.br

Data: 12/5/2006

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim’s Local Memory exhibition will be taking place next Wednesday, the 6th of December, at Aquário Cultural Claudir Calixto Mainardi.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cements is leading one of the boldest social inclusion projects promoted by the private sector, the program “Future in Our Hands”. In Ceará, the project is being conducted in the cities of Fortaleza and Sobral, and the program intends to empower, this year, over 120 youngsters for the job market. In August, 45 students from the first groups concluded the course, which started in June, and four new groups started this month, with about 76 youngsters, who will receive the certificate of conclusion in December.The aim is to empower them for civil construction this year, throughout Brazil, a universe of 1.6 thousand youngsters, aged 18 to 24 years.  

In addition to professional training, the youngsters receive at the end of the Masonry, Tile Settling and Sealing course a tool kit (safety goggles, PVC gloves, plumb line, spirit level, aluminum square, trowel, leveler and tapeline) to facilitate entry of these professional youngsters in the market.To complete the training, they have lectures on safety and the environment, which are ministered by volunteers.

The project was developed in a strategic cooperation by Votorantim Cements and the Votorantim Institute, in partnership with SENAI [National Industrial Education Service], with participation of Sinduscon [Civil Construction Industry Union].It also has the partnership of several social promotion entities throughout the country.Votorantim Cement is responsible for the project’s general coordination.In Sobral (Ceará State), the project is being implemented with Senai and the State Government.

“Usually, at the start of his career, the professional must make loans to buy tools and enter the market”, recalls Marcelo Chamma, commercial director of Votorantim Cements.“Quoting a popular saying, with this project, we not only teach how to fish, we provide the fishing rod, the bait and the hook”, he concludes.With the support of partners, Votorantim Cements hopes to promote the introduction of at least 70% of the students in the job market.

“Future in Our Hands”, which started in 2003, has already passed through 66 cities throughout Brazilian territory and has benefited 6,000 new professionals with over 300 graduated groups.This year, the project is taking place in 29 municipalities, from 11 States, and involves Votorantim Cement, Votorantim Metals, CBA and Votorantim Pulp and Paper, all business units of the Votorantim Group. The program has already received the following awards: Top Anamaco, Sodexho Pass, 2004 Good Citizenship Guide, and was Case in the Youth and Work Seminar (Pernambuco State) and in the BAWB Conference (Business as Agent of World Benefit).

Ethics and entrepreneurship are part of the curriculum

The Masonry and Sealing course last 192 hours, divided into three modules.The longest is the Technical module, which has over 160 hours. In it, the students get acquainted with the products and technologies existing in the market and are prepared for the activities of masonry settler and coater.

One of the project’s differentials is the Entrepreneurship and Interpersonal Relations module.The youngsters receive directions to facilitate their entry in the job market, such as tips for presentation and expression in job interviews, in addition to notions on how to deal with the various people involved in the works, like subordinates, partners, heads and customers.Although present in all modules, ethics and citizenship are the object of a specific training.

“The course will guarantee a differentiated training of the youngsters, empowering them not just technically for professional practice, but also awakening in them the sense of citizenship, concern with environmental cleanliness, their rights and duties as a citizen and a professional, which will differentiate them from the stereotype that involves today’s civil construction worker”, Chamma concludes.

About Votorantim Cement

Votorantim Cement is one of the ten largest global cement, concrete and mortar companies.With 25 units in Brazil and seven in North America, where more than eight thousand employees work, the company invests heavily on innovation, technology and quality.It was a pioneer in the co-processing of residues, collaborating toward sustainability of the industrial activity, and has a strong social operation, in partnership with the Votorantim Institute.

The company markets more than 40 products in Brazil in the area of construction solutions.Among its main brands are Votoran, Itaú, Poty, Tocantins and Aratu.In the mortar line, it operates under the Votomassa brand.In the limes and agricultural inputs line, it markets the Itaú and Votoran brands.

In 2005, Votorantim Cement reached the level of R$ 4.7 billion in net income, remaining the market leader in cements, limes, mortars, agricultural inputs and concretes, in which it operates through Engemix. 
 
Founded in 1936, the company is part of the Votorantim Group, one of the largest national capital corporations, with operation in the sectors of cement, mining and metallurgy, paper and pulp, chemistry, agribusiness and finances.

Further information

CDN – Companhia de Notícias
Sandra Polo – Phone: (11) 3643-2821 - sandra-polo@cdn.com.br
Cláudia Alves - Phone: (11) 3643-2738 - claudia@cdn.com.br

October / 2006

Data: 11/6/2006

Chamada Noticia: National goal of the Future in Our Hands project is to empower 1600 youngsters for the job market in 2006 and enable the creation of immediate income.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement has just received the 2006 ABERJE [Brazilian Corporate Communication Association] Award for Corporate.

Communication, in the press media category, External Journal. Jornal do Pedreiro was implemented by the company in 2002 .

As a tool for relating with this audience. Bricklayers are part of the editing committee, and the publication is of social nature, taking to the readers suggestions on how to work with cooperatives, work tips and how to elaborate contracts, in addition to techniques for working with products without wastage. There is also information on environmental preservation and social responsibility, including a letters section in which the bricklayer and his family interact with the journal, since it is delivered at home. The publication is bimonthly, with circulation of 27 thousand copies.

According to Votorantim Cement’s commercial director, Marcelo Chamma, the company is very concerned with continuous improvement of the quality and development of this vehicle of communication to make it more and more attractive to this audience. “We are proud to win this award, which encourages us to increase circulation for the next year”, he rounds up.

Data: 10/18/2006

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cements Ceara State unit, located in Sobral, obtained for the second time running the 1st place in the state stage of the 2006 “SESI  Quality at Work Award”, in the medium company category. The Unit competed with 36 other companies enrolled in this category, which have up to 500 employees.

The company was placed in the spotlight by the joint initiatives related to continuous improvement of managerial processes and practices. The issues analyzed were safety and health in the workplace; rise in the levels of education and empowerment of employees; leisure and culture; meeting the needs of the community living around the company and valuing of corporate citizenship, with the employee as focus. Based on these issues, a team from SESI [Industry Social Service] interviewed the employees to obtain their views.

According to the Unit’s manager, Dário Filho de Oliveira Pinheiro, this result confirms that the company works focused on sustainable growth and in the promotion of socio-economic development of the regions where it operates. “We have been in Sobral for 40 years and our investments contemplate programs for education, health, social inclusion, environmental preservation, cultural interiorization and improvement of local infrastructure, with the aim of improving the quality of life of the local population and of our employees”, he rounds up.
 
 
About Votorantim Cement

Votorantim Cement is one of the largest cement, concrete and mortar companies in the world. With 25 units in Brazil and seven in North America, where more than eight thousand employees work, the company invests heavily in innovation, technology and quality. It was a pioneer in the co-processing of residues, collaborating toward sustenance of industrial activity, and has strong social operations, in partnership with the Votorantim Institute.
 
The company sells more than 40 products in Brazil in the area of building solutions. Among its main brands are Votoran, Itaú, Poty, Tocantins and Aratu. In the mortar line, it operates under the Votomassa brand. In the line and agricultural input brand, it markets the Itaú and Votoran brands. In 2005, Votorantim Cement had a net income of R$ 4.7 billion, remaining the leader of the cement, lime, mortar, agricultural input and concrete market, where it operates through Engemix.

Founded in 1936, the company is part of the Votorantim Group, one of the biggest national capital corporations, with operations in the sectors of cement, mining and metallurgy, pulp and cellulose, chemistry, agricultural industry and finances.

Data: 9/22/2006

Chamada Noticia: The Unit competed with 36 other companies enrolled in this category, which have up to 500 employees.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cements and Canal Futura, partners in the “Amigos do Futuro” [Friends of the Future] Program, have joined the Municipal Secretariat for Education and Culture of Rio Branco do Sul (PR) to present the “Rio das Artes” Cultural Festival, whose theme is art from Paraná. The event takes place on the 24th, 25th and 26th of August, at Avenida Derson Costa, as of 9 am and should unite about one thousand people, among students, family members and teachers, from 23 schools of the city.

The festival has the purpose of presenting the cultural work developed in the state and municipal schools of the locality and promoting contact of students with the various cultural manifestations. On the 24th of August, in the morning, there will be an opening ceremony and the school presentations. In the afternoon, there will be cultural workshops, in which the youngsters will have the opportunity of developing activities in various areas, like theater, music, dance and visual arts. On the 25th and 26th, in the morning, there will be the workshops and in the afternoon the presentations. The works must be related to legends, myths, historical facts and religious feasts of the colonization of Paraná.

The “Amigos do Futuro” project, partner in the Cultural Festival, was implemented in 2001 in Rio Branco do Sul and Itaperuçu (PR), areas in which Votorantim Cements operates, and is aimed at developing in youngsters the local education and culture, using audiovisual as a learning tool, in addition to strengthening the spirit of citizenship, quality of life and respect for the environment in this target-audience.

Since 2005, the theme “Action and citizenship – cultural valuation” was chosen by participants of the “Amigos do Futuro” project as creator of learning practices and actions, with the aim of recovering values and appreciation for culture. The synergy between this project and the themes of “Rio das Artes”, developed by the Municipal Secretariat for Education and Culture o Rio Branco do Sul, led to an integration to hold the Festival, which will strengthen the event.

Service
Aug/24
morning - Opening and start of presentations
afternoon - Workshops
Aug/25 and 26
morning - afternoon
Workshops - Presentations

Data: 8/24/2006

Chamada Noticia: Event is held by the Municipal Secretariat for Education and Culture with partners from the “Friends of the Future” Program, Votorantim Cements and Futura TV Channel.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cimentos innovates once more and launches the Evoluir [Evolve] Project in the month of August, in celebration of its 70 years, in partnership with the Votorantim Institute and SENAI [National Industrial Learning Service]. Preferentially directed toward youngsters aged 17 and 24 years, the project aims at qualifying mechanics and electricians in industrial maintenance. With this initiative, the company aims at preparing qualified labor for the future in the communities in which it operates, creating job opportunities and collaborating with the region’s development and growth.

The course will be ministered in 1,200 hours, being divided into three modules of 400 hours. The Evoluir Project has already been implemented in Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul State) in late July, and in this month of August it reaches the municipalities of Sobradinho (Federal District) and Nobres (Mato Grosso State), municipality that will initially have the first module. Between the months of September and October, it enters into operation in the municipalities of Cantagalo (Rio de Janeiro State) and Laranjeiras (Sergipe State).

During or after the course, the best students may be used in the company, provided there are vacancies in the company’s staff or within the underage apprentice quota. The program has duration of 8 to 18 months and will empower youngsters to become mechanics or electricians in industrial maintenance, with greater chances of being employed in these regions.

Forty youngsters will be chosen from each municipality through a selection process coordinated by SENAI with support of the Human Development and Organization team of the Votorantim Cimentos Units. In some units, the selection process will be open to employees who will be able to occupy up to 50% of vacancies. The determinant prerequisites for this participation were: have minimum age of 18 years until conclusion of the first module, complete elementary education, in addition to characteristics like determination, good relationship, interest in learning and residing in the community where the plant is installed.

To complete the education of these youngsters, in addition to the technical part, preparation for interpersonal relations, professional choice, technological innovations and their impacts on the lives of people and on the society, State, citizenship and work were included.

About Votorantim Cimentos

Votorantim Cimentos is one of the ten largest global cement, concrete and mortar companies. With 25 units in Brazil and seven in North America, where more than eight thousand employees work, the company invests heavily on innovation, technology and quality. It was a pioneer in the co-processing of residues, collaborating toward sustainability of the industrial activity, and has a strong social operation, in partnership with the Votorantim Institute.

         The company markets more than 40 products in Brazil in the area of construction solutions. Among its main brands are Votoran, Itaú, Poty, Tocantins and Aratu. In the mortar line, it operates under the Votomassa brand. In the limes and agricultural inputs line, it markets the Itaú and Votoran brands. In 2005, Votorantim Cimentos reached the level of R$ 4.7 billion in net income, remaining the market leader in cements, limes, mortars, agricultural inputs and concretes, in which it operates through Engemix.

Founded in 1936, the company is part of the Votorantim Group, one of the largest national capital corporations, operating in the sectors of cement, mining and metallurgy, paper and cellulose, chemistry, agribusiness and finances.

Data: 8/11/2006

Chamada Noticia: Company prepares mechanics and electricians in industrial maintenance.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Instituto Votorantim

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cimentos reaches the 9th Construsul (Civil Construction Industry Fair), which takes place from August 2 to 5, with a differential: the service. During the event, the company will provide an area for the conduction of a mini-training and disclosure of the fidelity program “Say Yes to VC” and of CredLev, directed toward to the financing of construction material. These two ambitious initiatives are implemented to attain excellence in customer and final consumer service.

At the company’s stand, in addition to reinforcing both programs, Votorantim Cimentos will exhibit its entire line of products made up of cements and mortars. According to Marcelo Lass, commercial manager of the Southern Region, taking part in this event is an opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the customer and final consumer. “This is the time for us to explain the functioning, coverage, advantages and results of our fidelity and financing programs to customers, as well as the line developed through researches and state-of-the-art technology to introduce products of greater added value into the market”.

Fidelity and Financing Programs

The fidelity program “Say Yes to Votorantim Cimentos” is directed to storekeepers. It has a simple mechanics and the customer takes part in it by purchasing products from Votorantim Cimentos, which will accumulate points (VCIMs) that are computed monthly with validity of 12 months. At the site www.digasimavc.com.br, you will find the regulation and registration. Through a login and password, the storekeeper can check his score and also change his VCIMs for awards and souvenirs.

Meanwhile, CredLev has the purpose of financing the purchase of civil construction products. An action by Votorantim Cimentos was recently implemented in the Southern Region, in conjunction with BV Financeira. The result is the creation of a program that, besides facilitating financing for the consumer, also benefits the storekeeper.

About Votorantim Cimentos

Votorantim Cimentos is one of the ten largest cement, concrete and mortar manufacturer companies worldwide. With 25 units in Brazil and seven in North America, where it has more than 8 thousand employees, the company invests heavily in innovation, technology and quality. It was a pioneer in the co-processing of residues, collaborating toward sustenance of the industrial activity and it has strong social operation, in partnership with the Votorantim Institute.

The company sells more than 40 products in Brazil in the area of building solutions. Among its main brands are Votoran, Itaú, Poty, Tocantins and Aratu. In the mortar line, it works under the Votomassa brand. In the limes and agricultural input line, it markets the Itaú and Votoran brands. In 2005, Votorantim Cimentos had a net income of R$ 4.7 billion, remaining the leader of the cement, lime, mortar, agricultural input and concrete market, in which it operates through Engemix.

Founded in 1936, the company is part of the Votorantim Group, one of the largest national capital corporations, working in the cement, mining and metallurgical, paper and cellulose, chemical, agro industrial and financial sectors.

CDN – Companhia de Notícias

Sandra Polo - Tel.(11) 3643-2821
sandra-polo@cdn.com.br

Claudia Alves - Tel. (11) 3643-2738
claudia@cdn.com.br

Abril / 2006

Data: 7/24/2006

Chamada Noticia: Attendance and line of products of high aggregate value are prominences of the company.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cimentos (VC) was awarded the Anamaco 2006 Prize on June 6 at a ceremony in São Paulo. The company came in first place in three categories: cement, basic mortar products and limestone/cales hidratadas. It came second in the mortar/argamassas colantes e rejuntamentos segments.

The winners were chosen from a poll carried out by ANAMACO/Ibope Solution which interviewed more than 1,400 construction material retailers throughout Brazil.

Votorantim Cimentos commercial director, Marcelo Chamma, said the company was greatly concerned with the continuous improvement in quality and development of products for consumer needs. “It is gratifying to know that our clients recognize the investments we are making to make breakthroughs,” he said.

Data: 6/7/2006

Chamada Noticia: The company came in first place in three categories: cement, basic mortar products and limestone/cales hidratadas. It came second in the mortar/argamassas colantes e rejuntamentos segments.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement (VC) and the Votorantim Institute will invest R$ 1.5 million this year to promote the professional training of 330 young people aged between 16 and 24 who live near the companies’ plants. This will be carried out through the Development Program, a successful initiative which has already trained hundreds of young people throughout Brazil’s five different regions for more than 20 years.

Ten municipalities will be included in the Program in 2009 and 330 young people from the Federal District and the states of Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, São Paulo and Tocantins will benefit.

Through the Development Program, VC offers young people the opportunity of technical training in the Mechanical Maintenance, Electrical or Mining areas and gives them access to the labor market.

Another VC initiative is the Future in Our Hands Program which will train 1,000 young bricklayers in 2009 throughout the country. New classes got underway in Porto Velho (RO) and Rio Branco (AC) on February 9 and 10, respectively. The program aims to train young people aged between 18 and 29 through partnerships with a number of institutions and insert them in the job market.

The courses offered in the two projects cover social and educational activities which give priority to the personal, social, professional and ethical development of the young participants. The programs are also aligned with the Votorantim Institute in the Work Route project which aims to qualify young people for the job market, respecting their vocations and interests in building a professional career.

Data: 3/3/2009

Chamada Noticia: In 2009, R$ 1.5 million will be invested in the Development Program for the technical training of young people in the Electrical, Mechanical and Mining areas. At the same time, the Future in Our Hands Program will train 1,000 young bricklayers throughout Brazil.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Brasil;Educação;Instituto Votorantim;Responsabilidade Social;Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim aims to be recognized by society as a company which generates social and environmental value and this commitment is stated in its Vision and Sustainability Principles. The Business Units are pledged to undertake continuous initiatives to preserve natural resources and reduce the impacts of their activities on the environment. Votorantim Industrial, for example, works actively with the Business Units in projects which create carbon credits, thereby helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

Check out some of the Group actions.

CITROVITA
Waste becomes a fertilizer
Citrovita has developed a project which will transform iodine, a solid waste from the treatment of industrial waste, into fertilizer. The initiative brings advantage, such as the integrated production concept as it closes the field-industry cycle and cuts costs at two points: firstly, by eliminating the costs of the final disposal of the material, and secondly by using it as a fertilizer in the orange groves. The next stage is to register the product with the Ministry of Agriculture.

VOTORANTIM CEMENT
World example
VC is part of the Cement Sustainability Initiative, an organization which brings together the largest cement companies in the world to discuss sustainability in the sector. VC has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions, amongst other initiatives. The goal was to reduce the emissions by 10% by 2012 compared with the volume of carbon issued in 1990. However, VC had already reduced the net emission by 16.6% by 2007 and is now the cement company which emits the least carbon in the world.

VOTORANTIM CHEMICALS
Recycling
The Nitro Química plant in Santa Catarina state (Brazil), has undertaken two actions which are worth noting: it is replacing diesel oil and grease by biodegradable degreasing material and reusing a solid waste as a raw material in the production of red ceramic.

VOTORANTIM METALS
Environmental management at CBA
One of VM's main projects in the environmental area is its management plan for the Morro Grande Nature Reserve. CBA worked with the Environmental Monitoring Center of Serra do Itapety to map 363 species of plants, 124 of birds, 20 of mammals and 1,319 of insects, in an area covering 425 hectares of the Atlantic Rainforest biome belonging to the company, between the towns of Poços de Caldas and Caldas (Minas Gerais state, Brazil). VM is also operating on a number of others fronts including capturing and treating waste and recycling industrial waste.

VOTORANTIM ENERGY
Preservation
Votorantim's Energy environmental initiatives include two outstanding initiatives. Two million seedlings will be planted by the end of the year in its 31 plants. These include 2,000 threatened species in the Barra Grande region located between the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. VE also looks after 28,000 hectares of native Atlantic Rainforest along the banks of the river Juquiá in São Paulo state.

VOTORANTIM STEEL
Environmental Awareness
The Votorantim Steel plant at Resende (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) has started to create a green belt around its premises and is also working to recover riverbank woodlands. By 2010, around 250,000 seedlings of Atlantic rainforest species will be planted in an area covering 140 hectares (or 1,400,000 square meters). The aim is to capture carbon from the atmosphere, reduce the risks of erosion to the riverbanks and recover biodiversity.

To reinforce the awareness of the role of each employee in relation to environmental issues, VS organized an Environment Week in the offices and plants in Brazil, Argentina and Colombia at the beginning of June. The event was held to mark World Environment Day (June 5).  The initiatives involved around 5,000 employees and their families.

VCP
Carbon tracked
VCP's production plant of Jacareí (São Paulo State, Brazil) was certified in April by Carbon Footprint which measures the issues of gas in the various production process stages. It is the first pulp plant in Brazil to have this certification for the whole productive chain, from the planting of the wood to the delivery of the pulp at the ports (Europe, Asia and US).

Data: 6/8/2009

Chamada Noticia:

The Votorantim Group invested R$ 208 million in nature preservation in 2008.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Meio Ambiente;Votorantim Agroindústria;Votorantim Cimentos;Votorantim Energia;Votorantim Metais;Votorantim Siderurgia

Conteúdo:

Concrete from Engemix, Votorantim Cement"s concrete business, and Votoraço products from Votorantim Siderurgia (Steel) will be used in the construction of 1,440 residential units as part of the federal government’s "My House, My Life" program. The project, which is located in São José dos Campos (SP), began in June and is being coordinated by the homebuilder Homex. The homes are scheduled to be handed over in December this year. They will cost from R$ 80,000 and may be financed entirely by the Caixa Econômica Federal bank.

"We are providing cut and bend steel and welded screens, products with a higher added value," said Luiz Henrique dos Santos, the sales coordinator of the São José dos Campos office.

The "My House, My Life" program involves investments of R$ 34 billion and has been subsidized by the Federal Government and the FGTS workers´ social security fund. A million homes for families with an income of up to 10 minimum wages are due to be built throughout Brazil.

Advantages for low income consumer
The Construction in Series Segment of Engemix brings new technologies to the market based on concrete which allows homes to be built quickly and economically to meet the needs of homebuilders directed at the lower income group, particularly for the construction of apartment blocks. For small residential and commercial projects, the Self Construction Segment launched CasaMix which delivers the concrete already mixed to cover flagstones, pavements and floors, amongst others. As well as bringing advantages such as convenience, flexibility in delivery, economy and quality, the payment can be financed with a credit card in three installments. The card is called Construcard and is issued by the Caixa Econômica Federal bank or the financing can be made through BV Financeira (Votorantim’s financing house) in up to 24 installments.

About Engemix
Engemix, Votorantim Cement's concrete business, is recognized as the leading brand in the segment in Brazil and has been present in the country´s main building projects over four decades. The company currently has more than 2,000 employees and more than 80 fixed sites spread throughout 11 Brazilian states which provide the best solutions, products and services. Engemix´s concrete production came to four million cubic meters in 2008, equivalent to five stadiums the size of the Maracanã football pitch in Rio de Janeiro.

Data: 7/27/2009

Chamada Noticia:

Concrete from Votorantim Cement (Engemix) and Votorantim Siderurgia (Steel)’s Votoraço are being used to build homes for the federal government's "My House, My Life" program.

Noticia Destaque: No

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Engemix;Votorantim Cimentos;Votorantim Siderurgia;Projetos

Conteúdo:

The 13th issue of the ranking of the 150 Best Places to Work published in Guia Você S/A, created in partnership with FIA - Fundação Instituto de Administração of São Paulo University (Brazil), included two companies from the Votorantim Group. BV Financeira and Votorantim Cement are featured in this survey of personnel management which is the largest of its kind in Brazil and involved more than 143,000 companies. The award presentation ceremony took place in the Alfa Theater, São Paulo, on September 9.

It was the second consecutive year in which BV Financeira appeared on the list. The company was ranked sixth, with the highest ratio of staff being happy at work (86.9%) of all the financial institutions operating in Brazil. The guide highlighted the company´s transparency in relation to its internal communication and its meritocratic system which recognizes the results of each professional.

Votorantim Cement starred on its debut in the ranking, with a high ratio of employees who identified with the company (83.9%). It was regarded as outstanding, thanks to its consistent work in overseeing the performance of employees over the years, investments in training and development, committees which discuss half-yearly pay increases, benefits package, and innovation program which presents awards to its employees for good ideas.The guide is published annually by the two largest management and business magazines in Brazil.

Data: 9/11/2009

Chamada Noticia:

Companies are listed among the 150 Best Places to Work in the publication, Guia Você S/A – Exame, the largest survey of personnel management in Brazil in which more than 143,000 companies took part.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Votorantim Cimentos;Votorantim Finanças;Prêmios e Reconhecimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement has inaugurated its production plant at the Aratu Industrial Complex in the town of Candeias in Bahia state. The event was attended by representatives of the local authorities, the construction segment and Votorantim shareholders and executives.

The new Aratu plant was the result of an investment of R$ 50 million and will produce cement and mortar to meet the growing demand in the metropolitan region of the capital of Bahia, Salvador. The project is part of an extensive production capacity expansion program which Votorantim Cement is undertaking until 2011. The program involves investments of more than R$ 2 billion for the construction of new plants throughout Brazil, as well as the reactivation, expansion and modernization of the existing plants.

As the operations began less than a year ago, the plant is still in the learning curve period. It has produced 40% of its capacity of Votomassa brand mortar and Matrix brand adhesive. The plant has already met its annual expectation and produced 320,000 tons of cement. It is worth noting that it is the only VC plant to produce Aratu cement, a brand which is highly regarded in Bahia.

This new plant will strengthen Votorantim Cement´s presence in the Northeast, particularly the Bahia market, and allow the company to attend clients in the region more flexibly. It is located in an area measuring 370,000 square meters and the company is proud that 70% of the total area contains preserved native woodland.

Data: 10/6/2009

Chamada Noticia: The Aratu plant, in Bahia state, is the result of an investment of R$ 50 million to meet the demand of mortar and cement markets in the metropolitan region of the capital of Bahia, Salvador, and is part of VC's expansion plan.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: List of stories

Tags de Negócio: Brasil;Cimento;Expansões;Investimentos;Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement was highlighted in the second Climate Change Prize presented by the news magazine Época. The company was one of 21 listed in the “Leading Company in Climate Policies” category at the award ceremony.  VC received an award in the Best Management category last year for providing a detailed inventory of its emissions.

Some of the factors which contributed to VC’s recognition were the technologies used in its new plants to reduce emissions and the advances made in the development of different input for the production of cement. This includes the use of pozzuolana clay in the new kiln at the Nobres (MT) plant and in all the kilns at the Porto Velho (RO) plant.
"The sustainable construction of Porto Velho and the pozzuolana line in Nobres can be held up as an investment model which showed concern for and focused on global climate changes," said Edvaldo Araújo Rabelo, director of Industrial Operations for Brazil.

Data: 10/7/2009

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cement was highlighted in the second Climate Change Prize as a "Leading Company in Climate Policies" for providing a detailed inventory of its emissions.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: List of Stories

Tags de Negócio: Brasil;Cimento;Prêmios e Reconhecimentos;Votorantim Cimentos;Meio Ambiente

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cement is currently starting up its technical Electro-Mechanical Operator course for young people in Pinheiro Machado, Rio Grande do Sul State. In addition to the students, the inaugural class will be attended by representatives of Votorantim Cement, Senai, plant leaders, city authorities, social action partners, and representatives of the Secretary of Education.

In total, 143 young people have applied for the course.  Of these, 30 were selected, all of them living in the city of Pinheiro Machado. The selection process consisted of a written test and the evaluation of candidates’ socioeconomic profile.

The Electro-Mechanical Operator Course is part of the Programa Evoluir, a successful initiative by Votorantim Cement and Votorantim Institute. The companies will invest a total of R$ 1.5 million in the qualification of youths in 2009, offering, not only an opportunity for technical training, but also helping these young people to have access to their first job. Over the past two years, the Programa Evoluir has trained more than 250 skilled workers in the areas where Votorantim Cement has plants.

Data: 11/10/2009

Chamada Noticia: Thirty young adults from the town of Pinheiro Machado in Rio Grande do Sul were selected to attend the course which is part of the Programa Evoluir (Skills Development) Program designed in partnership with the Votorantim Institute.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Brasil;Instituto Votorantim;Responsabilidade Social;Trabalho;Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cimentos launched a new line of product at the 18th International Construction Industry trade fair (Feicon) held on 6/4. A total of 21 new products were unveiled, none of which never been seen in Brazil. All have been developed with technology incorporated from the American company Laticrete which is the world leader in the innovation and development of mortar technology for ceramic tile and natural stone installation.

The partnership with the American company will allow VC to import state-of-the-art technology to meet the new market demands. “The uses of the new products are innovative and meet the needs of the modern homebuilding industry,” said Walter Schalka, CEO of VC.

Laticrete has an international reputation for developing products for works such as the Water Cube, a giant indoor swimming built specially for the Beijing Olympics, and Burj Al Arab, the famous, imposing hotel in Dubai regarded as the highest in the world. It has also provided services to a number of leading companies such as Coca Cola , Microsoft, Disney World, McDonalds, Marriott Hotels and Walmart.

As well as bringing alternative ceramic and stone installation products and systems to the Brazilian consumer, Votorantim Cimentos has taken an important step forward in attaining the leadership of the domestic mortar market.

Data: 4/5/2010

Chamada Noticia:

These 21 products have never been seen in Brazil and have been developed with technology incorporated from the American company Laticrete which is the world leader in innovation in the sector.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Brasil;Cimento;Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

The 2010 Valor Executive Award Valor, organized by the Valor Econômico newspaper,
paid tribute to the best executives from 24 sectors of the Brazilian economy.  The winners were chosen by a jury from the 10 best-known headhunter companies in Brazil in a secret vote.

The award ceremony took place on 13/4 in São Paulo. Walter Schalka, CEO of Votorantim Cimentos, was one of the winners.

The election took into account the performance of the executives in 2009, along with managerial aspects such as their ability to identify opportunities for innovation and growth, skills in leading teams and the company´s image on the market.

"This is not a personal award. I represent a capable team which has worked very hard for Votorantim Cimentos to conquer an outstanding position on the market. This award proves that we are on the right track. We won good marks for the organizational environment and are among the 150 best places to work. We will continue to invest in building an even better working environment and developing people," Walter said.

Data: 4/22/2010

Chamada Noticia:

Walter Schalka, CEO of Votorantim Cimentos, was recognized as one of the 24 best executives in Brazil at an award ceremony organized by the Valor Econômico newspaper.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Cimento;Concreto;Prêmios e Reconhecimentos;Votorantim Cimentos

Conteúdo:

Votorantim Cimentos announced the investments it would make in Brazil by 2013 on 27/4. The expansion will include eight new projects in seven states as well as the conclusion of five plants which are under construction.

The 13 plants will receive investments of around R$ 3.7 billion and increase VC´s cement production by more than 9.5 million tons. “These investments confirm the commitment of Votorantim Cimentos to constant growth in tandem with the development of Brazil," said CEO Walter Schalka. “We will have enough installed capacity to supply all markets and also improve the level of services to our clients.”

Data: 4/28/2010

Chamada Noticia: Votorantim Cimentos announced the investments it would make in Brazil by 2013 on 27/4. The expansion will include eight new projects in seven states as well as the conclusion of five plants which are under construction.

Noticia Destaque: Yes

Titulo da Seção: News

Tags de Negócio: Brasil;Cimento;Concreto;Investimentos;Projetos;Votorantim Cimentos