With a fully integrated production process – aluminum, nickel and zinc mining and metallurgy operations – Votorantim Metals ensures efficiency and competitive prices for its high-quality products. Votorantim Metals is a leader in the Brazilian aluminum, zinc and nickel markets and the fifth largest global zinc producer.

In Brazil, the company operates four industrial plants and seven mining and processing facilities. It also holds ownership interest in a refinery, steel mill plant and a bauxite mine. Overseas, the company boasts industrial plants and rep offices in the USA, Peru and China; a mineral exploration plant in Peru; mineral exploration offices in Argentina, Bolívia, Canadá, Colômbia, México, and Peru, in addition to ownership interest in companies in Peru, Chile, and Trinidad and Tobago.

In 2010, VM’s Cajamarquilla refinery, in Peru, was expanded and doubled its production from 160,000 tons/year to 320,000 tons/year. The expansion is part of a strategic plan to increase the plant’s capacity to 1 million tons of zinc a year by 2012, thus strengthening VM’s position as a leading global metal producer. Another project to be undertaken in 2010 is the company’s aluminum expansion from 475,000 to 570,000 tons a year.

The continuous concern with sustainable growth has led the Company to generate nearly 70% of the energy consumed by its industrial facilities. It develops its own technologies and mining studies, basing its activities on responsible environmental management, social and cultural investments, and safety.

Products: Aluminum (ingots, billets, rebars, plates and sheets); Nickel (electrolytic nickel, nickel coins, nickel matte, cobalt, sodium sulfate and sulfuric acid); Zinc (Zinc SHG, zinc oxide, zinc powder, zinc granules, jumbos, zamac and special alloys).

Brands: CBA, USZinc and Multicolor CBA.

Employees: 9.9 thousand.

Productive assets

• Brazil: 4 industrial units (1 aluminum, 1 nickel and 2 zinc) and 7 mining and processing facilities (3 aluminum, 2 nickel and 2 zinc); ownership interest in 3 aluminum companies;
• Peru: 1 industrial unit (zinc); 2 mining and processing facilities – ownership interest (lead, copper and zinc);
• United States: 4 industrial units (zinc);
• China: 1 industrial unit (zinc);
• Trindad e Tobago: ownership interest in 1 aluminum plant.

Production capacity

• Aluminum: 475.0 thousand tons/year;
• Nickel: 45.0 thousand tons/year;
• Zinc: 575.0 thousand tons/year;

Performance in 2009

• Net Revenues: R$5.2 billion;
• Investments: R$0.9 billion in Capex;
• Sales volume: aluminum: 479.4 thousand tons; nickel: 23.9 thousand tons; zinc: 533.1 thousand tons.
  
  
• Aluminum
• Nickel
• Zinc

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