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      "text": "GERDAU S.A. is a Brazilian steel producer whose core business spans long steel products in the Americas and special steel supplied worldwide. Its products include reinforcing bars, merchant bars, beams, wire rod, structural shapes and other steel products; in Brazil, it also produces flat steel and iron ore. [P152118305][P152118432] The company’s stated purpose is “Empowering people who build the future.” [https://www2.gerdau.com/about-us/our-purpose]\n\nGerdau operates across Brazil, North America and South America, with an official company profile describing operations in seven countries and more than 30,000 direct and indirect employees. [P152118384][https://ri.gerdau.com/en/gerdau/history-and-corporate-profile/] For the 2025 reporting year, consolidated net sales were R$69.859 billion. [T17497458]\n[P152118305][P152118432][https://www2.gerdau.com/about-us/our-purpose][P152118384][https://ri.gerdau.com/en/gerdau/history-and-corporate-profile/][T17497458][https://www2.gerdau.com/about-us/our-purpose][https://ri.gerdau.com/en/gerdau/history-and-corporate-profile/]",
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      "text": "Gerdau’s product range includes rebar, merchant bars, beams, drawn products, billets, blooms, slabs, wire rod, structural shapes, hot-rolled coil, heavy plate and iron ore in Brazil; rebar, merchant bars, wire rod, and light and heavy structural shapes in North America; and rebar, merchant bars and drawn products in South America. [P152118432] Its facilities also produce items such as nails, finished and rolled bar, and rolling-mill rolls. [T17497480]\n\nIn North America, the merchant-bar range includes hot-rolled bars, channels, angles, flats, rounds and squares, with customer-specified grades; its special-bar-quality products vary by shape, size, grade and finish. [https://gsn.gerdau.com/en-US/products/merchant-bar] [https://gsn.gerdau.com/en-US/products/special-bar-quality] Gerdau also offers construction customers customized rebar supply and delivery, including cut-to-length pieces, specified piece counts and quantities. [https://gsn.gerdau.com/en-US/market-applications/construction] Brazilian technical materials describe hot-rolled I- and H-shaped structural sections from 150 to 610 mm. [https://gsn.gerdau.com/sites/gsn_gerdau/files/downloadable_files/Folder%20Perfis%20Estruturais%20Gerdau%20-%20Informa%C3%A7%C3%B5es%20T%C3%A9cnicas.pdf]\n\nIn FY2025, the regional product bundles represented 42.5% of consolidated net sales in Brazil, 51.2% in North America and 8.0% in South America; eliminations and adjustments were −1.7%. These figures describe regional bundles, not individual product shares. [T17497461]\n[P152118432][T17497480][T17497461][T17497461][T17497461][T17497461][https://gsn.gerdau.com/en-US/products/merchant-bar][https://gsn.gerdau.com/en-US/products/special-bar-quality][https://gsn.gerdau.com/en-US/market-applications/construction][https://gsn.gerdau.com/sites/gsn_gerdau/files/downloadable_files/Folder%20Perfis%20Estruturais%20Gerdau%20-%20Informa%C3%A7%C3%B5es%20T%C3%A9cnicas.pdf][https://gsn.gerdau.com/en-US/products/merchant-bar][https://gsn.gerdau.com/en-US/products/special-bar-quality][https://gsn.gerdau.com/en-US/market-applications/construction][https://gsn.gerdau.com/sites/gsn_gerdau/files/downloadable_files/Folder%20Perfis%20Estruturais%20Gerdau%20-%20Informa%C3%A7%C3%B5es%20T%C3%A9cnicas.pdf]",
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      "text": "Gerdau’s industrial footprint spans Brazil, the United States, Canada, Peru, Argentina and Uruguay. Its facilities include sites in multiple Brazilian states, U.S. locations in Texas, Georgia and Michigan, and Canadian locations in Ontario and Manitoba. In Brazil, its mining rights include projects in Minas Gerais, such as Gongo Soco, Morro Gabriel, Miguel Burnier, Várzea do Lopes and Dom Bosco; these rights do not necessarily indicate active production. [T17497480][T17497477] The company identifies its principal executive and registered office in São Paulo, Brazil. [P152118301]\n\nFor 2025, reported net sales by regional segment were R$29.7 billion in Brazil, R$35.8 billion in North America and R$5.6 billion in South America, against consolidated sales of R$69.9 billion. These amounts represent approximately 42.5%, 51.2% and 8.0% of consolidated sales, respectively, before eliminations and adjustments; the filing does not give a country-level revenue breakdown. [T17497514] Gerdau says more than 90% of shipments from its South American operation originate in Argentina and Peru. [P152118476]\n[T17497480][T17497477][P152118301][T17497514][T17497514][T17497514][T17497514][P152118476]",
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      "text": "For FY2025, Gerdau reported three geographic operating segments. Brazil Operation generated R$29.688 billion in net sales, approximately 42.5% of consolidated net sales, and includes a broad range of long and flat steel products, special steel and iron ore. [T17497461][P152118432] North America Operation generated R$35.787 billion, approximately 51.2%, and focuses on long and special steel operations in the United States and Canada. [T17497461][P152118432] South America Operation generated R$5.561 billion, approximately 8.0%, with products including rebar, merchant bars and drawn products. [T17497461][P152118432]\n\nThe percentages use segment net sales as a share of consolidated net sales; the reported segment shares exceed 100% in aggregate because Gerdau also reports eliminations and adjustments. [T17497461]\n[T17497461][T17497461][T17497461][T17497461][T17497461][T17497461][P152118432]",
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      "text": "Gerdau traces its origins to January 1901, when João Gerdau acquired the Pontas de Paris nail factory in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The company entered steelmaking in 1948 after taking control of the Riograndense mill. During the following decades, it expanded within Brazil, inaugurating the Açonorte mill in 1969 and the Cosigua mill in 1971, the same year it opened its first Comercial Gerdau branch [https://www2.gerdau.com.br/en/noticias/gerdau-celebrates-123-years-with-the-commitment-to-shape-an-even-more-sustainable-future/][https://www2.gerdau.com.br/en/about-us/].\n\nGerdau began its international expansion in 1980 with the acquisition of the Laisa steel mill in Uruguay. It subsequently entered Canada, Chile and Argentina, and expanded into the United States through the 2001 takeover of Ameristeel; in 2002, its North American steel operations were combined with Co-Steel to form Gerdau AmeriSteel [https://ri.gerdau.com/en/gerdau/history-and-corporate-profile/][https://gerdau.com/sites/gln_gerdau/files/downloadable_files/2022%20Annual%20Report.pdf][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/containers/fix010/37661/000095014403001982/g80723ae425.htm]. In 2007, acquisitions extended its presence to Mexico and added Chaparral Steel in the United States. Gerdau later launched Gerdau Next in 2020 to develop businesses adjacent to steel and Gerdau Graphene in 2021 [https://ri.gerdau.com/en/gerdau/history-and-corporate-profile/][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1203748/000127956907001358/ex991.htm].\n[https://www2.gerdau.com.br/en/noticias/gerdau-celebrates-123-years-with-the-commitment-to-shape-an-even-more-sustainable-future/][https://www2.gerdau.com.br/en/about-us/][https://ri.gerdau.com/en/gerdau/history-and-corporate-profile/][https://gerdau.com/sites/gln_gerdau/files/downloadable_files/2022%20Annual%20Report.pdf][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/containers/fix010/37661/000095014403001982/g80723ae425.htm][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1203748/000127956907001358/ex991.htm]",
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