Gerdau SA is a Brazil-based holding company engaged in the manufacture and sale of steel products. The Company produces long steel and flat steel items, principally through the process of fabrication in electrical furnaces from scrap metal and purchased pig iron, as well as by manufacturing steel from iron ore in the blast furnace and by direct reduction. The Company's business is structured in four segments: Brazil Operation, in which the Company manufactures rebar, rods, profiles and drawn, billets, blooms slabs, wire rods and structural shapes; North America Operation, where the Company provides rebar, merchant bar, wire rod, heavy structural shapes and light; the Latin America Operation includes rebar, bars and drawn manufacturing and Specialty Steel Operation, where the Company provides stainless steel, square bars, round and flat, wire rod. Its products are distributed in various sectors, including construction, industrial, automotive and agricultural.