Gerdau targets special steel sales to Mexico

Feb 11, 2013 | 11:45 AM | Rodrigo Alonso

Tags  Gerdau, special steel, Gerdau Special Steel North America, Mexico, United States, Monroe, automotive, Steel First Rodrigo Alonso

MEXICO CITY — Gerdau Special Steel North America plans to increase sales to the Mexican market over the next few years, a top executive said.

Shipments of specialty steel products to the Latin American nation could increase by "20,000 or 30,000 tonnes per year" over three or four years to meet growing demand from the automotive industry, Gerardo Knochenhauer, sales manager in Mexico for the Gerdau SA subsidiary, told AMM sister publication Steel First on Feb. 8.....





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