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- Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais S.A. (Usiminas) manufactures and markets flat steel products in Brazil and internationally. The company produces ordinary heavy plates, Sincron series premium heavy plates, hot-rolled strips and coils, cold-rolled products, galvanized sheets and coils, slabs, electrogalvanized products, and hot-dip galvanized coils; it also extracts and processes iron ore including pellet feed, sinter feed, and granulated iron ore, while providing mining, logistics services such as storage, handling, road and rail cargo transportation, and operates highway and railway terminals. Usiminas serves sectors including automotive, civil construction, energy, white goods, oil and gas, machinery, equipment, railways, offshore platforms, and distribution, with primary sales in the Brazilian domestic market and exports to the United States, Argentina, and Turkey. Founded in 1956 and headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the company operates major plants in Ipatinga (Minas Gerais) and Cubatão (São Paulo), along with mining operations through Mineração Usiminas S.A. (MUSA) in Itatiaiuçu (Minas Gerais). In recent developments, Ternium agreed to acquire the remaining stake of Nippon Steel in Usiminas' controlling group; the company entered a partnership with Embratel to deploy private LTE and 5G networks at its facilities; it secured a long-term power purchase agreement with Recurrent Energy for the 152 MW Jaiba III solar project; and ongoing investments include a new PCI plant set for completion in early 2026, coke battery upgrades projected for 2028-2029, blast furnace modernizations, and CapEx focused on operational efficiency amid a 45% nine-month EBITDA increase in 2025.