OREANDA-NEWS. As a contribution to the sectors of civil construction and infrastructure, Gerdau, the leader in the segment of long steel in the Americas, supplies welded wire meshes that are delivered on site ready for use and which result in a 15% reduction of the costs with steel products, eliminating waste and increasing productivity by up to 70% during structure assembly.

Increasingly adopted in paving operations, construction solutions using welded wire meshes have been appointed as an economic advantage in the Brazilian civil construction and infrastructure market. Overall investment in paving, including maintenance and initial investment, may be reduced in up to 6% with the use of Gerdau’s product.

Welded wire meshes, which may be used both for hard pavements (concrete) and bus lanes and roads, have recently been used in the Francisco Morato/Reboucas bus lane, in Sao Paulo, and in the TransOeste Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) express bus lane, in the west side of Rio de Janeiro.

Gerdau is the leading producer of long steel in the Americas and one of the largest suppliers of special long steel in the world. It has more than 45,000 employees and industrial operations in 14 countries with operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia, which together represent an installed capacity of more than 25 million metric tons of steel per year. Gerdau is the largest recycler in Latin America and around the world and transforms millions of metric tons of scrap into steel every year. Gerdau is listed on the stock exchanges of Sao Paulo, New York and Madrid, and has approximately 140,000 shareholders.