Business

Gerdau operations

By Neal St. Anthony

June 3, 2012 at 8:39PM

GERDAU GLOBAL

Headquarters: Porto Alegre, Brazil

Steel mills: 53, plus more than 200 fabrication facilities, scrap-collecting and other sites.

2011 sales: $35.4 billion

2011 earnings: $2 billion

Employment: 45,000

GERDAU ST. PAUL

Operation: Second-largest "minimill" steel producer in North America

History: Opened in 1965. Gerdau acquired North Star Steel Minnesota plant from Cargill Inc. in 2004

Employees: 380

Annual payroll: $34.2M

Planned upgrade: $55M

about the writer

Neal St. Anthony

Columnist, reporter

Neal St. Anthony has been a Star Tribune business columnist/reporter since 1984.

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