by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Mining & Steel
⚡ TL;DRUsiminas, founded in 1956 in Minas Gerais as a Brazil-Japan joint venture, became Latin America’s premier flat-steel maker for the automotive industry — then the stage for one of the region’s longest shareholder wars, as Techint’s...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Mining & Steel
⚡ TL;DRCSN — Companhia Siderurgica Nacional — is the Volta Redonda steel mill Getulio Vargas built in the 1940s as the symbol of Brazilian industrialization, privatized in 1993 and transformed by Benjamin Steinbruch into a vertically integrated...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Mining & Steel
⚡ TL;DRGerdau began in 1901 as a nail factory in Porto Alegre and grew, under five generations of the Gerdau Johannpeter family, into the Americas’ largest long-steel producer — a scrap-recycling mini-mill empire spanning Brazil, the United States,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Mining & Steel
⚡ TL;DRVale is the world’s largest iron ore and nickel producer — born in 1942 as state company CVRD, privatized in 1997, and transformed by China’s construction boom into one of the most valuable mining groups on earth. Its story carries both...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Fintech & Digital Payments
⚡ TL;DRPix is the Brazilian central bank’s instant-payment system, launched in November 2020 — free for individuals, settling in seconds, 24/7. Within four years it overtook cards and cash to become how Brazil pays, with well over 150 million users...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Fintech & Digital Payments
⚡ TL;DREBANX, founded in Curitiba in 2012, solved a problem Silicon Valley could not: how global companies get paid in Latin America, where consumers use boletos, Pix, local cards and installments that international processors never supported. By connecting...
