GRUPO GERDAU
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"The quality of the products of a company determines its success or its failure."
In Gerdau Sidenor Calibrados WE DO NOT ACCEPT the 99% of QUALITY in our products, WE WANT a 100%.. For this reason, we are not satisfied with the certificate of securing of quality according to the norms ISO-TS 16949. We keep advancing in the continuous improvement. We understand quality, as the fact to make the things PERFECT, FREE OF FAILURES and as the customer wants them, which means, giving the customer the quality that interests him.

For this reason we measure them periodically, so that we can evaluate the progress that we do. For this reason we are very involved in the organisation and management of the quality and its securing in all the process of the company; because we want the TOTAL SATISFACTION OF OUR CUSTOMERS.

In our eagerness to improve, we have created a Technical Department whose mission is to understand the necessities of our customer.This mission requires:
  • To discover and solve our customers necessities.
  • To identify the innovating customers, who will be useful to develop and to try new products; to analyse the market tendencies and the success of the competition.
  • To develop new products or improve the present ones.
  • To promote the technical assistance service according to the evolution of the norms of materials. We count on a very important Normalisation service which is very useful for our customers.
We count on our own metallurgical laboratory with the purpose of making responsible to us of the results that we certificate in our certificates of quality which they accompany our products.
In our Strategic Plan we have marked a clear Aim with the purpose of obtaining a competitive advantage. A TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP.

This aim is complemented with the following to achieve the enterprise success:
  • Prices of market.
  • To carry out the terms.
  1. Prevention of labor risks, total Quality and Environmental Policies . Pdf attached Doc attached
  2. Certification to Environmental Standard ISO 14001: February 2006. Photo attached
  3. Begin process of certification to Quality Standard TS-16949. Target: July 2006.
  4. Approval by Tenneco. November 2005.
  5. Begin production on new Schumag turning line. December 2005. Photo attached
  6. Entrance in the GERDAU GROUP. May 2008.
  7. Creation of the DOWNSTREAM september 2008. Unit of finished in Europe for the GERDAU GROUP.
  8. Certification OHSAS. Foto adjunta
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