OREANDA-NEWS. Siderperu, Gerdau’s operation in Peru, will supply 2.4 thousand tons of steel for the construction of the wind farms in Cupusnique and Talara, the first in that country. The Cupusnique Wind Farm will have 45 wind generators, and the Talara Wind Farm, 17. Their construction will make Peru one of the largest wind power producers in South America. The total installed capacity of the two farms will be 114 megawatts.

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.