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With a 125-year history, Gerdau is the Brazilian largest steel producer and one of the leading producers of long steels and special steel in the world. In Brazil, it also produces flat steels and iron ore. With the purpose of empowering people who build the future, the company is a leading example of internationalization in the Brazilian industrial sector, operates in several countries across the Americas, and employs 30,000 people in all its operations. The company has 29 steel production units, of which 13 are plants located in North America. One of the largest recyclers in Latin America, scrap is an important raw material for Gerdau, which uses it for around 70% of the steel it produces. Every year, Gerdau transforms 10 million tonnes of scrap into a variety of steel products. As a result of its sustainable production matrix, Gerdau currently has one of the industry's lowest average greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂e), amounting to half the global industry average. The company even has a brand specifically for a line of low-carbon products, called Gerdau NewEco. Gerdau’s shares are listed on the São Paulo (B3) and New York (NYSE) stock exchanges.

Tenaris is a leading supplier of tubes and related services for the world’s energy industry and certain other industrial applications. Our mission is to deliver value to our customers through product development, manufacturing excellence, and supply chain management. Tenaris employees around the world are committed to continuous improvement by sharing knowledge across a single global organization. Our customers include most of the world’s leading oil and gas companies as well as engineering companies engaged in constructing oil and gas gathering, transportation and processing facilities. Our principal products include casing, tubing, line pipe, and mechanical and structural pipes. Tenaris employs around 29,000 people from more than 25 countries. From the moment they enter the company, our employees follow a career plan specially designed to meet their professional goals. TenarisUniversity, Tenaris’s corporate university, offers high-quality, job-specific curricula and development plans that help them succeed in the many challenging assignments faced during their careers. Our employees work in a culturally diverse setting that enriches their professional as well as their personal lives. As part of our fundamental corporate values, Tenaris offers our employee an active participation in a long-term, sustainable industrial project. RECRUITMENT FRAUD: We’ve received reports that unauthorized individuals are fraudulently recruiting and extending fake job offers on behalf of Tenaris. We encourage prospective candidates to remain vigilant. Additional information on how to recognize recruitment fraud or scams can be found at: https://www.tenaris.com/en/careers/recruitment-fraud Please remember that Tenaris never asks job applicants to pay a fee as part of the recruitment process.

Ternium (NYSE:TX) is the largest steel producer in Latin America. With production centers in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, and Mexico, Ternium has an extensive network of service and distribution centers in the continent, in addition to participating in the control group of Usiminas, a leading company in the Brazilian steel market. More than 35,000 people throughout the Americas make up a multicultural and highly-qualified team and are the foundation for an industrial project with a production capacity of 15.4 million tons of crude steel per year. A strong integration of the production process, industrial excellence, and constant innovation are part of our identity and drive Ternium's growth along with its extensive value chain, with customers and suppliers from industries such as construction, automotive, household appliances, capital goods, packaging, food, and energy. Thanks to digital transformation, research, development processes, as well as the creation of new products with the highest technology, today we are at the forefront of the steel industry, which has an important role to play in the sustainable development of our societies. Every day, in every part of the continent where we work, we grow together with communities, and we seek to support our commitment to safety and the environment in everything we do.