Newsletter Made for Life

Ilder Camargo

The new Production Director was formerly holding, since 2010, the position of Human Resources Director, and since January/15 was acting as Technical Director as well. He joined the group in 1978, as metallurgical technician at the electrical steels Cold Rolling department. Between 1985 and 1993 he worked at the Long Products department as specialist and maintenance manager and, afterwards, as automation specialist at the maintenance department. In 1994, he was appointed leader of TOP program (Total Operational Performance – a cost reduction program developed with McKinsey’s support), and then coordinated the negotiation of IT outsourcing and the contracting of SIP, PCP and Energy Center with IBM. From November/1995 to December/2002 he was the Manager of the Electrical Steels Cold Rolling department (during this period he took part in the V2000 program, with focus on increasing competitiveness). In January/ 2003, he became the Executive Manager in charge of Alcançar Project (implantation of SAP). In January/ 2005, he was promoted to General Manager, responsible for the areas of IT, Continuous Improvement and Quality System. In 2006, he took part of the Campus program of ArcelorMittal University, and until 2009, as an expatriate in France, he held the position of Technical Director for Stainless Steel Segment and Stainless Steel Europe.  From April/2008 to December/2014, among other responsibilities, he was the head of health and safety processes of ArcelorMittal Stainless and Aperam group. Ilder Camargo is an Electrical Engineering graduate from Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-MG) and holds a Master of Science degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

Career

Career refers to the professional path towards a desired position, meeting the employee’s individual objectives as well as Company’s objectives. At Aperam, employees have the opportunity to get to know and discuss with their immediate superior(s) what the professional growth opportunities are. There are the possibilities for taking part in competitive selection processes and competing for a new position.

At Aperam, the Y career evolution is used, in which the employee has opportunity to evolve both his technical and managerial careers. Concerning this evolvement, there are Career Paths, which are the evolvement/moving possibilities, both vertically and laterally.

(teamwork + diversity)

We value the contribution from each team member.

• Employees are encouraged to share their ideas by means of open communication channels.
• Teamwork and team actions are the Aperam Way for achieving results.
• Aperam fosters the diversity inside teams and among them.

(competences + employability)

We promote the competences and employability of employees.

• Aperam’s employees can develop their competences based on proven skills, performance and potential.
• Aperam promotes flexibility and multiple skills to increase employability and to maximize employment stability in uncertain environments.
• Employees receive support to develop autonomy and to take initiatives relative to their positions.
• The employees express their career aspirations and ambitions and contribute to definition of their training paths.
• Employees have access to mobility, inside and outside their entities.

(transparency + reliable evaluation)

We recognize people’s performances and competences in a transparent way.

• People have a clear view of their remuneration package, both for base payment and incentives, as well as for health and package of benefits.
• Aperam uses a simple and strong structure of competence to guarantee the reliable evaluation of competences.
• Aperam’s performance evaluation process is well defined and formalized.
• Employees have the right to an accurate feedback on the managerial decisions that affect them, especially those taken during Career Committees.

Frederico Ayres Lima

Frederico Ayres Lima has been the Chief Executive Officer of Aperam South America since December 2014. Prior to this function, Mr Ayres Lima had held the position of Commercial Director of Aperam South America since 2009.

Mr Ayres Lima started his career with the Group in 1996, in Brazil, as a metallurgist performing various roles in cost efficiency, technical assistance and production. Mr Ayres Lima worked with exports from 2000 to 2003 acting as a trader (sales to foreign markets).

Later, he took on responsibilities in Europe in the fields of synergies between steelworks, logistics and coordination of stainless steel sales network. Mr Ayres Lima moved back to Brazil in 2006 and held the position of Export Manager and afterwards as General Manager of Electrical and Carbon Steel Business.

Mr Ayres Lima holds Engineering and Master in Science degrees in Metallurgy from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and an Executive MBA in International Business Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Mr Ayres Lima is a Brazilian citizen.

Frederico Ayres Lima

Frederico Ayres Lima has been the Chief Executive Officer of Aperam South America since December 2014. Prior to this function, Mr Ayres Lima had held the position of Commercial Director of Aperam South America since 2009.

Mr Ayres Lima started his career with the Group in 1996, in Brazil, as a metallurgist performing various roles in cost efficiency, technical assistance and production. Mr Ayres Lima worked with exports from 2000 to 2003 acting as a trader (sales to foreign markets).

Later, he took on responsibilities in Europe in the fields of synergies between steelworks, logistics and coordination of stainless steel sales network. Mr Ayres Lima moved back to Brazil in 2006 and held the position of Export Manager and afterwards as General Manager of Electrical and Carbon Steel Business.

Mr Ayres Lima holds Engineering and Master in Science degrees in Metallurgy from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and an Executive MBA in International Business Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Mr Ayres Lima is a Brazilian citizen.

Christophe Carel

Production Director of Aperam South America, Christophe Carel holds degrees in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, and Automation with the École Supérieure d’Informatique Electronique Automatique in Paris, France.

He started his career in 1996, in the melt shop of Adroise steelworks (Ungine), Arcelor at that time, as Continuous Casting manager. He worked in Brazil from 1999 to 2003, where he held various positions at what was then Acesita, in Timóteo, working in the Melt Shop and Cold Rolling. Once back in Europe, he worked as a manager for Continuous Improvement at the Genk plant in Belgium, and then as manager of the Annealing and Pickling Line. By the end of 2006, he was transferred to Chatelet plant, where he worked as melt shop director from July 2007.

In June 2009, he was appointed director of Gueugnon plant and, in February 2012, as Executive Director of Aperam Stainless, France.

Guided tours for school groups

Guided tours for school groups
receiving of students and teachers visiting the environmental education centre, expanding their knowledge on ecology and environmental conservation in the seedling nursery, model of river basin (picture), beehives, earthworm culture, biodigester and interpretative tracks.

Monitoring of environmental variables in the Plant

The Company keeps control over noise levels and emissions of atmospheric and water effluents, as well as control over the use of natural resources, thus fulfilling all legal requirements.

Waste management

The goal is to reduce environmental impact and operational costs. Its management is focussed on waste generation reduction, promoting of reusing, recycling and trading, thus avoiding deposition of waste matters in dumps. At the moment, on average, for each ton of crude steel produced, Aperam South America recycles either internally or externally 88% of its waste volume.

Environmental Management Programs

ensure the implementation and updating of environmental control projects and equipment.

Environmental compliance of suppliers

The Program for Qualification of Suppliers (PQF) evaluates criteria in connection with social responsibility and, from 2010 on, companies will also be evaluated in respect to environmental conservation actions.
Conservation of proprietary land or plots of land in Timóteo’s urban area.

Transport

Though you may not notice, stainless is in cars, motorcycles, buses, and subways. Stainless steel is widely used in transportation for its extremely low cost of maintenance, easy cleaning, resistance, and durability.

White Goods

Due to its extremely smooth surface, stainless steel allows for complete hygiene and sterilization of sinks, vats, stove tables, washers, refrigerators, freezers, and hoods.

Sea Navigation

Ships in constant contact with seawater need to be made using stainless steel in order to fight oxidation. Aperam is the official supplier of stainless steel for the Kat Eastern Sailing Expedition, the latest adventure of the Shurmann family.

Automotive

Used in exhaust systems (popularly known as exhaust pipes) an disk breaks, stainless steel features reduced thickness and weight of materials, ensuring greater durability and mechanical resistance.

Tubes

There are countless advantages to using stainless steel tubing: educed thickness, easy to clean, lower maintenance cost, smooth finish, and a greater area of heat transfer inside.

Hospitals

Stainless steel is the ideal raw material for building surgery centers and other environments where avoiding the spread of bacteria is of the utmost importance. Stainless is excellent for the health of patients due being hypoallergenic, inert (which prevents contamination of the product with other substances), and easy to clean.

Industrial Kitchen

With stainless steel, restaurants are becoming more and more professional, offering absolute hygiene, food safety, and guaranteed quality.

Money

Supplier of stainless steel for the production of 50-cent coins and the center portion of the 1-real coin, Aperam meets the high mint mark requirements.

Food and drink

Recommended around the world for processing, handling, and transporting food and drink, stainless steel has an extremely smooth surface which allows for a complete clean.

Paper and Cellulose

Stainless Steel allows for the thickness of tubing to be reduced due to the increased levels of mechanical resistance, in addition to resistance to oxidation at high temperatures.

Oil and Gas

With sights set on the industry’s development, Aperam added local production of austenitic, ferritic, and duplex stainless steel to their portfolio, allowing for comprehensive solutions for offshore, refining, and petrochemical applications.

Sugar and Alcohol

Stainless Steel is the perfect solution for factories in the sector for its high resistance to corrosion and ease of maintenance, ensuring increased profitability at all stages of production. Watch the Stainless Steel Application video – Sugar-Ethanol Factories.

Household appliances

Material most used by the Chefs; you can never have enough stainless pans, knives, and serving sets in your kitchen. Perfect for any kind of food, stainless steel allows for even cooking, with high durability and easy cleaning.

Basket of benefits

In addition to all items belonging to remuneration, the Company offers a basket of important benefits that makes the difference in the pockets and to the lives of employees and their families.

Check out as follows the main programs comprising the basket of benefits:

• Food
• Aceprev – Acesita: Private Pension Scheme
• Group life insurance
• School kit
• Christmas kit
• Child-care allowance

Remuneration

Aperam’s remuneration policy is based on individual merit and performance from each employee. Besides the monthly remuneration, Aperam’s employees receive a return-from-vacation payment, in addition to counting on a Profit and Result Sharing Program (PLR), as an instrument of incentive and recognition for productivity.

Health

Aperam’s Health & Life Program is one of the most complete in terms of coverage and scope from the steelmaking sector. It consists of a Health Assistance Plan, Dental Care Plan, Pharmaceutical Scheme and Social Welfare Service.

The Program “I Practise Health” has as its focus the promotion of health as a priority and as an asset of non-negotiable value. “I Practise Health” is divided in two major fronts of actions: health awareness and promotion programs, both for employees and their dependents; and a follow up on groups facing risk-to-health issues.

Preparação para Aposentadoria

Preparation for Retirement – New Ways

Preparation for the new journey that begins following retirement: this is the focus of lectures and workshops from Preparation for Retirement Program (Programa de Preparação para Aposentadoria). This is the way Aperam takes care of this important stage of people’s lives.

“We hear people say that no one should be worried about retirement, and that retirement is something that comes later on. I disagree. For me, retirement is something that you should start thinking about on your first work day, in spite of working for yourself or for a company. You have to think that at some point you are going to have to hand your position over to someone else”, Leonam Almeida – 35 year with Aperam (he retired in 2013).

Listening to the Generations

We believe in synergy and in the collective force arising out of the meeting of different generations. Therefore, in 2015 we started some encounters for listening to the employees belonging to all generations that make up Aperam. The objective of this initiative is to favour a greater proximity between Company and employees in order to continue to evolve. During these encounters, the pride of belonging to Aperam and the desire to build a promising future, with synergy and exchange of knowledge among the generations, that’s the emphasis.

“The encounter was enriching both professionally and personally, as the sharing of experiences enables us to have a vision on how to deal and live with the different generations, absorbing the best of each of them for our growth and converting it into positive results”, Wellington Wagner Santos Oliveira, supervisor at Aperam South America.

Act Program (Programa Agir) – Handicapped People and Vocational Rehabilitation

By means of its Act Program – Global Action, Inclusion and Rehabilitation, Aperam promotes social inclusion through a different way and creates evolvement opportunities for all handicapped professionals from the market, in addition to taking back employees who have been absent from work, who are then qualified and prepared for the new routine. We prioritize safety in the role to be played, respecting the professional.

“A learning experience that has been changing my life”. Fabiana Alves de Azevedo Melo is a hearing impaired employee and an example of professional taken on by Aperam. “My ability to perform in the market has been expanded beyond measure. Nowadays I have only a few difficulties and I count on an experience that enables me to hold a position with Aperam, and that I’m sure, will yet lead to many other opportunities in the future”, she says. Prior to joining Aperam, she had as professional experience her previous work at a haberdashery shop, now she works in the Company’s Human Resources Department.

(safety + sustainability)

Safety is our way of life and it comes before everything we do.

• We promote a working environment that is healthy and environmentally safe.
• We consistently encourage the responsible behaviour towards our environment and collectivity, with the goal of contributing to the development of a sustainable environment.

(proximity + management through examples)

Our managers lead by means of examples

• They act in consistency with Aperam’s Values.
• They are close to their personnel, respecting them and transmitting confidence.
• They enable teams and individuals to act with sufficient independence.
• They value ideas and initiatives.

2009

Award ‘Environmental Management / Responsibility’

Area: Environmental Action Promoted by: NGO Zeladoria do Planeta

Certificate ‘Outstanding Partner Company’

Area: Integrated Action Promoted by: Empresa de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural do Estado de Minas Gerais (Emater-MG)

2008

Award ‘Brazilian Environmental Benchmarking’

Area: Environmental Action
Promoted by: Mais Projetos Corporativos

2007

Award ‘Cultura Viva’

Area: Cultural Action
Promoted by: Ministry of Culture

Certificate ‘Empresa Cidadã’ (Citizen Company)

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: CRC-RJ (Regional Accounting Council of Rio de Janeiro State), FIRJAN (Federation of Industry of Rio de Janeiro State) and FECOMERCIO (Federation of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro State)

Certificate IDHO – Indicador de Desenvolvimento Humano Organizacional (Organizational Human Development Indicator)

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: Gestão & RH Editora

Model Company of Corporate Social Responsibility in Brazil

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: Guia Exame de Sustentabilidade (Sustainability guide)

Award ‘Partner Company of the Volunteer Center of São Paulo’ 2007/2008

Area: Community Action
Promoted by: Volunteer Center of São Paulo

1997

Eco Award – Special Mention of the Jury

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: Câmara Americana de Comércio de São Paulo (American Chamber of Commerce of São Paulo)

Citizenship Award

Area: Community Action
Promoted by: Fundamig – Federação Mineira de Fundações (Federation of Foundations in the state of Minas Gerais)

CNI Ecology Award

Area: Environmental Action
Promoted by: Confederação Nacional da Indústria (National Confederation of Industry)

Award ‘Educação para a Qualidade do Trabalho’ (Education for the Quality of Work)

Area: Educational Action Promoted by: Ministry of Education and Culture

Nansen Araújo Award

Area: Educational Action
Promoted by: FIEMG – Federation of Industries of Minas Gerais State

1998

‘Eco Award’ Finalist

Area: Cultural Action
Promoted by: Câmara Americana de Comércio de São Paulo (American Chamber of Commerce of São Paulo)

1999

Aberje Award

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: Associação Brasileira de Comunicação Empresarial (Brazilian Association of Corporate Communication)

Eco Award

Area: Cultural Action
Promoted by: Câmara Americana de Comércio de São Paulo (American Chamber of Commerce of São Paulo)

2001

‘Bonsucesso’ Award

Area: Cultural Action
Promoted by: Amparc

Award ‘Fundação Banco do Brasil de Tecnologia Social’ (Banco do Brasil Foundation of Social Technology)

Area: Community Action
Promoted by: Banco do Brasil Foundation

Guia Exame Award of Good Corporate Citizenship

Area: Community Action
Promoted by: Corporate Citizenship Council of the Federation of Industries of Minas Gerais State – FIEMG

2002

‘Eco Award’ Finalist

Area: Cultural Action
Promoted by: Câmara Americana de Comércio de São Paulo (American Chamber of Commerce of São Paulo)

Trophy ‘Voluntários das Gerais’

Area: Community Action – ‘Vale Cidadania’ project
Promoted by: Guia Exame de Boa Cidadania Corporativa and Conselho de Cidadania (Good Corporate Citizenship guide and Citizenship Council)

Business Award of FIEMG

Guia Exame de Boa Cidadania Corporativa
Area: Community Action – ‘Andanças’ project
Promoted by: Guia Exame de Boa Cidadania Corporativa e Conselho de Cidadania Empresarial da FIEMG. (Good Corporate Citizenship guide and Corporate Citizenship Council of the Federation of Industries of Minas Gerais State)

2003

Business Excellence Award

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: Acita – Associação de Comércio, Serviços e Agropecuária de Itabira (Association of Trade, Services and Agriculture of Itabira)

Award LIF – Liberdade, Igualdade e Fraternidade (Liberty, Equality and Fraternity)

Area: Environmental Action
Promoted by: Chamber of Commerce France-Brazil

TOP Social

Area: Community Action
Promoted by: ADVB – Associação de Dirigentes de Vendas e Marketing do Brasil (Brazilian Association of Sales and Marketing Managers)

Award ‘Ser Humano’ (Being Human)

Area: Environmental Action
Promoted by: ABRH – Associação Brasileira de Recursos Humanos – MG (Brazilian Association of Human Resources – Minas Gerais state)

Award ‘Ser Humano’ (Being Human)

Area: Community Action
Promoted by: ABRH – Associação Brasileira de Recursos Humanos – MG (Brazilian Association of Human Resources – Minas Gerais state)

Award ‘Minas Ecologia’

Area: Environmental Action
Promoted by: AMDA – Associação Mineira de Defesa ao Meio Ambiente (Association of Environment Protection of Minas Gerais state)

Guia Exame Award of Good Corporate Citizenship

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: Guia Exame de Boa Cidadania Corporativa (Good Corporate Citizenship guide)

Recognition – Homage to ‘Vale Cidadania’ Program

Area: Community Action
Promoted by: City Council of Belo Horizonte.

2004

Model Company in Social Responsibility

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: Guia Exame de Boa Cidadania Corporativa (Good Corporate Citizenship guide)

2005

Award ‘Ser Humano’ “Osvaldo Checchia”

Area: Environmental Action
Promoted by: Associação Brasileira de Recursos Humanos (Brazilian Association of Human Resources)

Certificate ‘Citizen Company’

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: CRC-RJ (Regional Accounting Council of Rio de Janeiro State), FIRJAN (Federation of Industry of Rio de Janeiro State) and FECOMERCIO (Federation of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro State)

2006

Award ‘Ser Humano’ (Being Human)

Area: Institute of Stainless
Promoted by: ABRH-MG – Associação Brasileira de Recursos Humanos de Minas Gerais (Brazilian Association of Human Resources – Minas Gerais branch)

Certificate ‘Citizen Company’

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: CRC-RJ (Regional Accounting Council of Rio de Janeiro State), FIRJAN (Federation of Industry of Rio de Janeiro State) and FECOMERCIO (Federation of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro State)

Medalla a la Integración Simón Bolívar

Area: Integrated Action
Promoted by: CIPIS – International Chamber of Researches and Social Integration

2010

150 Best Companies to Work For Award

Sponsoring Entity: Guia Exame Você S/A

2011

150 Best Companies to Work For Award

Promoted by: ‘Guia Exame Você S/A’ magazine

Twenty-one Business Model Award in corporate social responsibility in Brazil

Promoted by: Guia Exame de Sustentabilidade (Sustainability guide)

2013

Special Mention in Biodiversity Management

Promoted by: Exame Magazine’s Sustainability Guide

SiemensVAI Automation Award

Sponsoring Entity: Brazilian Association of Metallurgy, Materials and Mining (ABM)

150 Best Companies to Work For Award

Promoted by: ‘Guia Exame Você S/A’ magazine

Supply Star Award for Best Customer Service

Sponsoring Entity: Technip – Flexibras

2014

150 Best Companies to Work For Award

Promoted by: ‘Guia Exame Você S/A’ magazine

Sustainability “Low Carbon” Badge

Promoted by: Ministry of the Enviroment

Sustainability Badge

Promoted by: ‘Guia Exame Você S/A’ magazine

Timoteo Di Maulo

Timoteo Di Maulo has been the Chief Executive Officer since January 2015. Mr Di Maulo has 25 years of experience in the stainless steel industry, having held a number of positions in the controlling, purchasing, logistics and commercial areas and has been CEO of different units of the Group. Previously, Mr Di Maulo was Chief Commercial and Sourcing Officer from May 2012 to December 2014. Prior to this function, Mr Di Maulo served as Chief Executive Officer – Services & Solutions between 2005 and 2012. In 1990, Mr Di Maulo joined Ugine Italia, where he held various positions in the controlling, purchasing and sales departments. While at Ugine Italia, he successfully implemented and launched the ERP System, “Sidonie”, across all of Ugine’s subsidiaries worldwide.

In 1996, Mr Di Maulo joined Ugine’s Commercial Board in Paris where he was in charge of its Industry and Distribution division. Mr Di Maulo was subsequently named Service Division Industrial Director in 1998 and took on additional responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer of German SSC and RCC. In 2000, Mr Di Maulo was named Chief Executive Officer of U&A Italy, a role that gave him full responsibility over the sales network and two Italian Service Centres. Mr Di Maulo was then appointed Chief Executive Officer of ArcelorMittal’s European Stainless Service Division in 2005 and, in 2008, CEO of ArcelorMittal International Stainless Division (which included the worldwide sales network divisions, all distribution and processing centres and ArcelorMittal Stainless Europe’s tube mills and strips).

Mr Di Maulo is a graduate from Milan Polytechnics University in Italy and holds an M.B.A. from Bocconi University of Milan. Mr Di Maulo is an Italian citizen.

Professional Capacitation and Qualification

Stainless Steel Institute

Conduct the professional capacitation, particularly of young people, to work with stainless steel, encourage entrepreneurship and enable the creation of new companies and generation of new work positions and income.

Main actions:

• Training courses intended for the community as a whole
• Training courses in the Company
• Upgrading of labour force
• Service rendering

Learn more about it on www.institutodoinox.com.br

Citizenship Education for the Elderly – Later life

This program fosters the critical reflexion and participation of the elderly in the family and community, creates the conditions so that the elderly can exercise its citizenship and be aware of its role in society, while he is subject to social transformation. With these objectives, Aperam Acesita Foundation develops activities for inclusion of the elderly in society.

Main actions:

– Project Building the Knowledge, which has as its aim to provide affective and social literary by means of a permanent process of education, and considering dignity, socialization, experiencing, the search for happiness and citizenship as a form of quality of life.

– Program Andanças has as its aim to promote participation, integration, socialization and capacitation of people in late life, guiding them into a conscious understanding of society, so that they can position themselves in their space and reach out to the exercise of freedom in search for new ways and improvement of life quality. Several actions are developed in such a way to achieve the necessary results.

Actions:

• Alternative practices to health (water aerobics, swimming, stretching, dancing)
• Seminars on Health; cycle of lectures
• Choir and Seresta Group
• Theatre; Reflexive Gatherings
• Income Generation Workshops (handcraft); Information technology; Teaching Gatherings;
• Christmas Experience

Volunteering

The Volunteering Program has as its goal to provide Aperam South America’s employees and people from the community with the opportunity to take part of voluntary activities in the entities and community. Other objectives of the Program are:

• promote the integration between volunteers and teams from entities;
• disseminate the culture for voluntary work;
• make technical competences of the Company available to social entities;
• exercise new ways of working out the Company’s social responsibility.

Community development

Community development has as its aim to encourage the collective actions from base organizations in order to create sustainability, make social learning easier towards the development of projects, and strengthen the community capacity for having control and ownership over its projects.

Main actions:

• Capacitation and assistance to organizations and organized groups
• Participation in the improvement of Public Policies
• Own call notice on projects
• Projects for the development of communities undertaken in partnership with RedEAmerica (Inter-American Network of Foundations and Entrepreneurial Actions for Base Development), IAF (Inter-American Foundation), BID (Inter-American Development Bank), among others.

Playing, doing and learning at Oikós

this action is always put on in July, including a wide range of leisure and cultural activities, associated to environmental issues and open to the community.

Professional training and social promotion courses

Professional training and social promotion courses in rural areas, in partnership with National Service for Rural Apprenticeship – Senar, having as a goal to meet demands from the job market, improvement to life quality and the exercise of citizenship.

Seedling nursery

production of ornamental seedlings, both native and fruit seedlings, which are donated for recovery of degraded areas and landscaping.

Training for Education Professionals

Educators from Vale do Aço and Vale do Jequitinhonha have the opportunity for receiving training, in order to develop their technical and teaching skills and competences, and becoming aware of their professional responsibilities. It also aims at investing in professional valorization, so as to attain effective actions for achieving quality education. It promotes training courses, gatherings, seminars, workshops, lectures, among others.

Youth entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship at school aims at awakening the entrepreneurial flair, encouraging personal development and promoting a clear view of the business world, with practical experience in economy and market, organization and running of a company, among other activities. The initiatives are carried out by the Foundation in partnership with Junior Achievement Minas Gerais (JAMG) and counts on the support of volunteering work from Aperam South America’s employees and community. Volunteers receive training on application of the methodology relative to each program.

Traffic education/Transitolândia

Created in1998, Transitolândia contributes to education of pedestrians, bicycle riders and motorists, making them more aware, and considering also the importance of environmental issues in view of their partaking in the traffic. Developed in partnership with Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais, Timóteo’s Council, Rotary Club de Acesita and Coronel Fabriciano’s Regional Board of Education.

Hiking

Full scale replicas and information about the main animal species living in the place are found along the trails.

Hut

area for activities and training courses – The Hut offers a suitable structure for training courses in touch with nature.

Seedling nursery

production of ornamental seedlings, both native and fruit seedlings, which are donated for recovery of degraded areas and landscaping.

Freshwater springs

Oikós hosts a number of pure and natural freshwater springs.

Alternative technologies

Earthworm culture, biodigester, sewage treatment

Visitors’ Centre

In the Visitors’ Centre, all visitors can learn more about the Atlantic Rainforest, other important biomes and receive information related to Aperam South America and its values.

Playing, doing and learning at Oikós

always taking place in July, this includes a wide range of leisure and cultural activities, associated to environmental issues and open to the community.

Guided tours for school groups

receiving of students and teachers visiting the environmental education centre.

Tree-climbing circuit

Activities such as tree climbing and walking, which enable visitors to closely see and feel the richness of flora and fauna.

Diversity of fauna and flora

A 989-hectare area remaining from Atlantic Rainforest that hosts several freshwater springs and fauna and flora species, including trees and shrubs, in addition to bird species, some of them rare such as the pavó.

Cross

The Cross and its Overlook, installed at 741m of altitude in respect to sea level, offer a privileged view of Timóteo and Oikós, and a partial view of Rio Doce State Park.

Meteorological station

An automatic Surface Meteorological Station (SMS) consists of a memory central unit connected to a number of sensors for reading meteorological parameters (atmospheric pressure, air temperature and relative humidity, rainfall, solar radiation, wind direction, speed, etc.), which integrates the values observed minute by minute and makes them available automatically on every hour.

Rodrigo Damasceno

Aperam South America’s current Commercial Director. With a Business Administration degree from Centro Universitario UNA, Rodrigo Damasceno came to the company in 2001 as a trainee. He worked as a Marketing Analyst and Trader in Stainless Steel Export Department.

In 2009, he worked with electrical and carbon steels. In 2010 he took part in ArcelorMittal’s Career Acceleration program and, since 2011, had been acting as Marketing Executive Manager.

Marc Ruppert

Aperam South America’s Financial Director who started out with Arbed in 1986 as a financial analyst. Mr Ruppert held various positions in the financial area of Arbed/Arcelor Group in Luxembourg, United States and Brazil. In 2006 he took responsibility for the Controlling and Continuous Improvement Departments of ArcelorMittal Long Products Americas. He became Financial and Administrative director for ArcelorMittal BioFlorestas in 2011.

Marc Ruppert holds a degree in Commercial Engineering and Management from the Catholic University of Louvain, in Belgium.

Sandeep Jalan

Mr Sandeep Jalan has been the Chief Financial Officer of Aperam since January 2014. Mr Sandeep Jalan has over twenty years of experience in finance and joined ArcelorMittal in 1999.

During his time with ArcelorMittal he held a number of positions including active member of the Mergers & Acquisitions, in view of the numerous acquisitions in both steel and mining divisions.

Mr Sandeep Jalan also helped in establishing the company’s group-wide business performance management systems. Most recently Mr Sandeep Jalan was Chief Financial Officer of ArcelorMittal Long Products Europe, being responsible for finance and strategy.

Mr Sandeep Jalan is a Commerce Graduate from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Chartered Accountant (equivalent to CPA) and Company Secretary from the respective Institutes in India. He has also completed an Executive Education Programme at the London School of Business. Mr Sandeep Jalan is an Indian citizen.