Aperam South America has launched a grain-oriented electrical steel line at its Timoteo plant in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the company announced this week.
According to Aperam, the new line will be called GoCore and will produce grain-oriented steel and super-oriented grain steel of higher permeability, which are highly energy efficient steels to be used in generation and distribution transformers.
Aperam said major global manufacturers of equipment for the energy segment attended the plant’s launching ceremony.
Aperam said its GoCore line represents a “new moment” in both the Brazilian and Latin American markets, specially by the start-up of the new specialty, grain-oriented electrical steel line.