Gerdau Steel India Announces Change of Ownership and Name
Mumbai : Gerdau Steel India Private Limited announces today
the change of the name of the company to Arjas Steel Private Limited. As announced to the market on 27
Aug 2018, by Brazil headquartered Gerdau S.A, Gerdau S.A. had signed an
agreement to sell its entire shareholding in its Spanish subsidiary Gerdau
Hungria KFT Y CIA Sociedad Regular Colectiva which included 100% of all the
operations and assets in India to Blue Coral Investments Holdings Private
Limited and Mountain peak Investment Holdings Limited, owned and managed by ADV
Partners and affiliates. ADV Partners is an Asia focused private equity firm
with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Mumbai
The reason for the sale is to
enable Gerdau to focus more on its core markets in North America and Latin
America. The change of name of the company follows the official completion of
the transaction on Oct 31 2018.
ADV
Partners together with the existing management, see a great future for growing
the SBQ business in Andhra Pradesh and in India and are working on a growth
roadmap that will position Arjas Steel, as a center of excellence in the
manufacture of SBQ steel.The operations will continue to be run by the current management.
Commenting, Sridhar Krishnamoorthy, Managing Director of Arjas Steel, said: “We are excited by the vision
that ADV Partners and we, the management, share for Arjas Steel. Our growth
over the last few years, in providing special steel products for the automotive
and energy sectors has been strong, thanks to our committed and engaged work
force of 1600, strong technical processes and high levels of customer
service. We
wish to build Arjas Steel, into a Center of Excellence in Special Steel production,
coupled with strong financial discipline and engaging our employees with
responsibility and respect. We aim to capitalize on the growing automotive
market in India and the automotive eco-system in Anantapur. Going forward we do have some
agreements in place with Gerdau Steel, to ensure that that
this transition to Arjas Steel, is smooth and seamless for our customers,
suppliers and other stakeholders.”
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