Investor Presentaiton
LEADERSHIP MESSAGE
For Minasligas, ESG is a journey that will take us to even better places as an
organization and as a society.
Throughout the history of Minasligas, some of the main focuses of the sustainable agenda and what we now know as ESG
pillars (environmental, social and governance) have been under our gaze and our actions.
Even before recognizing these positions as an important
agenda for the whole world, or the market and society
demanding more responsible practices in relation to
environmental, social and business governance aspects, at
Minasligas we were already dedicated to various actions
and decisions that formed the character of the company
we are today, prepared to grow in a world where it is no
longer possible not to be sustainable.
Within this history of Minasligas performance, we have
always been concerned with the social development of the
regions in which we have operations and we have given
financial support to numerous social projects over the
years. Recent examples are the support given to the
Instituto Mano Down, which enabled the construction of
the organization's new headquarters; and in the
investment made in health, in the fight against Covid-19.
After the emergency phase of the pandemic was over, our
investment also helped to supply hospitals with essential
equipment to improve the lives of the population in the
regions where we operate.
In the environmental field, the contribution that
Minasligas brings to the reduction of negative impacts and
emissions also precedes market demands and legal
requirements. In 1990, we started installing our dedusting
system to reduce the volume of particulate matter that is
released by the electric furnaces in our industrial
production. The waste generated in this process is
collected and properly treated at Minasligas. And from it
we extract Microsilica, a by-product that we sell to the
concrete and refractory industries.
From the moment the effects of global warming began to
be felt more by everyone, organizations began to be
demanded by stakeholders in relation to the adoption of
good climate practices, such as zero carbon, energy
efficiency and reduction of atmospheric emissions.
We were already on this path, drawing up continuous
plans to improve the company's processes and assets. As
we are an electro-intensive industry, that is, we depend on
a large amount of energy to produce, our targets cannot
be based on reducing energy, as this would imply a
reduction in the pace of production. We then focused on
energy efficiency, seeking the optimized consumption of
resources. For this to happen, investment and care are
redoubled, both in the conservation and updating of
systems, and in the contribution of technology. Currently,
we are dedicated to studying the adaptations necessary for
us to enter Industry 4.0, with more efficient equipment
and advanced artificial intelligence. In this way, we will be
able to contribute even more to various aspects of
sustainability, such as the environment and occupational
health and safety.
We also invest in obtaining renewable electricity, in wind
and solar farms, in addition to prioritizing hydraulic
generation in our current energy contracts. Brazil and its
natural riches provide us with good conditions to maintain
a clean and sustainable energy matrix, and this has to be
leveraged.
The use of charcoal as a bioreducer for our furnaces is part
of our matrix. And that's why we invest in planting and
maintaining our own forest massifs to supply the
bioreducer. In this area, we rely on the superiority of
Brazilian knowledge in clones selected for the cultivation
of planted forests, as well as techniques adapted to the
current challenges of the climate and the need for greater
productivity. We have internal working groups and
participate in research groups linked to academic
institutions, focused on this theme, which invest in
planting already thinking about climate change - today
inevitable - with species that are more resilient to periods
of prolonged drought and water stress.
Today, we understand that each of these steps we have
taken along our path in relation to social and
environmental investments and in the institution of
good governance that could prepare our company for
future generations made us a stronger and longer-
lasting organization, more prepared for the challenges
of today's world, more sustainable.
This vision that we already had of each of the separate
ESG pillars can, today, be unified in a very well
structured, planned and implemented strategy - as are
all Minasligas processes, since we value operational
efficiency in everything we do. ESG will become part of
our IGM (Integrated Management System), and will be
deployed throughout the organizational structure of
Minasligas. For this, we are creating a Sustainability
Management that will contemplate the environmental,
social and governance pillars in all our processes and
systems.
The ESG and Sustainability pillars must also be the basis
for our Board of Directors' decision-making processes.
At the Board, we already perceive this agenda as
extremely important for understanding and planning
for the future. To know where we are and, from there,
decide where we want to go.
Henrique Simões Zica
Minasligas CEO
We understand that there is a path to be followed in
order to reach that place of the future that we seek, in
which we will have a more mature, audited and stable
system in terms of sustainability. A future that can bring
us a great international competitive advantage,
mitigating risks, providing access to special credit lines
for responsible companies, opening up opportunities to
operate in increasingly demanding markets, which
corresponds to the demands of a society that needs
new prospects for a more prosperous world. Minasligas
is on this journey, and we will not stop, moving forward.
MINASU
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