President Abinader inaugurates new Gerdau Metaldom Industrial Warehouse

Santo Domingo - President Luis Abinader inaugurated the new industrial warehouse of the Gerdau Metaldom company and its new administrative offices, consolidating all the operations of said company in the Duarte Industrial Park, with an investment of more than 900 million pesos.

The president turned on the new 12,500-square-meter industrial warehouse together with the Minister of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs, Víctor Bisonó, the General Director of Customs, Eduardo Sanz, and the executive president of Gerdau Metaldom, Jefferson Marko, which has a new pipeline line with an installed capacity of 60 thousand tons per year and a coil slitting line with an installed capacity that can reach 72 thousand tons of cut tapes.

"Today, we share with you the culmination of efforts and investments that we have been making during the last two years, so that Dominicans can proudly say that they have the most productive steel company in their country in all of the region”, affirmed Jefferson Marko, executive president of Gerdau Metaldom.

Marko took advantage of the occasion to guarantee that Gerdau Metaldom has the capacity to supply 100% of the Dominican market and also to be able to export to more than 30 destinations in the Caribbean and Central American islands, for which he thanked the support that President Abinader gives to national industries.

“Today Gerdau Metaldom has the capacity to supply not only the entire Dominican market, but also to export our products to the islands of the Caribbean and Central America. And your presence here, Mr. President, reaffirms the commitment that the State has to bet on the national industry, to bet on exports and to bet on the generation of quality jobs in the Dominican Republic ”he added.

The steel company currently provides employment directly to more than 800 people and indirectly to more than 2,200. Despite the difficulties caused by the pandemic, they managed to maintain 100% of these jobs and finish the year 2020 with more than 600 thousand tons of steel in the local and international markets.

Gerdau Metaldom is the main company for manufacturing finished steel products in the Dominican Republic, with an installed capacity of more than one million tons per year. The company has a production plant in the Duarte Industrial Park in Santo Domingo and also has a generating plant on the Malecón in Santo Domingo, as well as distribution centers in Costa Rica and Puerto Rico, thus serving the Dominican and Central American markets. and the Caribbean.