{"id":7894,"date":"2018-05-08T07:08:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/steel-and-iron-corpornations-from-luxembourg-to-brazil-and-back-in-a-century\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T15:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:12:32","slug":"steel-and-iron-corpornations-from-luxembourg-to-brazil-and-back-in-a-century","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/steel-and-iron-corpornations-from-luxembourg-to-brazil-and-back-in-a-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel and iron corpornations: from Luxembourg to Brazil and back in a century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ARBED (Aci\u00e9ries r\u00e9unies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange), a steel conglomerate established in 1911, rapidly became the embodiment of Luxembourg\u2019s economic and social prosperity at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1921, ten years after the conglomerate was founded, ARBED\u2019s leaders established a subsidiary company, the Companhia Sider\u00fargica Belgo-Mineira, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Belgo-Mineira rapidly became the largest steel producer in Latin America but its history in Luxembourg remains largely unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost a century later, Luxembourg\u2019s Minister of Foreign and European affairs, Jean Asselborn, officially inaugurated the Luxembourg Embassy in Bras\u00edlia, the federal capital of Brazil, on 1 March 2018. Asselborn commented that the inauguration of the Embassy, the first of its kind on the Latin American continent, not only highlighted the tenacious diplomatic ties between the two countries but also demonstrated the \u201csolid and strong relationship between our two nations\u201d.Jean Asselborn at the inauguration of the Luxembourg Embassy in Bras\u00edlia. \u201cL\u00ebtzebuerger Ambassade a S\u00fcdamerika ageweit\u201d, RTL, http:\/\/www.rtl.lu\/letzebuerg\/archiv\/1143169.html<\/a> (accessed 5 March 2018). Asselborn pointed out that this relationship was partly established a century ago, through the creation of ARBED\u2019s subsidiary iron-producing company, the Companhia Sider\u00fargica Belgo-Mineira:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also see among us the descendants of Luxembourg engineers and technicians, who brought their expertise and helped build Brazil\u2019s steel industry, thereby contributing to this country\u2019s economic development, from the 1920s. Indeed, Luxembourg\u2019s steel giant ARBED, now ArcelorMittal, has from those early days been a great investor in Belgomineira, which has become a major player in Latin America under Luxembourg leadership.Ibid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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