Cipalam – Companhia Ipatinguense de Laminação – has been in the market for almost 40 years producing laminated bars and profiles (angle, square bar, flat bar, and round bar) and high-quality tubes (round, square and rectangular) for civil construction, machinery and equipment, structural mechanical industry, among other sectors.

The company was founded in 1985, but our history began in the 1960s, with the construction of Ipatinga and the installation of Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais (Usiminas) in the city. At that time, Empresa de Perfilados NMF also appeared, which bought and processed steel to later manufacture its products. Sold to Companhia Mineira de Laminação, it operated for just over three years and declared bankruptcy.

That’s when the Drummond Alves Family appeared in the story. At the beginning of the construction of Ipatinga, Raimundo Anício Alves, a former traveling salesman and contractor, opened a bar in the center of the city, which became famous for the delicacies that his wife, Dona Ita, used to make. Delights that even attracted the then governor Juscelino Kubitscheck, who would stop by the place to have coffee and biscuits during his wanderings around the region.

Mr. Anício, as he was known, supported the idea of ​​his eldest son, José Edélcio, of acquiring the entire industrial heritage of the bankrupt Companhia Mineira de Laminação. And, in 1985, Cipalam was created. The management process was implemented by another son, Geraldo Eder, whose management multiplied by more than 15 times the monthly production.