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Nexa Resources
Latin American zinc producer (~50% owned by Votorantim). Operations in Peru (Cajamarquilla smelter, ~330K MT/yr — largest in Americas) and Brazil. Revenue ~$2.7B (2024). Key supplier for South American galvanized steel and irrigation equipment markets.
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Zinc Smelting (Cajamarquilla, Peru)
45%Mining (Peru & Brazil)
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Did you know2023
Nexa's Cajamarquilla smelter in Peru is a byproduct producer of indium -- a rare metal extracted from zinc processing that is essential for ITO (indium tin oxide) transparent conductive films in touchscreens, flat panel displays, and solar cells. Zinc smelting generates indium-rich zinc sulfate intermediate streams, and Nexa extracts this indium as a byproduct. The largest zinc smelter in the Americas is therefore simultaneously a zinc supplier for galvanizing construction steel AND an indium supplier for the smartphone screens and solar panels driving the energy transition. Buyers of indium for display manufacturing and buyers of galvanizing zinc for construction steel have no awareness that they share an upstream producer in a Peruvian desert smelter.
Nexa Resources S.A. ↗Origin2023
Nexa Resources was formed from the zinc assets of Votorantim Metais, the metals division of Votorantim Group -- one of Brazil's largest industrial conglomerates, founded by an Italian immigrant family in 1918. Votorantim listed the zinc business separately in 2017 as Nexa Resources on the TSX and NYSE, giving it access to global capital markets while retaining ~50% ownership. The Cajamarquilla zinc smelter in Peru, operated by Nexa since 1976, is the largest zinc smelter in the Western Hemisphere at ~330,000 MT/yr capacity, processing concentrates from Peruvian mines and supplying refined zinc to Latin American galvanizers and steel processors. A Brazilian family conglomerate controls the dominant zinc refining capacity in South America from a Peruvian desert smelter -- a geography that makes Nexa a critical but largely invisible node in South American infrastructure supply chains.
Nexa Resources S.A. ↗