Brazil refractories market is segmented by product type (shaped, unshaped, insulating, and functional refractories), refractory chemistry or mineral (magnesia, alumina, silica, doloma, zirconia, chromite, silicon carbide, and carbon), alkalinity (basic, acidic, and neutral), end-user industry (iron and steel, cement and lime, aluminium, glass, energy, and foundry), and specific iron and steel applications (ironmaking, primary steelmaking, secondary steelmaking, continuous casting, and downstream processing).

Market Decipher estimates that Brazilian refractory consumption will reach about USD 0.9 billion in 2026 and climb to roughly USD 1.2 billion by 2036, a compound annual growth rate of around 2.9%. Our bottom-up range for 2026 is USD 0.8–1.0 billion, depending on how installation materials and engineered services are counted and on the real, which has traded near 5.5 per US dollar. Refractories are the bricks, castables, gunning and ramming mixes, insulating products and flow-control parts that keep furnaces, ladles, kilns, reactors and heaters intact above 1,200°C. They are consumed, not owned. Linings wear out in days (ladles and tundishes) or years (blast furnaces and glass tanks), so spend follows how hard Brazilian plants are run, and only secondarily how many plants exist. On our build-up, steel accounts for a little over half of Brazilian value. Cement and lime, aluminium and other non-ferrous metals, mining and pelletising, refining and petrochemicals, glass, foundries and ceramics make up the balance.

2026 is the year Brazilian steel got the protection it asked for, but not the volume. Crude steel output was 19.1 million tonnes in January–July, down 1.2% on 2025 (Aço Brasil), with August down 6.2% and September down 0.8% at 2.79 million tonnes. Aço Brasil’s October forecast puts the full year at about 33.4 million tonnes, flat on 2025. Trade defence has worked on imports: the finished-steel trade deficit narrowed by 59% in January–May and import share of consumption was roughly 15–16% in the spring. It has not yet put more heats through Brazilian ladles, and refractory volume follows heats. Volume is therefore flat, and the contest is over price, mix and share.

Outside steel the picture is mixed rather than weak. Cement sales were 50.7 million tonnes in January–September, up 0.9% (SNIC), after 67 million tonnes in 2025, up 3.7%. Aluminium has a genuine restart story at Alumar. Glass and industrial projects are as soft as anywhere in the world: RHI Magnesita’s first-half filing counts total industrial project numbers around 40% below historic averages and glass project revenue down 40% in constant currency. Its Latin American unit, in which Brazil accounts for about three-fifths of revenue, grew sales 4% in constant currency to EUR 278 million but saw gross margin fall to 24.8% from 29.2%. The Brazilian market therefore rewards suppliers with raw-material cost advantages and service contracts, and punishes those who relied on a steel or project rebound.

Three structural forces now matter more than the cycle. The supplier base is consolidating, with RHI Magnesita’s possible offer for Vesuvius now running to a 24 November deadline. Brazil sits at the centre of the raw-material question, because Brumado in Bahia holds almost all of the country’s magnesite and is one of the few large non-Chinese sources of refractory magnesia. And United States trade policy is now a Brazilian cost, with a 25% Section 301 duty on most Brazilian goods since 22 July. The sourcing, footprint and contracting choices made over the next 18–24 months will fix competitive positions for most of the forecast period.

Demand Catalysts Through 2036
Trade defence that is narrowing the import gap. Brazil applies a 25% tariff to several steel categories through 2026 and has imposed five-year anti-dumping duties on Chinese cold-rolled and hot-dip galvanised coil. The finished-steel trade deficit shrank to 503,000 tonnes in January–May from 1.23 million a year earlier, and Aço Brasil expects rolled-steel imports to fall 15.1% to 4.88 million tonnes in 2026. Fewer imports leave more of an apparent steel market of about 27 million tonnes to Brazilian mills, which is the precondition for higher furnace utilisation and, with a lag, for higher lining consumption.

An integrated base that is being kept running, not retired. Brazilian steelmaking remains anchored in blast furnaces and converters, concentrated in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. CSN’s January 2025 mini-overhaul of blast furnace No. 2 at Volta Redonda was designed to extend the furnace’s life by eight years. ArcelorMittal cancelled its Monlevade expansion in February 2025 but is committing BRL 4–5 billion (USD 0.74–0.96 billion) to a cold-rolling mill and coating lines at Tubarão, with construction from 2026 and production from the first half of 2030. Those projects finish steel rather than melt it, but each signals that the integrated base will operate into the 2030s. Market Decipher expects relining work to be lumpy and to be timed to margin recovery rather than to the calendar.

Monetary easing and an election-cycle housing push. The Selic was held at 15.00% until March 2026 and has since been cut in five consecutive steps to 13.75%, with some banks forecasting about 11% by the end of 2027. Cement is the transmission channel. SNIC credits the Minha Casa, Minha Vida housing programme and the spread of concrete road paving for the 2.3% rise in first-half sales to 32.8 million tonnes. Kiln linings follow clinker output, so this is a modest tailwind that Market Decipher expects to build in 2027–2028 if rates keep falling.

Aluminium back in production. The Alumar smelter in Maranhão, with nameplate capacity of 447,000 tonnes a year, was fully curtailed from 2015 until its restart from 2022. In South32’s 2026 financial year it ran at an implied 81% utilisation and recorded its first positive full-year EBITDA since reopening, helped by realised prices more than USD 500 a tonne above the prior year. Alcoa described the restart as complete in the third quarter, South32 guides to 75–80% utilisation in its 2027 financial year, and Alcoa is buying South32’s bauxite, alumina and aluminium interests in a USD 4.1 billion transaction. Pot linings, casthouses and remelt furnaces are the direct consumers.

Magnesite as a strategic mineral. Brazil’s House of Deputies approved a National Policy on Critical and Strategic Minerals on 6 May 2026. The bill creates a council that will decide which minerals qualify and review the list every four years, so magnesite’s status, final enactment and the regulations that follow remain to be confirmed. RHI Magnesita is pursuing recognition for magnesite, has invested BRL 541 million in Brumado in recent years, and is selling more Brumado material into non-refractory markets such as animal feed, construction and hydrometallurgy, with higher revenue expected in the second half. Almost all Brazilian magnesite output comes from Bahia, with the balance from Ceará.

Circular raw materials and cement partnerships. RHI Magnesita’s group recycling rate rose to 19.5% in the first half of 2026 from 15.7%, and its Latin American unit expects recycling rates to improve through 2026 as more recycled raw materials are qualified. In cement it signed new long-term agreements with strategic customers and is extending its performance-based 4PRO contracts. Spent linings from Brazil’s integrated mills are a domestic raw-material stream that grows with steel output, and we expect recycling capacity to be a main route to lower raw-material cost through 2036.

Friction Points and Disruptions
Cheap steel and cheap refractories from China. Imports have been pushed back but not removed. In September steel imports rose 34.6% year on year to 600,000 tonnes while exports fell 22.7% to 598,000 tonnes, and the steel industry’s confidence index stood at 44 in October, below the neutral 50. RHI Magnesita reports continued pricing pressure from Chinese refractory imports in Latin America and says production at certain major regional customers kept falling, with plant shutdowns and reduced operating rates, even though worldsteel recorded regional steel output up 2.0% in the first half. Gerdau’s chief executive has described Chinese steel as the largest single competitor in the Brazilian market.
High real rates and stretched households. Even after 125 basis points of cuts the Selic is 13.75%. SNIC cites debt service at about 49.9% of household income as a constraint on housing demand, and September cement sales fell 5.7% to 5.74 million tonnes. The association also warns that proposed changes to labour rules could raise industry operating costs significantly, and the transition to Brazil’s new consumption taxes adds planning noise for suppliers and customers alike.
A US tariff stack on Brazilian goods. The US Supreme Court struck down IEEPA tariffs on 20 February. On 22 July the United States imposed an additional 25% Section 301 duty on most Brazilian-origin goods, with annexed exclusions and no stacking on goods already covered by Section 232. Brazilian exporters of magnesia and refractory products must check exclusions at HTS level, line by line. RHI Magnesita cites US tariff headwinds in its Latin American results, and Brazilian steel exports to the United States remain exposed to Section 232 duties.
Margin compression and Gulf-conflict inflation. RHI Magnesita’s Latin American gross profit fell 16% to EUR 69 million in the first half and margin fell to 24.8%, on lower volumes, weaker mix, currency depreciation, higher energy costs linked to the Middle East conflict and lower plant utilisation. Group-wide, the conflict added EUR 28 million of unplanned costs, including EUR 11 million of transport and about EUR 10 million of raw materials, and not all of it had been passed through by 30 June. Latin America was the only region where gross margin did not improve.
Capital discipline at the largest buyers. Gerdau put Brazilian expansion capital on hold in late 2025 while funding Texas, continuing only its iron-ore and Pindamonhangaba metals-recycling projects. In the second quarter its consolidated net profit rose 70% to USD 287 million, yet Brazil supplied 45% of its steel shipments and only 20.1% of EBITDA. ArcelorMittal’s Monlevade cancellation and Tubarão pivot show money moving to finishing, not melting. Buyers earning thin margins at home buy refractories on cost, and they have the import alternative in hand.
Execution risk and stalled projects. RHI Magnesita’s Brazilian sites ran at lower volumes in the first half, forcing a sharper focus on manufacturing efficiency, supply reliability and cost, and the group expects the temporary shortfalls to unwind in the second half. More than EUR 50 million of group industrial project revenue has been pushed beyond 2026, several projects were cancelled partly in connection with the Middle East war, and glass remains close to its historic low. In a market where regional steel output is up 2% yet supplier volumes are down, reliability of supply, not demand, is the scarce commodity.

Eight Shifts Redefining Value in Brazil Refractories
Protection has narrowed the import gap, not lifted output. Brazil’s finished-steel import share fell to roughly 15–16% and the trade deficit shrank by 59%, yet crude steel fell 1.2% in January–July and Aço Brasil expects 33.4 million tonnes for the year. Consequence: refractory demand follows heats, not trade headlines. A supplier planning on volume recovery is planning on a policy outcome that has not yet arrived, and profit will be made in mix, contract structure and service.
Brazil is the soft spot in a firming global refractory market. RHI Magnesita’s group adjusted EBITA margin rose to 10.3% from 8.4%, and gross profit and margin improved in every region except Latin America, where gross margin fell to 24.8%. Consequence: price adaptations that customers accepted in North America and India have not travelled to Brazil, where buyers have credible Chinese alternatives. Suppliers need performance guarantees, not list-price increases, to rebuild margin.
Share is moving, and the data now sits with the customer. RHI Magnesita’s Latin American volumes fell while regional steel output rose 2.0%, yet it says it regained share at several key integrated steel plants and renewed multi-year agreements with key customers. We cannot attribute the gap to individual rivals, but we expect importers and regional producers to have taken part of it. Consequence: 2026 retention was an execution test, and procurement teams now hold fresh data on alternative suppliers.
Consolidation reaches the home supplier. RHI Magnesita’s proposals for Vesuvius began at 448 pence in cash on 29 September 2025 and reached 551 pence on 27 August 2026, as 470 pence in cash plus 0.28 new RHI shares for every ten Vesuvius shares. The deadline to announce a firm offer or step back was extended on 27 October to 24 November, after what Vesuvius called substantive engagement on execution risk and terms. Consequence: a combined group would pair the largest basic refractory franchise with a leading steel flow-control franchise, in a Brazilian steel industry that buys both. We expect competition review to focus on ladle and tundish flow control, and we expect large steelmakers to qualify second sources before any deal closes.
Brumado turns a local resource into a strategic one. Brumado supplies RHI Magnesita’s own plants and is one of the few large non-Chinese magnesite sources, and Brazil was the second-largest origin (17%) of US dead-burned and fused magnesia imports in 2021–24, behind China at 69%. China’s output controls have not yet lifted refractory-grade magnesia prices, which makes Brumado’s value a question of supply security rather than price. Consequence: Brazilian magnesia is a hedge for Western buyers, but the 25% Section 301 duty and the critical-minerals bill, with its investment screening and local-processing aims, will shape who captures that value.
Cement and housing run on credit, and credit is turning. Cement sales rose 0.9% in January–September, but September fell 5.7% with household debt service near half of income, while the Selic is falling from 15.00% to 13.75%. CSN announced in January 2026 that it would sell control of its cement division, and Global Cement counts two of Brazil’s three largest cement producers as potential sellers. Consequence: ownership change re-opens kiln-lining tenders, and long-term performance agreements are the defence for incumbents.
Non-steel segments are diverging, not recovering together. Aluminium has a smelter guided to 75–80% utilisation. Cement is stable to slightly higher. Glass sits near its historic low, and high-margin project work in non-ferrous, glass and industrial applications is delayed across the industry. Refining and petrochemical heaters depend on maintenance cycles and favour lightweight monolithics. Consequence: a single end-market assumption is the wrong planning tool for non-steel revenue, and we forecast each segment by its own capital cycle.
Buyers are cutting capex and buying outcomes. Refractories are about 2–3% of a steelmaker’s operating cost, but a breakout at a caster or a ladle failure costs far more than the lining saved. With Gerdau and ArcelorMittal redirecting capital and Usiminas’s second-quarter net profit down 52% on the first quarter, buyers want guaranteed campaign life and uptime at lower total cost than imports. RHI Magnesita’s EUR 100 million digital programme is about two-thirds complete. Consequence: the suppliers best placed to hold pricing are those that can put contractual performance guarantees, supported by robotics and data, against service quality, safety and delivery.

Value Chain: From Mine to Furnace Lining
Raw materials. Brazil’s magnesite reserves sit almost entirely in the Serra das Éguas at Brumado, Bahia, with about 94% of crude and calcined output from Bahia and the rest from Ceará. Brazil is also a major bauxite and alumina producer, with special alumina made at Poços de Caldas, and has chromite in Bahia, natural graphite in Minas Gerais and Bahia, and domestic fireclay, kaolin and quartz. Fused magnesia, fused alumina, silicon carbide and some carbon materials are bought from Asia, mainly China. Recycled refractory material is the fastest-growing stream and the main route to lower raw-material cost.

Manufacturing. Global groups (RHI Magnesita, Vesuvius, Saint-Gobain, Calderys, Imerys, Krosaki Harima, Morgan Advanced Materials, Refratechnik) operate beside Brazilian specialists and a rising flow of Chinese imports. Margins are highest in engineered monolithics and flow control, and lowest in commodity bricks where import prices set the ceiling.
Systems and services. Flow-control parts, robotic handling and gunning systems, thermal imaging and installation sit between the plant and the furnace. In-furnace repair and relining specialists carry a large share of the labour. This layer is where consolidation logic is strongest, because customers want a single accountable supplier for ladle-to-mould performance.
Customers and end of life. Steel producers buy through annual tenders and increasingly multi-year performance agreements. Aluminium, cement, glass and petrochemical customers buy mostly by project and campaign. End-of-life material goes back into aggregates, new refractories or other uses, and the economics of that stream improve as imported raw materials become more expensive.

Segment-wise Analysis
By Product Type
Shaped products still make up the largest share of Brazilian value, led by magnesia-carbon bricks in converters and ladle slag lines, and high-alumina bricks in ladles and kiln zones. The converter-heavy steel base means this segment is larger in Brazil than in electric-furnace markets, and it is where Chinese import pricing bites hardest. Monolithics (castables, gunning mixes, ramming mass) are gaining in ladle, trough and electric-furnace applications and in heater and boiler linings, because installation robots and gunning systems shorten outages. Insulating refractories are growing fastest on energy-saving arguments, which matter more as energy costs rise. Functional flow-control products (slide-gate plates, nozzles, shrouds, stoppers) are a small part of spend and earn the highest margins; they are the area where the proposed RHI Magnesita–Vesuvius combination matters most.
By Refractory Chemistry
Magnesia is the largest chemistry and the one where Brazil has a structural advantage through Brumado, though it is also the most exposed to Chinese price signals and US tariff policy. Alumina and alumino-silicate systems are the growth chemistry in ladles, troughs, heaters and aluminium applications, supported by Brazilian bauxite and special alumina supply. Silica and doloma are mature niches tied to coke ovens, glass crowns and clean-steel practice. Zirconia and fused-cast products serve glass tanks and follow the rebuild cycle. Chromite continues to give way to chrome-free formulations. Silicon carbide and carbon-bonded products depend on imported inputs, and Brazil’s natural graphite is a partial hedge.
By Alkalinity
Basic refractories (magnesia, doloma, magnesia-carbon) dominate steelmaking and cement kilns. They carry the tariff and import-price exposure and are most sensitive to Chinese magnesite policy. Acidic products (silica, fireclay, zircon) serve coke ovens, glass and ceramics and track the glass cycle. Neutral products (alumina, chromite, carbon, silicon carbide) benefit from ladle, aluminium and heater applications.
By End-User Industry
Iron and steel is the anchor but is flat in volume, supported by trade defence and cushioned by relining and finishing capital. Cement and lime are steady, with the Southeast the largest market and the North and Northeast holding up better in mid-2026. Aluminium and other non-ferrous metals are the clearest growth case, with Alumar back in production and alumina refining in Pará and Maranhão. Glass is weak in containers and selective in rebuilds. Energy, refining and petrochemicals favour lightweight monolithics and heater linings. Foundries and ceramics are steady, with Brazil’s ceramic-tile clusters in Santa Catarina and São Paulo sensitive to energy and housing. Others include mining and pelletising, ferroalloys, pulp and paper boilers and waste-to-energy.
Iron and Steel: By Furnace and Process Application
Blast furnaces and converters at integrated mills such as Ipatinga, Cubatão, Volta Redonda, Tubarão and Ouro Branco carry the highest per-event value, while electric arc furnaces are concentrated in long-product producers and scrap-based mills. Ironmaking is the swing: blast-furnace relines are large and lumpy and are being deferred where margins are thin. Secondary steelmaking, especially ladle furnaces and vacuum degassers, is where performance is measured in heats per campaign and where reliability gaps have been visible in 2026. Continuous casting is the highest-margin stage and the one most affected by consolidation. Reheating furnaces and downstream processing buy mainly on energy efficiency.

Regional Outlook Within Brazil
Brazilian refractory demand follows steel, cement and aluminium output, while supply and pricing follow Brumado, a limited number of plants and import parity. Five clusters carry most of the commercial weight.
Southeast. Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro together produced more than half of national crude steel in March 2026 (28.2% and 27.6%, Aço Brasil), with São Paulo at 10.7% and Espírito Santo anchored by Tubarão. Ipatinga, Ouro Branco, Monlevade, Volta Redonda and Santa Cruz make this the most valuable cluster for shaped products and relining services, and it is also the largest cement market, at 2.74 million tonnes of 6.13 million in August. Supply is also local, with refractory manufacturing and service bases close to the mills.
South. Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná combine long-steel mills and foundries, ArcelorMittal’s Vega flat-steel plant, ceramic and glass clusters and a cement market exposed to weather: heavy rain held back regional sales in July. This is a cluster for monolithics, foundry consumables and insulating products rather than large integrated relines.
Northeast. Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão and Pernambuco hold Brumado, the Pecém slab operation, the Alumar smelter and refinery assets such as Abreu e Lima. It is the raw-material and non-ferrous cluster, and regional cement growth held up in July. Brumado’s role in the global magnesia chain makes Bahia the place where trade policy and critical-minerals policy meet.
North. Pará’s bauxite, alumina and aluminium chain, plus Carajás pig iron and ferroalloys, supports high-value monolithic and pot-lining demand, even though the North is the smallest cement market. Logistics distance makes local stock and service capability a competitive advantage.
Center-West. Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and the Federal District add cement and lime plants serving housing and agribusiness, ferroalloy and non-ferrous operations in Goiás, and boilers in sugar, ethanol and pulp. It is a small steel region whose refractory demand is driven by cement, minerals and energy.

Imports, Exports and Trade Remedies
Brazil’s refractory trade is shaped by Mercosur’s common external tariff, national exceptions and anti-dumping investigations, and by the role of Brumado in the global magnesia chain. Brazilian producers export magnesia and refractory products, with the United States the most visible destination: Brazil supplied 17% of US dead-burned and fused magnesia imports in 2021–24, second to China at 69%, and US net import reliance for magnesium compounds was 59% in 2025 (USGS). That is why the 22 July Section 301 action matters. The US antidumping and countervailing orders on magnesia-carbon bricks cover China and Mexico rather than Brazil, which leaves Brazilian bricks outside the order but inside the 25% duty unless HTS-level exclusions apply. On the import side, Chinese refractories are the main price-setter in commodity shaped products, with European and Indian suppliers present in engineered and flow-control products.

Brazil has used anti-dumping extensively on steel, including five-year duties on Chinese cold-rolled and hot-dip galvanised coil. A comparable petition by domestic refractory producers facing Chinese pricing would be a logical step. We have not verified any pending case, and we treat it as a watch item. Market Decipher’s view is that Brazilian trade policy in refractories will be defined less by headline rates than by classification and exclusion detail, by the US duty and by the pace of anti-dumping action. Companies should build a standing trade-compliance and landed-cost model for each import and export route and review it quarterly.

Competitive Landscape and Share Dynamics
The Brazilian market has three tiers. At the top are global platforms with raw-material access, flow-control technology and nationwide service: RHI Magnesita, Vesuvius and Saint-Gobain. In the middle are specialist producers and mineral processors such as Calderys, Imerys, Krosaki Harima, Morgan Advanced Materials and Refratechnik. The third tier is a long tail of Brazilian monolithic makers, installers and traders, plus Chinese exporters that are growing because Brazilian steelmakers are cutting costs.

RHI Magnesita is the largest. It reported first-half 2026 group revenue of EUR 1,595 million and adjusted EBITA of EUR 165 million, with Latin America at EUR 278 million of revenue and a gross margin of 24.8%. Revenue at Brazilian customer sites was EUR 169 million, against EUR 175 million a year earlier. On our build-up that implies roughly two-fifths of the Brazilian market. Net debt was EUR 1,528 million, leverage 2.9 times, and capital expenditure was cut to EUR 115 million, so its capacity to pay for Vesuvius depends heavily on the share component and on deleveraging. Vesuvius reported revenue of GBP 913.7 million, trading profit of GBP 74.0 million and a return on sales of 8.1%, with end markets improving in North America and Japan and a European advanced-refractory footprint review due by the first quarter of 2027.

Over the forecast period Market Decipher expects share to migrate toward producers that own or control raw-material streams (including recycling), make products at costs that compete with Chinese imports, qualify early with the few steelmakers still investing, and can sell performance rather than product. Commodity-brick producers without a service layer will face margin pressure, and we would expect at least one further Brazilian mid-market transaction before 2028.

Refractories Market Segmentation
Consumption, production, imports and exports for 2026–2036 are segmented as follows.
By Product Type
•    Shaped refractories 
–    Magnesite / magnesia brick
–    Magnesia-carbon brick
–    Dolomite / doloma brick
–    Silica brick
–    Alumina / high-alumina and fireclay brick
–    Zirconia and fused-cast products
–    Chromite / chrome-magnesite brick
–    Silicon carbide and other specialty bricks
•    Unshaped / monolithic refractories 
–    Castables (conventional, low-cement, ultra-low-cement)
–    Ramming and gunning mixes
–    Mortars and coatings
–    Plastic and other monolithics
•    Insulating refractories 
–    Lightweight monolithics and insulating firebrick
–    Ceramic fibre and microporous insulation
•    Functional / flow-control refractories 
–    Slide-gate plates
–    Submerged entry nozzles and ladle shrouds
–    Stopper systems
–    Well blocks and nozzles
By Refractory Chemistry / Mineral
•    Magnesia
•    Alumina / high-alumina and alumino-silicate
•    Silica
•    Doloma
•    Zirconia / zircon
•    Chromite
•    Silicon carbide
•    Carbon / graphite-containing
•    Others
By Alkalinity
•    Basic
•    Acidic
•    Neutral
By End-User Industry
•    Iron and steel
•    Cement and lime
•    Aluminium and other non-ferrous metals
•    Glass
•    Energy, refining and petrochemicals
•    Foundry and ceramics
•    Others
Iron and Steel: By Furnace / Process Application
•    Ironmaking 
–    Blast furnace
–    Direct reduction / DRI shaft and melter
–    Hot-metal transport
•    Primary steelmaking 
–    Basic oxygen furnace
–    Electric arc furnace
–    Induction furnace
•    Secondary steelmaking 
–    Ladle and ladle furnace
–    RH and vacuum degassing
–    Argon-oxygen decarburisation and other refining
•    Continuous casting 
–    Tundish
–    Ladle-to-tundish and tundish-to-mould flow control
–    Submerged entry nozzle, stopper and slide gate
•    Downstream steel processing 
–    Reheating furnace
–    Heat-treatment furnace
–    Other high-temperature processing
By Geography and Trade Route
•    Brazil regions: Southeast; South; Northeast; North; Center-West
•    Imports by origin: China, Europe, India, United States, Mexico, Japan and Rest of World
•    Exports by destination: United States, Argentina, Mexico, Rest of Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Rest of World

Key Refractory Manufacturers and Value Chain Companies Covered
Leading producers and suppliers shaping Brazilian supply and pricing include, but are not limited to:
•    RHI Magnesita  (Austria / Netherlands; Brumado and Brazilian plants)
•    Vesuvius  (United Kingdom)
•    Saint-Gobain  (France)
•    Calderys  (France)
•    Imerys  (France)
•    Krosaki Harima  (Japan)
•    Morgan Advanced Materials  (United Kingdom)
•    Refratechnik  (Germany)
•    Togni, Intecnial, Combustol, Elfusa and other Brazilian specialists  (Brazil)
•    Chinese refractory exporters  (China)
•    Installation and in-furnace repair specialists and refractory recyclers  (Brazil and global)