ArcelorMittal steel, produced by its controlled company ArcelorMittal Belgo, is present in the XV Pan-American Games Rio 2007, held from July 13 to 19 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ArcelorMittal Belgo supplied 9 thousand tons of steel products for the constructions at Vila do Pan (The Pan Village), a residential complex with 1,480 apartments which will host 8,00 athletes of the delegations from 42 countries that will join the games.
Besides that, 2.5 tons of steel were donated and transformed into art pieces, exhibited outdoors, and they represent the sports modalities at the Pan-American Games Rio 2007. The theme exhibition "Leveza do Aço" (Light Steel), created by the Brazilian artist Nino Ferraz, was launched on June 27 at the Vila do Pan.
There are 8 pieces altogether inspired in the following sports modalities played at the Pan- American Games: athletics, basketball, football, swimming, tennis, sailing and volleyball and another sculpture which honors the athlete. The artist's proposal is translated into innovating and mobile sculptures, and the balance, shape and color stimulate the sensorial capacity and are able to touch people's feelings. The pieces have an average weight of 500 kilos and may be moved by the touch of a finger.
The Artist
Nino Ferraz personifies an innovating concept when using steel in his pieces. He is known in the cultural environment as "The Steel Man", and started his professional career as a steel salesman and after he became the owner of a steelmaking industry.
Vila do Pan (The Pan Village)
The Vila do Pan is being built in an area of 210,000 m². ArcelorMittal Belgo has developed projects and studies to use steel in that real state initiative, optimizing the site construction costs.
The company supplied almost nine thousand tons of steel products among bars (CA-25, CA-50 e CA-60), welded mesh, trussed spacers, annealed wire, nails and masonry work mesh Belgo Fix.
