Company Purposes
Processing and preparing scrap metal for recycling.

C.A.E. – Economic Activity Code
37100 – Scrap and waste metal recycling.

Brief History
Implementation of the Quality Standard (2007)
> In January 2007, the company achieved NP EN ISO 14001: 2004 certification.

Implementation of the Quality Standard (2004)
> In March 2004, the company achieved NP EN ISO 9001: 2000 certification.

Permission for waste management operations by DRAOT-Norte (2002)
> Obtained prior authorisation for the following operations and types of waste:

• Operations: Storage, sorting and processing.
• Waste: Waste metal from constructions and demolitions, waste metal packaging, end-of-life-vehicles, used tyres, ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal, ferrous and non-ferrous metal chips and filings, ferrous metals extracted from ash, paper and carton urban waste, glass and metals collected selectively, and Monsters.

Increase in share-capital and redenomination into euros (2000)
> In September 30th, 2000, the share capital was increased to 400.924.000 escudos.

Industrial development and legal reorganisation (1996)
> A highly automated and productive solid waste fragmentation line, the only one in the north part of the country, was installed;
> The company’s legal denomination was changed to public limited company.

Industrial modernisation and new logistics (1994)
> Construction of a new, modern and functional plant premises in Carvalhos, where the company was transferred to;
> Automated industrial process;
> Lay-out streamlining;
> Operation and manufacturing flow optimisation;
> End quality improvement of finished product;
> Improvement of support logistics;
> Increased processing and delivery capacity;
> Global organisation improvement.

Diversification of activity (1982)
> Beginning of an industrial dynamic;
> Reduced mechanisation of the manufacturing process.

Incorporation (1965)
> The company was founded in 1965, with head-office in Vila Nova de Gaia and 600 million escudos share capital;
> The company’s main purpose is "buying and selling rags, waste paper and scrap metal”, although it may carry out an activity in any other branch of trade and industry;
> The company’s market implantation was done based on a strictly commercial logic;
> Activity development based on the transaction of recyclable products.

Investments
From 1996 to 2002 the company achieved a budget of around 10.000.000 €.

The company has tried to reinforce its management capacity by investing in adequate computer means for the whole company, better suited for present and future needs, thus creating support frameworks worthy of the company’s external image, improving the global systems of conducting business and focusing clearly on publicity and promotion of services and the company on the whole. This organisation certainly includes effective industrial management; the company results according to sectors are acknowledged and its strategic, economic and financial options are openly justified.

Globally, this investment plan is an inductor not only of growth in the productivity levels of the factors - fine-tuning and combining them efficiently (Labour/Capital) - as well as of the development of complementary support frameworks, essential to build strategic pillars for the development of company activity.

Investment purposes
> Premise modernisation;
> Production automation, namely the purchase of an industrial fragmentation complex endowed with electronic commands;
> Increase in productive flexibility;
> Increase in the productivity of the production factors;
> Quality improvement;
> Neutralised environmental impact.

Company’s Strategic Aims
> Competitiveness improvement;
> Efficient use of production factors;
> Maximum value-added;
> Rapid manufacture and delivery;
> Safe handling and transportation of raw and processed scrap;
> Manufacture quality;
> Contribution towards the improvement of the environment, especially external environment.

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As we can see from the strategies used, the company has been successful. It carries out offensive innovation, in other words innovation aiming at medium and long-term growth in order to preserve and extend its dominant market position.

Customer satisfaction is the company’s main target, which it seeks to obtain systematically and without limits, as the customer is the source of benefits for collaborators, shareholders and suppliers.

This company pays special attention to its collaborators, as their involvement is the pillar of the power of “Constantino Fernandes Oliveira & Filhos, S. A.”; they supply the tools for long-lasting company motivation, education and innovation.

The company seeks to achieve constant improvement in all production phases and to suit its products to customer demands and to the applicable requirements. The company is always open to working with its customers and suppliers to find the best solutions.

This company is also fully committed to finding solutions to minimise the environmental impact of the activity.

Based on all of these principles, the company assumes its commitment to all its customers and suppliers, whilst investing in the constant improvement of its system.