CBA is committed to making a positive contribution to society and the environment, and is an industry leader for low-carbon aluminum.
We want to inspire people to build a better world and create solutions that transform people’s lives.
Durable, flexible, lightweight, energy-efficient, corrosion-resistant and recyclable. These are some of the unique properties of aluminum.
Global trends are creating an increased demand for aluminum. This makes it a material of choice for a more sustainable future.
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From raw materials to end products, we produce aluminum within an integrated model that spans the entire value chain.
At each stage of the process, our focus is on quality and minimizing impacts on the environment and surrounding communities. CBA invests constantly in improvements and state-of-the-art technology. We aim to use resources—whether natural or financial—responsibly and intelligently. As important as the aluminum we produce are our efforts to minimize waste materials from our operations, and either recycle them or ensure they are compliantly disposed of.
In a process where all sides win.
Whether you’re at home or at work, whether you’re enjoying recreation or riding a bus, or whether you’re opening a food or pharmaceutical package. You’ll find that aluminum is much more present in your life than you might think.
CBA’s primary and semi-fabricated products are developed for applications in a wide range of industries that have transformed society.
A CBA produz alumínio para as três necessidades do mercado de energia elétrica: geração, transmissão e distribuição.
CBA produces aluminum products
that are used across all three segments
of the electricity supply chain:
generation, transmission and distribution.
In generation, we provide solutions for photovoltaic panels, aluminum roofing structures for floating plants, and aluminum for large hydroelectric dam structures.
In transmission, we supply sheet and foil to transformer manufacturers.
In distribution, we supply aluminum profiles used to make conductor tubes for substations.
We recognize that a better future can only be built by working together. That is why we develop co-creation and co-engineering projects that leverage our delivery of solutions and create and share value from our projects.
This provides opportunities to deploy new technologies and new business models, and strengthens our long-term relationships.
At CBA we believe that each of us can INNOVATE!
Innovation is a part of our history. For more than six decades, we have delivered products, services and solutions that have helped to shape society, driving transformations beyond our industry.
We believe TRANSPARENCY and employee engagement with the external environment, combined with a trust-based working environment that is open to new ideas, can catalyze INNOVATION. In this journey, we give employees AUTONOMY to EXPERIMENT and gain new experience, and we implement initiatives and methodologies that encourage INTRA-ENTREPRENEURSHIP, in line with our values of product safety and quality.
Whether it’s within the company—such as optimizing our logistics to make it more sustainable—or for our customers, we work to innovate in our business, processes and solutions to support our markets’ development.
CBA has an average of 80 to 100 innovation and co-creation projects in our pipeline at any given time, using a combination of different methodologies including Design Thinking, Quick Prototyping, Lean Startup, Value Proposition Canvas, Scrum and Kanban. These projects all take environmental, social and governance considerations into account, and are led by squads—or multidisciplinary teams of experienced professionals with their own defined goals, which they work towards autonomously.
Opportunities for innovation can come from different sources, such as CBA’s IdeAl ideation program, market intelligence, technology insights, inputs from commercial teams, customer requirements, innovation programs and industry interactions. We develop those ideas into products by co-creating with our customers, who play an active role throughout the process. We also draw inputs from key players in our value chain, including suppliers, specialized consultants, research institutions, universities, end users, startups and innovation hubs.
CBA has developed an aluminum powder designed specifically for additive manufacturing, or creating metal parts using 3D printing. Additive manufacturing is used to build parts from a digital 3D model, typically layer by layer. Products produced by this method are lighter-weight, stronger and more flexible. They are also more cost-effective and have a lower impact on the environment.
We have pioneered the development of these types of raw materials in Brazil. Our technology could make metal 3D printing a viable solution for prototyping and producing parts with complex geometries that would not be possible to build using conventional methods.
Click here to learn more about the benefits from the new technology.
Aluminum can make a practical difference in people’s lives. With this in mind, CBA recently joined a project, called Ilumina Pantanal, in a partnership between the Energisa Group, the state government of Mato Grosso do Sul, the Brazilian Ministry of Mining & Energy and the Brazilian power sector regulator, ANEEL. The Pantanal, a biodiversity sanctuary in the south of Brazil’s Midwest state of Mato Grosso, is home to around 2,090 families (approximately 10,000 people) living in remote communities spread across an area of 90,000 square kilometers. To supply power to these families, each property will receive an innovative system consisting of four photovoltaic modules made of recycled aluminum.
A world-first technology has allowed one of our customers to use aluminum instead of fiberglass to produce bus roofs, in another pioneering solution developed by CBA. It took more than 2,000 hours of laboratory testing to arrive at an optimal combination of geometry, alloy and design that would meet our customer’s requirements.
The new roof model delivered significant benefits, including:
CBA has an average of 80 to 100 innovation and co-creation projects in our pipeline at any given time, using a combination of different methodologies including Design Thinking, Quick Prototyping, Lean Startup, Value Proposition Canvas, Scrum and Kanban. These projects all take environmental, social and governance considerations into account, and are led by squads—or multidisciplinary teams of experienced professionals with their own defined goals, which they work towards autonomously.
Opportunities for innovation can come from different sources, such as CBA’s IdeAl ideation program, market intelligence, technology insights, inputs from commercial teams, customer requirements, innovation programs and industry interactions. We develop those ideas into products by co-creating with our customers, who play an active role throughout the process. We also draw inputs from key players in our value chain, including suppliers, specialized consultants, research institutions, universities, end users, startups and innovation hubs.
CBA has developed an aluminum powder designed specifically for additive manufacturing, or creating metal parts using 3D printing. Additive manufacturing is used to build parts from a digital 3D model, typically layer by layer. Products produced by this method are lighter-weight, stronger and more flexible. They are also more cost-effective and have a lower impact on the environment.
We have pioneered the development of these types of raw materials in Brazil. Our technology could make metal 3D printing a viable solution for prototyping and producing parts with complex geometries that would not be possible to build using conventional methods.
Click here to learn more about the benefits from the new technology.
Aluminum can make a practical difference in people’s lives. With this in mind, CBA recently joined a project, called Ilumina Pantanal, in a partnership between the Energisa Group, the state government of Mato Grosso do Sul, the Brazilian Ministry of Mining & Energy and the Brazilian power sector regulator, ANEEL. The Pantanal, a biodiversity sanctuary in the south of Brazil’s Midwest state of Mato Grosso, is home to around 2,090 families (approximately 10,000 people) living in remote communities spread across an area of 90,000 square kilometers. To supply power to these families, each property will receive an innovative system consisting of four photovoltaic modules made of recycled aluminum.
A world-first technology has allowed one of our customers to use aluminum instead of fiberglass to produce bus roofs, in another pioneering solution developed by CBA. It took more than 2,000 hours of laboratory testing to arrive at an optimal combination of geometry, alloy and design that would meet our customer’s requirements.
The new roof model delivered significant benefits, including:
CBA has two Solutions & Services Centers (CSS), one at our plant in Alumínio (SP) and the other at our facility in Caxias do Sul (RS).
These centers cater to customers’ aluminum processing needs within co-engineering projects, such as grit blasting, anodizing, coating, special cutting operations, machining and market-ready kit assembly.
CBA has pioneered the development of co-designed and co-engineered automotive solutions and structural components.
Examples of these solutions include aluminum door protection bars and bumpers that increase vehicle safety. The high-strength extruded aluminum used to make these parts offers geometric flexibility and avoids the high tooling costs involved in producing stamped steel parts.
Co-engineered solutions are expanding CBA’s portfolio of high-strength alloys for structural applications, previously only available in other markets.
