Brazil’s Top 7 Aluminum Sheet Manufacturers and Suppliers

20+ Years Export Experience  •  Sheet, Coil, Rod & Tube Production  •  1xxx–7xxx Alloy Series  •  Custom OEM/ODM Manufacturing

Brazil has recycled more than 95% of the aluminum cans it sold every year for over a decade, hitting 100% twice — a feat no other country has repeated. That statistic gets celebrated as an environmental win, and it is one. But it also describes an industrial structure most sourcing guides skip past: a huge share of Brazil’s rolled aluminum capacity is built around a closed loop between beverage can scrap and beverage can sheet. Cans get sold, collected by cooperatives within weeks, melted, and rolled straight back into more can stock. It’s efficient, it’s homegrown, and it means the country’s largest rolling operations are tuned to one product family.

That leaves a real gap for buyers who need something outside that loop — general-purpose sheet, plate, coil, rod, or tube in gauges, widths, or alloys that don’t match beverage-can specifications. Domestic mills exist for these buyers too, but capacity, alloy range, and lead time can be tighter than the can-sheet story suggests. This guide covers the manufacturers that actually anchor Brazil’s aluminum supply chain, where each one fits, and where an OEM import partner becomes the more practical route.

Brazil’s Leading Aluminum Producers

1. Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio (CBA)

CBA has been running since 1955, making it the country’s oldest continuously operating aluminum producer, and it’s the closest thing Brazil has to a single-company version of the whole value chain: it mines its own bauxite, smelts its own primary metal, and rolls that metal into billets, sheet, coil, and rebar under one roof. It runs its operations almost entirely on hydropower it owns outright, which insulates it from Brazil’s swings in industrial electricity pricing — a real cost factor for any energy-intensive metal producer. Votorantim Group has controlled CBA for decades, though international capital has recently entered the picture through a joint stake acquisition by Rio Tinto and China’s Chalco, both buying into CBA’s low-carbon production credentials.

2. Albras – Alumínio Brasileiro S.A.

Albras doesn’t roll sheet or extrude profiles — it makes the raw metal that other mills turn into finished product. Operating out of Barcarena in Pará state since 1985, it’s a joint venture between Norway’s Hydro (51%) and a consortium of Japanese trading and manufacturing firms (49%), and it draws its power directly from the Tucuruí hydroelectric plant. If overlooked, buyers researching “Brazilian aluminum manufacturers” sometimes land on Albras expecting sheet or coil quotes and find only high-purity ingot and foundry alloy — useful context if your supply chain runs through a rolling mill rather than a smelter.

3. Alumar Consortium (Alcoa / Rio Tinto / South32)

Alumar, in São Luís, Maranhão, houses one of the largest alumina refineries in the world, fed by bauxite from the Mineração Rio do Norte mine roughly 900 km away. The consortium paused its aluminum smelter for several years before restarting production in 2022, bringing back roughly 268,000 tonnes of Alcoa’s share of smelting capacity. Like Albras, Alumar sits upstream of the products most B2B buyers actually search for — it’s a refining and smelting complex first, a finished-goods supplier a distant second.

4. Novelis do Brasil

This is where Brazil’s recycling story becomes a sourcing consideration. Novelis runs its South American rolling and recycling operations out of Pindamonhangaba in São Paulo state, and the plant is built around beverage can sheet — can body stock, can end stock, and the light-gauge coil that feeds the country’s roughly 34 billion-can-a-year market. Novelis describes itself as the region’s leader in both rolling and recycling, and the can supply chain is precisely why: Brazilian cans get collected, baled, and returned to the furnace within about a month of sale, and that scrap flow is engineered to come straight back to mills like this one. For a buyer sourcing standard beverage packaging coil, that’s a tight, efficient, domestic supply chain. For a buyer needing general industrial sheet or plate in a non-can alloy, gauge, or width, it means less of the mill’s schedule is available for your order, and lead times reflect it.

5. Alubar Metais e Cabos

Alubar isn’t a sheet or plate producer — it’s Brazil’s answer to conductor-grade aluminum. Based in Barcarena, Pará, since 1998, it positions itself as the largest producer of aluminum rod (vergalhão) in the Americas and the largest manufacturer of aluminum and copper electrical cable in Latin America, supplying the wire and cable that Brazil’s power transmission and distribution grid runs on. The group has since expanded with operations in Canada and the United States, but the core rod-casting and rolling process — continuous rotary casting followed by rolling into 9.53 mm or 12 mm rod — still runs out of Pará.

6. Hydro Extrusion Brasil

Where CBA and Novelis cover flat-rolled and Alubar covers rod and cable, Hydro Extrusion Brasil covers the shaped-profile side of the market. It runs three plants — Itu, Tubarão, and Utinga, the last dating back to 1943 — with combined capacity above 80,000 tonnes of extruded profile a year, all three ASI-certified across the full chain from bauxite to finished part. Its main customers sit in automotive and HVAC, alongside architectural and construction profile work. If your requirement is flat sheet, coil, rod, or tube rather than an extruded cross-section, this isn’t the right supplier — a distinction worth making early, since “aluminum manufacturer” searches in Brazil surface extrusion houses as often as rolling mills.

7. Sourcing Custom Aluminum Sheet, Coil, Rod & Tube Through an OEM Partner

Line up the six manufacturers above and a pattern shows up: Brazil’s biggest names are either upstream of finished product entirely (Albras, Alumar), locked into a specific product family by design (Novelis and can sheet, Alubar and conductor rod, Hydro and extruded profile), or a full vertical operation sized for large, standing-volume accounts (CBA). A buyer who needs a mid-volume run of sheet, coil, rod, or tube in a specific alloy from the 1xxx–7xxx range — outside beverage-can spec, outside a standing extrusion die, without committing to CBA’s scale — is genuinely underserved by that lineup.

That’s the gap RSC fills as an OEM/ODM manufacturer with 20-plus years exporting sheet, coil, rod, and tube to buyers who need alloy, temper, and dimension flexibility that Brazil’s beverage- and grid-oriented mills aren’t set up to prioritize. RSC produces to the same tolerance logic Brazilian buyers already reference through ABNT NBR 7823 for sheet mechanical properties and NBR 6834 for alloy composition, alongside ASTM B209 for buyers working from U.S. specifications — so switching to an import partner doesn’t mean switching your quality language.

One more point worth flagging directly: Brazilian customs authorities have specifically intercepted aluminum sheet shipments where the declared country of origin didn’t match where the metal was actually made, part of a broader enforcement push against origin fraud on Chinese-made metal products. It’s a good reminder to verify any supplier’s export documentation and mill certificates before committing a container — something a direct OEM relationship makes far easier to confirm than a multi-layered trading intermediary.