IMMA opens the Project Guaporé Qualification Center in Rondônia

IMMA - Indústria Metalúrgica e Mecânica da Amazônia, the first capital stock industry made to order in the North region of Brazil and the result of a joint venture between Alstom and Bardella, opens today, July 1st, the CCG Centro de Capacitação Guaporé (Guaporé Qualification Center) in a partnership with SENAI.

With the opening of the center, IMMA continues its strategic plan to pass on industrial technology and professional formation in the metal/mechanic area. Located within the factory, the space is destined to knowledge management practices, with the purpose of qualifying, developing, and improving employees, promoting work education.

Our purpose is to prepare and develop persons to act on IMMAs behalf and in the future graduate professionals qualified and certified to work in the metallurgical and base industries in any region in the country, says Gustavo Almeida, IMMAs Human Resources Manager.

The structure consists of a workshop where oxygen lancing, boiler making, and welding practical training and operations will be performed. Two classrooms were built in the external area for theoretical, technical, and behavioral qualification. The estimation is to qualify 300 persons until the end of 2010.

SENAI, IMMAs partner since the beginning of Projeto Guaporé, will be responsible for the technical and pedagogical quality of the qualification. With the aid of SENAI we have already qualified more than one thousand rondonienses (people who live in Rondônia) and we are consolidating our presence in this State even more, adds Almeida.


About IMMA

With the purpose of subsidizing the hydroelectricity projects in the North region of Brazil, by supplying hydro-mechanical and lifting equipment for the enterprises of this sector in Amazônia, Alstom, world leader in power and transport infrastructure, associated to Bardella, traditional national stock capital company with engineering made to order, to build Indústria Metalúrgica e Mecânica da Amazônia - IMMA. With an investment of R$ 90 millions, the building, delivered in March 2010, is located in Porto Velho, in the State of Rondônia, and has a total area of 235,000 m² and 33,000 m² of built area. Equipped with machine tools, boiler making area, shot blasting and painting, the factory can lift 130 tons and produce 12 mil tons per year.

About Alstom

Alstom is the world leader in power generation and railway infrastructure, and reference in innovative technology that respects the environment. Alstom builds the fastest trains and automated metros of the largest capacity in the world and also provides integrated power stations to generate energy, besides associated services for different power sources, such as hydroelectricity, gas, coal, nuclear, and wind power. The group employs 96,000 persons in 70 countries and recorded a sales of 23 billion Euros in 2009/2010.
Alstom is present in Brazil for 55 years, counting on 5,000 direct employees that work in the seven units installed in the States of São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, MInas Gerais and Rondônia.

About Bardella
Since its foundation in 1911, Bardella S.A. Indústrias Mecânicas have been present and participated in all stages of Brazilian development. Always as a pioneer and focusing the market, the company could adapt and many times anticipate the needs of a very competitive market in growing evolution.
Therefore, Bardella has gathered along the years a portfolio with renowned national and international clients, which clearly demonstrates its technical and managerial capacity to supply its products and services.

PRESS INFORMATION

IMMA Human Resources Manager: Gustavo Almeida
Gustavo.almeida@imma.ind.br / Phone: +55 69 2182 4508

Alstom Brazil Communication Director: Juliana Souza
juliana.souza@crn.alstom.com / Phone: +55 11 3612 7071

Press agent: CDN Comunicação Corporativa
Mariana Maciel: mariana.maciel@cdn.com.br / Phone: +55 11 3643 2734
Rose Rocha: rose-rocha@cdn.com.br / Phone: +55 11 3643 2789
Isabel Lopes: ilopes@cdn.com.br / Phone: +55 11 3643 2802

Bardella
Marketing: Sione Perrazoli G. Silva
ssilva@bardella.com.br / Phone: +55 15 3238 5683

President Advice: Inês Szabo
iszabo@bardella.com.br/ Phone: +55 11 2487 1029