Special steels and alloys manufacturer with thermal processing and application engineering
Villares Metals manufactures high-performance specialty steels and alloys for industrial applications—automotive, aerospace, oil & gas, energy, tooling, rail, and medical. The company runs a digitization-heavy roadmap: Power BI dashboards, Power Apps workflows, and process automation dominate active projects, while hiring accelerates across manufacturing, ops, and data roles. Stack and project mix signal a shift from manual process control toward data-driven production visibility and supply-chain optimization.
Notable leadership hires: Production Lead
Founded in 1944 and headquartered in Sumaré, São Paulo, Villares Metals is a privately held specialty-metals producer with 1,001–5,000 employees operating across Brazil. The company develops and manufactures non-flat high-alloy special steels, stainless steels, tool steels, valve steels, and precision forgings. It operates dedicated thermal-treatment facilities and maintains application engineering, technical support, and R&D teams to serve complex, high-performance industrial markets. Villares Metals is part of the High Performance Metals division of voestalpine, an Austria-based global metals leader.
Primary tools: Power BI, Salesforce, SAP, Power Apps, Adobe, Excel, PowerPoint, MES, WMS, TMS, Power Automate, Python, VBA. No major tech replacements or new adoptions currently signaled.
Dashboard construction, process automation, workflow automation via Power Apps, process digitization, supply-chain process improvement, new supplier sourcing, procurement innovation, and financial planning framework development.
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