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Volta Redonda

American  
[vawl-tah ri-dawn-dah] / ˈvɔl tɑ rɪˈdɔ̃ dɑ /

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.


Volta Redonda British  
/ ˈvɔltə rəˈdõdə /

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro state on the Paraíba River: founded in 1941; site of South America's largest steelworks. Pop: 419 000 (2005 est)

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Said Engineer Scares: until Volta Redonda became a reality, Brazil had been tied to an agricultural economy.

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But the $110 million Volta Redonda steel plant, five years abuilding, designed to make Brazil self-sufficient in steel, has yet to be inaugurated.

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To set an example, the government barred price increases by such state-owned enterprises as the Volta Redonda steelworks, whose prices soared 148% last year.

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Huachipato's pig-iron capacity of 205,000 metric tons makes it only half as big as Volta Redonda, and tiny by Pittsburgh standards.

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Now her goal is to revamp the internal management at clanking CSN, whose steelworks began operating in 1946 in Volta Redonda, a town 100 km northwest of Rio.

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