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Techint is an Italian-Argentine conglomerate founded in Milan in 1945 by Italian industrialist Agostino Rocca and headquartered in Milan (Italy) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). Techint comprises more than 100 companies operating worldwide in the following areas of business: engineering, construction, steel, mining, oil & gas, industrial plants, healthcare. Techint, with its subsidiaries, is the largest steel making company in Latin America. Techint is the world's largest manufacturer of seamless steel tubes, mainly used in the oil industry.〔 == History == Agostino Rocca, an executive at Ansaldo, Dalmine and Siac (steel and iron industries), and prominent member of the IRI, founded ''Compagnia Tecnica Internazionale'' (Italian for "Technical International Company") in Milan in September 1945, but developed its main activity worldwide. The original company name was changed after to ''Techint'', its abbreviated telex code.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Independent - 404 )〕 Awarded a contract to build a 1,600 km (1,000 mi) gas pipeline from Comodoro Rivadavia to Buenos Aires in 1949 by President Juan Perón, Techint became a leading government contractor during Perón's ambitious infrastructure program in Argentina. Creating subsidiaries in Brazil (1947), Chile (1951), and Mexico (1954), the company opened its first seamless steel tube plant in Campana, in 1954; in 1969, Techint's Ensenada plant became the only Argentine manufacturer of cold rolled steel.〔 A staple of large engineering projects all over South America, Techint participated in the privatization drive of the early 1990s, purchasing a stake in Argentina's then-leading steel manufacturer, the state-owned SOMISA. A significant part of Techint's core manufacturing strength has since been concentrated in the San Nicolás-Villa Constitución oil-and-steel corridor, where the company is a regional leader in the production of cold rolled steel. On August 23, 2005, the Techint group bought 99.3% of Mexican Hylsamex for US $2.2 billion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Techint compró la acería mexicana Hylsamex por US$ 2.217 millones )〕 In press release, Techint informed that the Mexican steel manufacturer, and its previous steel manufacturers Siderar (Argentina) and Sidor (Venezuela) would be under a new subsidiary called Ternium, headquartered in Luxembourg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News - Reuters.com )〕 On April 30, 2007, Ternium, a division of Techint, announced that it had entered into an agreement in which it expects to gain control of Grupo IMSA, a major player in the Mexican steel industry.〔(Ternium to Obtain Control of Mexico-Based Grupo Imsa (April 30, 2007) )〕 The decision of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to nationalize Sidor came on the heels of a series of industrial disputes over the previous year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thousands strike at Venezuela's Sidor steel )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Venezuela says Ternium Sidor stake worth $800 mln )〕 Compensation of around US$1.97 billion was agreed for the nationalisation of Ternium's 60% stake in Sidor, with the former keeping a 10% stake in the company,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ternium agrees to receive Sidor payment in two installments )〕 but frictions emerged with the Kirchner administration in Argentina over their reported refusal to raise objections to the nationalization with President Chávez. The Techint Group invested US$2.3 billion in its Argentine operations from 2003 to 2008,〔 and its local Siderca unit's steel output rose from 2.5 million tons in 2003〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Siderar S.A.I.C. – FundingUniverse )〕 to 4.5 million in 2008.〔 In 2012 the Techint Group entered the mining industry through the Tenova’s acquisition of several companies operating in this field. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Techint」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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