by Sergio Milatias 
Editor in Chief of Revista do Parafusos 

Ended the last 12-month cycle, started in January 2022 under the traditional symbology of the mythological Roman god Janus – a divinity that we learned through our colleagues from the Fastener + Fixing Magazine (UK) –, we show following the results involving fasteners on Brazilian market, about imported and exported products such as bolts, screws, nuts, rivets, nails and all of kinds of metallic fasteners.

IMPORTS

About the buys about fasteners in the year just ended, 2022, the Brazilians customers purchased a little over 207,000 tons, that costed US$ 1.052 billion (*FOB price - US$ 5.08 per kg). Ten years ago, in 2013, the total exceeded 191 thousand tons, US$ 1.048 billion (*US$ 5.48 per kg). Both in 2021 and in 2022, imports surpassed the barrier of 200 thousand tons, 205 and 207 thousand respectively.

EXPORTS

On the other hand, during the last year 38.4 thousand tons left the country, at a total price of US$ 184 million (*US$ 4.79 p/kg). In 2013, foreign sales exceeded 26.4 thousand tons, US$ 136 million.

Looking the infographic, following, is rapidly easy to see the behavior of this segment in the past ten years.