Founded in 1938, in Joinville, Santa Catarina, in the Southern area of Brazil, TUPY has an annual production capacity of 500 thousand metric tonnes of cast iron parts in two industrial plants: one in Joinville and one in Mauá, in the state of São Paulo, in the Southeast of Brazil.

For the commercialization, supply
logistics and product development,
in a simultaneous engineering
process with customers, TUPY counts
on offices located in the United States,
Mexico, Germany, England, Italy, Japan
and Argentina besides the ones in Brazil
to call on domestic customers.

A large share of TUPY’s production
consists of components developed under request for the automotive sector, which includes parts for trucks, buses, utility vehicles, passenger vehicles, tractors and other types of agriculture machinery. Among its products are parts for propulsion systems, brake system, transmission and steering systems, axles and suspension systems which absorb all kinds of mechanical loads and stresses throughout a vehicle lifetime.

Tupy also manufactures and commercializes malleable cast iron parts, iron and steel shots and grits and continuous cast bars, to supply for the markets of civil construction, marble and granite industry and several industrial engineering segments, besides other applications.

Employing more than eight thousand people and exporting half of its annual production to more than 40 countries, the company is certified to the standards ISO/TS 16949:2002, ISO 9001:2000, and ISO 14001:2004.