FERPI S.A. develops its activity mainly in five areas:

• Large earthworks, including drilling and blasting, soil stabilization, aggregate and concrete plants, and asphalt equipment

• Underground works, building road, railway and mining tunnels.

• Civil and industrial works, with actions in oil and gas pipelines, works in petrochemical and combined cycle plants, and supplies and sanitation.

• Environment, acting in mining restorations, sealing projects and restoration of urban waste dumps, land consolidation to unify and facilitate crops. Repopulation, reforestations, margin protections to minimize environmental impacts.

• Mining, acting in the open skies with broadly satisfactory results.

• Drilling and blasting, in the open pit mining of coal and other minerals. Assembly, disassembly and maintenance of plant and mining equipment, including electrical and mechanical maintenance, drilling, blasting, loading and transport to waste dump, access construction; the diffusion and transport of coal.