Processing of scrap metal into wheels, bogies and other sand-cast products Carlos Caballero SRL is one of Bolivia's leading companies in steel manufacturing. It produces storage tanks, pressure vessels, cargo containers, train wagons, boilers, pipelines, trailers, ploughs and other agricultural equipment. It is often approached with orders it cannot manufacture, due to a lack of installed foundry capacity in Bolivia. For example, Carlos Caballero SRL manufactures train wagons for the national railway company in Bolivia, but needs to import the bogies and wheels from Brazil resulting in delays and high costs. At the same time, over the years the company has accumulated a huge stock of waste steel material. With this PSI project Carlos Caballero SRL with its partner Agropecuaria El Parque from Argentina will start a foundry for the production of bogies, wheels and other sand-cast products from the waste steel material in the industrial park of La Guardia. The first years, the main client of the joint venture company Aceria Guadix SRL will be Carlos Caballero SRL. Agropecuaria El Parque will take care of the marketing of the products among its clients in Argentina. The company will be certified according to ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 on workplace health and safety and on AAR M-1003 on product quality. The company will be a good example of corporate social responsibility.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)The company will develop its own CSR policy. It will conduct an environmental impact assessment, work only with virgin waste steel (not painted etc) and take good care of reducing the energy costs. It will work with gas as a clean source of energy. The company will be certified OHSAS 18001, guaranteeing save working conditions for its employees. All people will be trained according to the strict workplace safety requirements and also in first aid. It will have its own health post and ambulance, similar to all other companies of Carlos Caballero SRL. Aceria Guadix SRL will provide generous remuneration packages, with living wages monitored by its HRM department. Staff will receive transport allowances, working clothes, meals and enjoy health insurance and all other legal benefits. It provides equal employment opportunities for men and women. Carlos Caballero SRL will start an internal technical training institute in all aspects of metal working, including foundry, leading to an official diploma. This will assist young people to get easier access to jobs in this field and assist the sector to obtain good qualified employees. The company will guarantee its product quality by all type of international certifications like ISO 9001, AAR M-1003, AISI standards, SAE standards and ASTM standards.Impact•	Employment and working conditionsThe employees will be offered good employment standards, with high salaries in order to maintain a team of capable persons satisfied within the company. Salaries are ranging between 330 euro (300% of the official minimum wage in Bolivia of Bs 1,000) and 3,500 euro and are based on living wages. Fringe benefits include transport allowance, lunch, working cloths and all legally prescribed benefits including social security, paid holidays, overtime payments, annual premium of 1.5 monthly salary, pension fund, insurance against occupational accidents, illnesses, incapacity and death, unemployment indemnity, right to associate with trade union. All staff will be intensively trained in technical issues, quality control and in issues related to environmental care, occupational health and safety. The company will provide a good and safe working environment with continuous innovations to challenge its employees to continue to learn and improve career prospects.•	Innovation/Transfer of knowledgeThere are no other companies in Bolivia producing high quality products like bogies, wheels, etc, so a lot of training is needed. Aceria Guadix SRL will be the first foundry working according to occupational safety certification OHSAS 18001 in Bolivia and be certified according to the AAR M-1003 standard for product quality.•	Chain effectsThe first years Aceria Guadix SRL will source its metal from Carlos Caballero SRL. Thereafter, it will also buy the scrap metal from 2 other suppliers. Furthermore, it will source sand, bentonite and firebricks locally. It will use gas instead of diesel of electricity to source the induction oven. A transport company will be used to distribute the final products. Local clients will benefit from a faster available and cheaper product, but with a guaranteed international quality.•	Impact on the sectorCarlos Caballero SRL will start an internal technical training institute in all aspects of metal working, including foundry, leading to an official diploma. This will assist young people to get easier access to jobs in this field and assist the sector to obtain good qualified employees. It will continue its cooperation with the technical training institute Infocal and with the Technical University of Oruro.•	EnvironmentThe company will implement an environmental impact assessment and implement all recommendations. It will work with the latest environmentally friendly technology. It will use an induction furnace, which is a clean, energy-efficient and well controllable electrical oven. For other heating purposes it will use gas instead of diesel. The partners will invest in the installation of a sand reclamation system, through which the sand used in the moulding process will be re-used continuously. The steel used will be 100% waste steel, which otherwise would be exported and imported again as final product. All waste material will be managed in a responsible way and if possible offered for recycling. The company buildings will be constructed on a piece of land which is partly covered with pine trees. The company and office buildings will be located in such a way that no trees will be felled.•	Position of womenThe company will employ 6 women, of which 4 at medium- or high-level. Set up an OHSAS 18001, ISO 9001 and Association of American Railroads (AAR) M-1003 certified company for the manufacturing of wheels, bogies and other sand-cast steel products for the rail road industry and agricultural sector, using locally sourced scrap