FORM
6 - K
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Report
of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant
to Rule 13a - 16 or 15d - 16 of
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
As
of 6/4/2008
Ternium
S.A.
(Translation
of Registrant's name into English)
Ternium
S.A.
46a,
Avenue John F. Kennedy – 2nd floor
L-1855
Luxembourg
(352)
4661-11-3815
(Address
of principal executive offices)
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The
attached material is being furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission
pursuant to Rule 13a-16 and Form 6-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended.
This
report contains Ternium S.A.’s press release confirming dividend payment and
election of directors.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized.
TERNIUM
S.A.
By: /s/ Raul
Darderes
Name:
Raul Darderes
Title:
Secretary of the Board of Directors
Dated:
June 4, 2008
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Martí
Ternium
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Ternium
Confirms Dividend Payment and Election of Directors
Luxembourg,
June 4, 2008 – Ternium S.A. (NYSE: TX), in its annual general shareholders
meeting today, approved the consolidated financial statements and unconsolidated
annual accounts for the year ended December 31, 2007 and the proposed
dividend of US$0.05 per share (US$0.50 per ADS), or approximately US$100
million. Ternium will pay the dividend on June 12, 2008 and the
corresponding ex-dividend date will be June 5.
The
shareholders meeting also re-elected Ubaldo Aguirre, Roberto Bonatti, Carlos
Condorelli, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Adrian Lajous, Bruno Marchettini, Gianfelice
Mario Rocca, Paolo Rocca and Daniel Agustin Novegil and elected Wilson Nélio
Brumer and Marco Antônio Soares da Cunha Castello Branco as members of the board
of directors to serve until the next annual shareholders meeting which will be
held in June 2009.
The board
of directors subsequently re-appointed Paolo Rocca as chairman of Ternium’s
board of directors; Daniel Novegil as chief executive officer of Ternium; and
confirmed Ubaldo Aguirre, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Adrián Lajous as members of
the Company’s audit committee, with Mr. Aguirre to continue as
chairman. All three members of the audit committee are independent
directors.
The
company re-appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as its independent auditor for the
2008 fiscal year.
Forward
Looking Statements
Some
of the statements contained in this press release are “forward-looking
statements”. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current views
and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks that could cause actual
results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or
implied by those statements. These risks include but are not limited
to risks arising from uncertainties as to gross domestic product, related market
demand, global production capacity, tariffs, cyclicality in the industries that
purchase steel products and other factors beyond Ternium’s control.
About
Ternium
Ternium
is one of the leading steel companies in the Americas, offering a wide range of
flat and long steel products. With its main operations in Mexico,
Venezuela and Argentina and 21,000 employees, Ternium had sales of approximately
US$8 billion and shipments of approximately 10 million tons of finished steel
products in 2007. More information about Ternium is available at
www.ternium.com.