The Military Engineering Institute (IME), of Rio de Janeiro, in southeastern Brazil, developed a process that transforms clay into an input for concrete and tarmac. The coordinator of the study, Álvaro Vieira, stated that the product costs less than half of the price of gravel. Calcinated clay, as it is called, was created to simplify construction of highways in the Amazon region, where there is little availability of stone.
Author: Mark Ament
The summit between countries in both regions is going to take to Brasília a series of cultural activities, such as Moroccan and Peruvian food festivals, chorinho (a typical Brazilian kind of music) and typical dance shows, as well as Arab and South American cinema festivals. The activities will begin on April 28.
The summit between countries in both regions is going to take to Brasília a series of cultural activities, such as Moroccan and Peruvian food festivals, chorinho (a typical Brazilian kind of music) and typical dance shows, as well as Arab and South American cinema festivals. The activities will begin on April 28.
The Brazilian vehicle maker has just hired an executive to promote sales in the Middle East and Africa. The company has already exported bus chassis to countries like Lebanon and Kuwait. This year the company, that also makes trucks, motorcycles, tractors and engines, hopes to grow around 10%.
Polenghi, the Brazilian branch of the French Bongrain group, is selling its Polenguinho cheese to Iraq. Exports began in mid 2004 and continued strong in the first months of this year. The company has already even provided new packages for the products, with information in Arabic.
Brazilian cattle breeders want to promote greater technical cooperation between the two countries and the Ministry of Agriculture informs there is interest in negotiating an agreement of the sort. The treaty would avoid the constant need for visits by Egyptian technicians to Brazilian slaughterhouses, reducing the cost of transactions, and would give greater stability to the relations with a market that is currently one of the most important for the sector.
Company Anantha, from the state of São Paulo, started exporting to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait in the second half of last year and is now also negotiating entry in Algeria and Lebanon. Anantha produces perfumes and cosmetics from typically Brazilian essences, such as coffee, orange and passion fruit with chocolate extracts.
The shipping of Brazilian agricultural products to the region generated US$ 683.9 million in the first quarter of 2005, against US$ 647.7 million in the same period last year.
The Brazil-Arab News Agency received a total of 38,447 visits. This is the largest figure since the site was established, in September 2003. The accumulated result for the year already totals 87,363 visits.
The Brazil-Arab News Agency received a total of 38,447 visits. This is the largest figure since the site was established, in September 2003. The accumulated result for the year already totals 87,363 visits.
The owner of trading company El Ssad, from Libya, will come to Brazil before the 20th of April to talk to representatives of Cocarol, a cooperative of agriculture industries in the city of Rondon, interior of the state of Paraná. Cocarol already owns an alcohol plant and is starting to build a sugar mill. El Ssad wants to invest in the business and later import the production.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Brazilian minister of Justice, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, discussed Brazilian judicial reform with Lord Woolf, head of the British Judiciary, at a meeting today in the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, England. Bastos traveled to London on Wednesday (6) to sign a judicial cooperation agreement with the government of the
Agência Brasil Rio – Petrobrás reached, this Wednesday (6), its fourth record oil production in the last eight days, totaling 1,720,096 barrels per day (bpd) in the whole country, according to information issued by its office in Rio de Janeiro. Previous record production, reached last March 30th, was 1,650,947 bpd. The company’s press department announced
