Agência CNI* Brasília – Brazilian oil company Petrobras intends to invest US$ 18 billion in the gas sector over the next four years. Most of the investment will take place in 2008. With this, the gas production that totalled 27.5 million cubic metres last year should reach 70 million cubic metres by 2011. This statement
Author: Mark Ament
Yesterday, the secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby, gave a talk about the Arab world and about the business potential for Brazilian companies. The talk was in the city of Jundiaí, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. He was also received by city mayor Ary Fossen who pointed out the industrial and export talent of the city.
Ameco Medical Industries, a maker of catheters, started exporting to Brazil last year. The company is participating for the second time in the Hospitalar, the largest health sector fair in Latin America, which began yesterday. With the office, the company intends to simplify contact with clients and to expand sales.
The shipment of Brazilian agricultural products to the region generated US$ 1.75 billion in the first five months of the year. To the president at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Antonio Sarkis Jr., the demand helps overcome the difficulties exporters are facing due to the appreciation of the Brazilian real against the dollar.
Brazilian consultants helped establish, in both countries in the Middle East, the Empretec, a United Nations entrepreneurship training program. The professionals who operated in the Arab world are connected to the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service, an organization that develops the Empretec in Brazil.
Cristal, a company from Saudi Arabia, signed this week a contract for the purchase of Millenium, the titanium dioxide division of the North American de Lyondell. The acquisition includes a factory that the company has in northeastern Brazil and that produces pigment for paint, plastic, paper, rubber and ceramics.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Minas Gerais industry produced 9.7% more in April in comparison to the same month last year. This information was disclosed by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The result obtained by industry in Minas, well above the Brazilian average, which was 6%, is the best result since
Five companies from the Arab country have returned to the medical-hospital product and equipment fair that starts today in São Paulo, the largest business centre in South America, after new business. Most of the companies already export to Brazil. During the fair, there will also be business roundtables with entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq and Yemen.
Agência CNI* Curitiba – The International Business Centre (CIN) and the Industrial University (Unindus), belonging to the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná (Fiep), are going to promote, on June 15, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm, at the Integrated Centre for Businessmen and Workers of the Industries of the State of Paraná
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil received, last year, around 50,000 foreigners for health treatments, according to figures supplied by the Ministry of Tourism. This figure represented 65% growth over the total visiting the country in 2004. Half of these people came to the country for plastic surgery in clinics in Rio de Janeiro
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil received, last year, around 50,000 foreigners for health treatments, according to figures supplied by the Ministry of Tourism. This figure represented 65% growth over the total visiting the country in 2004. Half of these people came to the country for plastic surgery in clinics in Rio de Janeiro
With the growth of the demand for fuels, new work opportunities are arising in the sugar and alcohol sector. At the end of the month of April, industries in the area generated 42,000 new work positions. To supply the demand, technical and post-graduate courses in the area are arising in the market. The salaries of those who are trained in the sector are attractive.
Sales from Brazil to the Arab countries totalled US$ 601.2 million last month. In the accumulated value for January to May, they reached US$ 2.6 billion and grew 26.6% over the same months in 2006. The greatest importer, in both periods, was Saudi Arabia.
This figure was supplied by the Tunisian Privatisation Office. The director general at the organization, Essi Béchir, granted an interview to ANBA early this month. Privatisation began in the country at the end of the 1980s, but gained strength starting in 1997. A total of 150 of the country’s 200 state-owned companies have already been privatised. Companies may now send proposals for the acquisition of STIA, a vehicle assembly line and the only bus body maker in Tunisia.
