Browsing: Innovation

Positivo Informática, a company from the city of Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, started exports of educational equipments, the E-Blocks, to the Middle East. The company sold 50 units to Lebanon, at US$ 35,000. In the evaluation of the exports manager, Juliano Fontes, business in the region is promising.

Scientists from countries such as England, Germany, Australia, United States, Canada, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zambia, Uganda, Mexico and Guatemala will be in Brazil, from today (10) till Friday (12), to participate in a meeting of the Biofortification of Agriculture Products for Improvement in Human Nutrition Programme, at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, in the city of Sete Lagoas, in Minas Gerais.

A Leather Technology Centre is being built in the midwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. It is the first in the Midwest of Brazil. The centre will execute not only studies on cattle leather, but also on leather of other animals, like sheep, pigs, alligators, fish, capybaras, ostriches, chinchillas, and even frogs.

Companies identify niches in the market and invest in creativity. One of the examples is Oníria, from the city of Londrina, in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, which developed a game that is amongst the 20 most sold in Germany. The company Malisoft, from Curitiba, also in Paraná, has won the demanding Japanese market, where they get 60% of their revenue.

Agência Brasil Fortaleza – The Third Brazil-Germany Working Meeting on Biodiesel, which took place on Friday in Fortaleza, focused on the profile of the Brazilian biodiesel market, programs and opportunities for Brazil-German cooperation and the establishment of partnerships in the sector. The meeting is sponsored by the Northeast Bank (BNB), the Brazil-Germany Chamber of Industry

From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem and the Venezuelan Pequiven will start studying the construction of an industrial unit in the Petrochemical Complex of Tablazo, in Venezuela. The factory will have the production capacity of 400,000 tonnes of polypropylene per year. The companies signed a memorandum in February this year

The cities being considered to receive the Arab reporters are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. The information was given exclusively to ANBA. However, before opening the office in Brazil, Aljazeera will install a newsroom in Venezuela, in the city of Caracas, in the month of July. Currently, the network has about 54 million spectators around the world.

Agência Brasil Brasília – Experimental medical procedures in patients with serious heart problems have begun at three Brazilian hospitals: the National Heart Institute of Laranjeiras in Rio de Janeiro (INCL), the Heart Institute (Incor), in São Paulo, both in southeastern Brazil, and the Hospital Santa Isabel, in Salvador, in the northeast of the country. The