Architect Lauro Miquelin is going to give a talk about how to build hospitals fast at a health sector exhibition to take place in Dubai starting on Sunday. He is participating in the event at the invitation of the Health Consortium, a project whose objective is the promotion of health services in Brazil and abroad. Consortium manager Mauro Stormovski will speak about what Brazil has to offer in the area.
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Exports, which grew 23%, were among the main causes for the increase. The shipments to the Arab market, which totalled US$ 66.3 million in the accumulated result for January and February, have risen 50% since the beginning of the decade. Meats, soy oil and sugar are the highlights.
The Usina Itaiquara company is going to invest the funds in expanding its industrial unit in the city of Passos, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The work should be concluded in 2011, when the company expects to be producing 36,000 cubic metres of alcohol. The unit does not produce ethanol, and is known for its bakery yeast.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – This week, Petrobras began testing its B5 Biodiesel, a conventional diesel oil containing 5% of biodiesel. The information was supplied by the press office at Petrobras. The company intends to commercialise the fuel next year, anticipating the law requiring mandatory use of 5% of biodiesel in conventional diesel, which
The Brazilian industry of medical, hospital, and dental equipment wants to increase its sales to the Arab market by 35%. Last year, revenues from Brazilian exports of these products totalled US$ 441.8 million. Approximately 30% of this amount went to Arab countries. In 2007, total sector exports should grow by approximately 20%.
The value was reached in the first quarter of the year and is almost 20% greater than that registered in the same period in 2006. In March alone, sales to the region reached US$ 597 million, an increase of 24%. Shipments to the Arab world continue rising above the national average.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Exports from Brazil yielded US$ 2.528 billion last week, or US$ 632 on average per business day, a 16% increase in the daily average compared with April last year. Imports, on the other hand, totalled US$ 1.669 billion, or US$ 417 million on average per business day, 11.6% more
The increase in production took place in the first months of this year when compared to the same period in 2006. This was the best performance in the period since 2001. The segment is responsible for production of machinery and equipment to be used in the production of other goods.
Agência Brasil* São Paulo – Automobile assembly plants are increasing their sales in Brazil at a higher rate than that of auto manufacturing. In March, the assembly plants sold 31.8% more national and imported vehicles than in the previous month (193,450 over 146,765). The number of units produced rose at a slower pace, although it
Pilots of the state-owned oil company Syrte Oil received the Embraer 170 jet airplane last Monday. It will be used for transporting employees. In an interview to ANBA, the Brazilian ambassador to Tripoli, Luciano Ozório Rosa, stated that Libya also has business opportunities in the fields of agricultural machinery, foodstuffs, textiles, furniture, domestic utensils, shoes, and civil construction.
FrutaSã, based in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão, produces mashed fruit and generates income for small farmers and Indian tribes in the state. The company, which is the economic arm of Frutos do Cerrado (Fruit of the Savannah) Project, is the only Brazilian representative among the companies shortlisted for the Equator Prize, by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
