Rio de Janeiro \u2013 Oil refinement ranked first in the list of five main industrial activities in Brazil in 2006, with a production of 107.14 billion reals (US$ 66.7 billion) and sales of 99.53 billion reals (US$ 62 billion). Next comes automobile, light truck and utilitarian vehicle manufacturing activities; iron ore extraction, slaughtering of animals and preparation of meat products, and production of steel laminates. The data were culled from the Annual Industrial Survey-Product (PIA-Produto), disclosed today (25th) by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE).<\/p>\n
Production and sales by the automobile industry in 2006 stood at 68.30 billion reals (US$ 42.5 billion) and 55.74 billion reals (US$ 34.7 billion), respectively. Extraction of iron ore reached 34.63 billion reals (US$ 21.5 billion) and 26.16 billion reals (US$ 16.3 billion). The animal slaughtering sector generated 30.16 billion reals (US$ 18.7 billion) in production and 24.38 billion reals (US$ 14.6 billion) in sales; and the figures for the laminated aluminium sector stood at 23.04 billion reals (US$ 14.3 billion) and 23.39 billion reals (US$ 14.5 billion).<\/p>\n
Also with regard to production value, the list of the ten leading industrial activities developed in 2006 includes sugar plants (20.83 billion reals or US$ 12.9 billion), thermoplastic resins manufacturing (19.62 billion reals or US$ 12.2 billion), production of medication for human use (19.24 billion reals or US$ 11.9 billion), manufacturing of lorries and buses (18.65 billion reals or US$ 11.6 billion) and aluminium manufacturing (18.09 billion reals or US$ 11.2 billion).<\/p>\n
The survey universe was comprised of 34,500 companies with 43,000 local units, i.e., industrial plants. In all, 3,500 products were surveyed, with sales totalling 1.117 trillion reals (US$ 696.1 billion) in 2006, the equivalent to 90% of industrial sales in the country. The manager at the survey, Jo\u00e3o Batista de Oliveira, explained that the universe of PIA-Produto only includes companies with at least 30 employees.<\/p>\n
According to Jo\u00e3o Batista, in the list of leading states for sales of industrial products and\/or services "the state of S\u00e3o Paulo still ranks first. Of those US$ 696.1 billion, S\u00e3o Paulo answered to 41.5% in sales in 2006." Next come the states of Minas Gerais (10.4%); Rio Grande do Sul (8%), Paran\u00e1 and Rio de Janeiro (7.3% each), Bahia (5.2%), Amazonas (4.3%), Santa Catarina (3.9%) and Esp\u00edrito Santo (2.3%). "We take under consideration the states whose participation was greater than 2%," explained the researcher at the IBGE.<\/p>\n
The fact that a large number of industries are located in S\u00e3o Paulo explains, to a large extent, the concentration of sales in the state, as the manager at PIA-Produto explains. "S\u00e3o Paulo earns one of the largest pieces of the pie due to its economical situation. There are industries throughout the entire territory in the state." <\/p>\n
The IBGE is already collecting information for the 2007 PIA-Produto survey, stated Jo\u00e3o Batista.<\/p>\n
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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