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PAINT & PINTURA
the entire market with the necessary support, and
we succeeded in structuring our business accordin-
gly. In fact, we are now in a new structure that we’d
been building for a while and to which we migrated
earlier this year. We feel the need to expand our space
and show the market that we take our business very
seriously, which includes making investments in fur-
ther improvements for the benefit of our customers
and partners,” says Castillo, adding that Brisco’s new
plant covers a total area of 8,000 square meters.
Industry in the Spotlight - Unigel celebrates
export
In 2010, Unigel, a Latin American manufacturer of
specialty chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and packaging
materials, was presented with Abiquim’s “Successful
Exporter” award. “Last year Unigel was extremely
successful at exporting our main products, which are
acrylnitril, used especially in acrylic fibers for the
textile industry, methyl methacrylate (MMA), used in
the packaging industry, and ethyl methacrylate (EMA),
monomers that are used in the coatings and consumer
electronics industries,” says Unigel’s business director
Marcelo Thieme.
The company started implementing its efforts in incre-
ase exports in 2002. “Originally, our idea was to double
our MMA capacity, so that we could increase our share
in export markets. And then we succeeded. From 2002
to 2005, we did operate at the top of our exporting
capacity, which was 10,000 tons per year. We kept
investing, increasing our capacity to 45,000 tons per
year, and then to 90,000 tons per year. That latest
addition of 45,000 tons per year is now all exported, as
we’ve taken a great leap and are new selling around
the world,” Thieme remarks.
Such growth has been attained thanks to the metha-
crylates line, more specifically MMA and EMA. “For
more than ten years Unigel has had growth as our
main strategic focus, which means becoming a major
global producer of MMA and EMA, supplying all conti-
nents. In Brazil, we have invested over US$ 750 million
in the last eight years, leading Unigel reach the sixth
position in the world ranking of MMA producers,
and first among EMA producers. Currently, our Bahia
plant produces 90,000 tons of MMA and EMA per year,
divided into 80,000 tons of MMA and 10,000 tons of
EMA per year, and the Mexico plant has capacity for
25,000 tons of MMA per year,” Thieme points out.
Events - Sintirj awards best suppliers of 2010
Sintirj, short for Union of Paint and Coatings Ma-
nufacturer and Vegetable and Animal Oil Proces-
sers in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, brought
together guests from the entire paint and coatings
value chain on March 17, 2010 at Rio de Janeiro’s
Air Force Club.
The entity honored and awarded suppliers to the
paint industry which stood out during the year
2010. On the occasion, Sintirj’s president Guilher-
me de Souza Pires spoke of the importance of the
event. “We understand that our suppliers feed the
market with products throughout the year, and
therefore deserve recognition, so this is their turn,
and their turn only, to be awarded for their per-
formance in the course of 2010. This function is in
honor to those companies who provided the best
service, generally speaking, which is measured
by such parameters as quality, capacity and lead
times, to name a few of the items on the list of
criteria by which the vote of our members deter-
mines the winners. All we’ve done is have the idea
of organizing the event,” he says.
During the presentation, Sintirj’s president also
paid special honors to Edson Albano, of Albano
Representações. In addition to representatives of
several companies and entities, the dinner was
also attended by Ricardo Stiepcich, acting presi-
dent of the Union of Paint and Coatings Manufac-
turers in the State of São Paulo, known for short a
Stivesp.
And the winners of the Best Suppliers Award were:
- Film-Forming Element – Emulsion: Liarte Metal-
química
- Film-Forming Element – Resin: Saver Resinas
- Pigmenting Element – Pigment: Transcor
- Pigmenting Element – Extender: Quimvale
- Pigmenting Element – Inert Filler: Mineração
Ipiranga
- Solvent Element – Hydrocarbon: BR Petrobras
- Solvent Element – Oxygenated: quantiQ
- Additive: Watercryl
- Metallic Packaging: Metalgráfica Módulo Renner
- Non-Metallic Packaging: Bomix
- Chemical Distribution: Bandeirante Brazmo
- Company of the Year: BR Petrobras
- Personality of the Year: Mario Richa de Sá Barre-
to (BR Petrobras)