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Fontana to build plant in Brazil Sérgio Milatias


editor Revista do Parafuso www.revistadoparafuso.com.br


The planned manufacturing plant, announced in April, will be the first the Italian group has established in Latin America. It will produce fasteners for the automotive industry.


they produce 200,000 tonnes of fasteners per year. In April the group announced it would build its first Brazilian


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industrial plant, located in Mogi Guaçu, some 170km from São Paulo city. The plant will produce high-strength fasteners for the automotive industry and auto parts. According to a statement issued by the press office of Invest SP the initial investment will be more than US$15 million, reaching US$45 million over five years. The total site is around 160,000m2 with an initial covered area of 12,00m2


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project, it is expected that the facility will triple, reaching 40,000m2 total covered area. “Until recently, we served our customers in Brazil through a


partner company, which used our know-how in the same type of production. Now we enter the Brazilian market with our own products,” explains the statutory director of the company in Brazil, Mr Paulo Solimeo. Initially, the company will hire 110 employees


stablished 62 years ago in Italy, the Fontana Group is one of the most important global manufacturers of fasteners, employing approximately 2,500 people in twelve plants located in Italy, the United States and France. Together,


and five years after the start of production will have increased this by 40. Most of the employees will be involved in cold forging, while approximately 40% of employees will work in the offices, warehouse and logistics. Therefore, education courses in industrial automation and logistics, all provided by Escola Técnica Estadual (the State Technical School) in Mogi-Guaçu, will be critical for the development of the company in Brazil. Mr Luiz Carlos Quadrelli, secretary of economic development,


science and technology, of São Paulo state government said the plant will ‘heat’ the region’s economy. “In addition to generating news jobs and income, production will also be aimed at enterprises of the automotive industry already installed in our state, which will add investment to the local market,” he said. The president of Invest SP, Mr Luciano Almeida, noted that it was crucial for the company that the region was close to major transport routes. “The infrastructure of highways in the state, the capacity of the Santos Harbour and its airports, as well as its privileged logistics, were also key factors in choosing the State of São Paulo for investment,” he explained.


Caipirinhas, sunny beaches and businesses in oil and gas


The climate in Brazil is hot - but not just because of its sunny beaches. Right now ‘in the mode’ are the Business Beaches, but these are not quite the same as those close to the sand with their tents selling coconut water, caipirinha* and others drinks.


sea. The new ‘beach’ is the oil and gas market sector that has attracted a lot of international companies. Brazil is different from other producers of petroleum and gases in that this commodity is extracted from the depths of the sea. However, the National Petróleo Agency,


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a Federal Government organisation, has for some time determined that a percentage of


his Business Beach is a long distance, approximately 300 or 500 kilometers from the coast, and kilometers deep under the


the services and products used in search and development of oil and gas should be made in Brazil: in some cases as much as 70%. So, some international companies are interested in searching new options, and this is reflecting on the fastener market too. Recently a French company, through a


agent, contacted the editor of Revista do Parafuso magazine, looking for a company that could supply fasteners ‘Made in Brazil’ in order that it could achieve the percentage required on a new contract, which they had won.


Lamons, the North-American fastener


manufacturer bought the Brazilian Cifal company - a very important supplier of fasteners to the Petrobras Company. Other companies, in coming months, may make news deals - such as joint ventures, new acquisitions or open new plants to produce fasteners here in Brazil. *Caipirinha is the famous Brazilian


signature drink, made from Cachaça or Pinga (a spirit distilled from fermented sugar cane juice) together with fresh limes and sugar


. After Amtek sale expectations for Neumayer Tekfor are good


In March it was announced that the Indian Group, Amtek Auto, had signed an agreement to acquire Neumayer Tekfor Group, headquartered in Germany. The deal is expected to conclude in May.


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rowth of business in Brazil in many sectors means we cannot accept anything other than improvements from the Indian group. Anything related with downsizing is not thinkable. In a press release on its German website, Neumayer Tekfor assured that it would retain its employees in German plants. The press release does not talk about other countries, like Brazil, but here we know that Neumayer Tekfor has an industrial plant with a future full of expansion.


Fastener + Fixing Magazine • Issue 81 May 2013


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