As reported at the end of April by the Portos e Navios portal, maritime exports broke a record in the first quarter of 2023, with 164.1 million tons. The volume is 7.8% greater than what was exported in the same period last year. The survey was carried out by the Association of Private Port Terminals (ATP) and made available on DATaPort, the sector’s database based on official information. The amount corresponds to R$ 67.2 billion, an increase of 4.7% compared to the same period last year. China, the United States, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Japan led, in that order, the ranking of the main destinations for Brazilian exports.

This growth had the contribution of the performance of cellulose, which, after highlighting Brazil as the largest exporter of the product in 2022, maintains a sequence of records. In the first quarter of this year, it had the largest amount exported in history. There were five million tons exported, which represents a jump of 17.5% compared to the previous period. Equivalent to US$ 2.3 billion, a significant increase of 33.6%.

Suzano Ventures, Suzano’s corporate venture capital, announced in April an investment of up to US$6.7 million in Allotrope Energy, a developer of lithium-carbon batteries in the United Kingdom. This is the first contribution made by corporate venture capital, launched in June 2022 by Suzano. The investment will allow the English company to advance in its new technology, which has the potential to transform the battery segment by unlocking new application opportunities. The technology will use raw material from planted eucalyptus forests.

Allotrope Energy is the developer of a carbon technology that radically improves the performance of lithium-carbon batteries and lithium-ion capacitors, and can provide a safe super-fast charging alternative to current technologies. With the partnership, the lithium-carbon batteries will be manufactured using carbon extracted from an abundant biomaterial from Suzano’s own pulp production process, from sustainably sourced wood.

Suzano Ventures has US$ 70 million in resources available to be invested in startups and/or companies with business innovations based on new technologies and applications of eucalyptus biomass, solutions that encourage the use of sustainable packaging, in addition to forestrytechs that accelerate forest productivity and the capture, measurement and management of carbon sequestration.

Eldorado Brasil is participating in the Agroindustry Anti-Corruption Collective Action, part of the UN Global Compact in Brazil. The platform developed the Agroindustry Anti-Corruption Good Practices Guide, which is completing one year, and Eldorado reiterates the importance of being part of initiatives that bring transformation to the sector based on correct conduct and the dissemination of messages of good business practices .

The Guide provides guidelines and shares best practices for companies of all sizes and different organizations in the sector, with the aim of being an educational and awareness tool. Produced by 17 companies in the agro-industrial sector, the document was prepared jointly by 44 voluntary members of the Collective Action of the Agro-industry Sector.

The Agroindustry Anti-Corruption Good Practices Guide is free to access and, in addition to contextualizing ethical issues and summarizing what members of Collective Action advocate, it exemplifies how to act in certain situations in the business environment.

 

At a ministerial meeting on the 2023/2024 Crop Plan, the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Carlos Fávaro, stressed that low-carbon agricultural technologies will guide rural credit policies. “The 2023/2024 Crop Plan will have low-carbon agriculture as its main line,” he said.

The idea is that the Crop Plan has positive conditions so that producers who adhere to sustainable practices can have better financing conditions. According to the federal government, the Crop Plan 2023/2024 will combine the financing of agricultural technologies in several areas with the sustainability of production. The incentive can range from access to technical assistance practices to the granting of bonuses.

The use of bioinputs and incentives for regenerative agriculture must be present in the Crop Plan, said Minister Paulo Teixeira, of Agrarian Development and Family Farming. “The transition to regenerative agriculture is a challenge that we cannot postpone, we have to respond immediately”, he said.

Photo: Federal Government

The largest dynamic forest fair in the world was featured in Globo Rural Magazine. The article by journalist Eliane Silva brings a lot of information about the forestry sector and about Expoforest 2023. In the text, she says that the event, scheduled for August 9th, 10th and 11th, will be in a 200-hectare eucalyptus forest in the Sylvamo, in Guatapará, municipality in the region of Ribeirão Preto (SP).

The report also talks about the expectation of the public that should visit the fair: “visitors from more than 30 countries interested in learning about the technologies used by Brazil, one of the largest producers of planted forests in the world.”

It also recalls the history and format of the event, inspired by fairs in Sweden and Finland. “The fair, always held every four years, has been in preparation for two and a half years. It should have been in 2022, but it was postponed due to the pandemic. The fourth edition, held in 2018, in Santa Rita do Passa Quatro (SP), registered R$ 316 million in business. It brought together 240 exhibitors and received 30,654 visitors”, quotes an excerpt from the article.

Lastly, the reporter summarizes the planted forest sector in Brazil, whose gross revenue grew from BRL 116 billion in 2020 to BRL 244.6 billion in 2021, according to data from the Annual Report of the Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá ), exporting US$ 11.8 billion and generating 2.8 million jobs.

Image: Rural Globe

And expectations for sales of forestry equipment in Brazil in 2023 are positive, in the view of Ponsse Brasil’s Commercial and Marketing executive manager, Rodrigo Marangoni. “2023 has everything to be a promising year for sales of forest machines in Brazil”, he says. Marangoni takes into account the figures collected by the Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá) that point to investments by forestry companies totaling R$ 60.4 billion by 2028; and the organization of Expoforest, the largest dynamic forest fair in the world.

Ponsse, a Finnish manufacturer of forestry machines, started 2023 with the delivery of several harvesters to a customer in Paraná and celebrates the closing of a contract, together with its representative Sotreq, for the sale of other machines, including harvester heads and forwarders, to Mato Grosso do Sul.

“The harvesters delivered in January are already operating on Paraná soil and make up our fleet of hundreds of Ponsse machines in Brazil that operate in several states such as Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo, Santa Catarina and others. Other machines, including forwarders and heads of harvesters, announced in February, should arrive in the country in the second half of this year. Some of these new machines delivered in 2023 are the first in the country to have OPTI 5G technology, the brand’s most advanced system that manages the equipment”, told Rodrigo.

At Expoforest, Ponsse will have an area of ​​50,000 m², together with national representatives Timber and Sotreq. The manufacturer will bring global launches to Brazil such as the Mammoth forwarder, the brand’s largest in terms of load capacity, and the PONSSE EV1 electric forwarder concept.

Timber, representative of international brands, prepared a special presentation for Expoforest 2023. The company based in Curitiba/PR, operates in the forestry sector since 2002 and during the largest dynamic forestry fair in the world will feature new products and exclusive launches at the stand .

They are machines for mechanized forestry, including drone and planter; wood harvesting and transport that meet the CTL and Full Tree systems; in addition to equipment for operations in steep areas.

“For us, Expoforest is a special moment to present new solutions and, above all, to fraternize with our customers, which is the main reason for our presence at the fair”, says Jober Fonseca, director of Timber.

Photos: Disclosure/Timber

 

Researcher Silvia Massruhá will be the next president of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation. According to the Brazilian Communication Agency (EBC), the Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, said in a personal Instagram account that he will make the nomination. It will be the first time that a woman occupies the position.

According to Fávaro, Silvia “fulfills all the requirements” to assume the position. Born in Passos (MG), she has been at Embrapa since 1989. She holds a degree in Systems Analysis from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, a master’s degree in automation from the Faculty of Electrical and Computing Engineering at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), and holds a PhD in Applied Computing from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).

Silvia has been ahead of Embrapa Agricultura Digital since September 2021. She leads projects in the area of ​​software engineering, artificial intelligence and scientific computing applied to agriculture. According to data published on the Embrapa website, the sector it directs is responsible for approximately 100 technical-scientific publications and 25 software on the themes of abductive logic, fuzzy logic, machine learning techniques, data mining and texts focused on animal handling and diagnosis of plant diseases.

Photo: Magda Cruciol/Embrapa

The main event for Construction and Mining in Latin America, the scene of market launches and innovations worldwide, M&T Expo, entered into a partnership with Expoforest.

A reference since 1995 and a meeting point for manufacturers, users and suppliers, M&T Expo promotes the development of the construction and mining sectors by doing business and disseminating knowledge. In addition, fostering networking between local and global professionals lasts 365 days a year.

The partnership between the two fairs will strengthen the dissemination of both among all stakeholders affected by the events. In 2022, M&T Expo received more than 31,000 visitors from 42 different countries. The projection of the fair is that around R$ 2.8 billion in business will have started. The next edition is scheduled for April 2024.

Photo: M&T Expo/Disclosure

It’s been a while since sustainability ceased to be an option to become a condition for companies that want to remain competitive. In this context, certification processes guarantee environmentally correct and socially fair practices, bringing added value to products and credibility to brands.

Ibá’s Annual Report (2022) dedicated a chapter to sustainability that addresses, among other issues, forest certification. This process is voluntary and consists of companies submitting themselves annually to third-party audits to verify compliance with internationally recognized standards. The value of certification for companies is access to markets.

According to data collected by Ibá, in 2021, the total certified area in Brazil reached 7.37 million hectares, an increase of 8.4% compared to 2020. The certified planted area rose to 4.04 million hectares, growth of 8.3% compared to 2020.

Another stage of the certifications is in the chain of custody, which tracks the product from its origin in certified forests, to the industry and sale. In 2021, the number of chain of custody certifications reached 1,084 certificates, an increase of 2.2% compared to 2020 (1,061), 85% of which were concentrated in companies in the South and Southeast regions.

The main derivatives of pine resin are rosin and turpentine, widely used by the industry of varnishes, paints, adhesives, enamels and others. Resin extraction, however, is still done manually, with cuts in the trunks of pine trees and bags attached below the cuts to collect the product.

After four years of research, building prototypes and carrying out tests, Irani filed a request for registration in the International Patent System (PCT) of a mechanical resin machine, unprecedented in the world. The equipment was specially developed for extracting resin from the company’s forests in Rio Grande do Sul. The application for protection of the invention was also made in Brazil.

Developed by Irani, in partnership with the startup Real World Agronomy, the project is the result of an open innovation challenge, launched by the company to mechanize the gum resin extraction process. In the future, the equipment may be adapted for other crops that require resin, such as latex production, for example.

The company plans a 20% greater resin extraction process with the equipment. In addition to less effort than the manual process, the machine is more precise in making the grooves.

Resiner photo: Disclosure/Irani

Sergomel has become a reference in the manufacture of forest implements, combining the tradition of the sugarcane industry. Highlight for the modernity of the industrial park, which results in excellence in the manufacture of equipment.

Located in the city of Sertãozinho, it has a large industry and a team of qualified professionals, who provide all the necessary support and advice to the client. The company also promotes technical training to demonstrate the best use of equipment and thus increase its useful life and reduce operating costs.

“Our differential has always been to be close to the customer, understanding their needs. Therefore, we use all our know-how, in line with the best raw materials offered by the market. We deliver the lightest and most resistant equipment on the market”, explains Vagner Laércio Gomes, commercial director of the company. “For us, at Sergomel, it is a great pleasure to participate in this great fair and welcome our customers, partners and friends. We count on everyone’s presence at this event that drives the forestry market and generates great business”, concludes Vagner Gomes.

Photo Sergomel: Disclosure/Sergomel

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