Aracruz
| Aracruz Celulose SA
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1972 |
| resolution | 2009 |
| Reason for dissolution | Fusion with VCP to form Fibria |
| Seat |
São Paulo Brazil
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| management | Carlos Augusto Aguiar (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 4022 (2008) |
| sales | $ 1.911 billion (2008) |
| Branch | paper |
| Website | www.aracruz.com |
Aracruz Celulose SA was a paper and cardboard manufacturer and wood supplier from Brazil based in São Paulo . The company produced paper and cardboard products as well as similar cellulose-based products (handkerchiefs, etc.) with a focus on the packaging sector.
Aracruz Celulose had three papermaking plants in Aracruz , Espírito Santo , Guaíba , Rio Grande do Sul, and Eunápolis , Bahia . The company also had projects in the forest and wood sectors, particularly in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais .
The company was founded by the Safra Group ( Joseph Safra ), Lorentzen and Votorantim ( Antônio Ermírio de Moraes ) (each a 28 percent stake in Aracruz) and by the financial company BNDES , the Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank (12.5 percent) controlled. It was listed on the IBOVESPA financial index and on the Latin America Securities Market (Latibex) in Madrid . On the NYSE , the ticker symbol ARA was traded within the ADR , with each ADR representing 10 preferred shares of Aracruz.
In 2009, Aracruz merged with the Brazilian paper manufacturer Votorantim Celulose e Papel (subsidiary of Grupo Votorantim ) to form Fibria .
criticism
There have been land disputes between the company and indigenous peoples such as the Tupinikim , the Guarani and the Quilombolo of African descent .
In 1996, for example, the Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous peoples were granted 18,000 hectares of land according to an anthropological assessment by FUNAI (Fundação Nacional do Índio). Of this land, to which the indigenous peoples have an original claim, only 7,061 hectares could be used, the rest was illegally occupied by the Aracruz Celulose company. It uses a total of 150,000 hectares of land in Espirito Santo for the cultivation of eucalyptus monocultures for the production of pulp. In 2006, Aracruz appealed against the FUNAI's study and identification of the indigenous land and questioned the ethnic identity of the Tupinikim and Guarani. In the same year, the decades-long legal dispute between the two parties culminated in the destruction of an entire indigenous village by Aracruz and the Polícia Federal . Another FUNAI study, however, finally confirmed the disputed 11,000 hectares as original indigenous land. In 2007, the Minister of Justice officially declared the entire 18,000 hectares to be legal Guarani and Tupinikim land. Aracruz used in the struggle for land for his monocultures in addition to the destruction of the belongings of the indigenous peoples other unfair means. The group had racist material distributed in schools, set up large screens with racist slogans and published articles in the newspaper.
The consumer goods group P&G worked together with Aracruz for the production of hygiene articles such as Tempo handkerchiefs or Charmin toilet paper and has therefore come under fire for the violent expulsion of Indians and the large-scale clearing of regular forest by Aracruz. Cooperation with Aracruz was discontinued under pressure from environmental organizations such as Robin Wood .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.unglobalcompact.org: Annual and Sustainability Report 2008
- ^ Fibria: Historico ( Memento from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ pace. (No longer available online.) Robin Wood, archived from the original January 2, 2011 ; Retrieved February 26, 2011 .