01.01.05
Location: Parna, Brazil
Sales: $60 million
Description: Plant Location
São Jose Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil
Key Personnel
Milan Starostik, chairman; Ana Seles Starostik, commercial director; Romeo Bregant, industrial director; Vicente Batista de Lima, financial and administrative director; Cleber dos Santos, export director; Wagner Carvalho, sales manager
ISO Status
ISO 9002
Processes
Spunbonded, SMS, SSMMS, SSS, meltblown, laminated nonwovens, breathable laminated, and printed nonwovens
Brand Names
Kami
Major Markets
Hospital, agriculture, bedding, towel and coverlet, table mat, hygiene, baby diapers
Brazil’s Companhia Providencia has responded to the growing demand for nonwovens in Latin America by starting up its eighth production line during the second quarter of 2005. The new line, a Reicofil IV, brought total capacity to 60,000 metric tons per year, and is capable of running both hygiene and industrial roll goods. Plans are underway to add more printing capacity during third-quarter 2005 with a new multicolor line that will provide the company with the capability to print nonwovens for the hygiene market.
Providencia maintains a market leadership position in Latin America as the largest producer of spunbonded polypropylene. Despite the rising price of oil, Providencia and other Brazilian producers enjoy some impact insulation since oil-producing Brazil is self-sufficient in demand and is balanced in foreign oil trade. Providencia’s sales are “very solid in the domestic market, despite the ups and downs of the local economy,” said Cleber dos Santos, Providencia’s export director, in Curitiba, Paraná.
Exports have come to represent a substantial portion of sales for Providencia, through growth in both Latin America and North America. “Because Providencia has been recognized as a strong company, in terms of updated technology and its financial situation, it has been selected as a long term supplier by major customers,” he says. “We expect to have more growth in capacity in the future, both to maintain our market position and to support the expansion plans of our customers,"" he added.
Mr. dos Santos noted that sales growth has accelerated as per capita income rises in the region. Total gross domestic product per capita in Latin America is expected to rise to $4159 this year, compared with $3846 in 2004, according to July projections by the Latin America economic analysis team led by Michael Gavin at UBS Warburg, Stamford, CT. At the same time per capita income is rising, inflation in the region is expected to slow to 5.7%, down from 6.7% in 2004, the UBS team predicts.
Sales: $60 million
Description: Plant Location
São Jose Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil
Key Personnel
Milan Starostik, chairman; Ana Seles Starostik, commercial director; Romeo Bregant, industrial director; Vicente Batista de Lima, financial and administrative director; Cleber dos Santos, export director; Wagner Carvalho, sales manager
ISO Status
ISO 9002
Processes
Spunbonded, SMS, SSMMS, SSS, meltblown, laminated nonwovens, breathable laminated, and printed nonwovens
Brand Names
Kami
Major Markets
Hospital, agriculture, bedding, towel and coverlet, table mat, hygiene, baby diapers
Brazil’s Companhia Providencia has responded to the growing demand for nonwovens in Latin America by starting up its eighth production line during the second quarter of 2005. The new line, a Reicofil IV, brought total capacity to 60,000 metric tons per year, and is capable of running both hygiene and industrial roll goods. Plans are underway to add more printing capacity during third-quarter 2005 with a new multicolor line that will provide the company with the capability to print nonwovens for the hygiene market.
Providencia maintains a market leadership position in Latin America as the largest producer of spunbonded polypropylene. Despite the rising price of oil, Providencia and other Brazilian producers enjoy some impact insulation since oil-producing Brazil is self-sufficient in demand and is balanced in foreign oil trade. Providencia’s sales are “very solid in the domestic market, despite the ups and downs of the local economy,” said Cleber dos Santos, Providencia’s export director, in Curitiba, Paraná.
Exports have come to represent a substantial portion of sales for Providencia, through growth in both Latin America and North America. “Because Providencia has been recognized as a strong company, in terms of updated technology and its financial situation, it has been selected as a long term supplier by major customers,” he says. “We expect to have more growth in capacity in the future, both to maintain our market position and to support the expansion plans of our customers,"" he added.
Mr. dos Santos noted that sales growth has accelerated as per capita income rises in the region. Total gross domestic product per capita in Latin America is expected to rise to $4159 this year, compared with $3846 in 2004, according to July projections by the Latin America economic analysis team led by Michael Gavin at UBS Warburg, Stamford, CT. At the same time per capita income is rising, inflation in the region is expected to slow to 5.7%, down from 6.7% in 2004, the UBS team predicts.