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According to the Cubatão Industrial Polo annual report, in 2017, the industries of the area continued to invest in the communities where they operate. In total, R $ 2.3 million was allocated to social, cultural and sports projects.

The Consultative Community Council (CCC), made up of representatives of industries, public power and communities, aims to be the link between Cubatão Industrial Pole and society. The CCC is promoted by the Center for Integration and Development (Cide), with support from the Center of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Ciesp) – Cubatão Regional and has a health, safety and environment professional and a Community Relations in its coordination.

The actions and projects are framed in four nuclei: Education, Training and Employability; Cheers; Safety; Environment and Community Projects. They are pillars inserted in the strategic planning of Agenda 21. The format was defined with the objective of enhancing the group’s actions.

The work proposal of the Council is premised on the Responsible Action Program of the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (Abiquim). The program acts with voluntary commitment in the continuous improvement in health, safety and environment, identification of risks and preparation for emergency situations.

 

Recognition

The CCC of the Industrial Pole of Cubatão is recognized by Abiquim, with representation in its Commission of Dialogue with the Community, for adopting socio-environmental guidelines established by the association. The CCC participates annually in the National Meeting of Community Advisory Councils of Abiquim.

 

Sesi

With good results achieved, in 2017, the Centro de Actividades Décio de Paula Novaes – Sesi Cubatão implemented a new educational proposal, with an innovative methodology of teaching and learning, besides the expansion of quality of life, making investments in infrastructure such as waterproofing reservoirs , reform of locker rooms and toilets, construction of the remainder of the plays, reform of the field and court.

 

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper

Cubatão is an example of recovery of the Environment, as a result of the investments of the industries in the modernization of equipment

Cubatão is an example of environmental recovery, a result of the partnership between public power and private initiative, with investments by the Polo industries in the modernization of equipment to control sources of pollution and in environmental programs.

There are several environmental control actions carried out through the execution of programs and monitoring of emissions, management of waste reuse, rational use of energy and water resources, maintenance of control systems and implementation of environmental improvements.

Among the works aimed at ensuring the quality of life of the population stands out the annual Winter Operation, carried out by the Center for Integration and Business Development of the Baixada Santista (Cide), in partnership as environmental agency, Ecovias, Military Police and City Hall.

The preventive action takes periodic campaigns of sweeping and cleaning of the external roads and highway of access to the Industrial Park and wetting to avoid the dust collection routine in the period from May to September, contributing to a better condition of air quality in the dry period.

Cide counts on the Technical Commission for the Protection and Defense of the Environment (Prodema) for the construction of joint actions focused on protection and defense of the environment, seeking to strengthen the adoption of sustainable environmental practices in the region, in line with Agenda 21 of the County. Participates in groups such as the Baixada Santista Basin Committee (CBH / BS), Cubatão Municipal Environment Council (Comdema), Contingency Plan for Serra do Mar.

Air quality management, in compliance with the Stationary Sources Emission Reduction Plan (Prefe), continues with the performance of the consolidated control plans of the Industrial Pole, supported by programs of operation and maintenance of the reductions obtained in compliance with the targets intermediaries.

According to Cetesb, in 2017, in the urban and residential area of ​​Cubatão, there was no violation of the air quality standard for any pollutant.

The sum of the environmental control actions of the Industrial Pole, combined with the most favorable weather conditions in recent years, contributed significantly to the reduction of average concentrations of pollutants in the industrial area.

 

Agenda 21 originated in 2005

Agenda 21 of Cubatão originated in 2005 in an initiative of Polo Industrial companies, represented by the Center of Integration and Development (Cide), Center of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Ciesp Cubatão), and Regional Action Department of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Depar-Fiesp). In order to contribute to the sustainable development of the Municipality, the industries met with the City Hall of Cubatão and the City Council to establish a partnership and to initiate the awareness and mobilization of the whole city in the creation of Agenda 21.

The process was participatory and democratic, involving leaders and communities, without discrimination of any kind. It was not characterized as a company, an administration, a political group or a social group. It was a project of the whole city.

At times like the current one, recovering from a crisis in the Municipality, State and Country, projects like Agenda 21 are valued, used as reference and source of consultation in the search for joint solutions to the challenges facing the city, such as the fall of the collection, the employability and the deindustrialization. For Cide, the country lives a moment in which it is the responsibility of society to charge for initiatives such as this to have continuity and, thus, to encourage the commitment to development in the City and Polo Industrial of Cubatão.

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper

Many products are 100% made here

The Industrial Hub of Cubatão brings together companies from five major sectors: petrochemical, steel, chemicals, fertilizers and logistics, as well as energy production and services. Many of the products that supply the Brazilian market are 100% produced in Cubatão. This is the case of aviation gasoline, used at Brazilian airports and leaving the region exclusively.

Other products that depend on the pole to supply the country are 53% nitric acid and concentrated nitric acid, used in laboratories and industrial applications, has as main application the production of fertilizers, indispensable for national agricultural production.

Other 100% made in Cubatão are calcined petroleum coke, ammonium nitrate – fertilizer grade and technical grade, aromatic residue, anhydrous soda and benzene. The latter, used in the production of various chemicals such as lubricants, dyes, detergents and drugs.

At least 23 other important products used in Brazil, although not completely manufactured in the Polo Industrial of Cubatão, have a good part of their production here. This is the case of the hydrochloric acid solution, which has 58.9% national participation, sodium hypochlorite, with 53.2% and marine diesel oil, with 48.5%

Even in the face of a robust outlook, the Polo still has room for many manufacturing industries. The São Paulo State Industry Center (Ciesp) and the Center of Integration and Development of Baixada Santista (Cide) work together to attract these new businesses.

Cide and Ciesp launched the strategy of attraction through the Opportunity Factory. The program was announced in March during a seminar at the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (Abiquim) in São Paulo. The Cubatao Industrial Industrial Estate has disclosed, in addition to the advantages of the Municipality, the more than 2.5 million square meters of areas available for investment.

 

Numbers

In 2017, City companies collected $ 371 million in taxes. The number of jobs was 13 362 and the total production reached almost 20 thousand tons.

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper

Sixty-five workers were certified in free courses on Safety and Occupational Medicine in Cubatão last Friday (14). The training is an initiative of the Center for Integration and Development (Cide) and the Cubatão – Secretariat of Development and Employment, with the support of the Center of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Ciesp) – Cubatão Regional, whose objective is to train the local labor in various courses required by the legislation in force in the market. The delivery of the certificates took place in the auditorium of the City Council of the city.

Six training days were given by Self Seg, Treinar and Lacerda, with programmatic content related to Regulatory Standards (NRs): 6 – Individual Protection Equipment (EPI); 23 – Fire Protection; 33 – Safety and Health in Confined Space Works; and 35 – Working at heights. The NRs are mandatorily practiced by public and private companies, which have employees governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), according to the Ministry of Labor.

All the action goes to the theme “Professional Qualification” of Agenda 21 – The City we want in 2020, whose commitment is to promote sustainable development in the municipality and, consequently, in the Baixada Santista.

The Secretary of Development and Employment, Marcos Espirito Santo, the manager of Cide / Ciesp Cubatão, Valmir Ramos Ruiz, and the supervisor of Cubatão’s Worker Assistance Station (PAT), Rogério Vieira, were present at the ceremony.

For Marcos, the courses in NRs are the beginning of a series of capacities that the City Hall intends to offer to the workers of the city. “With the trainings carried out and others we are prospecting, Cubatão’s workforce will have a more differential in the curriculum. We had a good attendance of students in the courses, which reflects a self-esteem of the workers in preparing for future vacancies of employment”.

Valmir highlighted the partnership between the Industrial Estate and the City Hall in promoting the professional qualification of the city, one of the premises of the strategic planning of Agenda 21. “The industry continues in continuous improvement and with good expectations for the coming years, with a market that requires more trained and resilient professionals. Cide/Ciesp, together with the City Hall, is looking for new transformation industries for the city, which will undoubtedly count on local workers and stimulate local commerce. So let us acquire knowledge and be apt for opportunities”.

According to Instituto Aço Brasil, which brings together companies in the sector, domestic sales will increase 8.9% this year compared to 2017

The Brazilian steel industry, after years of difficulties, should close 2018 with a more robust recovery. According to the Steel Brazil Institute, which represents companies in the sector, domestic sales will grow 8.9% compared to 2017, totaling 18.8 million tons.

In apparent consumption, an indicator that brings together domestic production plus imports minus imports, the expansion will be 8.2%, reaching 21.1 million tons.

The industry also increased production this year. The institute remembers that new mills are entering the market and Companhia Siderúrgica de Pecém, in Ceará, reached a full rhythm of operation.

Therefore, the expectation is that domestic crude steel production will reach 36 million tons in the year. Meanwhile, imports are expected to increase by 2.6% compared to 2017, totaling 2.4 million tonnes. Exports will fall 7.2%, with 14.2 million tonnes, according to the institute.

Despite positive numbers for 2018, when compared to 2017, projections of domestic sales and apparent consumption still remain below the levels reached in 2013.

For the institute, the truckers’ strike, which took place in May, made it harder to grow steel sales in the domestic market. Steel Brasil also points out that US President Donald Trump’s decision to restrict the US market to steel imports has triggered a protectionist escalation by other countries, hampering the growth of export volumes. The institute predicts an increase in domestic steel sales next year of 5.8%, totaling 20 million tons. Apparent steel consumption is expected to rise 6.2% in 2019 to 22.4 million tonnes.

 

New Government

Steel Brazil formed a business coalition with nine other entities, such as Abimaq (machines), Abinee (electronics), Abicalçados, Abiquim, Anfavea (vehicles), CBIC (construction) and Brazilian Foreign Trade Association (AEB).

According to the institute, the group has been talking to the government transition team, defending a fiscal pro-adjustment agenda, associated with the approval of the Social Security and tax reforms.

Also as priorities are the resumption of investments in construction and infrastructure and the promotion of exports.

 

Chat in Brasilia

“It’s no use having a ministry just for having. In the first contacts with the elected government, the dialogue was assured and the intention is for it to be expanded, with measures that will advance the industry, taking obligations and facilitating business”.

Antônio Megale

President of the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers (Anfavea), on the complaint of the sector with the end of the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC), which will become secretary in the next government

 

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper

Despite the advance, sector faces problems of competitiveness with external market

Sales of chemical products increased 0.72% in the accumulated from January to October, according to the Brazilian Association of Chemical Industry (Abiquim). The result was not better because the indicator registered monthly declines in September and October, whose performance is not due only to a weak economy.

There have also been maintenance outages, which are common safety operations in the chemical industry, and fewer business days.

But in the comparisons of other indicators and in the month to month. The results were negative. This is the case of industrial chemical production, which fell 3.06% from January to October, compared to the same period last year, according to the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (Abiquim).

Apparent national consumption (CAN), which measures production plus imports minus exports, fell by 2% in the same period. According to Abiquim, the result indicates a drop in the national demand for chemicals.

 

External Impact

In relation to domestic sales, which rose 0.72%, Abiquim says that there is an increase in the share produced in the national territory, in comparison with the imported one, under the influence of exchange rate volatility and international prices.

The average installed capacity utilization from January to October was 77%, which is lower than in the same period of 2017, when the utilization rate was 79%. The index measures the idleness of factory facilities, indicating that from 2017 to 2018 there was a reduction in activity, albeit small (from 79% to 77%

Abiquim’s Economy and Statistics Board, Fátima Giovanna Coviello Ferreira, says that the year was marked by the slowdown in the economy in the first few months, followed by the truck drivers’ strike, which slowed cargo handling in May, also reflecting in June.

 

Last month 

In October, compared to the previous month, the production index rose 3.08%. Compared with October last year, the drop in production was 6.7%. Domestic sales, however, fell by 5.05%, after falling by 8.12% in the two months.

“Although we still had a growth of 0.72% in domestic sales, this result could have been better, since until September the growth was 1.8%”, he says.

“The lowest activity in the last two months of analysis can be attributed to the pauses made in some units, the demand slowed in relation to the previous two months and, to a lesser extent, also by the lower number of working days, especially in relation to August”, says Fátima.

 

Low competitiveness 

The director warns that in the last 12 years production and sales volumes are, on average, the same as in 2007.

“Unfortunately we live another lost decade. The lack of competitiveness of the local producer, coupled with the economic recession and worsening of the national political crisis in the last three years, has brought strong impacts to the sector”, he says.

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper