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For financial market analysts, production will rise more than 3% in 2019, despite falling in September

Analysts from more than 130 financial institutions improve the expectation of growth of the country’s industrial production. According to the estimate, calculated by the Central Bank and published every week through the Focus survey, the sector will grow by 3,24% in 2019, well above 2,22% expected for this year.

In the case of Cubatão, which produces inputs for the industries, the growth of the sector indicates the increase in orders for petrochemical and steel products.

According to Focus, the bet on the expansion of the industry has been getting stronger and stronger. Four weeks ago, the expectation was for a 3% growth in 2019. As this is a weekly review, the percentages usually vary by decimal.

However, the survey reflects disappointment with this year. Last month, analysts thought industrial output would rise 2,67%. You are now at 2,22%.

The result of industrial production in September, calculated by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), shows a lack of breath. The indicator grew in eight regions surveyed and declined in seven.

The areas in the red ended up guaranteeing the retreat of the national average by 1,8%. This fall occurred because in the group of seven is São Paulo, with decline of 3,9%, losing only to Amazonas (-5,2%). Of the richer states, only Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, grew respectively, with 1% and 1,3%.

However, the performance of the Brazilian GDP is still very low compared to the emerging ones and the neighbors of Latin America, except Argentina and Venezuela, respectively in recession and economic collapse. In Chile, the economy has grown 4% a year.

Vehicles

Industrial production is expected to rise in October. One of the strongest segments of the industry, the automotive industry had a robust expansion in the month, with the best October since 2014 and also with the highest monthly result since December.

The result of the auto industry is important because it indicates the advance of specific customers. If they are buying, it is because they have acquired the confidence to invest.

According to the president of Anfavea, Antônio Megale, the entity that brings together automotive manufacturers in Brazil, the manufacturers profit from the sale of trucks and agricultural machinery and the acquisition of car fleets by companies. However, the engine of this industry, which is the purchase of cars by the average consumer, is lacking.

Chemicals

The chemical segment has also given good results. According to the Brazilian Association of the Chemical Industry (Abiquim), the quarter ended in September was the best for the period in the last 12 years. But the director of Economics and Statistics of Abiquim, Fátima Coviello Ferreira, says that the segment faces the strongest input of imported. The problem of Brazilian chemistry, she recalls, is productivity – a low relation to that of other countries.

 

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3,2 percent is the expected growth for 2019

1,8 percent was the industry fall in September

 

Exporter

From time to time, the dollar rush tends to stimulate exports, noting that Brazil is the only emerging country whose economy is centered on domestic consumption.

In the Brazilian case, when the exchange fails to make the Brazilian prices more competitive, the export momentum is lost. According to a survey by the Foreign Trade Secretariat of the Federal Government, 2,000 enterprises that exported in 2015 failed to do so in the following years.

A study by Sebrae points out that there is a lack of preparation of the entrepreneurs to work in the foreign market, besides facing the administrative bureaucracy and the complexity of the export procedures.

On the list of products sold by small Brazilian companies are women’s fashion, precious stones, footwear, furniture and perfumery products.

 

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper

But Abiquim warns that sector faces a productivity problem and that it feels high of the entrance of imports

According to the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (Abiquim), the country’s chemical industry, which has a stake in Cubatão’s Pole, recorded the best third-quarter performance in the last 12 years from July to September.

However, the sector, according to Abiquim itself, has against its recovery the lack of competitiveness in relation to imports, even after the increase in the exchange rate. In one year the dollar rose from R $ 3.25 to R $ 3.73, up 14%.

According to Abiquim, the industrial chemical production index in the third quarter grew 8.44% and that of internal sales 13.89% in comparison to the previous period (April to June). These sharp results should be noted because they were impacted by the May truckers’ strike, which dammed up production and sales.

Compared to the third quarter of last year, the July-September indexes were also positive: production increased 1.45%, making it the best third quarter of the last 12 years. Domestic sales were 1.9% higher.

Domestic apparent consumption (CAN), which measures production plus imports and less exports, also improved in the third quarter, with a result 15.8% higher than in the previous quarter and 4.9% higher than the CAN of the same period last year.

In the accumulated period from January to September of this year, the segment of industrial chemicals showed a growth of 1.84% in the volume of domestic sales over the same period of the previous year. The production index is down 2.62% in the last nine months, compared to the same period last year, according to Abiquim. The installed capacity utilization rate, which reflects the level of idleness, was 77%, from January to September, slightly below the same period in 2017.

The performance of the sector in the third quarter was positive despite the drop in the production index of 5.92% and 7.82% in the domestic sales index in September, in relation to the previous month.

Abiquim’s Economics and Statistics Board, Fátima Giovanna Coviello Ferreira, states that the activity was reduced by occasional stops for maintenance, common in the petrochemical sectors.

However, indices showing a recovery do not indicate that growth has returned. The executive also says that there is a demand weak compared to the previous two months and to a lesser extent by the reduced number of working days of the month, compared to August.

Exchange effect

 According to Abiquim, exchange rate volatility, very intense during the elections, has caused difficulties both for the purchase of imported inputs and the export of finished products.

“Traditionally, in the segment of chemical products for industrial use, the months of July to October are the best of the year, due to Christmas orders, parties and disposables for the summer period, which generated a recovery in the accumulated of the year”, she says.

However, she warns that concern remains about the volume of imports. Fatima says that in the third quarter compared to the previous period, the import of chemicals grew 41% – almost five times more than the crazy production.

 

Performance

13 percent was the increase in sales of chemicals in the domestic market.

8 percent was the expansion of chemical production in the third quarter.

41 percent was the growth of chemical imports in the third quarter.

14 percent was the increase in the price of the dollar in 12 months.

 

Comment 

Paulo Skaf – President of Fiesp
“What really matters to Brazil”

The productive sectors are ready to collaborate with the elected government in what is necessary to guarantee the good of the Country.

Brazil needs to enter on a sustained growth path, capable of generating employment and income for its population. For this, we consider fundamental the approval of a pension reform project with the greatest possible urgency, preferably still in 2018.

The longer the time passes, the worse the pump of the social security deficit worsens. It is also very important that we work hard to pursue tax reform, fiscal adjustment, lower interest rates, reduce bureaucracy and improve the business environment to stimulate new investments. That’s what really matters to Brazil.

The national productive sectors will be on the side of the elected government to work for these points, which concern the whole nation. Regarding names for the composition of the government or the organizational structure of the ministries, we understand that this is a responsibility of the president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, who has the legitimacy conferred by more than 57 million votes to organize the state administration in the way he considers more efficient. He has our vote of confidence for that.

 

Reformation includes new relations of revolution 

The labor reform, in force since November last year, was an effort to introduce into the legislation of the area the new relations resulting from the current industrial revolution, according to the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp) report on the event with the minister of the Superior Labor Court (TST) Maria Cristina Peduzzi.

The minister participated in the meeting of the Superior Council of Labor Relations of Fiesp (Cort), held on Tuesday in the capital. “The fourth industrial revolution requires greater flexibility in labor relations”, he said.

The industrial revolution, also called 4.0, introduced artificial intelligence and internet connectivity into production, resulting in new working relationships.According to the Fiesp meeting, the reform considered valuing the autonomy of the collective and individual will, while at the same time prioritizing a reduction in the number of judicial processes, with alternative means of resolving conflicts and guaranteeing greater legal certainty.

Among the new activities are teleworking, with the functions that allow remote execution of tasks. According to the minister, the TST already recognizes the modality through the now clear rules, giving legal security to the hirings.

Maria Cristina also highlighted the intermittent work (non-continuous activity, with days and hours of work alternation and inactivity), according to Fiesp, noting that the reform made clearer the rules of layoffs in these contracts.

“The reform has faced all the issues that were controversial”, said the minister. 

 

International market 

For the board of the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (Abiquim), Fatima Giovanna Coviello Ferreira, the economic activity presents results that were lower than expected and the main chains that consume chemicals have not performed well, despite the improvement in recent months.

“The segments most exposed to the international market and working with products that can be easily traded with the foreign market, such as the chemical, have not been able to compete”, she says.

“The high cost of Brazil, coupled with the high costs of acquiring raw materials and energy, and also the logistical deficiency, impose a cost on local products, which often not even the depreciation of the real”, he concludes. 

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper

Meeting of Physicians of the Industries of Cubatão gathered experts from the areas; implementation of eSocial posed new challenges for companies

Health professionals and related areas met last Friday to discuss area cost management in companies and eSocial, the government portal that unifies the sending of worker data by companies.

The discussion was made through the 33th Meeting of Cubatão Industries Physicians (Emic), organized by the Technical Committee of Occupational Medicine (Commed) of the Center for Integration and Development (Cide).

The meeting addressed the themes of Cost Management in Health in Companies and Occupational Health and Safety Management for eSocial. The subjects were also presented to the areas of human resources, legal, labor security and social assistance.

GE Brazil’s Latin America Health Management leader Marcia Agosti opened the event by discussing the cost reduction in medical agreements, with new pay and care models.

“Effective management and risk prevention are fundamental for decision-making in industries and directly reflect on actions aimed at sustainability”, she says.

The specialist physician of Sesi National Department – Health and Safety Unit, Cláudio Patrus, presented the procedures of the eSocial platform and care with health and safety at work.

“Today, companies are adapting to eSocial at different levels. Therefore, the integration that Emic brings is important so that professionals share their experiences with the platform and seek development in the industry”, he says.

“I see great potential in the synergy between the participating areas of Cide Industrial Condominium, in what concerns, mainly, the solutions to labor, social security and tax lawsuits”, he says.

The manager of Cide and Ciesp Cubatão, Valmir Ramos Ruiz, highlighted the commitment to the development of the industry. “For 33 years Emic has taken on the role as one of the most traditional events of the Cubatão Industrial Pole and has been reinventing itself to engage health professionals and other areas with issues of great relevance to the market”.

“This synergy is in line with the actions currently practiced by the Cide Industrial Condominium, which is limited to uniting the companies for joint solutions in favor of better results for the Polo de Cubatão”, says Ruiz.

The coordinator of the Commed, Marcelo Hernandez, praised the presentations and themes presented.

“Emic always seeks to bring relevant and current issues to Occupational Health professionals and related areas. This year was no different and the event reached its goal”, he concluded.

 

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper

The Indian-owned company is completing 60 years of installation in the City, leading the carbon black market

Consolidated as the second largest manufacturer of carbon black in the world, Birla Carbon completes this month 60 years of installation in Cubatão. And its president for South America, Ronaldo da Silva Duarte, points out that the company, in the process of technological modernization and expansion of production, is one of the best examples of which the Cubatão Industrial Pole is an exceptional factory of opportunities for new enterprises. The company, which also has units in Camaçari (Bahia), produces one of the most used raw materials on the planet. Carbon black is part of everyday comfort: it gives the black coloration in the composition, among other products, of tires, plastics, garbage bags, and coating of electric conductors.

This potential of use makes it a company of the base product manufacturers (used by other factories to make the final product) set up in Cubatão able to offer raw materials to investors who want to implant in the City processing industries in diverse branches ranging from the production of tires, automobile finishing equipment for vehicles, rubber products, coatings for ducts and electric conductors, plastic material and paints. A member of the board of the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (Abiquim) and the Center for Integration and Development (Cide) and Center of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Ciesp) in Cubatão, he has always been an enthusiast of the implantation in the Municipality of the same instruments of action that allowed the growth of the center of Camaçari, among them an industrial condominium that facilitates the activities of this set of factories.

“When it began to be installed in Bahia, the Camaçari center also had chemical and petrochemical companies of basic products. When we implemented our black carbon factory in 2007, several processing companies also settled in Bahia, during the same period, mainly industries that mix plastic with carbon black”.

He sees in the Cubatão Program a Factory of Opportunities a path to follow. “I see that at Cubatão’s pole we are also at the beginning of an activity growth of the transformation industries. I was at the launch of the Cubatão Program an Opportunity Factory, a proposal of synergy between the polo companies and the City Hall to generate new jobs. The idea follows the same objectives of Camaçari. The municipal government should create a conducive environment for development. And depending on what the new Federal Government does, early next year, a lot of people are going to take out of the drawer investment projects in the Cubatão center. And this will be a great opportunity for anyone who is investing in the basic products manufacturing industries in Cubatão”.

 

Company generates energy by taking advantage of the residual gas

According to Ronaldo Silva Duarte, committed to sustainability, Bila Carbon Brasil develops a continuous work to optimize the use of energy and also environmental preservation in its factories.

Residual gas

An example of this is the reuse of tail gas (Tail Gas), using it as a fuel in the production process itself and also in the production of electricity and steam – which, in addition to making Bila Carbon self-sufficient in energy consumption, still allows the company sell the surplus to other industries.

 

Factory is a pioneer in the production of carbon black

Bila Carbon is one of the largest global manufacturers and suppliers of carbon black, product technically called Carbon Black.

Bila Carbon has been a pioneer at the polo since 1958 in Cubatão.

It also produces and markets electric power, tail gas and steam, operating a 27MW Co-Generation installed at its production facility in Cubatão for more than 15 years.

The activities are within the principles of sustainability. Ronaldo Silva Duarte points out that at the age of 60, the factory is constantly updating itself.

In Cubatão, the production capacity of carbon black is 210,000t/y. The industrial unit in Camaçari has a production capacity of 75,000t/y and also sells tail gas.

Tail gas is the result of the production of carbon black, which generates as a by-product a tail gas with sufficient energy power to be reused in the unit’s own production and cogeneration of electric power and steam, making the industrial units self-sufficient in energy, generating environmental and energy gains.

Among the new products launched by Birla Carbon on the market is the high performance carbon black for use by the pneumatic industry, reducing tire rolling resistance and minimizing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

Being one of the main business of the Indian Aditya Birla Group, it is present in 12 countries, on 5 continents, with 16 manufacturing units around the world. With production capacity of more than 2 million tons per year.

Indian group

The Aditya Birla Group is a leading global conglomerate in most of the segments in which it operates. Present in 35 countries on six continents with more than 130 manufacturing facilities and employing 120,000 people from 42 nationalities around the world. The acquisition of Columbian Chemicals Company in 2011 by the Black Smoke business of the Aditya Birla Group kevou the formation of Birla Carbon, becoming the global leader in the manufacture of Smoke Black. Present in each of the major markets in Asia, Europe and the Americas, Birla Carbon offers consistent quality products and services around the world. With a strong presence in South America, Birla Carbon has two factories in the country’s main industrial centers: in Cubatão, in the state of São Paulo, and in Camaçari, Bahia and offices in São Paulo.

Product enters the composition of tires

Known as Carbon Black, carbon black is one of the oldest chemicals, with records of its use more than 5,000 years ago when Chinese and Egyptians used the so-called “black powder” in murals and printing paints. Its composition is basically carbon, obtained from the thermal decomposition of oils rich in hydrocarbons. “Our product is an essential raw material for the manufacture of various products such as tires, rubber products and also plastics and paints,” explains engineer Roberto Ferreira, director of the Birla Carbon industrial unit in Cubatão.

Did you know?

1. Without carbon black, a rubber tire would not have durability to be used for more than 100km.

2. Electrical wires and cables are more efficient, safer and provide better power distribution thanks to carbon black.

3. Carbon black on tires means longer tread life, longer durability and greater safety.

4. The black glow that catches attention in any new car, truck, home appliances or cell phones is made possible by the use of carbon black.

5. Cell phones, televisions and other electronic devices are protected due to the ability of the carbon black to reduce the buildup of static force.

6. Many of the world’s banknotes contain ink made exclusively from Birla Carbon products.

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper

It was the only city in the region to show hiring numbers higher than those of layoffs until September 2018

The guarantee of qualified labor in industrial assembly and civil construction is among the 11 reasons for investors to choose the Industrial Pole of Cubatão to implant manufacturing industries. Who guarantees is the Municipal Departament of Employment and Development, Marcos Espírito Santo.

Engaged in the Cide-Ciesp and City Hall campaign to show that Cubatão is an Opportunity Factory, it displays numbers stamped by General Register of Employed and Unemployed (Caged) plataform that, despite the economic crisis, the City was the only one in the region to show contracting numbers higher than of layoffs in 2018. Of the 5,433 workers who obtained vacancies in the City, 2,056 were sent via Cubatão’s Workers’ Assistance Service (PAT) for the execution of stop jobs in industries – among them the Presidente Bernardes Cubatão Refinery (RPBC).

Although he makes reservations about the effects of his evaluation, because it depends on market variations, resumption of political actions for the industrial development and decisions of each company, Marcos Espírito Santo sees with optimism the coming year.

Stops at the refinery

“We must consider that the resumption of development will depend on the next Federal Government. But I see bigger job opportunities in Cubatão”.

The management of RPBC announces that it will make two more stops for maintenance in 2019. In addition, the CDHU – at the request of the mayor – guaranteed the movement of workers from Cubatão, hired via PAT, to carry out maintenance work on the Bolsão 8 neighborhood. The company that won the bid also disputed construction works on housing in the area that is being landed on Ilha Caraguatá neighborhood. “If he wins, he will give priority to Cubatão workers. And if it’s another company, we’re going after the directors so they can hire City workers, too”, he explains.

 Agenda 21

The Departament of Employment is also accompanying studies for the resumption of primary steel production activities at the Unsiminas plant in Cubatão.

“We have information that is being evaluated the operational resumption of one of the furnaces, within the proposal of the president of the company in 2020. We are interacting in support of Cide-Ciesp, within which recommends Agenda 21, to prepare workers from Cubatão to act in investments that meet the proposal that Cubatão is a Factory of Opportunities mainly for the installation of transformation industries, generating new jobs”, he says.

Register 

According to the PAT supervisor of Cubatão, Rogério Vieira, the departament has a large registry of workers in PAT (part of them already digitized) ready to attend the call of several professionals resident in Cubatão, which goes from masons, plumbers, electricians, assemblers to welders and helpers, ready to assist investors who want to install manufacturing industries in the city or expand the facilities of existing units. This organization has the support of the Unemployment Committee of Cubatão.

PAT forwards workers to pole companies 

In keeping with the commitment made since 2005 in Agenda 21 – Cubatão the City We Want in 2020, the polo industries have been recommending to contractors who provide services to the industries, which primarily hire residents of the City, in the works to stop the factories. Similar appeal has been made by the Municipal Government in the construction of housing projects in the City (Ilha Caraguatá, Worker’s Park and reforms of the Rubens Lara and Bolsão 8 neighborhoods complexes).

The results have been positive in spite of the crisis in the economy.

From January to September this year, companies in Cubatão admitted 5,433 people, according to the General Register of Employed and Unemployed (Caged), an agency of the Ministry of Labor. Of that total, 2,026 were able to get the job thanks to referrals made by the Workers’ Assistance Service (PAT), an agency that works within the scope of the Municipal Departament for Employment and Sustainable Development. PAT is an agency that acts as an intermediary in the labor market, maintaining a register of workers and vacancies requested by polo support companies. According to Caged, in the same period, there were 5,357 layoffs, that is, for each person who became unemployed in Cubatão, one found employment, leaving a positive balance of 76 people still admitted. The number of formal jobs in the City is 25,752, in 3,022 companies, of industries, support companies, commerce and services.

PAT’s Address: Avenida Dr. Fernando Costa, 1.088, Vila Couto, Cubatão.

 

Ciesp recommends hiring

According to Marcos Espirito Santo, these numbers indicate a warming in the local labor market, generated by improvements in the economic indexes. The strong performance of the PAT in the intermediation of hiring is attributed by Marcos to the relationship of trust that exists today between the City Hall, the companies – mainly of the industrial sector – and the workers. “This confidence was won thanks mainly to the transparency with which the municipal Public Power has acted and to the level of awareness that the sectors involved have regarding the problem of unemployment in the city”. 

Ciesp

According to the secretary, there is already a climate of cooperation today in Cubatão, which has allowed, among other benefits, that local labor is valued. “The Center of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Ciesp) has acted as a company awareness agent to hire workers from here”.

The business sectors, according to Marcos, have also been acting in tune with the City Hall in actions that involve income generation. This is the case, for example, of the Commercial and Industrial Association of Cubatão (ACIC), which gives its headquarters facilities to the Micro Business Support Service (Sebrae) to undertake entrepreneurship courses and provide guidance to those who wish to have their own business.

“Our biggest challenge right now is to make the number of places available to those who are entering the job market (first job) and for women. With this objective, we are already developing some projects and actions”,he concludes.

 

Source: A Tribuna Newspaper

 

 

 

Study aims to raise the pace of growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 4.4% a.a. between 2025 and 2030

Leaders of the São Paulo industry handed the two candidates to the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) and Fernando Haddad (PT), a study advocating the application of measures, starting in 2019, for a resumption of development in the country.

The study aims to raise the pace of Brazilian economic growth, leading to GDP expansion to the average of 4.0% per year between 2019 and 2024; and 4.4% a.a. between 2015 and 2030. Today it is at 1.4%, according to the forecast of the International Monetary Fund.

The implementation of this target will depend on the increase of investments to 22% of GDP and also on the increase of productivity of the economy, with the increase of the participation, mainly, of the transformation industry and the greater efficiency of the economy as a whole.

Transformation

The proposals are in favor of the policy of attracting manufacturing industries to Cubatão, which is being led by Valdir José Coabianco, executive director of the Center for Integration and Business Development (Cide) and titular director of the Center of Industries of the State of São Paulo Paulo (Ciesp), in support of the City Hall, within the Cubatão – Factory of Oportunities Program.

They also meet the recommendations made by Cide / Ciesp Cubatão, through its working groups, in strengthening the region for the reception of these investments, a document delivered to the president of the Development Council of the Baixada Santista (Codesp), Pedro Gouvêa. They are lawsuits and contributions for development and improvement of the following sectors: Iron and Steel, Chemicals, Fertilizers, Oil / Derivatives, Services, Infrastructure, Tourism, Culture and social well-being.

The attraction of investments conducted by Cide Industrial Condominium for the implantation of transformation industries is one of the 11 themes of the program.

More jobs

In delivering the proposal, Fiesp-Ciesp’s acting president, José Ricardo Roriz, points out that Brazil needs to give companies “the investment capacity to generate good quality jobs, for families to have the power of consumption and quality of life, which should reflect a significant improvement in social indicators “. The document, entitled “The challenge of positioning Brazil at the wheel of development”, contains a set of analyzes and proposals that aim to contribute to the elaboration of a future vision for the Brazilian economy.

Tax Inssue

Some aspects are preconditions for achieving this goal. Roriz points out that without a development plan that corrects the structural problems of the Brazilian economy, which includes not only the fiscal question, but also all macroeconomic policy and other fundamental issues (infrastructure, credit, taxation, bureaucracy, technology, human capital etc).

The likely scenario is that of low economic growth in the long term and growing distance from the average level of income of developed countries, according to Sao Paulo entrepreneurs.

 

Source: A Tribuna newspaper