In the mid-1990s, a 21-year-old boy approached the management of chocolate manufacturer Lacta offering the use of bacteria as a solution to a problem in the production line. “You’re crazy,” was what he heard. Sometime later, however, the then tie salesman Luiz Chacon heard a very different reaction from the same executives. “Set up a […]
While the trade balance as a whole ended 2021 with a record surplus, the manufacturing industry saw its deficit deepen to $53.3 billion, the worst result since 2014. In the pre-pandemic period, in 2019, the negative balance was $42 billion, according to data from the Institute for Industrial Development Studies (IEDI). In another type of […]
Petrobras is analyzing opportunities in markets such as small nuclear power plants, geothermal energy and different types of wind and photovoltaic energy. While participating in the Latin America Investment Conference 2022, promoted by Credit Suisse on Thursday morning, the CEO of the state-owned company, Joaquim Silva e Luna, mentioned for the first time some of […]